Time Machine Trip to July 1912

 

Kaukauna Times – July 1912

By Lyle Hansen

Little Chute parade looking west down Main street.   

 

July 5, 1912

The Wisconsin fish commission will ask the next Legislature to repeal the law providing for fish ways over dams. Recent experiments showed that of the seventy-six-fish using the fish way on a site sixty-five were suckers.

The proposition to build a new city hall is still being talked about by the common council, and it begins to look as if the aldermen really mean to provide "a new public building which will include rooms for the common council, city clerk, city treasurer, the water works, electric light, police department, etc. It was recommended that the new hall be located between the north and south sides, near the library, thus making the placement of the hall convenient for citizens on both sides of the river.

William Mollen, 13-year-old son of Mr. & Mrs. John Mullen of Little Chute, drowned in the Fox River. The boy was swimming with two other lads at the time.

A large delegation from Kaukauna attended the motorcycle races at the Appleton fair grounds last Sunday. In the Kaukauna riders’ special, a five-mile race between Joseph Peeters of Little Chute and Otto Hoehne of Kaukauna. Hoehne lead the race up to the finish line when Peeters nosed him out for the win.

July 12, 1912

An Alabama Negro, by the name of Charles Scott, got into an altercation Sunday afternoon with another the Hatch Water Circus. Scott pulled a gun with the intentions of sending his fellow worker to heaven in a hurry. The gun misfired after two tries and Scott was apprehended. He was taken into custody and charged with attempted murder, a charge which carries at least a year in jail. Because the gun misfired and the victim was his partner in the circus, he was left off with six days at the workhouse.

July 19, 1912

"Riverview Sanatorium" is now a certainty and the new hospital   for   tuberculosis patients will be located on the Miller farm between Kaukauna and Little Chute on a beautiful site overlooking the Fox River. At a meeting of the special committee on the sanitarium, held at Appleton last Saturday, the deal was closed, and the site purchased. The site consists of five acres of land, with a gradual slope toward the river. The site is just south of the urban electric line.

Mayor Coppes turned over $44,000 of the purchase price of the electric light plant to the representatives of the Kaukauna Gas Electric Light and Power company last week. $6,000 was withheld for pending differences with the old electric company and the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company.

July 26, 1912

Loss of life as well as property was barely averted early this morning when the double tenement house of Anton Makosky was gutted by fire. The cause is suspected to be an exploded gas stove.

The new garage just opening on Second Street to be known as the Kaukauna Motor Sales Co., is composed of a number of southside businessmen. Thomas McFarland’s experience has extended over several years and various makes of machines. The salesroom will be in the front and the repair shop at the rear.