Kaukauna Times - March 1922
By Lyle Hansen
March 2, 1922
Quite a few of the
unemployed of Little Chute were given work by the Telephone Company installing
new poles and clearing away the broken-down wires obstructing highways the
result of last week’s ice storm.
The Fox River Valley Baseball League for the
season of 1922 was organized Wednesday afternoon at Hotel Menasha,
representatives from Fond du Lac, Neenah and Menasha, Appleton and Kaukauna
being present at the meeting. Membership of the teams will not be limited to
hometown players, but a uniform contract will be tendered the players and
submitted to the president for his sanction.
A meeting of Troops 26, 27 and 28 of Kaukauna
Boy Scouts was held Friday evening, February 24th in the basement of St. Mary's
church. They were present almost 80 boys including a dozen new members. The
boys were kept busy for several hours. The half hour of military drill was
keenly enjoyed by everyone.
March 9, 1922
The newly organized
choir of St. John's Church is having weekly rehearsals at the Forester Hall
under the direction of Prof. Theiss of Appleton.
Kaukauna is now able to claim its niche in the “Hall
of Fame” of citizens claiming the “meanest man.” Someone deliberately and with
intent to create great mental anguish in the minds of Kaukauna skaters, grabbed
off, swiped, stole, or call it what you may, the sled belonging to the outfit
that had been used all winter for flooding the ice rink below Renn’s icehouse. The
outfit consists of a sleigh with a barrel filled with an attachment of pipes.
The barrel was filled with water and drawn over the rink, the water slipping
through the holes in the pipes and flooding the rink. Without the apparatus It
will be difficult to keep the rank in shape for skating.
Hugh O’Connell, well known Kaukauna boy,
who has made good as an actor writes the Times enclosing $6 to prepay his
subscription to 1924.
An ordinance fixing the salary of the city
nurse was approved by the Common Council of the City of Kaukauna. The city
nurse for the coming year wages is fixed at $600, payable at $50 per month the
first payment to commence May 1st, 1922.
March 16, 1922
Nominations papers are being
circulated in Little Chute for John Hinkens for village treasurer, also for
Ralph Lowell for justice of the peace and Joseph Hietpas for village assessor.
The United States post office department has
formally declared that after July 1st there will be only one post office in the city
that being in the new electrical department building on the island. In the
meantime, the two postmasters, Messrs. Jacob Lang and John Coppes will remain
in the office until such time as the newly established post office is ready for
service. Thus is the welded another link in the chain that binds the north and
the south sides of the city, one post office, one union school system, one road
district, and one tax district.
A shower of stones, weighing from a pound to seventy-five
pounds each, were hurled through the air for our distance of fully 500 feet
while blasting was going on at the Lindauer stone quarry, Monday morning about
9 o’clock. Twenty-five large holes were created in buildings in the Kaukauna Ground
Wood Pulp Co. and endangering the lives of several of the workmen.
March 23, 1922
John Adrians and Peter
Van Dyke have bought the Garvey building on Second Street and intend to open
there a World Tire Store for the sale of tires and automobile accessories.
Hugo Martens, one of the firm of J. J. Martens and company, lost his life this
morning in a fire that almost completely destroyed the Martens department store
on 3rd St. The fire which started in the basement was turned in about 11:15
last night. Mr. Hugo Martens arriving upon the scene of the blaze, made one
trip through the dry goods department entrance into the smoke and gas filled
store and an effort to procure books and papers belonging to the firm but was
turned back by flames. He procured a smoke mask and made another attempt in an
effort that cost him his life.
The Republican majority in Congress finds
themselves between the devil and the deep sea. They cling to the conclusion that
they cannot be re-elected next fall without having voted a bonus to the former
servicemen. The Republicans are also aware that a raise in taxes would be
necessary to accomplish this bonus which would cost them votes.
March 30, 1922
All employees of the Thilmany
Pulp and Paper Company were notified on Thursday that wages would be reduced 4
cents per hour, to take effect April 1.
Alfred Nugent and Tommy Williams, two
youngsters about 14 years of age decided last week to cut all home ties had
strike out into the great world for themselves. Following their plan, they
hopped a southbound train Saturday evening riding to Milwaukee. The police in
that city had been notified of the disappearance of the boys with the result
that they were returned to their homes in this city Monday morning and have
again taken up the drab, dreary, uneventful lives of fourteen-year-old
youngsters.
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