Time Machine Trip to July 1922

 

Kaukauna Times – July 1922

By Lyle Hansen

July 8, 1922

Two hundred and twenty-three men employed at the C. & N. W. shops in this city followed the example of approximately 400,000 railroad men through the United States and quit work at ten o’clock Saturday on orders received from union headquarters.

July 13, 1922

Lawrence Berguignon's carrier pigeon won first place in a race from Ironton, Missouri, to Kaukauna Saturday. Berguignon's pigeon flew 500 miles in one day to beat the 206 competitors.

The city electrical department has adorned its power plant with an electrical display sign of vary colored lights which can be seen from the hills of the north and south side. In letters several feet high, the department intends to "Say it with Electricity."

The Supreme Court is the safeguard of our liberty. America is stabilized in this day of world disturbance partly because of the federal Constitution. Except for the Supreme Court of the United States no guarantee of the Constitution however would be worth the paper it is written on. Without the Supreme Court an unscrupulous President could dissolve Congress and impose his will upon the millions of people. Congress could pass laws taking over all private property, abolishing trial by jury, establish a state religion, prohibiting free press and free speech.

July 20, 1922

William Van Lieshout of this city has cornered the Ford market and providing rural and city customers with this popular machine.  There is still work enough left for William Tennessen, local blacksmith, to keep his forge hot for horses are in widespread use in this area.

 

 

1922 Maxwell

1922 Mitchell

 The new Maxwell, owned by Charles Kircher of this city had a severe christening last Sunday evening when the car crashed into a Mitchell touring car on Menasha Road. The Maxwell was virtually wrecked. None of the eight young people in the automobiles were injured.  

July 27, 1922

A deal is being negotiated whereby the city school board comes into ownership of land and the island adjoining the property of the new high school which will round out nicely the city's possession. The city now owns a compact tract comprising more than five acres of land on the island.