Time Machine Trip to April 1914

 

Kaukauna Times – April 1914

By Lyle Hansen

 

Haupt’s Hustlers, of Kaukauna, top row: Joe Derus, Joe “Chuck” Muthig, Al Klammer. Art Kromer. Sr., Henry Schommer, Harry Smith, and Eathen Brewster. Bottom row. Ed Kalupa, “Peck” Manigan, Otto “Robin” Minkebige, Joe “Pinky” Schamer, Frank Rockenbach and bat boy Pat Clune.

 

A meeting at the Hotel Menasha proved successful for the Kaukauna ball fans. Kaukauna will have two teams in the Fox River Valley League. The new team, Haunt’s Hustlers, will be managed and captained by George Kromer of this city.

 

Joseph Rink, of the northside, came home from the navy last week. Rink enlisted in the navy in August of 1910 and received his discharge on his 21^st birthday. Mr. Rink secured distinction as a first-class gunner in the navy and received first place when he made eight of eight hits on the warship he served.

Tacoma, Wash., Conductor Harley J. Neff, a former Kaukauna man, was named in an act of bravery for risking his life to save a 2-year-old boy who had wondered on to the tracks. Neff was in the caboose as the train was backing up. He saw the boy on the tracks and reached over the back of the car grabbing him by the coat before he would have passed under the wheels. 

 

The Hoehne Auto Company has taken over the Kaukauna Motor Car Co. For a rate call X72 to contact them on Canal Street near Wisconsin Avenue bridge, north side.

 

A Dutch party was held at the home of H.S. Cooke on Catherine street Monday evening. About forty friends being present. A cow bell was hung on the door in place of the doorbell. Windmills and wooden shoes decorated the home.

  

April 10, 1914

Farmers report the county is in terrible condition. Many who are compelled to come to the city make the trip on foot as they refuse to put their horses to the severe task of pulling wagons through the deep mud.

A farmer stopped at the office of the newspaper and asked to use the telephone. After the usual “Hello!” the man remained quiet for nearly five minutes. He was asked if the line was in trouble. “Oh, it’s working fine, called my wife.” 

Mayor Coppes soundly defeated C. E. Raught 639 to 413 votes.

Judge Henry Grass of the Brown county court at Green Bay ruled that a saloonkeeper is morally bound to care for and provide for a customer who becomes intoxicated and helpless in his saloon and that his failure to do so constitutes grounds for damages. Joseph Beaumia brought action against saloon owner Anton De Pas of Green Bay. Beaumia became drunk and helpless, and De Pas sent him away from the saloon in a sleigh. The weather was very cold, and he had several fingers and toes frozen.

 

Two children of Henry Van Dyke of Freedom were playing with an axe, cutting wood last Friday morning. The youngest aged nine held a log upright and the thirteen-year-old swung the axe. The result was the axe slipped off the log and severed the hand of the nine-year-old at the wrist.

April 17, 1914

The annual banquet of the Kaukauna Advancement Club was held yesterday at the Elks Hall. The principal speaker of the evening, Governor Francis J. McGovern, held his listeners in deep interest for about two- and one-half hours while he discussed "The High Cost of Living."

 

Brokaw Memorial church received a large number of new members when seventy-seven people joined last Sunday. 

 

April 24, 1914

Contractor John Coppus was the successful bidder on the construction of the new Holy Cross edifice. The contract going to him at $34,898.00 for the building complete without plumbing, lighting, and heating.

William Van Thiel and Joseph Hermus, two Little Chute residents narrowly escaped drowning Sunday afternoon by clinging to floating pulp wood in the boom near the Little Chute pulp mill. They had attempted to cross the river in a skiff which capsized. A party of Little Chute residents went to their assistance in boats.