Time Machine Trip to October 1924

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

October 2, 1924

The Cleveland American League Club is booked to play in Oshkosh on Sunday. This will give the fans in this vicinity a chance to see the former world champion team in action.

October 16, 1924

Although the weather was a bit warm for football Sunday a huge crowd of fans were treated to a grand display on the local gridiron when the Legion team humbled Manitowoc’s pride.

 

The bubbler located on the corner of Main Avenue and Second Street, which has been out of commission for some time now has been repaired and ready for the thirsty pedestrians this winter.

The pavement dance which was held here on Wednesday night was put over in regular style and was a howling success. The Little Chute band and the orchestra furnished the music.

 

Honeybees were helping three federal prohibition officers this week. It appears that a swarm of bees took up their abode in a nearby still.  Unsuspecting their presence, the owner visited his plant when the wind officers made their presence known by an immediate infliction of the penalty.

 

The Statue of Liberty in America is declared a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge.

 

October 23, 1924

Archie Creviere was elected post commander of the American Legion No. 41 Tuesday evening. George Heindel was elected First Post Commander, Second Vice. Post Commander, Gerald Brenzel; Bert Brensike, Service Officer; George Egan, Finance Officer; George Dogot.

 

Quite a few football fans witnessed the defeat of the Milwaukee Badgers by the Green Bay Packer Sunday at Green Bay.

October 30, 1924
An offender pleaded guilty - "Here I stand without a leg to stand on."

Peter Van Dinter of Little Chute purchased a new Essex coach, which he drove from Milwaukee.

 

The winning streak is spreading all over town. Even the youngsters have caught the fever as witness the scores of the three games won by the eighth graders of St. Mary’s school. The lads won from Kimberly 35–0; from Menasha High School second team 45–0; from St. John’s school Appleton, 14 to 0.

 

 

Time Machine Trip to October 1914

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen 

October 2, 1914

Mrs. Oscar Thilmany writes from her home at Bonn, Germany, of the people and the happenings in Germany since the War began. She blames England for the responsibility of this war and urges the American people not to believe the statements which are flooding American newspapers of crimes in Germany. She says injured English, French and Russian soldiers are being treated very well in Germany. She hopes America will join Germany in defeating the English. She sends her best to all her friends and a hope for peace in the world.

Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America, “I do designate Sunday the fourth of October a day of prayer and request all God-fearing persons to go to their places of worship.”

 

“My grandfather is worth $4,000,000; my share of his estate is $1,000,000. When I get that I will not forget you,” said a lady in Los Angeles, California, to Albert Wilpolt of Kaukauna five years ago. Mr. Wilpolt’s legacy of $6,000 and New York real estate comes to him as the reward of courage and kindness. He had saved the lady and her daughter from a brutal attack while on shore leave. He received a letter recently from her family informing him that she had died.  

 

October 9, 1914

 

Wenzel Kabat, of Kaukauna, convicted murderer of Michael McCarty here in June of 1906, has sawed the bars of his prison cell and made a getaway from the state penitentiary at Waupun.  A reward of $100.00 has been posted for his capture and return.

 

Mr. J. E. Verstegen is a man well known in the village of Little Chute. He is currently running for the office of Treasurer of Outagamie county. We feel that a man who has been successful in his businesses and as a leader in the village is well deserving of the office.

 

Kaukauna High opened the football season for 1914 at North Fond du Lac last Saturday afternoon and easily defeated the high school team of that place by a score of 52 to 7. 

 

October 16, 1914

Little Chute Baseball Team Standing, Boots Lamers, Stub Peters, Jack Van Dyke, Jackson Bevers, Coach, Corneil Wynboom, Emmit Wood, Louie Service, Henry Schommer, Shorty Wynboom and Rube Verstegen. Front, Bat Boy Les Verstegen, Pitcher, Marty Lamers and Catcher, Stanley Keava. Picture taken at ball field at Grand and Mc Kinley.

