Time Machine Trip to May 1915

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

May 7, 1915

Boys and girls who roller skate on the sidewalks are requested to keep away from freshly laid cement sidewalks for a couple of weeks after the walks are opened to pedestrians.

 

London - The number of ships torpedoed by German submarines in the 48 hours between Saturday and Monday has numbered ten. Many people have died. 

A wedding took place at Holy Name church, Kimberly, Tuesday morning at which the bride did not change her name. Ben Wulgaert and the former Stephanie Wulgaert were married.

If the state industrial commission rules favorably on the child labor law, a school for apprentice papermakers may be instituted in Appleton. It is a plan to select boys between the ages of 16 and 18 years for the school. The boys would attend school one day and work at the mill 5 days each week to get their practical experience.    

 

May 14, 1915

High Cliff Park summer resort overlooking Lake Winnebago will open for the season of 1915 on Sunday, May 23. M. H. Niesen, proprietor of the High Cliff summer resort, has finished making more improvements at the park overlooking Lake Winnebago.

London - Eleven hundred and fifty persons lost their lives with the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland Friday afternoon. There were 100 Americans that perished.

 

Dr. G. J. Flanagan is still in a state of wonderment over the report that he had been killed in an automobile accident last week. Dr. Flanagan became aware of the story after he received a telegram from an old friend about the incident.

 

May 21, 1915

A class of twenty-six will graduate from the Kaukauna High School this June. The class has chosen the sweet pea as their class flower; their class colors are orange and black and their motto: "The Elevator to Success is not Running. Take the Stairs."

 

English Course:

Arthur F. Burns

Maybell Dorothy Driscoll

Ester Marguerite Fargo

Michael J. Sadlier

 

German Course:

Florence Mary Black

Bonita Genevieve Huhmann

Hazel Viola Jumps

Elsa M. Konrad

Major Jay Kuehn

Eunice Blanche Mulholland

Erwin Louis Olm

Grace Carol Zekind

 

Modern Classical:

Margaret Adah Cooke

Adele Joseph Corcoran

Hazel Ruth Leone Karls

Ester Marguerite O’Boyle

Anna Marcella Thompson

 

German Commercial:

Eleanore D. Cooper

Ruby Marguerite Filen

Florence Helen Hoolihan

Cecilia Loretta Ryan.

 

May 28, 1915

The officers of the Kaukauna Paper Novelty Co. have announced the re-organization of the company and a change in name. The company will be known as the Badger Tissue Mills of Kaukauna.

 

Ridge Point will be opening Friday evening, May 28, and every Friday evening until further notice. There will be dancing on Monday, May 31 Memorial Day in the afternoon and evening.

 

Luther Lindauer has purchased a new Mack automobile truck which he will use to haul crushed stone. The truck has the capacity to carry six yards of stone.

A series of bungles and almost innumerable errors were responsible for Kaukauna’s defeat Sunday at the hands of Little Chute.