From the Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
November 5, 1909
Supervisor of
Assessments has recommended that the value of the water-power in Kaukauna be
raised to $600,000.00. At long last the Mississippi Canal Company will be
required to pay taxes to the cities along the Fox River. Kaukauna ought to be a
city today of 20,000 inhabitants but it is right where it was twenty years ago.
This is due to the fact that we have not been afforded the privilege of
developing the water-power available bringing in manufacturing to build up the
town. At long last an assessment of value for the towns to levy taxes against
the canal company. The drop-in taxes to the little homeowners and businessman
will bring people and businesses into the city.
Nugent Bros.,
proprietors of the Five Cent Theatre, to keep up with the demands of a picture
hungry public, are constantly increasing the size of their place of amusement. Tuesday,
they commenced building another addition making a show room fourteen feet
longer, which will give them an orchestra pit as well as more seating capacity.
November 12, 1909
The screams of women
and the crash of broken glass awoke several sound sleepers along Lawe Street,
sometime after the midnight hour. Several of these people got up and dressed on
hearing these unusual nocturnal sounds. What they found was two tipsy girls and
their fellows in an automobile. The girl on the front seat had kicked her feet
through the glass screen and one was screaming because she had lost her hat
somewhere on the road. The whole party was from Green Bay.
Manager M.H. Neisen of
the new basketball team which has been christened the “Red Hearts” says a good
team is sure to be the result of the present movement. The players are in
practice two nights a week at the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium room. Manager Neisen has
games promised from Brillion, Chilton and Reedsville and is in contact with
other nearby towns.
The whole city was in
expressing shock Monday morning by the news of the sudden death of Otto H.
Runte. Mr. Runte came to Kaukauna in 1872 to start a general stock of goods
store. Otto and his wife Rosa raised seven children in Kaukauna.
November 19, 1909
The county board
increased the local valuation of Kaukauna by $678,775.00 by assessing the water-power in the city. The city is unable to pass the increase in taxes on to the water-power property owners, so the citizens of Kaukauna will get the tax burden.
Kaukauna is not to be
behind her neighbors in street illumination, for some of our enterprising
citizens are setting the pace in that respect. Three of the leading businesses
on Lawe Street have joined together and built electric arches similar to those
in Appleton. Landlord Veasey of Hotel La Salle, the Nugent Bros. of Five Cent
Theatre, and Max Lemke, during the past week have had built, in front of their
respective places of business, electric arches each containing 50 lamps. These
gentlemen believe this means of advertising will more than repay them for the
outlay.
November 26, 1909
The federal Circuit Court in St. Paul Saturday
stamped the Standard Oil Company as an illegal corporation in restraint of
trade, and a monopoly, and decreed its dissolution within thirty days. In its
decision the court is believed to have dealt the company what will prove to be
its death blow.
Michael Gilson a former
resident of the south side has returned after living a number of years in Iowa.
He has decided to establish a blacksmith shop at the corners south of Kaukauna
known as Little Chicago.
Dies for a proposed
5-cent piece bearing the head of George Washington, to take the place of the
coin now in circulation, have been prepared by the engravers of the United
States. This coin, if adopted, will be the first in authorized circulation to
bear the head of the first president of the republic.
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