Saturday, December 30, 2017

Time Machine Trip to December 1912

December 6, 1912
"There is a saying that a man who squeezes a dollar never squeezes his wife." After glancing over our subscription books, the editor is led to remark that there are a number of good married women in this city who are not getting the attention they deserve.

Charles Faust who owned the second-best pen of pheasants in the state has sold all his fowls. Mr. Faust found that as the birds increased in number they took up too much of his time. He sold his full plumaged pairs for $20.00 per pair.

The Kaukauna Electric Department has arranged with the Bank of Little Chute to handle the business of the department in that village.  The bank will also carry and supply the Little Chute patrons with lamps, plugs, etc., and receive all complaints on service which will be immediately transmitted to the Kaukauna office.

Nine young men constituting the night crew employed in the Northwestern Railroad yards in Green Bay were arrested last week for stealing whiskey from the freight house. They were arraigned in court and plead guilty, being fined $2.63 each.




Thousands of the Red Cross Christmas Seals are being sold in Kaukauna this week under the management of the Woman’s club. School children are now busy making a canvass of the city.



December 13, 1912

  
4th Street Viaduct


William Reardon, who delivers milk in the city for the Elm Bluff Dairy of Taggart & Reardon, had bad luck Friday while trying to cross Fourth Street between Main and Reaume Avenues. His horse suddenly sank into the new sewer on that street. It took two hours to extricate the beast from its predicament, but it is feared it has badly injured its legs and is not yet able to work.

A penny Arcade. A new theatre where you drop a penny in the slot and see the pictures or listen to some of the popular songs, will be opening in the building next to Paschen’s restaurant on the southside of Kaukauna.

The Hilgenberg Bros. are arranging for a pocket billiard tournament at their pool hall and want all good pool players in Kaukauna to drop in and learn the particulars. Good prizes will be hung up for the winners.


December 20, 1912
The interurban line between Kaukauna and Appleton is now running the evening service a half hour schedule right through to midnight to accommodate holiday traffic.

Garfield Welch lost an eye while engaged as one of the employees of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company. He was at work in the firepit and a hot cinder struck his eye Sunday morning, but he kept working the balance of the day and worked Monday with a sore eye. Tuesday his eye was still painful, and he went to the eye doctor in Appleton. The doctor said he thought the sight was destroyed but the eye might be saved.

William Guilfoyle has lost his right eye as a result of an injury received last week at the Northwestern shops in Kaukauna, when a flying chip of brass entered the optic. He is now at St. Luke’s hospital, Chicago, where he is being cared for under the direction of the company’s surgeons.

Charles Jacobson has set the pace for Kaukauna in commercial growth by offering to give free a manufacturing site on two to four acres lying along Langlade street. The site offered is a corner off his farm. He asks others who own land like his should do likewise.

December 27, 1912
Messrs. Herman Miller and Art Gustman launched a new auto transfer line this morning. This idea is to furnish a means of conveyance from one side of the river to the other for those who wish to ride and save the walk over the long cold bridge. The fare will be five cents.

John, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of Little Chute was drowned in the cistern near their house one-day last week. The little fellow was out coasting and returning after dusk walked into the open cistern that had been left open by his mother during the day.

An eastern girl has lost her power of speech because of being jilted by her sweetheart. He’ll probably want to marry her now.




Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Time Machine Trip to December 1902

December 5, 1902
Edward Fricke of Kaukauna was killed instantly at the coal sheds while working for the railroad here Monday. He was crushed to death by a chute which was struck by engine No. 830 which was backing into the station.

Menominee, Mich., - Joseph Levalleo, 12, had his fingers blown off in school yesterday. He had a dynamite cartridge which he was hold in one hand and poking with a pencil which he held in the other hand. Suddenly the cartridge exploded making a terrific noise and frightening all the students.

J.P. Helf of the north side brewery is gaining quite a wide reputation with a new brew of beer he has recently placed on the market. A few days ago, he sent several bottles of his beer to the laboratory of the U.S. Health company in New York. The laboratory came back as his was the purest and best beer to drink.

The deer season closed Sunday and the hunter who have been in the northern woods dodging bullets for several weeks are all back home. Kaukauna hunters fared well, most everyone that went having brought back two deer each.

A reception was tendered the football team of Kaukauna High school by the high school girls on Friday evening at the High school rooms. Ed. Weston was again elected team captain.



