April 5,
1918
Kaukauna’s red hottest
election in years on Tuesday resulted in the re-election of Mayor C. E. Raught
by a majority of 88, of James Mc Fadden as treasurer by a plurality of 214, and
of N.D. Schwin as assessor by a plurality of 69 votes.
The Kaukauna Public Library reports that
citizens have thus far contributed 224 books for the use of our soldiers and
sailors. Citizens are asked to contribute books until the war is over.
“I claim exemption for my son John on the
grounds that he is the durndest coward that ever lived, the laziest skunk that
you ever heard of and I am ashamed to own him,” “I am sixty-one years old and
the old woman is fifty-nine,” continued his father, “Big as he is, I can lick
him with one hand tied, and so can his mother.” “But if you can make anything
of him by training him in the army, then put him in the ranks and make him do
his duty.”
April 12,
1918
Going at rate of speed said to have been about
sixty-five miles an hour the motorcycle on which Mike Pennick and Ervin Weber
were riding near Little Chicago road on Thursday night struck a bump in the
road and threw them into the ditch. Both suffered painful bruises and the
machine was wrecked.
L.M. Mann, engineer at Oshkosh, has given
notice of the opening of the navigation season on the Fox and Wolf rivers.
Monday, April 15.
April 19,
1918
400 gasoline tractor
drivers and 150 truck drivers are needed at once for the war service.
Applications should be made for early overseas tank units.
A stranger might have thought early this
morning that there was a circus in town there were so many people and
automobiles about and all headed one way. Kaukauna was taking a half holiday to
say good-bye to thirty-eight selected men who left for Camp Grant, Illinois.
April 26,
1918
John Barleycorn has
raised his prices. Hereafter it will cost a bit more to have a cup of kindness
for o lang syne. The new price schedule adopted by the saloonkeepers of
Kaukauna, who were forced to follow the actions of dealers throughout the
country. Effective May 1, 1918:
Whiskey per drink…15c
Brandies……………15c - 20c
Scotch, Gin………….25c
Wines……………….10c and up
Bottled beers……….15c – 20c
The poor army censor gets blamed for lots of
things - - - for cutting out the most interesting parts of soldiers’ letters
for instance. But a Kaukauna girl got a letter from somewhere in France with a
procession of “x’s”. She blamed the censor for that. As she says her “friend”
didn’t put the mystic symbols there.
The city was taken by surprise this week when
W. B. Montgomery, superintendent of the Kaukauna Utility and light plant,
resigned the office he had held and so ably filled for the past thirteen years.
The Utility commission was slow to accept Mr. Montgomery’s resignation and
vainly tried to persuade him to reconsider the matter.
A stranger might have thought early this
morning that there was a circus in town there were so many people and
automobiles about and all headed one way. Kaukauna was taking a half holiday to
say good-bye to thirty-eight selected men who left for Camp Grant, Illinois.
The Dodge County Banner, which has been
published in the German language for the past twenty-four years, appeared on
Friday of this week printed in the English language.
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