Time Machine Trip to December 1914

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

December 4, 1914 

1914 Kaukauna High School Girls Basketball Team

 

Now that the basement or chapel part of the Holy Cross Church is completed, building operations for this year have ceased until next summer.

Ralph Eiler December 1914 after reading the TIMES

 

The Times printing plant is now almost entirely transferred to our new location in the Odd Fellows block on Second Street. The paper is being printed at the new location today.

 

December 11, 1914

 

 St. Mary's Grade school 1st grade 1914

 

Local fishermen are reaping a rich harvest from the Fox River this week. One party secured a haul of 4,000 pounds of carp in two days, another got 3,200 pounds and another drew 1,500 pounds in one afternoon. The carp being caught now are the lake variety and weigh from 10 to 20 pounds. They are purchased by the Green Bay fish companies, being about 3 cents a pound.

It’s good-by “Jo Jo, the dog faced boy,” and to “Little Egypt, the sultan’s fairest favorite.” Too often the Wisconsin state fair visitors said they must be banished.

 

Our government never faced so tremendous a problem as that now shakes the nation to hide its face in shame. The last census reports we now have 1,514,000 women working in the field, most of them south of the Mason and Dixon line. There were approximately a million negro slaves working in the fields when liberated by the emancipation proclamation. We have broken the shackles of the negroes and welded them upon our daughters.

 

December 18, 1914

 

1914 Kaukauna YMCA basketball team

 

The total deer kill in the state this year is placed at near 15,000-the largest numbers being taken from Bayfield, Sawyer, Vilas, Taylor and Iron counties.

Barney Mitchka froze one of his hands quite badly Monday while trying to hold his horse from running away. Monday through Wednesday the thermometer was standing at eight degrees below zero and the wind at twenty miles an hour.

  

Punch boards, dice games, cards and all other devices for which the loser pays are to be ousted out of Neenah according to an order given by Mayor C. B. Clark.

December 25, 1914

 

The Kaukauna Farmers Elevator and Produce Co. are doing a rushing business these days in buying hay from the farmers in the area. The price runs from $9.50 to $10.50 per ton. The company had bought, sold and shipped one hundred car loads during the past month. Kaukauna is the leading hay purchasing town in this part of Wisconsin, as one can see so many hay loader wagons constantly on the street.

  

The property in the rear of the Public Library which has been set aside as a public playground has been flooded this weekend will be in readiness for skating on Christmas Day.