Carloads of Christmas trees have been passing south this week, another indication that it will soon be time for Santa Claus to make his annual visit.




December 12, 1902
Engine No. 970 started out of the round house unguided Monday morning on its own and as a result tumbled head first into the turn table pit. The iron horse was being steamed up for use and the throttle must have been left open sufficiently to allow steam to escape with pressure enough to start it moving. No one was in the engine at the time. It was damaged enough by the fall to place it in "dry dock" for repairs.

The dead trees in the small patch of land known as a city park on the south side, have been cut down this week and converted into firewood for the city poor.

La Crosse, Wis., - The Pastors’ Union, has appointed a committee to look into the intemperance among women of this city. This was brought about by recent wine room raids by the police at homes of the ultra-fashionable. 


The miniature engine built by the Kaukauna railroad boys has been the subject of illustrations in magazines and newspapers. The engine was loaned to the Firemen’s annual ball at Fond du Lac last Thursday.

December 19, 1902
Half a dozen car-loads of coal have been received here within the week, partially relieving the fuel famine.  This, however, is not enough to finish the winter season, and if more is not near forthcoming, many who have started their coal stoves with a small quantity on hand may find it necessary to revert to wood again inside a few weeks.

A woman cured her husband of staying out late at night by going to the door when he came home and whispering through the keyhole, “Is that you Willie?” Her husband’s name is John. He now he stays home every night and sleeps with one eye open.


Washington D.C. Dec. 15Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, widow of the former President of the United States, is dead. She died of heart failure at the age of 76 years.

La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 15 – The folly of youth marrying age was shown in court when three babies were taken from J. Fosdick and wife, on the grounds that the home was not a fit place for them. They married five years ago, when she was 14 and he was 57.


December 26, 1902

The new Princess Bowling Alley, situated on the Donahue property on Third Street, Southside Kaukauna was formally opened to the public Christmas Day. The large roomy hall built especially for this purpose affords an excellent place, as there is plenty of room not only for the bowlers but spectators as well, an amphitheater with opera chairs being provided at one end.

Sheboygan, Wis., Dec. 22 – The Social Democracy of this city, which expects to win in the spring election, promises to afford free baths, free concert, free theatrical performances, municipal ownership of street railway, electric light and water works plant.

Tony Heid of the north side of Kaukauna performed a very heroic act recently, having saved the life of the Wrightstown young lady. A few days ago, he skated down the river to Wrightstown. Just as he is about to return home he heard the scream for help from a party of Wrightstown young people who were also on the river. A young woman had fallen through the thin ice. Tony did not propose to witness a drowning if he could avoid it. He rushed to the dangerous spot, reached out and pull the young lady from the water, but in doing so was swung around on to the thin ice himself and down he went. He was able to pull himself up onto the ice.

Madison, Wis., Dec. 22 -
An initiation at the University Saturday night nearly resulted fatally to the candidate for membership in one of the fraternities. As a result of the affair several expulsions will probably follow. The fraternity members secured a back room of a saloon on Monroe Street to conduct the initiation. They were in the room almost the entire night and until 11 o'clock and consumed beer and other drinks. The fact that six students left rather than seven was not noticed by the barkeeper. A few minutes later he went into the back room and was horrified to find one of the students hanging by his neck from the ceiling. He quickly secured a knife and cut the boy down. 


The cold weather of the last few days has afforded John Coppes and opportunity to flood and prepared ice of the ballpark rink. The rink will open Saturday evening with music by the Kaukauna Band.  


Saturday, December 23, 2017

Time Machine Trip to December 1957

December 4, 1957
Bill Campbell has been chosen as the new Uthrotar. He will attend the next two meeting of the local Rotary. Quiet by nature, he is not so sportswise, as can be seen by his three football letters and one-track letter. Bill takes an active interest in the “K” Club, and maintains an “A” average. 

The Holy Cross Green Ghosts edged St. Patrick’s of Menasha by the score of 42-40. The free throw line was the difference in the game. Dick Skibba of the Green Ghosts sparked the Kaukauna attack with 17 points with Bill Nussbaum and Tom Otte tied for second honors with six apiece. Dan Van Dyn Hoven scored five points.


A special clock trophy in recognition of his efforts on behalf of the 1957 Galloping Ghosts football team was presented to head coach Fred Barribeau by Gary Vanevenhoven team captain for 1958 and this year’s team captain Ed Wettstein.


