Time Machine to June 1913

 

Kaukauna Times - June 1913

By Lyle Hansen

 

June 6, 1913

A motorcycle party from Milwaukee consisting of two young couples attempted to visit Kaukauna Sunday. One couple forced their way through rough and muddy roads but the other, after many breakdowns, was obliged to take the train there.

Kaukauna high school - Class of 1913

German Scientific Course

Lottie McCarty

Elsie Mau

Verna Jumps

Bess Solar

Arthur Black

Irma Mueller

Michael Ryan

Dollie Brewster

Barbara Fischer

Gertrude Klammer

Marie Mulholland

Janet Strathearn

Herbert Schroeder

 

English Scientific Course

Maude Haas

Zeta Daly

Ruth Wolf

Lottie Kuder

Edwin Cooke

Norbert Rennicke

Ethyl Schatzka

Hellen McDaniels

Kirk McNaughton

Clement Sadlier

Gus Lindauer

John Strathearn

 

Rules of the Road

Kaukauna has an ordinance forbidding automobiles and motorcycles from running within the city limits at a speed faster than fifteen miles an hour.

A new state law governing rules of the road relating to motor vehicles and vehicles drawn by horses went into effect Friday May 16. The law states that a person operating a motor vehicle or horse drawn vehicle on the public roads or highway must stay to the right of center of the road when meeting an approaching vehicle. A vehicle overtaking another vehicle must pass to the left of the vehicle.

June 13, 1913

A killing frost, very close to freezing weather, hit Kaukauna Saturday night. The temperature dropped as low as 34 to 36 degrees. The farmers in the state were hurt quite badly along with many of the fruit trees in the city.

 

June 20, 1913

Next Sunday, June 22, will be a red-letter day for the congregation of St. Mary's Church as it marks the twenty-fifth anniversary or jubilee of the founding of the church organization as well as the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rev. F. X. Steinbrecher's ordination to the priesthood.

 

Willie Johns, aged 17 years, met a sudden death Monday afternoon by drowning in the canal just below the Wisconsin Avenue bridge. He and two friends jumped off the bridge for a swim. He was seen throwing up his hands when he came to the surface. He was struggling to stay afloat.  Workers from the Union Bag Mill and others rushed to the bank.  Several jumped into the canal by failed to save him.

John Calnan, of Marinette, who is walking home from Madison, reached here Monday afternoon on his way home from the State University where he attended school this past year. He had made a bet with a friend that he could walk the distance home. 

June 27, 1913

Gus Miller of the Julius J. Marten's Co. has a freak chicken among a brood from last week. The chick has four legs and seems to be as lively in every way as any of the others.

Henry Driessen, 14-year-old son of William Driessen of the southside, lost as eye Monday as the result of a firecracker. He had placed the firecracker in a bottle but failed to get far enough away when the firecracker exploded, blowing pieces of glass into his eye.

 

The fat man puffed up to the window of the ticket office. He looked at the clock and saw that it was 2:31. “Have I time to catch the 2:30 train?” he gasped.

“You have time.” smiled the agent. “But I don’t think you have the speed.”