Time Machine Trip to September 1933

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1933

By Lyle Hansen

September 1, 1933

The House of David defeated the Kaukauna State league baseball team here Tuesday night in a 10-inning thriller 12 to 11. Jackie Mitchell, the much talked about girl pitcher, pitched the first inning but with two outs, Marty Lamers put one over the left field fence. Al Bauer worked the mound for the Kaws and pitched a very good game despite the score.

85% of Americans are inadequately housed. 75% live in hand me down quarters bare of modern comforts and conveniences. There are sound indications that a major building revival is on its way every American deserves better living conditions.

September 6, 1933

Donald McCormick, who returned from Camp Snelling, Minnesota, is in possession of a gold baseball, which he received for pitching the game which won the championship for Company C. He also received a fine ball and bat autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in recognition of being the best all-around baseball player at camp.

 

L. F. Nelson, general chairman of the NRA work received 1500 consumer cards last week in Kaukauna.  There are 114 Kaukauna merchants and businesses displaying the Blue Eagle Pendant. The number of people added to payrolls in Kaukauna is 186. This is a yearly increase in payrolls of $222,494.

 

The Thilmany Pulp & Paper Company, largest employer of labor of the city, unfurled a large blue eagle pennant on the flagpole over the main entrance of the building Thursday morning.

September 12, 1933

All parents are warned their children must attend full-time school up to 16 years of age according to NRA requirements. Children 16 to 18 must attend school at least one day per week and no work permits will be issued to children under 16 years of age.

The Green Bay Packers will begin the quest for their 4th national professional Football League Pennant in five years at City Stadium here Sunday, they will be meeting the Boston Redskins in the first league game of the season for both teams.

Peter Metz was elected president of the senior class of Kaukauna High School at a meeting held last week. George Grogan was elected vice president, Alice Esler secretary and treasurer.

September 19, 1933

Wisconsin Governor Schmederman   issued   a proclamation    Monday designating the week of September 25th as "NRA buying for Re-Employment Week." All NRA stores are urged to offer goods during that period at prices that will attract purchases and, calls upon consumers to be generous in their patronage of the Blue Eagle business houses.

More than sixty members of the Brokaw Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church attended a farewell party for Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Lane held at the Ellsworth home Friday evening.

Work was started in the latter part of this week on the construction of a bridge over the power canal on Main Ave. The work is being done under the direction of the board of public works. Construction of the bridge will be a great aid for the unemployed situation in Kaukauna, all local labor will be used. The Green Bay Mississippi Canal Company will pay for the construction of the new bridge.

September 22, 1933

It is believed that this depression we are going through is having a good effect on the race. People are becoming more sympathetic toward other’s problems. Depression brings so much hardship is also bringing character as adversity always does.

Music until 1 a.m. is the name of the new song being sung by Kaukauna tavern keepers this week as a result of action taken by the common council Tuesday evening when the first amendment to an ordinance regulating the sale of 3.2 beer was voted. Under the ordinance the taverns will now be able to have music up to closing time, which is 1:00 a.m. Police will decide whether or not the music is disturbing the peace.

September 25, 1933

Kaukauna High School football team won the opening game on their schedule when they easily defeated St. Norbert High of De Pere, Saturday, 25 to 7. Coach Little rushed in the reserves early in the game, using every number on the squad. Grogan, a halfback, scored the first touchdown, with Vils and Kuchelmeister each scoring later in the game.

 

High Cliff - The town board has a large number of unemployed to work widening the high Cliff road running down the incline West of the park this road was too narrow for all traffic it had carried during the summer.

Little Chute - St. John's football squad was defeated at Neenah Saturday by a score of 29 to 0. Ambrose Hammen stood out for the Chuters doing most of the ball carrying, passing, and punting.

Time Machine Trip to September 1923

 

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. 

 

Time Machine Trip to September 1913

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1913

By Lyle Hansen

September 5, 1913

Mrs. William Falkenberg of Williamsburg, Iowa was in town visiting the home of Gus W. Ristau over the past week. Mrs. Falkenberg was an old-time resident of Kaukauna before the Southside portion came into existence. In those days Indian tribes roamed throughout the Fox River Valley and their hunting grounds were up to the edge of town. It took weeks to go a distance which today can be covered in a matter of days. The road from Milwaukee to Green Bay was no less than a path through the dense forest which covered most of the state and most travel was done on the river.