A recent project of Girl Scout Troop 145 was the construction of cloth dolls which will be distributed to needy families in the community during the Christmas season. Pictured left to right seated are Marie Haen, Miss Betty Daverveld, of the Thilco Club, and Karen Hostetler. Standing Lillian Mather, Nancy St. Arnold, Mary Jane Dahm and Linda Bichler.

The sagging football fortunes of the Green Bay Packers were given a shot in the arm, Monday, as the annual player draft was held in Philadelphia. In the draft the Packers selected as their first choice Michigan State center, Dan Currie. The second choice was Jim Taylor, Louisiana State University.  Third Dick Christy, North Carolina, fourth is Ray Nitschke, Illinois and fifth pick is Jerry Kramer of Idaho.

Recreation director Robert Vanevenhoven has announced this week the social events scheduled thru the holiday season. Three ice rinks will be in operation by next week. The rinks are located behind Park school on the north side, next to the library and between 10th and 11th streets along Crooks Ave. All the rinks will have lighting and a warm up shed.

December 6, 1957
Pvt. James J. Daverveld, of Kaukauna, recently graduated from the eight-week automotive maintenance helpers Training Center, Fort Knox, Ky.

December 11, 1957
Tomorrow will be a pretty significant day in the life of young Don Arps of Desnoyer street here in Kaukauna. December 12 will be one of those “once in a lifetime deals” numerically speaking. Tomorrow Don will be twelve years of age on the twelfth day of the month on the twelfth month of the year.  If Don sticks around for another 55 years in 2012 he will celebrate his 67th birthday on the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year of 2000.

December 13, 1957
Saturday afternoon the children of Kaukauna will be the guests of the managers of the Rialto and Vaudette theaters and the Kaukauna Chamber of Commerce at the traditional holiday time party to be held at the two show houses.


John Donnermeyer will be observing his first full year as a Times carrier boy so he will be regarded as a veteran among the youngsters who carry the news each Wednesday and Friday morning. John’s route is Number 4 which includes parts of the southside of Kaukauna. John is 14 years old and has five brothers and four sisters. He is in eighth grade at St. Mary’s parochial school where he is a tackle on the school’s football team.  







December 18, 1957
From all present indications, the home building record for 1956 will be surpassed this year according to the city engineer.  There were 66 new homes in 1956 this year the new home number is 66 and with 13 days to go the record will surely be broken.


Edward Keberlein, known as “Ed” is another one of the veteran carriers for the Times, having recently completed his first full year on his southside route. Ed delivers route no. 8 from 7th street to 10th street. He is 15 years old and a sophomore at Kaukauna high school. Ed is quite an outdoorsman, going hunting and fishing whenever he can.

Miss Judith Ann Vils, 17, and Bruce Ludke, 16, were chosen Monday as Miss and Mr. “Safety” in a spot check conducted by the City Safety Committee, Cliff Kemp chairman. Lt. Robert Main of the Kaukauna police department was the judge of the driving performances of the two high school students. They were each given a pen and pencil set as a reward for displaying safe driving habits.

December 20, 1957
The U.S. Corps of Engineers has approved the application for the filling in of the tailrace which is located between the municipal building and the Kaukauna Library below the Lawe street bridge. The canal extends east between the high school football field and the Mead Edwards power canal.

Approval was expressed toward the proposal of relocation of Highway 41 by Kaukauna Mayor Joseph Bayorgeon and Little Chute Village President, Paul Kostka at a meeting with the district engineer of the state highway commission.

December 24, 1957
Jerry Lamers fired a 247 game and a 661-series topping the men of the Major bowling league on Dec. 16 at the S&B alleys.

December 27, 1957

David Foxgrover, known to his friends as “Foxy” is one of the veterans of the Times carrier boys having toted newspapers over 2 ½ years. Dave delivers route No. 3 on the south side of the city. He is a 14-year-old sophomore at Kaukauna high school. He favorite subject is mathematics. He enjoys the outdoors and takes every opportunity available to fish on Lake Winnebago or Poygan.





Tap dancing at the Kaukauna recreation. The youngsters left to right, Barbara Mueller, Ricky Jo Vander Velden, Judy Jansen, Barbara Main, Karen Jansen, Barbara Gast, LuAnn Schmalz Lillian Mather and Mary Jane Coffey, Miss Lois Frank is kneeling left and Mrs. Lloyd Kloehn on the right.  













