Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
July 2, 1915
At a meeting of the Fire and Police Commission
held last Friday Albert Luckow was appointed chief of the fire department to
succeed Henry Schubert who recently resigned after serving with the department
for over a quarter of a century.
The Manitowoc Herald has reported the Kaukauna and Antigo council seeks to bar carnival shows by increasing the license fee to $100 per day. This is not true. Kaukauna has just barred carnivals on general principals, refusing admission at any price, having placed them in the category of things not good for the welfare of the community.
News special from Detroit says The Ford Motor
company is making preparations to attend to the details of the distributed of a
$15,000,000 bonus to be distributed among Ford owners. The company is about to
write 300,000 checks for $50 each to be mailed.
July 9, 1915
4th of July float Little Chute
The Kaukauna postoffice
– north side is among the offices of the country to which the postmaster gets
an increase of $100 per year. Postmaster J. C. Mitchell’s salary therefore with
be $1,700.00 for the year.
The corner stone laying
of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church was attended by 1,200 people. A copper
box was placed under the stone with the following documents and papers; The
History of the church, the "Constitution of the Church," a picture of
the old church, the catechism, a hymn book, copies of the German paper and the
local newspapers the Kaukauna Times and Kaukauna Sun.
Something is just now being done at the
Thilmany Pulp and Paper company’s plant which has never before been attempted
in Kaukauna. The company is moving a large two-story cement block building
44x128 feet.
July 16, 1915
Rt. Rev. Paul Peter
Rhode, D. D.
Official information
reached this city on Sunday of the Papal appointment of Rt. Rev. Paul Peter
Rhode, D. D. of Chicago, to the vacancy of Green Bay to succeed his lordship,
Joseph J. Fox, deceased.
July 23, 1915
Nugent’s Theatre
tonight - - Charles Chaplin, the greatest screens comedian in a two-reel
feature entitled “The Tramp.” A scream from start to finish.
John Banker, second
lock tender, who pulled the little Stelzner girl from the canal last week, says
this is the nineteenth person he has rescued from drowning.
The question of paving
portions of Lawe Street, Main Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, and Canal Street, has
come to a sudden close as the attorney for the White Construction Company has
filed an opinion wherein he cites that the whole procedure used by the city is illegal,
and that the contract cannot be entered into by the White Company and the city,
as it now" stands.
St. Mary’s church was again struck by
lightning during a storm Wednesday, some damage being done to the roof and
tower of the church.
July 30, 1915
Frank Schreiner, Jr.,
and his wife, Kaukauna, were both appalling close to death Saturday on the SS
Eastland, while docked in the Chicago River, suddenly capsized. They were just
hunting for places to settle down for a day of pleasure on an excursion to
Michigan City. Frank went to the top side, and his wife went below deck. They
were far separated when the boat flopped over in the water. Mr. Schreiner had
thoroughly searched the morgue for the body of his wife and checked all the
dead women laid out on the docks and sidewalks. He had about given up when
someone suggested for him to check the local hospitals. He found her there and
that she had been calling for him constantly since recovering her senses. The
disaster resulted in the deaths of at least 844 people. This is the largest
loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
The post office
department has announced a decrease in rates on parcel post packages. Beginning
in September the new rates will be five cents for the first pound and one cent
for each succeeding pound. The present rate is six cents for the first pound
and two cents for each additional pound.