Kaukauna Times –
September 1923
By Lyle Hansen
September 6, 1923
That Kaukauna could
have furnished its former residents who attended our Homecoming no finer
entertainment than the Pageant written for Kaukauna by Thomas Wood Stevens of
Pittsburgh was the universal verdict of all our visitors. The pageant, staged
last Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday nights, was under the direction of Howard
Smith of Springfield, Mass. The Pageant was, in a sense, the story of Kaukauna
beginning with the coming of the French Jesuit Father, Pere Marquette, and his
lieutenant Louis Joliet, and continuing from there. The story went perfectly,
and all was a total success.
September 13, 1923
Last week a brave deed, showing unusual courage
as well as skill on the part of Joe Rausch was enacted in the presence of a
crowd of witnesses when hearing a call for help Rausch set out from the north shore
on the Fox River in a small skiff and rescued Edward Derus from drowning. The
Times takes pleasure in nominating Joseph Rausch for a medal of honor awarded
to heroes.
Fifteen veterans and
twenty-five new candidates will go to make up the American Legion football
squad for the season of 1923. The Legion team won the State Amateur
Championship last year and has the enviable record of but two defeats in four
years. The squad is composed of all clean-cut home lads who are playing the
game for the sport they get out of it.
Coach Ashe of the
Legion Football team has issued a call for first practice for the season's team
and wants all former members of the great winning team of last year together
with all men who would like to make the team,
September 20, 1923
Ves Berens and George Egan, former members of
the A. E. F. in France during the world war, were peacefully sleeping Sunday
morning when all at once the cannonading down the river tore the silent early
morning quiet to tatters, causing George to awaken from his slumber in his
horrible dream of the night attack on the American army by the Germans. “Hist!
Ves! Wake up and go over the top, the Germans are upon us.” “Bang” went one gun
after another, but the firing came from the Fox River it is the opening of duck
hunting season.
Runte’s new Third Street store will open about
the middle of October and will be conducted in connection with the Wisconsin
Ave. store under management of Otto Runte who has been with his father for the
past six months and has further given special attention to both purchases and
the advertising of goods.
Frank Kern was so imbued with the spirit of our
Homecoming week in preparation for the visitors’ event that he had the front
windows of his laundry on 2nd St. washed. It was the first washing of these
windows since he came home from the world war.
September 27, 1923
The Odd Fellows are
going to be in for a real treat, for at their Thursday evening meeting, Tony Frank
will place his radio outfit at their disposal. A grand concert will provide
everything necessary for a good time.
Wolves were never killed by Indians as
according to their belief, the spirits of the departed inhabited the bodies of
the wolves. The wolves would be frighted away but if it was killed to protect a
child the rifle was considered useless afterward and thrown away.
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