1957 Chrysler 300c

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Time Machine Trip to December 1939

December 1, 1939
A court of honor ceremony will be held December 4 for Boy Scout troop 31. Feature of the program is present of the Eagle Scout award to Tom McCarthy and Glen Vandehey. This award is the highest that can be granted to any Boy Scout. A star Scout badge will be presented to William Van Lieshout. Tenderfoot badges awarded to Leon Ashauer, Dean Bayorgeon, James Kramer, Joseph Faust, Donald Brown, Lawrence Gerend, Francis Yingling and Eugene Vandehey.

Benefit movies, will be held in Kaukauna again this year to obtain articles for the Christmas good cheer baskets, according to an announcement made by Anton Berkers, general chairman of the good cheer committee. Benefit movies will be presented at the Rialto Theatre and the Vaudette theater. The public is cordially invited to attend these movies and instead of a cash admission, each person attending is asked to bring one item which can be included in the baskets which will be distributed to the poor at Christmas time. 

Charles Schell was one of the you Kaukauna residents who returned from the Northwoods with a deer. Needless to say, Charlie was proud of the fact that he was one of the fortunate deer hunters to get a buck. But here is a sad ending to the story Charlie must tell about his kill.  It so happened that Charlie hung up his deer and during the night dogs or wolves ate half of the deer, he doesn’t know which.  Another proud hunter is Leo Hennes who was the only one of a group of six to return home with the deer. 

Green Bay police caught a burglar in the act this week but don't know what to do with him. In the meantime, they are seeking the owners of a nightshirt, sweater and a pair of pants, which are found when the thief was trailed to his secret hiding place. The thief is a large dog of nondescript ancestry, which runs about the southside of Green Bay snatching laundry off clotheslines as a matter of sport. 

December 6, 1939
Coach guy Krumm's high school cage team open the Western division conference race Friday night with a 37 to 23 victory over Clintonville at Clintonville. Swedberg and Alger lead the Kaw offense, although Biselx and Bloch were not far behind. Giordana didn't break into the scoring column but played his usual great defense game.

Tom McCarty and Leland Scherer received Eagle Scout badges at the court of honor held at Holy Cross troop 31 Boy Scouts of America at the K of C hall Monday evening. Lester J. Brenzel past grand knight of the local K of C was in charge of the Eagle Scout award ceremony.

GREEN BAY – The championship of the National Football League will be decided Sunday afternoon at State Fair Park in Milwaukee when the Packers, winners of the Western division give battle to the New York Giants, Eastern division titlists. Green Bay went through the season winning 9 of 11 games. The Cleveland Rams and the Chicago Bears are the only clubs to defeat the Bays. The Giants were successful in nine contests. They tied with Washington and suffered a defeat at the hands of the Lions in Detroit. This game promises to be a football fracas which will give the fans something to talk about for months to come.

Fans saw a good game last week as Little Chute St. John defeated Kimberly 23 to 20 after two overtime periods. The Kaukauna High School student body could have learned something about cheering at that game as about 200 followers of each school nearly raised the roof off the Little Chute gym.

December 13, 1939


Don Biselx

The Kaukauna high school cage team dropped an 18 to 15 decision to the strong Neenah Red Rockets at Neenah Friday night. Don Biselx played his best game of the season to push in three field goals to lead the Kaws in the scoring column. Carl Giordana counted 4 of 6 from the free throw line.

Erection of the community Christmas crib on the library grounds will take place this week by a committee of the Knights of Columbus. Caroling will again take place at the crib this year.

Close to 2,000 children and adults greeted Santa Claus when he came to visit Kaukauna Saturday via a special Chicago and Northwestern train at 9 a.m. Santa was welcomed by the mayor and members of the advancement committee.

December 18, 1939





William Gloudemans, 21 left and Robert Specht, 18, right, are two of the Kaukauna boys who have joined the United States army in the present recruiting program. Both boys are in the 61st coast artillery anti-aircraft at Fort Sheridan, Ill.













The Mayflower sisters, nationally known vocal and instrumental entertainers, will appear on the stage at the Vaudette theater this evening and Saturday evening singing new and old songs favorites. Gene Autry will be the screen production offered on this outstanding program.







