Time Machine Trip to June 1915

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

June 4, 1915

1915 8th grade graduation Holy Cross Herbert Haessley, Frank Matlock, Henry Benotch, Leroy Ristau, James Maher, Mary Regenfuss, Julia Block, Hattie VanEperen, Magdalen Heindel, Mildred Haessley, Ruth Conlon, Florence O’Boyle, Helen Callahan, Frances Minkebige and Marie Bayorgeon, Priest Rev. Peter Lochman.

Governor Philippe signed the Dobie bill last Friday allowing license dealers to sell cigarettes to adults but forbidding the sale to minors.

The Boy Scouts performed an excellent service last Friday afternoon when they voluntarily polished up the north side canal bank. The boys turned out in the body and removed as much of the unsightly debris along the bank as was possible for them to gather and carry away.

 

Under the war revenue act which went into effect last fall all baseball clubs charging admission to the game directly or indirectly must pay a register fee of $10.00 for the fiscal year. The ruling affects practically every baseball team in the nation.

 

June 11, 1915

John Jacobs received his new 5 passenger Overland automobile Saturday which he finds a great improvement over the horse driven surrey that he had owned for a long time as he can now take his whole family easily as it is and 35 horsepower machine.

 

In realizing the daily papers, one would think the whole world had gone war crazy. Nevertheless, the great mass of American people is quietly pursuing their daily business in the same spirit of people and good-will they are accustomed to manifest toward others. Let us all give thanks that we are citizens of this great and glorious nation under the stars and stripes of freedom and liberty.

M.S. Felton sold 440 acres of the Oneida Stock Farm for $36,900.

The 4200-horsepower electric plant of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company on the south side canal was taken over by the mayor and Utilities Commission Tuesday, under the contract which has been the course of negotiation since last fall, and the city is now in full control of this big power plant.

Sunday, June 27th, has been decided upon as the date for the laying of the cornerstone of the new Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, the foundation for which is now nearing completion.

June 18, 1915

1915 Nicolet 8^th Grade School Graduates.

While drilling a well on the farm of Anton Hartzheim in the town of Buchanan Joseph Faust and Son struck one of those pockets of natural gas which seem to exist in many sections around Kaukauna. The gas was struck at ninety feet and when released shot up the hole and ignited from the fire in the boiler. The flames shot into the air thirty feet and burned for nine hours before going out and allowing the drilling to continue.

On June 15, The Village of Denmark east of here was incorporated.

A remonstrance was filed with the common council Monday evening by parents of children attending Park School, objecting to the issuance of a new license to Otto Luedtke saloon on Lawe Street because of the state law not allowing any saloon to be within three hundred feet of school property.

Miss Pearl M. Ditzler was pleasantly surprised when on Tuesday last she was accompanied to Waverly Beach by the pupils, members of her Glee club and the alumni, all eager to show their appreciation for her kindness and work during her six years as a teacher of English and History in the Little Chute high school.

This house and 40 acres of land in northern Wisconsin is only $800.