Time Machine Trip to November 1933

 

Kaukauna Times – November 1933

By Lyle Hansen

November 3, 1933

The hunting season on skunks and raccoons in all Wisconsin counties, and squirrels in all but ten counties is now open. The season extends from November 1 to January 1.

 

Several persons were injured, three of them seriously in a collision on Hwy. 55 three miles north of Kaukauna on the road to Freedom yesterday afternoon.  2 sedans were completely wrecked. The injured in the first car were Frank McCormick, Donald McCormick, Albert DeWitt and Joseph Fleischmann all of Kaukauna who were returning from a hunting trip. Norbert Vosters of Freedom was driving the second car with nine children in it returning from school.

 

November 7, 1933

Chicago - Determined to come back after two unexpected losses in the eastern territory, the Chicago Cardinals Sunday afternoon will play their first game at home against an out-of-town opponent meeting meaning the Green Bay Packers at Wrigley Field.

 

November 10, 1933

Clayton Fleming was elected football captain for the 1934 season at Kaukauna High. He succeeds Jerry Vils and Ambrose Maule, co-captains of the 1933 eleven. The 1933 record read as follows:

Kaukauna 27, St. Norbert 6
Kaukauna 0, Menasha 7
Kaukauna 37, Ripon 7
Kaukauna 46, Neenah 6
Kaukauna 24, Shawano 0
Kaukauna 20, West De Pere 0
Kaukauna 32, New London 0

Total: Kaukauna 186, Opponents 26

 

November 14, 1933

Four small daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Martin H. Evers, route 1 Kaukauna died when Evers’ farm home was destroyed by fire Saturday evening. A telephone call was received at the residence of Mayor Fargo Saturday's asking that the fire department be sent to the scene of the disaster. Flames and dense smoke prevented frantic parents and neighbors from going into the rescue of the children.  Geraldine Evers, age 13, the oldest of the eight children saved herself and three other babies of the family. The four victims apparently smothered as they slept.

Margaret Evers

Morella Evers

Martha Evers

Mary Ann Evers

the victims’ ages range from 2 to 10 years of age.

At the regular meeting of the K of C in Kaukauna a resolution was drawn up against moving the Kaukauna postoffice. The Kaukauna Rotary Club also went on record as being opposed to the possible removal of the postoffice from its present location.

 

Kaukauna’s share of government pork wrapped in three- and six-pound packages was received by the relief department Friday. The 2,000 pounds of pork will be distributed to needy families according to Mrs. F. W. Grogan, director of relief, along with instructions on how to prepare it.

 

November 24, 1933

One hundred and five men were put to work in Kaukauna on C.W.A. Project Day. The men will be hired day to day as the individual projects are launched. The projects will continue until the army of jobless in this city obtains work.

 

Formal opening of the Main Avenue Bridge over the power canal will take place Wednesday afternoon at 4:30, according to members of the board of public works, under whose direction the bridge has been constructed.

 

The total cost of poor relief in the city of Kaukauna during the month of October amounted to $2,756.26 according to report from Alderman E. Brewster, chairman of the poor committee.

Senior girls on the high school steps. Top row: Mary Van Lieshout, Dorothy Look and Gertrude Grebe. Second row: Rita Muthig, Dorothy Vanevenhoven. Bottom row: Dorothy Watson, Virginia Goetzman and Alice Esler.

 

 

Time Machine Trip to November 1923

 

Kaukauna Times – November 1923

By Lyle Hansen 

November 1, 1923

Two new stores are opening on Kaukauna's south side this week. Nagan's Coat store opened on Saturday on Second Street, and Runte's new store on Third Street.

 

The “Oriole” made its appearance this week in an improved form. The high school newspaper is now a twelve-page edition. Prentice Hale is the editor in chief of the paper.

 

Hugh J. Mulholland of this city died after a long illness Sunday afternoon October 28^th. Hugh served for thirty-nine years as clerk of the school board and one time mayor of Kaukauna. 

 

 

November 8, 1923

The Rev. W. P. Hulen, pastor of the Methodist Church of this city, narrowly escaped serious injury when his gun burst as he was shooting at a rabbit, one of the barrels being blown to pieces. Rev. E. L. Wothman, standing nearby, said that Rev. Hulen was so anxious to see whether he had hit the rabbit that he did not wait to examine what was left of the gun.