 

Madison, Wis., One of the worst riots in history of Madison was witnessed here when students arose in masses and gave battle to a crowd of town fellows as they patrolled the streets in the early part of the evening, spreading terror and injuries among all university students. Many of the Madison police force were hurt and scores of students received cuts and injuries from flying bricks.

 

Ashland – After a quarrel over the war, George Gasper, a Hungarian farm hand, shot and killed his employer, Bert Walsack, a Pole. Gasper then went to the house and informed his victim’s wife of the murder. He returned to the barn, he then shot and killed himself.

 

Al Koch has always received a splendid endorsement by the voters of Kaukauna. He was a former resident of this city and will be a candidate on the Republican ticket for Outagamie county as Register of deeds. 

 

Haupt's Hustlers won the first game of the championship series last Sunday afternoon when they met the Fox River Valley league team. A purse of $100.00 was split of the gate receipts followed the 7 to 6 win.

 

The ladies of the Altar society of St. Mary’s church will hold an apron sale and luncheon October 22 in the Koehne building on Second Street.

Joseph Verstegen, of Little Chute. There is no more popular and deserving candidate for the second Outagamie county assembly district at Madison.  

 

October 23, 1914

Wm. J. Wihsmann opened his cigar factory Monday in his new location on Second Street. He has arranged to use one side of the storeroom for the manufactory and the other side for the sale of cigars, tobaccos, pipes, smokers' articles, etc. Every caller will be presented with a sample cigar.

 

October 30, 1914

The Times is currently engaged in moving from this location SW corner of Reaume Avenue and Third street, where we have been located since 1894. We will be moving to our new location on Second Street in the Odd Fellows block. The newspaper is still being printed, folded and mailed at the old plant. The press weighs 14,000 pounds and will be taken down and moved after the issue of next week.

Time Machine Trip to October 1904

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

October 7, 1904

Mr. Albert G. Koch, a resident of Kaukauna for the past 17 years, is readily recognized. He has always been one of our active and progressive citizens ready at all times to assist in the welfare of the city. He was elected as a Republican to the office of justice of the peace on the north side six years ago and is now a candidate for sheriff of Outagamie County. The Times endorses him for this office.

 

The Kaukauna “Elites” baseball team. Seated in front are, Jim Jones, Otto Minkebige. Second row: Fred Hamilton, Joe Driessen, Joe Jansen, Frank Berens. Top row: Henry Minkebige, Vernon Murchie, Ted Elsworth, Will Eiting, Cy Driessen and Dan Powers.

 

The Elites seem to be playing a much better game of ball towards the last of the season. They added another scalp to their string Sunday afternoon by defeating the strong team of the Union Bag and Paper Company by a score of 14 to 7 at the Kaukauna park.

 

The fine new aquarium lately installed at Hotel Brothers suddenly burst flooding the floor of the office, making a lively scramble for dry positions amongst those who were spending a few leisure moments in that popular hostelry. Most of the fish contained in the tank were saved by quickly gathering them into pails and other receptacles.

 

The annual kermis at Hollandtown drew the usual large number from Kaukauna last Monday and Tuesday. Despite the rain bus loads went out Monday evening and didn’t return until daybreak.

 

October 14, 1904

Konkapot Creek has been on a rampage again this week caused by the excessive rains. The water was so high Sunday night that it backed over the road east of the Creek and flooded the entire flats near Coppes place.

A father may thrash his son till stripes are raised without being liable to arrest for assault, provided the boy is not old enough to have his dignity injured according to a decision by a circuit court in Sheboygan.

 

John Verstegen, chief of the Little Chute fire department, has placed a small box with a glass front in the engine house door. The key for the engine house door is in the box and whenever there is an alarm the first person to reach the engine house can get the key. An alarm gong will soon be set in the posit on the door.  

 

October 21, 1904

In the personal injury suit of Josephine Vanden Bogart against the Marinette and Menominee Paper company for $20,000 damages was tried at Marinette last week. The jury returned a verdict for $12,000. Her hair was caught by an exposed screw drive in the mill resulting with her scalp being torn off and her skull fractured.

