Kaukauna Times - April 1912
By Lyle Hansen
April 5, 1912
Undertaker C. J. Jansky
now has in use a new ambulance which he has had constructed, so as, to fit over
his Flanders auto. The ambulance is arranged so that Mr. Jansky can also use it
to haul around caskets, rough boxes, and funeral apparatus, as well as convey
bodies if necessary.
April 12, 1912
The Crystal Theatre on Second Street, south Kaukauna, has been leased and taken over by new management and was formally opened on April 13.
KAUKAUNA FIRE DEPARTMENT & CITY HALL
A member of the state board of control paid
Manitowoc a visit recently for the purpose of inspecting their penal
institution and placed his stamp of disapproval on the present police station.
It seems that the Manitowoc police station is arranged after the style of the
Kaukauna common council over the fire department barn and the odor is so strong
that the rooms must be fumigated daily. The City Hall and city clerk's office
here smell more like a livery barn than a council chamber.
April 12, 1912
The Town of Kaukauna is in a vexing puzzle just
at the present time. Having had their schoolhouse condemned by the State Inspector
for Rural Schools they have not as yet been able to come to any definite
arrangement as to what to do next.
Chief of police McCarthy hereby serves notice
that bicycle riding on sidewalks must be discontinued immediately, or arrest
will follow. There will be no exceptions to the r ule. Wagon coasting on
sidewalks must also be stopped. The
sidewalks must be safe for pedestrians.
April 19, 1912
New York, April 18 – Thousands wait in awful doubt. The list of
cabin passengers of the Titanic saved and missing, has been amended by the
addition of names to the list of survivors as ships respond by wireless. Far
out at sea near the Carpathia and her sad company of survivors of the Titanic
tragedy are the cruisers Chester and Salem. A full list of those that were
saved after the great White Star liner crushed herself against an iceberg and
dropped to the ocean floor is yet to be completed.
The local declamatory contest
was held in the High School. First place was awarded to Agnes Vandenburg, second
honor to Florence Black and third to Margaret Kuehne.
The Regenfuss Brewing company has had to
enlarge the bottling works due to the cramped quarters in which that department
has been housed. The firm has enjoyed an increased amount of business. The
bottling department will be conducted in a part of the former malt house where
a comfortable room with electric light, heat and power has been provided. Electric
motors furnish the power to drive the machinery.
Mr. Roosevelt compare dealing with Columbia on
the Panama Canal question to “Nailing cranberry jelly to a wall.”
It is evident that the new income tax is very
unpopular and that strenuous efforts are being put forth to try to present it
in a light more favorable than in which it now appears to the people.
The season for good sucker fishing is now on
and fisherman can be seen daily wending their way to some favorite spot along
the river. Hundreds of fish are being taken now from the shallow creeks which
empty into the river at various points. Suckers, red horse, and carp are now
running up these creeks in large numbers. The sucker variety of fish are very
good at this time of the year when properly prepared.
April 26, 1912
Notice was received
this week that the Kaukauna High School was to be retained on the accredited list
of North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Otto A. Look, proprietor of the Kaukauna Drug
company, is more firmly convinced than ever that it pays to use printer’s ink.
Last Saturday was the first anniversary of his proprietorship of the store,
which event was duly advertised and celebrated by a special sale. Otto says the
result far exceeded expectations. 700 to 800 people visited the Kaukauna Drug
company store Saturday, and it was the printer's ink that helped to get them
there.
Mrs. Mary Rice and Mrs. Anna Kemp, twins, held
their 70th birthday anniversary Sunday together at the Kemp home on Oviatt Street.
They came to Kaukauna about 1850 and have lived to see remarkable changes
wrought in the home of their adoption. Where it was only a hamlet them,
Kaukauna, a busy manufacturing city now stands. Other wonderful changes have also
been made through all the surrounding country.
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