 

Two cars were damaged in an accident Saturday afternoon on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Desnoyer street. Joseph Gossens failed to see a Ford driven by Albert Nelson when he was making a turn. The running board on the Nash was damaged and the Ford was slightly damaged.

November 15, 1923

Word has been received that the son of the former Kaiser once Crown Prince, has obtained permission to leave Holland for a trip to Switzerland "to enjoy the winter sports.” Germans wondering how their children will be fed this winter will read that with interest.

 

November 22, 1923

This week, the last remaining vestige of the old Kaukauna Machine Company's plant will have vanished by the familiar frame building on Main Avenue, north of the wastewater power station.

 

The Kaukauna American Legion team whipped the highly praised La Crosse city team Sunday by the score of 25 to 3. The Legion team showed a championship caliber.   

November 29, 1923

Seventy-five years ago, many Catholics were obliged to seek spiritual ministration at Little Chute. However, in the spring of 1869 the seeds were sown which now returned to golden harvest. This week represents the Golden Jubilee of the Holy Cross parish.

 

1923 Overland $695 – Hennes Auto Co. Kaukauna

1923 Ford Touring $295 - William Van Lieshout Ford – Kaukauna

Time Machine trip to November 1913

 

Kaukauna Times - November 1913

By Lyle Hansen

November 7, 1913

The Kaukauna deer hunters will take their departure tomorrow for various sections of the north in quest for their annual venison allowance.

After spending several months carefully investigating the merit, efficiency, economy, etc., of various streets lighting systems, the Kaukauna Utilities Commission decided at a meeting Tuesday to adopt the General Electric Company's magnetite four ampere arc lamp, and a contract was accordingly closed. Installation of the lights will commence soon.

A temporary place of worship for the Holy Cross congregation has been arranged in the school building. A small altar, one used by Rev. Father Vanden Broeck years ago in the church at Little Chute, has been returned to service here until such time as the Holy Cross congregation can arrange to rebuild. 

 

November 14, 1913

Photographs and postcards, showing Holy Cross Church before and after its destruction by fire, can be purchased at J. G.  Fechter Store.  The proceeds will go toward the building of the new church fund.

The auto plates for 1914 are to be black and white.  

November 21, 1913

The Kaukauna Fire Department took a lively run at noon Thursday to the stable of the Kaukauna   Lumber and Manufacturing Company only to find that a stove had been unduly fired up to heat a workman's coffee can. The boy who turned in the false alarm wasn't to be found.

 

Charles Faust had quite a bad loss by fire Tuesday afternoon when four rooms and contents were destroyed in his dwelling house at the corner of Desnoyer and Division streets.

 

November 28, 1913

The property owners along the north bank of the government canal have written a letter to the government in an attempt to get the bank cleaned up and terraced. Word was received from the War Department in reply. "It is apparent that the bank near the canal is stable and has never given any trouble and none is anticipated in the future." The request is denied.

 

 

 

Time Machine Trip to November 1903

 

Kaukauna Time – November 1903

By Lyle Hansen

November 6, 1903

Fifteen students from Purdue University among them several members of the football team were killed and fifty or more others in a total of 1,200 players or "rooters" on a special train were injured in a terrific collision on the Big Four Railway while entering Indianapolis.  The students’ special ran into a coal train at Riverside Park, crushing to splinters a coach, telescoping a second coach and hurling it down a 15-foot embankment, and upsetting and smashing a third coach.

 

November 13, 1903

 Seven of the eight cutter girls at the Thilmany Pulp & Paper mills went out on strike Wednesday for higher wages. They were being paid 75 cents per day and struck for an increase of $1.00. An increase in wages were allowed and Thursday they are all back at work.

 

The fine new pipe organ which has just been installed at St. Mary's was dedicated last evening. The Kimball Company installed the organ.

 

November 20, 1903

Diphtheria is reported from most of the Fox River Valley cities, Menasha reports twelve cases quarantined with half a hundred exposures.

 

The 7:45 interurban car from Appleton ran off the track this morning just as it rounded the sharp turn at the head of Wisconsin avenue. Ther was no damage, but the passengers had to foot it into the city.