 

Martin Hartjes has purchased the Arnold Verstegen saloon property in Little Chute on the corner of Main street and Grand avenue. Steve Saunders will conduct the business for Mr. Verstegen.

 

October 28, 1904

Dr. H.B. Tanner, president of the board of the Kaukauna Free Public Library, has received a letter from Mr. Andrew Carnegie's private secretary stating that the site selected for the proposed library on the property donated by the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company, between the two sides of town on Main Avenue, is satisfactory and that the $10,000 presented by Mr. Carnegie will be forwarded in installments of $2,000 and $3,000 as work progresses on the building.

Luther Lindauer has shown himself to be a man of humane and generous impulses in the actions he has shown toward the bereaved widow of William Zimmerman. Zimmerman was drowned last week while in Lindauer’s employment. Mr. Lindauer has not only agreed to pay the $300 mortgage on the home but promised to pay her husband’s salary just the same every week, until her son, who is now five years old, is able to undertake the support of the family.

The Kaukauna High School football team won the game Saturday from the Oshkosh Highs by the highest score of any high school in the state, being 63 to 0.

 

Heavy rains over the past week have softened the Interurban roadbeds and are thought responsible for a derailment north of Kaukauna Saturday evening when the car rolled down an embankment and injured nine workmen who were returning from De Pere.

Over in the Oneida Reservation the ire of the red men has been brought to the surface. It is all due to the recent decision of the Department of Interior an order affecting the money derived from the sale of inherited Indian lands. The proposal is to deposit the money in United States depositaries to be drawn only in the form of annuities. The Indians claim that having been declared citizens they have the same rights as all freeholders. Representatives are now in Washington in the hope of having the order rescinded.

Spinning Wisconsin Ducks 

Party and Print - Little Chute

$35 - All proceeds donated to St. Jude Hospital

Time Machine Trip to October 1894

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

October 6, 1894

The Times force has been working day and night to meet demands on our job department, which is still crowded to its utmost capacity. Five book jobs during the past month have finally pushed us pretty hard for type and in consequence the usual make of the paper has not been attained this week. Heavy demands on advertising space also cut down our local columns some. All these shortages will be overcome, if necessary, by additions to our force or enlargement of the paper, so bear with us this time.

Hereafter when a boat is going through, ropes will be stretched across each opening before the draw is swung open. Several people have come very near losing their lives lately.

 

A three day’s Kermis will open at Martin Venable’s Hall West Hollandtown next Monday morning continuing until Wednesday evening.

The Oneida Indians have organized a fair association and will hold their first fair on their reservation October 9 to 11. Included will be horse and pony races, foot and bicycle races. A game of lacrosse will be played between the Oneidas and Menominees. Exhibits will include things grown and manufactured by the Indians. 

 

Appleton, Wis. - The greatest syndicate deal has just been concluded and unless something unforeseen occurs all the paper and pulp mills on the Fox River will pass into the hands of an English syndicate on April 1. The properties include twenty-nine paper and twenty-one pulp mills, situated at Neenah, Menasha, Appleton, Kimberly, Little Chute, Combined Locks, Kaukauna and DePere along the river a distance of 20 miles. The value of these plants is $10,000,000. The daily product is about $50,000. The deal has been worked out by a Chicago firm acting as agent for an English syndicate. The syndicate will control about three-fourths of the paper manufacturing in the state.   

 

It is high time the city put up lights and provides barriers of some kind at the ends of the drawbridges to be used when they are open. Several narrow escapes from drowning have occurred in the past and only this week a man fell into the canal and a second narrowly escaped a dunking.

October 12, 1894

The Democrats have unfolded a banner across Second Street, where they located their headquarters. The Republicans will do likewise on Wisconsin Avenue.

Now bring forward that all-wise individual that laughed at THE TIMES last winter when we said the new viaduct would never be completed for $40,000. The final settlement has been made the total expense figures to about $46,000. We now expect that fellow that called us a liar to come forward like a man and apologize. 