Mrs. Beckie Baruck, the New York bride who was locked up on a charge by her mother that she had taken a necklace of gold coins from her parents’ home, appeared before the Magistrate. “What do you want me to do with your daughter?” he asked the father. The father took the string of coins and placed it around his daughter’s neck, murmuring a blessing.  She stooped and kissed her fathers’ hands and they all proceeded back to the family home for the wedding.

 

September 12, 1913

The coming engagement of the Edison Talking Picture, at the Kaukauna Opera House, Saturday evening will be the first appearance of the new wonder here. Thomas Edison makes the motion picture talk, each sound appearing to be produced from the actor’s mouth as the words are spoken. 

The hot September days have been the most strenuous times for the iceman, for never in his experience, does he remember when he had to work from nine in the morning to nine at night and still have several ice boxes go empty for several hours.

THE KAUKAUNA TIMES celebrates its thirty-fourth birthday today and launches off into a new year with increased energy, for a new firm name is hoisted to the top of our editorial column, that of the RAUGHT BROS. We say new, for it will be a new firm name to the business world, but as far as Kaukauna's people are concerned, the change will really mean nothing new. Aside from the change in the firm name, through the entry of M. A. Raught into part ownership, there will be no marked change in the business management, the policy of the paper or the promptness with which we will endeavor to serve our patrons.

 

September 19, 1913

An article from the St. Paul Dispatch has reached our desk telling of a 2,000-mile hike being made by Erhard Reichel of Kaukauna. The picture shows Reichel with his two wheeled barrow, his dog, and his violin. Erhard   left   Ironwood, Michigan, June 10 and expects to make the round trip by December. He will have touched Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. He earns his expenses enroute by selling post cards and entertaining on his violin. Erhard will be remembered by many in Kaukauna as the violinist who played at the first moving picture theatre that opened in Kaukauna.

The valuable collection of old letters, documents, relics, etc., which Dr. H. B. Tanner received by his father-in-law James M. Boyd was sold to a man from New York who makes a business of buying antiquities. Along with the collection Dr. Tanner included his entire private library of books which was the finest in Kaukauna. Dr. Tanner saved a few things of historical importance to Kaukauna which he turned over to the Kaukauna library. These items include an autograph letter by Dominick DuCharme, the first white settler who came to Kaukauna in 1790. 

Oneida Indians are in demand by the Northern Land and Timber Co. of this city who are engaged in lumbering in Forest County. Mr. Baken has twenty-four of these expert axe men chopping for him and hopes to get fifty more of them.  He is paying $4.00 a day, which is a good wage.

 

September 26, 1913

Cold? Well, we should snort! Snow on the 20th of September is sure going some. The mercury has dropped to thirty-six degrees above zero between Saturday and Sunday. Although there wasn't much of the white stuff here, points further north received good amounts of it.

The hardest thing for an inexperienced automobile driver to learn is why people can’t keep out of the way. After the killing of 110 persons in Chicago this year by automobiles, the authorities of that city have taken measured resulting in a great decrease of causalities.

 

Time Machine Trip to September 1903

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1903

By Lyle Hansen

 

September 4, 1903

 

The popular Princess Bowling Alleys on Third Street will open for the season on Saturday. During the closed season the entire establishment has been renovated. The alleys have been planned down to absolute perfection and a new system of gas lighting has been installed. New pins and balls have been provided. A new addition has been built furnishing a dressing room for ladies exclusively.

 

The franchise of the Knox Construction Company asking permission to enter the city on certain streets with their electric line from Green Bay was again presented to the common council at the regular session Tuesday evening and referred to a committee and ordered published. The council will act on the new franchise at an adjourned meeting on the 15th.

 

September 11, 1903

While on his way home at a late hour Monday evening Henry Rademacher of Dundas encountered a "mad dog." A cry brought his brother to the rescue and between the two the dog was dispatched with an old musket. A heated argument was the result the next day with the owner of the dog, who objected very emphatically to the premature death of the beast.

 

A new fraud is being perpetrated throughout the country.  A man wearing a government badge and claiming to be in the secret service and looking for counterfeit money, enters a store and looks over the cash drawer. He invariably finds several “counterfeit” bills which he confiscated and gets rich that way. 

The name of the First M.E church has been changed to that of the "Brokaw Memorial Church." This was unanimously decided upon at an official meeting of the members last week, and as the change has received the approbation of the Bishop, the change is now announced to the public.