December 20, 1939



Joseph R. McCarthy a 31-year-old circuit judge, youngest ever to take the bench in Wisconsin, will take the bench on January 1 McCarthy, young Shawano attorney, becomes judge of the tenth judicial circuit. Included in the circuit are Outagamie, Shawano and Langlade Counties.








L. Lambie toppled a total of 631 pins to pace the Major league keglers at Schell alleys Monday evening. C. Hilgenberg cracked out a 614 series. 

December 28, 1939
Bill Lambie, city truck driver, was instrumental in averting an accident on the Lawe Street bridge Tuesday afternoon. Lambie had just driven his truck into the city garage and was walking up the Lawe Street bridge on his way home. He noticed a large sedan coming backwards down the bridge at a rapid pace. Realizing there was no driver in the machine, Lambie jumped into the car and stopped it before it traveled much further. The owner of the car and several others were chasing the car in effort to catch up but were unsuccessful.

150 baskets will be distributed to the poor of the city Saturday by the Christmas good cheer committee, according to Anton Berkers, general chairman. At the time we go to press $285 has been collected with which to furnish baskets.   






E. F. Rennicke has been named general chairman of the sesquicentennial to be observed in Kaukauna next year. Elaborate plans will be made for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Kaukauna.









A petrified fish, or fish fossil, measuring 5 feet in length was found by three Kaukauna NYA youths. Robert Promer, Fred Hammen and Vern Myron, while quarrying stone on the famous Grignon estate when they made the discovery. Professor Lanzmeyer of the Lawrence college states that it is a prehistoric fish and expects to identify it. The Grignon mansion, Homestead in Wisconsin, was built in 1790 by Dominic Ducharme has sold to Augustine Grignon. Only a shell of the old mansion remains, and nothing will be done to change the original appearance except to reinforce the structure and build a new foundation. Lumber is Mackinac island and was sawed and planed by hand. Carpenters were brought in from the east to build the mansion.





Friday, December 15, 2017

Time Machine trip to December 1898



December 2, 1898
The largest paper mill dryer ever used in the world has been installed at Thilmany Pulp & Paper Company.  It measures ten feet in diameter and will be placed on one of the tissue paper machines.


A Chicago man has conceived the idea that he can do away with the use of drugs for the cure of some ailments by the vibrations of music.

The United States Supreme Court recently decided the ownership of the water power along the Fox River in Kaukauna. The decision was made that all belonged to the Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Company, and the Kaukauna Water Power Company is not entitled to any water power, which means that as far as power, the canal is now valueless to this city. This leaves the future of Kaukauna manufacturing up in the air.

The Kaukauna roller skating rink will open next Thursday evening December 8th, with the Kaukauna band in attendance. Manager Lawe has purchased a new outfit of the Spaulding ball-bearing skates and will have everything in ship shape for those who enjoy roller skating.

Gust Pahl easily bears the honor as champion duck hunter. He has killed 126 ducks during the present fall. In one day’s sport near Wrightstown he shot thirty-two and another day twenty-two of the birds. 

December 9, 1898
The average number of phone calls being placed in Appleton is 2,500 per day,  most the calls coming from Kaukauna. There is probably no section in the state where business is booming better than along the Fox River.

Information has been received at the Oneida reservation from a New York attorney to the effect that the United States Supreme Court has rendered a decision in favor of the six nations of New York, granting them an award of $1,961,400. This sum, it is expected, will be appropriate at the next session of Congress. The Oneidas come in for a share, which it is said will amount  $300 a piece. The six nations and tribes from New York would receive their due from Uncle Sam for lands taken from them in their transfer to reservations in the west.

The new property tax assessment for Kaukauna has been approved by the common Council last Friday evening. Rate for this year for the north side is $3.43 per hundred or a savings of 41c per hundred from last year. The south side rate is $3.98 a savings of 21c per hundred from last year.  

December 16, 1898
The Times is informed that a puffed-up piece of humanity from Oshkosh, who wears a prefix of Dr. to his cognomen and claims to have full authority to regulate the sun, moon and stars, has been circulating among the citizens of Kaukauna this week, endeavoring to belittle the mayor of this city.

December 23, 1898


Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the American Federation of Labor by unanimous vote. The Federation increased the per capita tax on members of the trade union organizations from one cent to five cents per month to support the federation. 


