By Lyle Hansen
November 1, 1918
Good War News – Today’s dispatches
announce that Turkey agrees to Allies’ terms and signs armistice and is
therefore out of the war.
Sugar allotment will be increased to three
pounds per month. Heretofore the government allowance was only two pounds per
person per month.
We had not imagined that the village of Little
Chute required the services of a town marshal until John E. Verstegen dropped
in on The Times in the course of his campaign this week, wearing a marshal’s
badge. Mr. Verstegen explained that his duties largely consisted in keeping
undesirable citizens out of Little Chute.
William Struck, head of the carpenters’ union
of Appleton and member of the Labor Board of this district was indicted by the
federal grand jury for violations of the espionage law. Struck is reported to
have uttered remarks of strong pro-German while in an Appleton saloon. His
connection with the union is said to be severed.
James Brown of this city was reported as having
been severely wounded in action August 31 in France and later reported as
leaving the hospital and is now reported among the missing in action.
November 8, 1918
The Farmers and Merchants Bank of this city is
now in position to defy any bank robber. The new system is known as the Cannon
Ball Burglary which was installed last week. The gong is located 12 feet high
on the wall outside of the bank building and is encased in a steel jacket which
is bullet proof. The heart of the system is in the inside of the vault. Any
attempt made to drill through the door will sound the alarm.
The term “doughboy”
as a nickname for the American infantryman is a very old one, dating back to
the Mexican war of 1846. When the American invaders entered what was then
Mexican territory the soldiers found brick houses built from mud bricks that
the Mexicans called adobes. The homes were vacated so the Calvary men moved
into them. The infantry men in jest referred to them as the dobies. Later
called the doughboys.
Mrs. Martha Van Den Broek of this city has
received word from Washington to the effect that her son, Private John Van Den
Broek was reported as slightly wounded in action and that he was in a hospital.
About the same time a letter was received from John stating that he had been
injured in the leg and he had been taken to a hospital.
November 15, 1918
It has been reported by a telegram from
Washington of the death of Arthur Koenig of this city. Arthur was a private in
Company G and a member of the Rainbow division throughout the war in France. He
has passed unharmed through many dangers and his death so near the war’s close
is doubly sad.
Kaukauna wakened at an early hour last Monday,
2 a.m., to be precise when word was received that the Germans had accepted the
Allies term and signed the armistice which ended the great war. Bells rang,
whistles blew, and the streets were filled with marching bands of people who
were determined that everyone in the city should know that peace was at hand.
Schools were closed, and the children formed a striking part of the parade on
this never-to-be forgotten day.
The Jacob Coppes family of Little Chute are
rejoicing over the arrival of a letter from their son Charles, who according to
official information was killed in action July 19. The letter was written from
a base hospital on October 7. In it he stated that he was wounded and would
soon be able to leave the hospital. It was his second hospital experience
having been injured in an earlier battle. His parents had received his death
certificate and a part of his insurance which they are only too pleased to
return to the government.
A former Little Chute young man, Martin Jansen,
has been awarded the Distinguished Service War Cross for extraordinary heroism
shown in action in France, September 12, 1918. As Sergeant of Company A 355th
U.S. Infantry. The award states: Coming up to the rear of two platoons of a
battalion of the first line, Sgt. Jansen noticed they were held up by
machine-gun fire on the front and flank and appeared to be without a leader. He
fearlessly exposed himself to enemy fire as he ran from one end of the line to
the other urging the men forward until both the platoons moved across a gully out of danger from the machineguns. His bravery prevented the interruption of
the entire advance of the first line.
November 22, 1918
Charles J. Faust and John Corcoran narrowly
escaped serious injury when the automobile they were in overturned on the
crooked hilly road near Combined Locks. The machine slid into a telephone post
throwing both the gentlemen out.
George Egan, the first Kaukauna boy to arrive
home as a wounded soldier reached the city last week. He was wounded in the
battle of Chateau Thierry and bears the scars of the conflict. He was stuck in
the mouth by a piece of a shell that went through breaking his upper and lower
jaw then passed through the left side of his head and neck. The piece then
entered his shoulder and embedded itself in his lung.
The Thilmany Pulp and Paper company of this
city has made arrangements whereby a trained nurse will be a regular employee
of the company and in constant readiness in case of accident to render first
aid. Miss Jemima Bell of this city,
a trained nurse of wide experience has been tendered the position which she has
excepted.
Bernard Hurst, a hero of the great battle of
Chateau Thierry and who was wounded in that engagement, is expected to arrive
home today. This is another Kaukauna’s noble heroes who lived to tell the
wonderful story of how Wisconsin troops fought like veritable demons and how
they covered themselves with glory.
November 29, 1918
Quite a number of people caught the Spanish
Influenza last week by attending a public dance. They found themselves very
weak and in bed recovering according to the doctors’ orders.
Miss Ella McCarty, Linotype operator at The
Times office was seriously ill this week with the Spanish Influenza but is
slowly regaining her health. Her place on the machine has been taken by Miss
Ella Conlon who was unable this week to act as a reporter. The shortage of news
is therefore to be blamed on the influenza epidemic.
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