Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Time Machine Trip to May 1919


May 1, 1919
A bill is now before the state legislature providing for motion picture censorship in Wisconsin.  Advertising posters must be approved by the committee before being put up. The commission will be required to sit through miles of films. This maybe be considered cruel and unusually punishment.

During this week two aeroplanes passed over this city. The first, a hydroplane seen Sunday morning. It passed so close to the city that the pilot was visible. Sunday afternoon a second passed along the river to the south.    


It is rumored that a farmer near Wrightstown, while digging a well, unearthed four jugs of cognac in a perfect state of preservation which bore the seal of Louis XIII. The jugs, found near the site of a French trading post, are believed to be nearly 300 years old. The liquor was buried to prevent its capture by the Indians.

May 8, 1919
An electric motor for the draw bridge on Lawe Street will soon be installed, the city council at the regular meeting decided. Installation will take place as soon as possible. The motor will be one of 71/3 horse power, that being deemed sufficient to move the bridge under   all   ordinary   circumstances.  Bridge Tender Deming estimates that after the draw is operated by electricity, he will have no need to open the bridge until the boats are in the lock.

Sergeant Foster Miller formerly of Kaukauna has arrived at his home in Green Bay. Sergeant Miller, wearing a wounded stripe, as he was shot in the knee while serving in an infantry regiment at Juvigny.

May 15, 1919

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Konrad took an automobile ride to Dundas last Sunday. They discovered the road to Dundas was about as rocky as that to Dublin. The road is marked by the traces and remnants of autos which became mired in the mud in the past.



The Athletics, Kaukauna’s north side baseball team, lost the first game of the season last Sunday to Wrightstown. All the scoring was done in the 9th inning 10-6. The local lineup included P. Zarnow; First, Lambie Second, Wheaton; Third, R. Ristau; Short, Stegeman and A. Ristau; Left, Ryan; Center, T. Denzer; Right, P. Denzer. Umpire for Kaukauna, Adolph Ristau.







George Schubring of this city, who was with the 32nd Red Arrow Division, arrived home having received his discharge from the army.

Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company has offered to the city the Hotel LaSalle property, valued at $20,000, as a voluntary gift, with the provision that it be used as a soldiers’ memorial building.


May 22, 1919
The Regenfuss Brewing company of this city announced that after May 11, no beer will be sold from the brewery offices on Sundays.

The salaries of public-school teachers have long been recognized as below the standard, hardly coming within the limits of a living wage, are now being raised. The raise proposed by Kaukauna will still be $700 to $1,000 less than other cities with the same population.








Edward Wyro


Mrs. John Henningson of this city, whose son Edward Wyro, was listed among the causalities in France has received confirmation of the report of his death from the war department.


May 29, 1919
The Class of 1919 comprises the following members: Warren Brenzel, Helen Olive Bliss, Zeta Lenore Brier, Helen A. Callahan, Ruth E. Conlon, Dorothy Preston Cooper, Normand A. Fargo, Laura E. Glenzer, Eva Grebe, Herbert O. Haessley, Lucile D. Jaheriss, Kathryn M. Kettell, Laura A. Klumb, Otto F. Kuehne, Arthur C. Look, Hilda M. Lucht, M. James Maher, Florence Milroy O’Boyle, Ralph Herbert Olsen, Margaret E. Rennecke, Edith K. Schubert, Carl Henry Swenson, Edna A. Trettin, Anne H. Vandenberg, Ruth H. Zekind, Gladys Marion Webster. The Class motto is “Impossible is Un-American.”



The Fox River claimed its annual tribute from the childhood and youth of the city last Friday evening when Willard Wenzel, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wenzel, while playing around the guard lock above the Lawe Street bridge lost his footing and falling into the canal drowned.







Louis Viatour of Kaukauna will meet young Martin of DePere, Wednesday May 21.


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