Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
December 3, 1909
Fearing an accident
might occur by the caving in the trench which has been dug on Wisconsin Avenue,
contractor W.H. Haworth requested the inter urban to stop the cars at the
corner of Desnoyer Street by placing bars across the track at that point. The
railway people served an injunction on Mr. Haworth from preventing the passage
of the cars. If a storm should set in the railroad people would be made to stop
running past the trench as the lives of men might be endangered by a cave in.
Several full bloom dandelion
blossoms were laid upon the editor's desk December 1 by the Rev. Samuel
McNeill, picked on the south side hill on his way downtown that morning. They
looked as fresh as they would on a warm May morning and made one think that
after all Wisconsin weather is not the worst in the country.
December 10, 1909
Oats from the John
Brill farm at the elevator. The Welhouse Brothers, 11,267 pounds, 352 bushels
of oats. Left to right Henry Welhouse – Teamster, Louis Ganter – worker at
elevator, Joe Welhouse, Tony Welhouse, John Welhouse, Elevator Boss from
Appleton, and Harry Van Denzen – on back.
Phillip Keller, an
employee of the Kaukauna Lumber and Manufacturing company, is about to receive
letters of patent on a valuable attachment to automobiles which will make them
much safer. It is so contrived that the instant it is put into action by
touching a lever the power in the rear axle is at once stopped.
Kaukauna will this year
pay the highest rate of tax known in its history, the rate of $2.12 per $100 valuation.
Such a rate would be considered low in New London according to the New London
Republican.
Driver - The machine’s
running wild! She’s bound to collide!
Owner – “Then hit
something soft!”
December 17, 1909
The Kaukauna Telephone
Company who is making active preparations to build a system of telephone lines
into the country surrounding Kaukauna will commence the work of construction in
about two weeks. The first section will be among the farmers of the town of
Freedom and Vandenbroek where thirty subscribers and stockholders have already
been secured.
December 24, 1909
The electric lighting
system of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church was recently inspected by
city electrician W. D. Kunz and condemned as very unsafe, and during the past
week the trustees had the whole building rewired at a cost of about $100.
December 31, 1909
The new dining hall
which was built by the Kimberly-Clark company at Kimberly for the girls
employed in their big paper plant was formerly opened Christmas Day. The dining
hall provides a good place for the girls to secure wholesome food and a clean
place to eat it. A musical program was rendered at the opening. A pool and
billiard hall and bowling alley has also been provided by the company for the
entertainment of the men.
On Christmas eve the
children, all gather around the fire, discuss the probabilities until they must
retire. Tis then the fateful wishbone, kept over from Thanksgiving Day, is
brought to light and broken in the traditional way.
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