 

November 27, 1903

Barbers of the city have received copies of the sanitary rules sent out by the state board of examiners. There are in all 12 rules, though more than that number of subjects is touched on. While some are quite stringent, they are only such as are always observed by the best shops. By the new law barbers are required to keep a copy of these rules posted in a conspicuous place.

Time Machine Trip to November 1893

 

Kaukauna Times – November 1893

By Lyle Hansen

November 3, 1893

The city treasury is empty and a little more so. Only $1,279.88 is on hand November 1^st and bills amounting to $2,020.45 allowed Tuesday. “Busted By Gosh.”

 

The dangers of the deer season seem to be on the side of the hunter. Set guns and the hunters who shoot at everything they discover on the move, make the deer country a place to avoid by those who prefer to live.

An interesting will contest will come up for argument in Oshkosh on November 22. Dr. J. M. Brown has protested the will of his father Isaac Brown, who had recently died. By the will Mrs. Brown, who was the third wife of the deceased and is only 24 years of age, while her departed spouse was over 70, was given the major portion of the estate, valued at $30,000. She had also been given a homestead worth $30,000. Dr. Brown alleges undue inference on the part of Mrs. Brown and claims the will produced in court is not his father’s.

 

A man who recently came down from Ironwood tells that he saw bills posted about that town calling for one thousand men at Ishpeming. Ishpeming is not looking for more men due to having many unemployed at that location. This is just a scheme to get rid of the unemployed at Ironwood.  

 

 The inside woodwork at the new pulp plant at Little Chute is practically finished and the setting of machines will soon be commenced.

 

  An Omaha preacher had told his parishioners how to vote. Pretty soon some of them will be telling people how to pray.

 

John Johnson, Little Chute, was thrown from his wagon and badly injured. His leg was broken, and his face was severely cut.

 

World’s Fair Summary – The total admissions to the World’s Fair in Chicago have been 21,458,910. The gate receipts will approximate $10,500,000 and concession receipts $4,000,000. 

November 10, 1893

The board of sewerage commissioners has presented their final report, recommending the adoption of the sewers as completed, and the same is now in the hands of the sewer committee. They also recommend the levying of taxes on both sides for sewer purposes.

 

John Murphy, claiming to hail from Pittsburg, was arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct Wednesday. He pled guilty before Squire Mulloy, Kaukauna, and was fined $1 and costs. He had enough change left to again fill up which he proceeded to do and was again lodged in the cooler. He had to be jailed for five days the second time.

 

Fayetteville, Tenn., Nov. 4 – Early this morning on the farm of Jack Daniels, near Lynchburg, Ned Waggoner, his son Will and daughter May and son-in-law Motlow, were found hanging on one tree. All the parties are colored and the only cause at present assigned for their fate is that they were supposed to have been implicated in the numerous barn burnings which have taken place recently. The lynching was done by a mob of 200 men.  

 

The fire protection of Kaukauna is so poor that insurance companies are gravely considering their risk here. The fire of Monday night resulted in the canceling of considerable insurance on “shaky” risks the next day.

 

 Since the putting in of the sewer on Kaukauna Street all the water has leaked out of the reservoir at the corner of that street and Wisconsin Avenue. The fire engine pumped in water to fill the reservoir, but it leaked out as fast as it was put in and as a consequence that end of town is without any water supply in case of fire. 

 

November 17, 1893

The Ute Indians believe that one God, or Great Spirit, rules all the Indians and that He desires his children to be mighty hunters and brave warriors. In the future his soul goes to the Happy Hunting Grounds, of high mountains, large forests, and rivers of clear water. The Ute Indians do not fear death, and none are cowards.

 

 A new electric light has been placed in the center of the river bridge.

 

The Kaukauna creamery has been closed for the winter season, owing to scarcity of milk.

 

 Dr. F. J. Wilkes’s annual report of the work he has done for the Humane Society shows a total of 1.334 cases attending to, 374 under the heading of cruelty to persons and 960 cruelties to animals.

 

An enterprising man recently discovered that electricity from an ordinary battery when applied to a person with a “jag” will speedily sober him. It would be a good idea for saloon keepers in Wisconsin to put batteries in their saloons.