Luther Lindauer has about thirty men at work gathering his annual ice harvest on the river above the government dam. They commenced Monday morning and expect to complete it Saturday. During the week they have had about half a dozen horses in the river by breaking through the ice, but no serious damage has occurred. 

         

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Time Machine Trip to December 1907

December 6, 1907
The open season for deer which closed at midnight Saturday night has a record for fatal and serious hunting accidents which is not equaled by any season for a number of years past. Thirty hunters were killed in the twenty days of the season and thirty-six more were wounded, making a total of sixty-six who met with mishaps.

Since the government has given the Indians of the Oneida reservation their deeds and permit them to sell their land, a number of our citizens have taken advantage of the low prices. Judging from the number of people now negotiating for farms, not less than 2,000 acres will be owned by Kaukauna people before spring. 

A local contractor made an interesting observation one rainy day last week. When the rain started he visited the new electric power plant to find the crew that was earning over 30c an hour had sought shelter for the rest of the day. He then visited the crew that was working for 15c an hour and found them hard at work with no thought of quitting.

December 13, 1907
Very little hay has been shipped from Kaukauna this fall and winter and dealers in the distant part of the state who always depended on Outagamie county farmers for their supply have been investigating matters. They found the usual amount on hand, but the farmers refuse to sell claiming that by holding it until spring they will be able to unload it at $20 or more per ton.



This is the busy season at the United States mint at Philadelphia. Every bit of coin making machinery is working overtime. The secretary has ordered $60,000,000 in 20-dollar gold pieces with-in the next three months.


Kaukauna was enveloped in a dense fog Sunday night. So thoroughly was everything obscured it was impossible to see an electric light more than a few feet away. The motorman of the interurban cars used the utmost precaution at street crossings to prevent accidents.

Appleton Post - It is said an exodus of young ladies from Appleton to Kaukauna is due to the matrimonial boom in this city. The exodus from Appleton to Kaukauna was to try to escape Appleton importunities.

Matt Gerharz, in charge of the Combined Locks Paper Company, was arraigned in Appleton Saturday on a charge of employing boys under the age of 16 years. This is the fourth case found at that plant.  Gerharz was fined $31.70 in each of the two cases. Both 15-year-old boys are from Combined Locks. 

1907 immigrants
A pathetic case of destitution in a Kimberly family was brought to attention through the death of one of their children last week. The family consisted of parents and twelve children who had just arrived from Holland. What little money they had when they left their native country was expended long before they reached Kimberly. They arrived without food and warm clothing. One of the younger children was taken ill a few days ago and died of want of proper attention. The family is occupying one of the Kimberly-Clark company’s cottages. The father has secured employment in the mill. Several of the children were unable to attend the funeral because lack of clothing.

December 20, 1907
The power of the sun's rays even in winter time was illustrated at W. C. Wendt's drug store last week when one of the large show bowls in his window which was exposed to the sun set fire to a card board sign back of it. The bowl acted as a sun glass and burned a hole in the sign an inch in diameter.

President Roosevelt has officially and finally reiterated his refusal to accept a nomination as he first stated on election night of 1904. 

The Ohio State child labor law. Which forbids the employment of children under 14 years in any factory, was declared unconstitutional by the circuit court of St. Clairsville, Ohio.

Silk mufflers for both ladies and gentlemen can be purchased at Nagan’s.

About half a dozen tramps were given lodging at the police station Monday night. The next morning, they were taken before Justice Schwin, who sentenced them to the workhouse on the charge of vagrancy. Sentence was suspended however, on condition that they leave town which they did at once. 

December 27, 1907
The paper intended for use in printing The Times today has been delayed since Tuesday somewhere between here and Chicago and as a result we are forced to send out a half a sheet to our readers rather than delay the regular issue. Railroad traffic is swift (?) these days, as many Kaukaunaites know, and if we have good luck we expect to find these missing bundles of stock between now and Fourth of July.

Prof. H. E. Fielding, known as American’s most graceful roller skater, will appear at the Kaukauna opera house rink New Year’s Eve in an exhibition of fancy and trick skating.

The Appleton Coated paper company is growing rapidly and although the plant has been in operation only about six months plans for expansion are already being considered.

L. E. Vandenberg has gone into the fresh fish business and twice each week is receiving fresh fish from Green Bay. Orders will be delivered to any part of the city. Phone X120.





Winter coats for the Ladies