Time Machine Trip to July 1923

 

Kaukauna Times - July 1923

By Lyle Hansen

July 5, 1923

Kaukauna's first pigeon race ends in a tie when street commissioner, Thomas Reardon of the north road district and Alderman Luedtke engaged in a friendly contest with their carrier pigeons last Sunday. The birds were released in Beloit and arrived in Kaukauna one-and-one-half hours later.

 

 “Happy” Van Lieshout recently picked up a half cent coin bearing the date 1825 in his father’s back yard on Doty Street. The coin was covered with dirt, but the boy carefully cleaned and polished it. The coin is about the size of a silver dollar. All the land in that vicinity originally belonged to the Lawe homestead. 

 

July 12, 1923

Mrs. Wheelock, of Kaukauna and a well-known Oneida Indian also the daughter and granddaughter of Oneida chieftains, proved herself to be an orator of real ability and eloquence at the meeting held Tuesday night at the council rooms for the purpose of presenting the Indian side of the Oneida case against the state of New York in which the six nations claim a perfectly good title to a tract of land totaling six million acres. The case undertakes to raise a fund of $100,000 to prosecute the Indian claim. The U. S. Supreme Court has recently decided that the title of the Six Nations is valid.

July 19, 1923

The fire department has been quite busy the past couple days. A grass fire on the north bank of the river took most of the day to extinguish. After returning to the station, they were again called out to a residence on the Southside. The structure burned to the ground despite the efforts of the firemen.

July 26, 1923

The city is laying concrete foundations over the space between the Municipal Administration building and Doctor Nolan's office which will provide parking for the city employees.

Sunday afternoon a puppy was run over on Wisconsin Avenue by an automobile which sped on its way despite the agonized cries of the little victim. It seemed about as heartless a piece of business as could be imagined.