Time Machine Trip to February 1920

  

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

February 5, 1920

Kaukauna residents have reason to congratulate themselves on their healthy environment as compared with the records of other communities. Msgr. P. L. Lochman, pastor of Holy Cross church stated that he has had only three deaths in his large congregation since last October. As a rule, November, December and January are death’s harvest months and yet this year there were but three deaths in four months at Holy Cross.

The Kaukauna girls played their first game at DePere last Friday evening. Although the local team was defeated by a score of 16 to 7 they are not dismayed. The baskets for Kaukauna were caged by Laura Boyd and Catherine Miller, the rest of the team having all they could do in giving horse-back rides to the DePere players. 

February 12, 1920 

A sleigh ride has been planned this evening, by the members of the football team, to be given in honor of the senior girls, who gave a banquet some time ago for the team. The party is going to Appleton or Neenah later to return to the high school for music and refreshments are to be the chief features of the evening. The team was composed of the following players: Forwards Delbridge and Boettcher; Guards, Ott and Mayer; Center, Schrader. Homan substituted for Schrader.

Kenneth Schussmann, recently appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, arrived home last Saturday on a furlough and will remain with his parents, Professor and Mrs. I. G. Schussmann until April 20^th.

A closed season on deer has been declared by the state game conservation commission on account of the great numbers of these animals killed last year. It is estimated that more than 26,000 deer were killed last year.

Supplies for the forty new residents to be erected in the new addition platted by the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company on the northside has been secured by Mr. Earl Miller supervising architect. Mr. Miller states that construction on the forty homes will begin soon. The homes have a selling price between three and five thousand dollars.  

Mr. Edwin Rogers, of Hudson N. Y., has accepted a position with The Times and will represent this paper as its circulation and advertising manager.

Abe Golden of this city received this week a letter from his father who resides in Lompas, Poland, and as it is the first word that Mr. Golden has received for six years from his parents he was overjoyed by the announcement that they were still alive and had survived the war, which devastated the region where they live. Mr. Goldin Sr. is a retired schoolteacher and stated that his pension is reduced as result of the mark which was worth 20 cents before the war is now worth but one cent.

According to a summary report issued yesterday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union wage scales in the general trades in 1919 averaged 17 percent higher than in 1918 and 55 percent greater than 1913. 1919 shows a five percent less than 1918.

February 19, 1920

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Thilmany and daughter, Miss Elsa, formerly of this city and who have been living in Germany for some years, have returned to America, arriving in New York last week and were meet by Mr. Wertheimer of this city. Mr. Thilmany said that during the war he and his family had clung to their American citizenship and that the Stars and Strips had been hung in front of their home.

February 26, 1920

Kaukauna’s oldest resident, Mrs. Christina Jensen, who celebrated her 102nd birthday last August has passed away quietly at her daughter’s home on Lawe street Saturday morning. Mrs. Jensen was born in Denmark in 1817 and she came to America in 1881 with her husband.