 

September 18, 1903

The Times today presents two pretty and familiar scenes to all Kaukaunaites with a view from the Lawe Street bridge.

 

This   long   spell   of disagreeable and stormy weather is beginning to make itself felt in the news line as well as everything else. It is rather difficult these days for our reporters to gather in items.

 

Commencing on September first, the Northwestern shops will close at 5 in the evening and all of Saturday afternoon. This gives the employees a working schedule of but fifty hours per week.

 

September 25, 1903

John Brown of Lake City, Iowa, claims the distinction of being the shortest United States soldier living today. Bown was born in 1836 and enlisted in the Union army in 1862. He mustered out of service in 1865. His height is 4 feet 6 inches and has in position an affidavit which proves that he was the shortest in the service.

The heavy rains have converted the Vandenberg creek into a river and carried the bridge away, which cannot be replaced until the water subsides. In the meantime, a ferry boat will be run by Mike Malony, to accommodate passengers to and from.

 

A large number of citizens assembled at Hotel Brothers Monday attempting organization of what will be known as “The Booster Club.” The objective of the club will be to boost anything of an improvement nature in the interest of the city.

 

Most of the streets of Chicago are in the same crowed condition as South Water Street.  

 

 

 

Time Machine Trip to September 1893

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1893

By Lyle Hansen

September 1, 1893

 Marvin Hughett of the Chicago Northwestern Railway Company has announced the consolidation of the line with the Milwaukee Lake Shore and Western Railway Company.  The result in Kaukauna will be that both stations will be under one agent and one railroad.

 

The city now has deeds to all of the property necessary for an approach on the north side of the proposed New River Bridge. It cost the city $3,625.

 

The weather has been cold enough for frost this week, and had no wind been blowing last Monday and Tuesday nights, vegetation in all probability would have been napped.

 

Russell D. Sidmore, of this city, a Lake Shore brakeman who lost a limb last winter by being run over at Brillion, has commenced a suit against the Lake Shore company for $13,000.

Searching parties at Johnstown, Pa, have been finding valuables lost during the flood. A few days ago, a valuable gold watch was found, and a young man named Brown found a diamond ring said to be very valuable. It is also stated that some of the most valuable recoveries have been kept secret for fear the claimants might make trouble.

The farmhouse of Theodore Van Bloomer, near Freedom burned at an early hour last Saturday morning. Two children were badly burned, one fatally dying the following evening.

The work of putting in the sewer on Desnoyer Street was greatly delayed at present, a bed of quicksand in the spring of water having been struck between Brothers and Division streets. Planks 16 feet in length were driven down to shut off the water and hold back the sand. Commissioners have concluded to raise the sewer 3 feet from the plans first adopted in that area.

 

The indications are that the mines of the Comstock, from which between 300 and 400 million dollars in gold and silver has been taken during the past 30 years are pretty nearly exhausted.

 

September 8, 1893

Springfield, Mo., Sept. 4 – At 4 o'clock yesterday morning, three desperate men held up the St. Louis & San Francisco passenger train. They shot and killed the express messenger but failed to secure any money from the express car. They then robbed the passengers in a manner much after the style of the James–Younger gang. They secured about $500 in cash along with watches, diamonds, and other valuables. One passenger was made to give up a quart of whiskey. 

In attempting to save the life of a small child near Parrish, Wis., E. H. Rummele, chief engineer of the Milwaukee Lake Shore lost his life when a train was backing into a siding near Parrish. Mr. Rummele noticed a little child playing on the track, some distance ahead. He jumped off the train and was running ahead to the child but slipped and fell onto the rails, the train passing over his arms near the shoulder. The child had left the track before the train got to him.

 

Walter Oleson, of Neenah, unearthed the skeleton of an Indian on his father's farm near Winneconne. The skeleton was in a sitting position, with hands clasped across the knees and an arrow halfway through the skull. It is considered one of the most valuable Indian finds ever unearthed in Wisconsin.

 

This week THE TIMES enters upon the 14th year of its existence in Kaukauna. THE TIMES was issued for the first time in a village of about 500 inhabitants, today it is issued in the city of nearly 7000 population. When THE TIMES first started there was but one building on the South side of the River that was an old brick residence situated near the site of the railroad shops. From that day to this THE TIMES has ever been ready to advance the interests of Kaukauna and it has undoubtedly done its share of up building the city. THE TIMES passed through financial struggles, two of its editors have died and others have given up in despair and lastly a fire tried to down us, but the Times is still in existence with a promise today of long life.

