Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Time Machine Trip to May 1912

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1912

By Lyle Hansen

May 3, 1912

Owners and riders of motorcycles are hereby warned for the last time the state speed ordinance within the limits of the city of Kaukauna will be strictly enforced. The party violating the law will be immediately arrested and arraigned in court. Richard McCarthy - Chief of Police. 

 

The ice cream season at A. F. Paschen’s restaurant on Second Street, will open Sunday, May 5, at which time business will be in readiness for the accommodation of patrons. The military orchestra will give a concert during the afternoon and evening. Pretty carnations will be presented to all patrons on the opening day. Drop by Sunday and try a dish of ice cream. 

John McNaughton, with his magnificent Pierce Arrow car, gave a number of his friends a day of pleasure ride Saturday that they will not soon forget.

 

Dr. Richmond Kerr has announced the purchase of a fine French coach stallion. This is one of the finest and most beautiful animals ever brought to Kaukauna.

 

For lack of power in the Green Bay Traction Line one trip was lost Sunday afternoon. The Kaukauna car was stalled on the corner of Kaukauna and Taylor streets having reached that point just when they were leaving for Green Bay. Many people went to see what caused the stoppage thinking the car had left the track, as this was the point where a bad wreck occurred several years ago.

 

May 10, 1912

Luther Lindauer has purchased a lot on Fourth Street in the rear of his residence on Crooks Avenue. He intends on making a fine large lawn for a tennis court and ornamental flower beds and shrubbery.

 

May 17, 1912

The gasoline yacht “Kakalin” turned turtle in the government canal Friday afternoon and its four occupants were dumped into the river. The craft going down the river to Ridge Point Park on a pleasure trip when they whistled for the Wisconsin Avenue bridge to open. When they saw, the bridge was still closed they repeated the whistle and were powerless to stop. Thereby tipping the boat.

 

A muskellunge weighing 36 pounds and measuring 45 inches was landed out of the flumes at the Patton Pulp Mill at Appleton. This is the first musky found in these waters in a long time.

 

Burgettstown, Pa. – At the point of a revolver Miss Margaret Gribben is alleged to have walked Henry Tiltron out of the theater and delivered him to the office of the justice of the peace. The trouble occurred over the refusal of the young woman to remove her hat. Tiltron sat behind Miss Gribben, and he asked her to remove her hat so he could see. Later the manager of the theater preferred a charge against Miss Gribben of carrying a concealed weapon. A hearing will be held late today. No charges were referred against Mr. Tiltron.

 

The sounds of the carpenter’s hammer and saw, the ring of the mason’s troll, the thump of the bridge builders’ heavy tools an all-other noise of new building will soon be heard in the thriving little village of Kimberly which bids fair to one of the liveliest hamlets on the river this summer. The Kimberly-Clark company will build additions to their big paper plant which will enable them to install a fourth paper machine. The new investment in Kimberly-Clark company will include sixteen new residences to be built for their employees.

 

May 24, 1912

Adv. Free, any cap in the store with each boy's suit now on sale from $2.00 to $7.50.

 

May 31, 1912

The new Wisconsin Capitol, to be completed in four years, will be the handsomest structure of its kind in the country.






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