Kaukauna Times - May
1913
By Lyle Hansen
May 2, 1913
John Fechter went to
Moline, Illinois, Sunday night on business and while there purchased a new
auto. Mr. Fechter bought a Velis five passenger machine with 32 horsepower and
drove it home without incident.
There has been a good demand for money from the Kaukauna Building and Loan association this month. A total of $5,200.00 being loaned Monday evening.
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George
Valcoeur, the Whistling Boy Wonder, will appear at The Vaudette this evening.
Admission is only five cents.
Accidents
of the week.
Albert
Sager had his right hand badly crushed at the Kaukauna Lumber company.
William Smith was seriously injured Monday at the Thilmany mill when he was caught and thrown by a machine.
William
Weinkauf suffered a severe sprain of his ankle last week but is beginning to
walk with a great limp.
Otto Rogge, driver of the coffee company rig had his leg badly injured while making a sharp turn the rig tipped over pinning him under the wagon.
May 9, 1913
There's a smudge in the
garden, smoke in the air; a smell combined of burnt leather and hair. There's a
girl on the lawn with a rake in her hand; there's woe and distress all over the
land. There are carpets to beat and rags to shake; enough of such work to make
a man quake. There are stones to be moved and carpets to put down, no wonder a
man wants to get out of town.
Alfred McBain, a resident of South Kaukauna,
and a Chicago and Northwestern firemen was badly scolded last Friday afternoon
while on duty. The train was out of Watersmeet about seven miles when the train
left the tracks. He became trapped under the engine. He was transported to
Mercy Hospital in Iron River where he died.
May 16, 1913
Under new rules and
regulations adopted by the police and fire commission at Appleton, members of
the departments are hereafter obliged to salute the mayor and superior officers
when making reports or passing on the street when on duty. A very good rule
indeed.
Joseph Lehrer, the
south side meat dealer, commenced Saturday to build a new kind of silo on his
farm just outside of Kaukauna. This important modern addition to farm equipment
will be 12x26, built of vitrified tile, which is moisture and fireproof and
made with two air spaces to help keep out the frost and better preserve the
silage.
May 23, 1913
Ridge Point on the Fox River here will open for the season today. Dancing Wednesdays and Friday evenings rain or shine. Music by the celebrated Ridge Point Orchestra.
A new law has passed
the state senate making the owner of a pool or billiard hall liable to a fine
for permitting minors to loiter about his place of business.
May 30, 1913
Otto Stroebe, owner of
Stroebe Resort upriver from Appleton, reports that a serious epidemic seems to
have sieved the mud turtles in the waters of the Fox. Mr. Stroebe says the shoreline
is literally strewn with dead and dying turtles, some of them weighing as high
as sixty pounds. The epidemic, whatever it is, seems to be peculiar to turtles
in, as much as few dead fish are found.
Reinhold Schultz, a car repairer, was killed at
Anton, near Dale, last Friday afternoon and J. C. Behnke badly injured by a
train running them down while they were going back to Fond Du Lac on the track
velocipede after having completed their work. While on a curve the train
approached, striking them. Mr. Schultz’s remains were taken to his home on John
Street where his wife lies in a critical condition from illness.
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She stood beside a
grave that had
Somehow, been passed unseen;
Her hair was white, her
face was sad
Her tears splashed on the green.
“Good mother, does your
soldier son”
I asked, “He sleeping here?”
“Or may he be some
other one
That once was near and dear?”
Her bunch of lilacs
tenderly
She placed above the dead.
And then she turned and
gazed at me
A moment ere she said.
He that today lies sleeping here
Is not my lost loved one.
But someone held his near and dear
He was some mother's son.
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