By Lyle Hansen
December
6, 1918
Melvin A. Raught - To our abiding regret and that of everybody
connected with THE TIMES, Melvin A. Raught has resigned from his connections
with the paper, of which he has been foreman for the past year Mr. J. B. Kendall,
formerly of the Kaukauna Sun, will replace Mr. Raught in that capacity at THE
TIMES. It would be easy to write columns about Mel and yet fail to adequately
express our high opinion of his worth, integrity, his keen sense of honor and
our great regret that he is leaving us.
William Van Dyke of the Vaudette theatre of
this city will furnish the music for a dance in Appleton tonight.
The war industries board after it had caused
weekly newspapers all the trouble it could by its order to conserve paper and
cut off all subscribers except those paid in advance has notified the weeklies
that the order to conserve is rescinded as the amount of paper thus saved is
not worth the bothering about. It would have been better if they would have
looked into this before issuing the order in the first place.
December 13,
1918
President Wilson - Those senators who
are seeking public favor by heckling the president while he is engaged in the
extremely delicate task of reconciling many nationalities to the terms of a
just peace will find themselves in poor business. It is even more important now
than ever for statesmen to rise above partisanship and think only of the
highest welfare of the country. The president has been a great moral leader,
inspiring the whole world with his high ideals of government and citizenship.
Mr. John Brooks of Forest Junction received an
announcement from the war department on November 30 that his son Gerhard of the
American Expedition forces in France was reported as missing in action. This is
the second loss which Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have sustained, their son Arnold
having died in a hospital in England. A third son is still in France and as of
now has passed through the war unharmed.
Superintendent of the City Utility J. O. Possum
and his family have had a hard siege of the sickness, the father, mother and
the children being all at the same time victims of the influenza.
Jacob Coppus - Sad news was
received Monday of the death of their son, Jacob by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Coppus
of Little Chute in and official notice from Washington, D. C. The notice stated
that their son, was killed in action on November 2. The grief-stricken parents
are in hope that this notice may be untrue.
A Kaukauna boy who has sacrificed his life for
his country’s service, Arthur Koenig, and now lies buried in French soil, the
pretty story related that in order to
spare his parents any anxiety on his account while he was in France he
represented in his letters home that he was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work where
he was perfectly safe. As a matter of fact, the young hero was at that
moment serving in the front-line trenches
and “going over the top” risking his life in the performance of his duty.
Arthur Koenig’s “white lie” stands vastly to his credit typifying the spirit of
the American boys in Europe whose letters show to a marked love of home.
December
27, 1918
Corporal Joseph Schoemer arrived home from Camp
Zachary, Ky. Schoemer says that at Camp Taylor there are some 15,000 colored
Infantry troops. They make excellent Infantry men and take great pride in
becoming perfect in their work. “You should see them while on dress parade” how
perfect their alignment, not an inch out of line. All the commissioned officers
are white men and they speak in highest praise of the colored troops and their
fighting qualities are almost on a par with the best white troops that have
ever been sent “over the top”.
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