Time Machine Trip to September 1922

 

Kaukauna Times – September 1922

By Lyle Hansen 

September 7, 1922

Michael Sullivan of Milwaukee, former mayor of this city and one of the old-time fire-eating Democrats, arrived here last Friday and is a guest of his son, R. W. C. Sullivan.

Dr. H. B. Tanner, formerly of Kaukauna but now a resident of Eastland The Eastland, Texas, Oil Belt News contains the political announcement of Dr. H. B. Tanner in which the doctor gives a brief biographical sketch, saying that he was for thirty-three years a practicing physician in Kaukauna and was the first Republican Mayor of the city. The doctor now aspires to be county treasurer of Eastland county.

 

An automobile driven by a Mr. and Mrs. Adams of Green Bay was on their way home after a four-thousand-mile trip, suffered a bad smash-up near Little Chute when a truck backed out of a driveway and hit the Adams machine, forcing it over to one side. Mr. Adams receiving a bad scratch on his forehead and his wife a severe shock to her nervous system.

 

September 14, 1922

The Kaukauna High School senior class held a class meeting Monday noon and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: President, Marion Newton; vice president, Milton   Metz; secretary-treasurer, Esther Mau; class advisor, Mr. Waterpool.

 

The high school enrollment this year exceeds that of last year by 40 students. The total number of students registered for study now being 250. The students are now packed closer than sardines in the limited room available. The school was designed for only 120 students.

 

Howard “Cub” Buck, one of the coaches of the Legion team of this city and a member of the Green Bay Packers, has been offered the position of head football coach at the Indiana University, it was announced on Tuesday. Buck found it impossible to accept the flattering offer and wired the president of the university to that effect on Wednesday.

After a long period of effort, The Times’ subscription Contest reached its conclusion last Saturday night. Mrs. Levi Rupert was awarded first place of the new $1,515.00 Buick car. Joseph Bayorgeon was given the second-place prize of one hundred dollars in cash.

The work of installing the new Photoplayer in the Bijou, north side, is practically completed.  The instrument is ten feet in length and is built to meet the needs of all motion picture houses. It contains a piano, pipe organ, an orchestra of five pieces and 17 effects for motion pictures.

 

September 21, 1922

The Farmers and Merchants Bank has awarded the contract for the alteration of the first story of its bank building into a modern banking room with every convenience known to banking today. The alterations will be made in the building at the northeast corner of Second Street and Main Avenue, formerly occupied by the First National Bank.

Approximately 300 men smiling and happy in the knowledge that they won the strike in an orderly and peaceful manner went back to work Monday morning at the C. & N. W. shops. The shop whistle blew after ten weeks and was a welcome sound, not only for the workers but to the entire city. The strikebreakers who have been working at the shops heard the strike settlement Thursday and drawing their pay left the city at noon.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dreger have received a telegram from the Graves Registration service concerning their son. Private William Dreger, who died in France during the war, will have his body returned to the United States this month.

Engineer Larry Hoffman had both legs broken and his fireman, R. Engle received injuries from which he died Sunday afternoon. 19 passengers were injured when the passenger train 141, which Hoffman was piloting, crashed into an ore train at Clintonville at 10:20 a.m. Sunday.

 

September 28, 1922

Mr. & Mrs. Ross Medcalf returned Sunday from a visit to Newton, Illinois. The couple left Kaukauna last Tuesday morning and drove the entire distance in 24 hours, a distance of 500 miles. With the exception of a thirty-mile strip of dirt road, the entire trip was made on pavement.