Time Machine Trip to July 1915

 

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

      4^th 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.