The fair that was to have been held at the Oneida reservation this week was postponed owing to smallpox having broken out. The state board of health has ordered a quarantine of all persons.

Chicago, Ill., Oct. 9 – Chicago day, the anniversary of the great fire of 1871, was celebrated today. Bells throughout the city were rung and a parade passed through the business district. 

 

October 19, 1894

Quite a large number of cases of scarlet fever and a few of diphtheria are reported by the Board of Health. Let every precaution be taken to prevent the spread of the disease.

A woman in the southern part of the state named her twin daughters Gasoline and Kerosene and they are a pair of bright lights. The old man’s name is Petroleum. The man who marries into the family will probably strike oil and later get blown up.

 

Green Bay, Wis., Oct. 12 – A blood curling war dance by hideously painted Indians, attired in all their old-time finery, yesterday formed the feature of the last day of the Oneida Indian fair on the Oneida reservation. There were about 300 visitors at the closing events. The earlier report of a smallpox outbreak was started by some Indians who are poor and shiftless and live in the northern part of the reservation. The event was a great success and will continue over the coming years. 

October 26, 1894

All of the schools, public and parochial, are closed this week, to prevent the further spreading of diphtheria.

August Mill

Local pride which seemed to demand that Kaukauna roll up a good Republican majority, for right in the middle of the county ticket is the name of our townsman and pioneer merchant, honest old August Mill. Vote the ticket and you vote for a man who will guard most sacredly the exchequer of the county.  

Spinning Packer Ducks 

Party and Print - Little Chute

All proceeds donated to St. Jude Hospital

 

Time Machine Trip to October 1884

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

October 3, 1884

The Kermis or better known as "harvest festival," commences at Little Chute on Monday morning next, and will continue for several days. This custom prevails principally among the Holland people who, after the gathering of the crops, celebrate the event.

 

The bridge committee has finally obtained permission to place the bridge at the foot of Wisconsin Avenue, which is not the most convenient location but still the most desirable. The bridge will have a center swing and span seventy feet in length, instead of sixty feet, as originally planned. The work of building stone piers will begin immediately.

 

A Pittsburg court has just decided that the directors of the collapsed Penn Bank, in that city, are individually liable for the amounts deposited with that bank. A few more such decisions would lead to a more thorough inspection of the affairs of banking houses.

 

Floods in China have resulted in the deaths of 70,000 people in a population of 44,000,000 in an area of the country.  In the face of such a disaster the recent floods in Ohio and Mississippi seem insignificant.

 

Little Freddie was talking to his grandma. “Grandma, Do you belong to the Presbyterian Church? “No”

“To the Baptist?” “No.” “To any church?” “No.” “Well grandma, don’t you think it is about time to get in something?”

 

October 10, 1884

Now is the time to lay in a stock of fuel for winter. Nicholas Gerend, the Ledyard coal merchant will sell coal from now until October 15, for $7.50 per ton, delivered in the bin.

 

Owing to the expiration of his partnership with E.C. Bidwell, through limitation, John D. Lawe will no longer be connected with THE TIMES as an editor and publisher.

 

North Carolina – Senator Zeb Vance tells how he captured the vote of a backwoods settlement. He hadn’t been to the place and didn’t know the boys. He came to the place on horseback and came upon a cross-roads grocery with about sixty sovereigns. He cracked a few jokes and seemed to be getting along pretty well with them. Then he noticed an old man with shaggy eyebrows and big brass spectacles. The old man didn’t much pay attention to him, and he figured he must be the head of this clan. “This is Mr. Vance, I believe, and you have come here to see my boys about their votes, I believe?”  “Yes, that is true” he answered. “What church might you belong to?”  Vance didn’t belong to any church and knew that religion and meeting was a big thing in the backwoods. Well, my grandpa came from Scotland and most everybody is Presbyterians over there. Not seeing any sign of sympathy for grandpa, but my grandmother came from England, and they are Episcopal there. He paused and the old man spit tobacco on the ground. My father was Methodist, still no sign of satisfaction from the old man.  My momma was a Baptist and it’s my opinion that every man must go under the water to get to heaven. The old man got up and took Vance’s hand. “Your, alright Mr. Vance then turned to the crowd and said, “You boys can vote for this man”. Then he handed Vance a flask from his coat pocket to seal his faith.

