Time Machine Trip to October 1913

 

Kaukauna Times – October 1913

By Lyle Hansen

October 3, 1913

 

The Kaukauna Utility Commission decided to adopt the General Electric Company's magnetite four ampere arc lamp and a contract was closed. The matter of putting up new and additional lights at various points in the city, as well as replacing all of the old ones, will now be given immediate attention. The change will take place during the month of October.

The Kaukauna High School football team for 1913 has been organized with Prof. Strassmann as general manager. The team is characterized this season by its lack of weight in the lineup composed as it is of all new material. However, this condition is generally compensated for by quickness which is often of more aid than bulk.

Kaukauna Machine Works top row Francis Garvey, Louis Hanson, Earl Miller, Harry Watson; 2^nd row: Wally Bussard, Tommy Ralph, Jack Hoolihan, Emil Wurdinger, Oscar Miller, Steve Dietzler: bottom row: Joseph DeBrue.

 

October 10, 1913

We do not know whose duty it is, at the present time, to look after the proper stamping of streets names on the new cement sidewalks, but we do know that many errors are being made. Letters upside down, transposed, omitted and in several instances, avenues are stamped streets and vice versa. The idea of having street names, placed on the sidewalks, at corner intersections, is a good one, but it should be done right, for when the name is thus pressed into the cement, it is there to remain as long as the walk lasts and be a constant error confronting those who pass.

 

Henry Haken continues to have good success in his hiring Oneida Indians to do chopping on timber lands in Forest County. He reports that he has now employed fifty Oneidas at his camps and is looking to hire twenty-five more. The Indians are making as high as $5.00 per day. 

 

October 17, 1913

Chief of Police McCarty has appointed John Simon as special motor policeman for the City of Kaukauna and bestowed upon him full authority to make arrests for fast driving autos and motorcycles within the city. Hereafter, if they want to do any fast driving on the streets, they should be sure they have their pocketbooks with them.

Judge Thomas Ryan refused to grant a divorce on grounds that there were insufficient grounds. The wife charged her husband with cruel and inhuman treatment. After hearing testimony, he was satisfied she was not deserving of a divorce. 

 

The reception Wednesday evening to Rev. and Mrs. John Reynolds and their family was pronounced a success.  Over 100 people were present to welcome them to their new home at the M. E. parsonage.

John Dietzen was fatally injured last Thursday at the paper plant in Kimberly. He had his back broken when he was struck by a large piece of roofing thrown from the roof during a construction project. 

October 24, 1913

The Lawe Street Bridge, which has been closed for several months, during which a reinforced concrete roadbed has been laid across all but the draw section over the canal, was re-opened for travel at 2:20 Tuesday afternoon.

John Simon, the newly appointed city motorcycle cop, grabbed off his first crop of auto speeders last Sunday when he placed under arrest four drivers for racing through the city limits faster than the 15-mph law allows. One of them having been taken while going up Wisconsin Ave. at the pace of 25 mph.

The court in Green Bay ruled that Aldermen who knowingly vote money for an illegal purpose are required to personally repay the money back to the city. 

October 31, 1913

Holy Cross Church, the magnificent house of God which stood at the corner of Desnoyer and Doty streets, the ride of every member of the large congregation who assembled there regularly to worship, is today a mass of ruins, having been destroyed by fire Wednesday night. The fire started in the basement of the edifice early in the evening and in two hours, the beautiful structure that had taken the congregation so long to build was all swept away in roaring flames. The church destroyed Wednesday was built in 1898, although there had been several improvements made since that time. There is no question that the church will be rebuilt, and until the new structure is complete, a temporary altar will be put in the school building, where services can be held.