Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
August 7, 1919
The city’s oldest citizen, Mrs. Christina
Jensen, will celebrate her 102nd birthday anniversary on Aug. 4. She
is in good health.
In one of the best played games of the season,
the Kaukauna Canucks last Sunday showed real championship caliber by defeating
the league leaders, Two Rivers, by the score of 3 to 0. Pleschek was invincible
has the Cool city boys were breaking their bats swinging at his puzzlers. The
Canucks “Ironman“ Johnson looked as if the whole game depended on him as
“Robin” Minkebige and “Lily” Nagan both got on base before Big Oscar got one to
the fence and Nagan speeded home. “Zipp” Ristau for a pair of sacks to open the
second and scored on Robin’s hard kit.
George “Stormy” Kromer, Jr. known in the
Valley baseball circles is planning to move to Milwaukee so he can be in closer
contact with his cap factory.
August 14, 1919
After serving for seven months under Uncle Sam’s flag across the Atlantic and within a few hundred miles of his home in Poland, Thomas Andreski wants to go there and see his wife and two sons. Andreski, who served in the field artillery, was employed by Thilmany Pulp and Paper company before entering the service. His service entitled him to citizenship papers, and he intends to ask Uncle Sam to let his wife and son make this country their home.
Everette Buckley, an Illinois hero, is
to be at our Chautauqua in Kaukauna as the principal speaker on the second day.
Buckley left home and joined the French army as an airman. He was shot down and
held prisoner for ten months before he escaped. He had a number of German
planes to his credit and is an accredited ace.
A club of five hundred members has been formed
to take over the management of the La Salle Hotel property which Thilmany Pulp
and Paper company will remodel and equip as a civic center. The company has
agreed to spend from $15,000 to $20,000 in preparation.
Cashier F. A. Towsley of the Bank of
Kaukauna announced to the Times the bank showed a gain of $120,377.49 in the
past 12 months a 28 per cent increase over 1918.
The situation in the strike for increased wages
on the part of the local shop men of the Northwestern Railway continues
unchanged, the strikers having decided to ignore the request of President
Wilson and the International officials to return to work pending the decision
of the government and the council.
August 21, 1919
Leo Feller, son of Peter Feller, lost his left
leg as the result of an accident when the motorcycle he was riding collided
with the horse and buggy of Marin Van Handel near the station on the Kimberly
road.
On August 18 the city electric department
signed a contract with the Wisconsin Traction, Light, Heat and Power company of
Appleton whereby the two electric systems will be tied together, and Kaukauna
will be assured of all the advantages of a steam auxiliary power plant.
August 24, 1919
Labor Day activities in Little Chute will be
brought to a fitting close with a grand ball and band concert in the evening.
The Little Chute band will give the concert and dancing in Watry’s hall.
Soldiers and sailors in uniform will attend free.
A number of young men of the city, including
some old high school stars of the gridiron have been practicing regularly on
the high school grounds and expect soon to organize a team that will be a
winner.
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| William L. Brockman |
On Friday August 15, the returning soldiers and
sailors of Hilbert united to form an organization known as the William L.
Brockman Post of the American War Veterans. The boys have named the Post in
memory of a fallen comrade and have established a living testimonial for him
and many others who have died.
1919 Ford Model T touring automobile.
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