Time Machine Trip to January 1911

Hello Fellow Time Travelers,

Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to January of 1911.

For today’s trip Dick Nienhaus will be sitting in the front seat operating the Time Machine.  The big wheel is spinning, the years are clicking back and in no time we are back on East Second Street on Kaukauna’s Southside.

• Klein’s Park has been purchased.  
• Tobogganing is great fun these days
• Young boy goes thru the ice

Charlie has left the papers for us on the chair out front of the Times office.

Charles E. Raught – Owner, Editor & Publisher

Let’s see what’s in the news this month.

Your old newsman - Lyle Hansen

January 6, 1911

James Brown will tear down the tenement house next to his residence on Doty Street and build a new and modern dwelling on the site. The work of tearing down the old house, once a part of the old Kaukauna House at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Desnoyer Street has been commenced.

The matter of the purchase of the parcel of land in the Third ward known as Klein’s Park was taken by the common council Tuesday evening. The land was purchased for the price of $4500.00 with the first payment being made this year out of funds on hand and the balance will be divided into eight installments of $500.00 each at a rate of 4 ½ per cent interest. 

January 13, 1911

Attention: Can you beat this? $50.00 down and $6.00 monthly buys a good forty acre farm. No taxes or interest for 3 years. G. W. Ristau Land Co.

Large quantities of saw logs are arriving daily now at the mill of the Kaukauna Lumber and Manufacturing company coming into the city from all directions. The snowstorm last Sunday drifted the roads so deep in the country it stopped logging for a few days.

January 20, 1911

There's lots of fun these days tobogganing on the hills towards the Grignon flats. Every night sees an enthusiastic crowd of young people intent on the thrilling and exhilarating sport.

The Kaukauna Land, Timber and supply company now have six camps in full blast logging and cutting cedar poles and fence posts. They expect to bank 6,000,000 feet of logs before the winter is closed.

January 27, 1911

Miss Blanche St. Andrews, of Kaukauna, was the partner of Governor F. J. McGovern in leading the grand march of the Charity Ball at Appleton last Friday. Naturally all eyes were concentrated on the Kaukauna young lady. She carried herself perfectly unconscious of her position and won a warm spot on that account from the hundreds who were watching her easy, graceful movements.

The Kaukauna Gas, Electric Light and Power Company received two new boilers Monday and are now engaged in setting them in the new brick boiler house recently completed, adjoining their power plant on the government canal. The two new boilers are of 200 horse-power each, measuring eighteen feet in length and 72 inches in diameter respectively, and were made by the American Boiler Works of Racine.

The dare-devil recklessness of several small boys age 12 to 15, skating on the ice Saturday came near a fatal ending in the case of young Christ Kindler. The boys were chasing across the thin ice which waved up and down as they raced over it. Kindler, the largest of the boys went through. The two boys rushed to Renn’s Ice house and procured some long pike-poles and went to his rescue.