 

Oscar Thilmany carried off first prize at the Appleton skat tourney last Friday.  

  

 

 The new iron bridge at Little Chute is being laid this week.

 

After thirty years of separation Hiram Jefferson and his son Thomas are reunited in Janesville. The father became separated from his family just after the capture of Fort Donaldson, he was a slave on a plantation near the fort.

 

November 24, 1893

The storm of Tuesday was welcomed by residents living on the outskirts of the city. A fire had started in the Zink woods on the south side Monday and owing to the dry conditions of everything crept up close to the city limits toward evening, causing a little alarm among property owners around Tenth Street. It became necessary for a party to go out and check the onward march of the flames, a watch being kept on duty all night.

 

Chicago Ill., Nov. 16 – Three men are under arrest for complicity in the recent fire of the Chicago City Railroad’s car barns. About $180,000 worth of property was destroyed including 400 horses that were burned.  

 

The boys have been enjoying skating on the ponds during the last week. Don’t venture too far boys and compel The Times to chronicle a drowning accident.  

  

Chas. Specht’s hack is being laid up for repairs this week. His team which was tied in front of the opera house last Sunday became frightened by the hook and ladder truck that was harried by to a fire and ran away, turning the vehicle over on its side and badly demolishing it. 

 

The river was covered with ice clear across yesterday morning. 

 

1893 Fashions

  

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Time Machine Trip to November 1883

 

Kaukauna Times – November 1883

By Lyle Hansen 

November 2, 1883

Last week, Blackwell Bros. sold two more of their fine lots, in this village, the consideration being $240 each. The "boom" in Kaukauna seems to continue.

November 9, 1883

A company of bold hunters took a trip to Freedom one day last week in search of deer.  The result last week coincided with last year’s, no game.

November 16, 1883

Papers were issued on Monday for the arrest of a schoolteacher in the town of Buchanan. The teacher was charged with cruelly beating a child in his class. The child has been in very dangerous health since that time.

David Moses, the husband of the bowery fat bride of one month who died in Baltimore ten days ago has sold her body to Dr. Alexander Hill. The Dr. agreed to pay him $100, and Moses snapped at the offer. The Dr. wants the body for dissection and for the skeleton which he plans to place in his office. 

Madison, Wis. – Ten minutes before 2 o’clock on the afternoon of the 8^th the great iron pillars supporting the roof of the second story of the balcony of the south wing of the capitol fell with a terrible crash. Amid the successive crashes the wild cries of the imprisoned and crushed workmen sent a thrill of horror throughout the capital. About forty masons, plasterers, laborers, and carpenters were at work upon the wing. The local hook and ladder company rendered efficient assistance. 

November 23, 1883

At six o'clock a.m. on Friday last, the yard engine of the Lake Shore Road collided with the freight train from the north and did much damage. The north bound passenger train was delayed five hours because of the wreck.

Lexington, Ky. – A colored woman and her child were found dead in bed on the morning of the 14^th. It is supposed that they died from a lack of food. 

John Roberts, of Neenah, has made arrangements to plant several million carp in Lake Winnebago next season. The flesh of the carp is highly esteemed as food, but it is not a very valuable fish to the angler, because it does not bite freely.

 

November 30, 1883

That girl, who decks herself in the latest things and goes out and parades in the street, while her mother does the washing, isn't worth wasting much time on.

 

Two ladies were looking over the newspaper. “Oh my, how funny,” “Why here’s an advertisement that says, “No reasonable offer refused.” “What’s so odd about that?” “Nothing, nothing,” she replied, trying not to blush, “Only those are exactly my sentiments.”

Lynchburg, Va. – Two young farm boys, Spooler and Newcome ages 10 and 14 were sitting in the stable yard talking. Newcome was chewing tobacco and Spooler remarked that he looked as if he enjoyed chewing. Newcome remarked that he always hated borrowing and had made it the rule of his life that he would shoot the first man that ever asked him for a chew of tobacco. Spooler then asked him for a chew. Newcome reached into his pocket and drew a small pistol and shot him. Spooler died within an hour. Since the shooting the young murder has been overwhelmed with grief and said he is it in a fit of passion.