Evansville Argus – It was his first appearance, and the church was packed. Brother Harrison, the boy preacher came in and took a seat in the pulpit before the arrival of the other minister. A little old lady looking at him intently walked up to the pulpit and beckoning to him: “My boy, come down here and sit with me; that’s the place for the preacher.”

 

October 17, 1884

A beautiful electric light is to be seen every evening on the south side of the river, near the Lake Shore depot. It is stationed on a very high pole and furnishes a good light for a long distance to every direction.

 

The bodies of two horse thieves were discovered suspended from a tree on Poplar River, near Virginia City, Mont., on the 24^th. This makes thirty-seven thieves lynched by vigilantes this season.

 

The work of building a center pier for the new draw bridge commenced this week under the direct supervision of Bernard Corcoran. A cofferdam is being built for the purpose of shutting off the water. After completing this, the balance of the work will be completed very rapidly.

 

During the month of September there arrived at New York from Europe 26,872 immigrants. The arrivals at this port since January numbers 267,000.

 

Harper’s Ferry is to be sold. This is the building which John Brown made famous twenty-five years ago. It’s a pity it cannot be preserved as public property with the history connected to it. There is no fear that the grim and heroic old crusader who made his final struggle there will never be forgotten. His memory safely enshrined “and his soul goes marching on.”

 

There has been a remarkable increase in the number of small farms in the South since the war. In South Carolina there are now five small farmers where there was but one twenty years ago.

 

October 24, 1884

Many of the business blocks on our main streets have, this fall, been veneered with brick.  Not only gives them a solid appearance but furnishes visitors with a much better version of Ledyard as a business town. Let us have more brick blocks.

 

October 31, 1884

A Chinese pamphlet against Europeans has been published in Hong Kong. It asserts that Europeans are not human beings at all, but wild animals descended from monkeys. They do not honor their parents nor ancestors. They come into China pretending to preach a religion which they do not practice themselves and introduce vice and crime into that country.

 

The hum-tum thing among dudes is now to shake hands with the left hand. This enhances the general effect since the right hand is busy with the end of a mustache.

 

The first snow of the season came last week but has disappeared and now we may expect a fine Indian summer.

 

This issue of The Times will be the last before the great presidential election. So far as politics are concerned this paper has been neutral. In this issue we publish a republican and a democratic communication.

Jefferson Davis, in his flight after the collapse of the Confederacy abandoned his horse near Macon and took to the woods. On the horse was a silver mounted saddle. The saddle has been recovered after nineteen years and last week a Georgian sent it to Mr. Davis as a present. 

Boston Globe – “Are you going to make your husband a Christmas present this year” asked a friend. “I’m afraid not” “I had designed to and had saved the money for that purpose, but I saw a lovely bonnet that I could not resist.” “What present have you in mind for your husband?”  “Oh, I have a splendid present for him, and it will suit him exactly.” “I shall give him a box of those very expensive cigars.” “How have you managed to save up so much money?”  “Oh. I haven’t done it that way, when he leaves his box of cigars out, I take one each time and by Christmas I have enough to fill a box.”

 

No wise young woman will marry a man who treats either his mother or sisters with disrespect or neglect. Poverty is not a bar to marriage, but meanness or drunkenness should not be allowed.

 

A man named Bonnet is running for a political office in Minnesota. The ladies are for him first and last.

Time Machine Trip to September 1974

 

Kaukauna Times 

By Lyle Hansen

September 6, 1974

The Kaukauna Common Council Tuesday evening approved the sale of the former railroad property on the southside of the city for the bid of $6,100 per acre.