 

September 15, 1893

 

There has been great excitement for the past two days at Little Chute over an alleged monster which has been seen several times between the Kimberly and Little Chute dams in the Fox River. It is described as 6 feet long and shaped like a walrus with extraordinarily large fierce eyes. Men are all patrolling the river, hoping to capture the animal. It may be the sea lion which escaped from a circus into Lake Winnebago many years ago.

THE TIMES office has frequent visitors these days to see our new Hercules gas engine work—it being something new in the way of motive power.

Several of the marshes around Kaukauna are on fire and the smoke in the city is very blinding and suffocating. When will it rain?  

September 22, 1893

 

Divorced for Laziness – A Missouri Judge has granted a divorce due to the laziness and idleness of a wife. “Mrs. Hattie A. Davis has stated in her testimony that she lived a life of idleness and leisure.” Mrs. Davis’ laziness seems to have consisted in preferring the ease and luxury of hotel life to the cares of housekeeping. 

 

Merrill, Wis., - Last night was one of fear and anxiety to many of the residents of the wooded districts and northern Wisconsin. A high wind was raging, fanning the forest fires into huge rolling waves of flames which swept everything before it as rapidly as a prairie fire. In the Pine River settlement east of this city the fire nearly swept everything off the face of the earth. There is no sleep for citizens.   

 

Charles Faust, while returning from a tour in Kimberly last Friday night, was held up by a Highwayman on the road and relieved of his pocketbook. Mr. Faust says the fellow stopped his horse and jumped into the buggy, pointing a revolver at his head, and demanding his money. The lone bandit did not wait, however, to have the money handed to him but ripped it from Faust’s vest. 

 

September 29, 1893

The railroad shops are running again six days in the week, commencing Monday. This is good news, and it is hoped, and undoubtedly it will not be long before the old, time crews and full line will again be on.

 

Mortimer Bosworth, a former resident of Kaukauna and an employee of the Ashland division, has got himself into a rather warm place. One wife he didn’t consider sufficient, so he had taken two new ones until he now has three living Mrs. Bosworth’s. He is under arrest in Port Washington for bigamy.

 

Fifteen thousand Union Pacific employees have been voting no on a 10 per cent reduction in wages. The answer is unanimous against it. If the wage cut should be adopted a big strike will follow.

 

The red flag of the Anarchists has disappeared from the Labor Day parades. “It never will be missed.”

 

Time Machine Trip to September 1883

 

Kaukauna Times - September 1883

By Lyle Hansen

September 7, 1883

Four large stones were loaded on the Steamer Henrietta at the quarry Wednesday, each of which are said to measure six by ten feet and nineteen inches thick.  These are the largest ever quarried at this place.

Little Rock, Ark. – A man caught in the act of beating his wife in the face with his fist was discharged without punishment when he explained that his wife was crazy and needed rough treatment to make her behave properly. 

September 14, 1883

Work will begin next week on the building of the Frambach Paper Company. This structure will be an addition to the old Eagle Paper Mill and have a sixty-foot front and will extend fifty-five feet back. The building will be two stories high. The enlargement of this mill will assist to a great extent, the prosperity of Kaukauna and speaks well for the enterprising spirit of Col. H.A. Frambach, who is the prime mover in the Company.

The trial of Frank James, the notorious outlaw, was concluded at Gallatin, Mo., on the 6^th, by a verdict of acquittal. The jury was out but a short time.

September 21, 1883

The ice in the Kaukauna ice house is "played out" and Frank Hoberg will be obliged to get his supply from Little Chute.

The work on the Panama Canal is progressing very slowly. The machinery is inadequate, and fevers are making appalling inroads on the work force.

Mr. Richard Decker, of Wallkill Valley, New York, was surprised by a blacksnake which came at him 12 inches off the ground. The snake was 5 ½ feet long and had two well-formed legs with feet attached about fifteen inches from its tail.  Decker killed the snake with a pitchfork. The body was placed in alcohol and sent to the National Museum in Washington.

September 28, 1883

Ledyard is under a great rush of strangers. It has been impossible for some months past to find a dwelling of any description, for rent, and the newcomers, are consequently, obliged to find a boarding place. The hotels, without exception, are all crowded, and more boarding houses are in the process of construction. Everything has a bright outlook and the future looks good.