 

Despite a strike within progress in the Racine school system, the game between Kaukauna and Racine Case will be played.

 

September 11, 1974

A significant increase in wages as well as improvements in pensions and insurance are part of a new two-year labor agreement overwhelmingly approved by production and maintenance employees after a strike was called off at the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Co.

 

Golf champions at Fox Valley links this year are left to right, Joseph Gossens, Tom Hanby, Don Boyle, and Carl Verstegen.

Ladies golf champions at Fox Valley for 1974 are, left to right, Marion Stegeman, Marge Koglin, Judy Schomisch and Mickey Farrell.

Winners of match play tournament at the Fox Valley Golf Club for 1974 are William Heerman, Dan Coffey and Ralph Gertsch.

Junior Golf Champions at the Fox Valley Golf club for this year are Jim Eifler and Don Boyle.

September 18, 1974

Kaukauna Lions Club officers for the new year are front row Joseph Sadlier, Robert Hartwig, Francis Weeks, George Simon, Harry Wirth. Back row Arthur Koehne, Willis Ranquette, George Greenwood, Tony Zenisck, and Orris Schmalz.

 

Kimberly-Clark Inc. has announced that approximately 100 workers will be laid off in October at the Kimberly mill. The mill reported a significant reduction in customer orders in parts of our grade line.

 

September 20, 1974

50-Year members of the Knights of Columbus Council 1033, Kaukauna, were honored. Seated left to right are Albert Schmidt, Fred Wolf, Elzear Wymelenberg, and Herman Weyers. Standing are John Hartzheim, Joseph Siebers, Theodore Van Vreede and Leo Haessly.

 

Nancy Diedrich, of Kaukauna, recorded a national honor count while bowling at Jerry’s Lanes in Kimberly. Her score of 607 was the first honor count recorded in the couple leagues eight-year history.

Hollandtown Raider quarterback Keven Coenen scored his team’s final touchdown. Following the score Coenen hooked up with Jim Plutchak for the two-point conversion. The Raiders defeated the Kimberly Bulldogs 30-0.

In his back shop, Don Lappen worked on readying a new bike for the road. His business Don’s Bike Shop specializes in sales and repairs of bicycles. 

Twinfollery – One set of twins is enough, but two sets are more than enough for third grade teacher Sister Ludmilla at St. Mary’s school. Bruce and Brenda Kobussen on the right are easy enough to tell apart but that is not the case for Jane and Janet Lenz and Jean and Jane Doering.

Charges in which action being taken for requesting the resignation of city inspector Harold Loeser have been dropped by action of the Kaukauna Common council. No one will publicly elaborate on what the specific charges were that were listed against Loeser by mayor Robert LaPlante. At the council meeting Ald. Henry Drechsler asked that the charges against the inspector be dropped for lack of evidence. That motion was approved by a 5-3 margin. 

Services were held yesterday for two Wrightstown teenagers killed early Sunday in a one car crash east of Wrightstown. Dennis Smith, 16 and Paul Kamos, 15, died in the accident. Two other people were injured, both from Wrightstown, Jody Bolssen, and Lisa Titel, both 16 years of age.

September 27, 1974

State and area officials and representatives of industry will attend the official dedication of the new $3million Badger Northland, Inc., plant here at 11:00 this morning. After the ceremonies in front of the main entrance, a tour through the 220,000 square foot facility will take place. The public is invited to an open house from 1 to 4 on Saturday.

The 1974 Kaukauna High School varsity cheerleaders are practicing a new formation for the homecoming game. The squad is composed of Polly Nack, doing the splits; Keri Schierland and Becky Sachs on the wings; Polly Wahlers supporting Kim Kappell and Peggy Van De Loo atop Sue Gerow’s shoulders.  

 

 

Kaukauna Homecoming Queen Barb Schmidt flanked in the parade by princess Kim Kappell and Kathy Bowers.

  

Kaukauna Ghosts Track team