Time Machine Trip to January 1916

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen KAHS

January 7, 1916

 

1916 Fox Club basketball – Left to right: Ben Bell, Gold Lindauer, Ed Haas, Gordon Mulholland, Leo Nagan, Gus Lindauer, Bill Hass and Mgr. Norb Rennicke. 

 

The Fox Club basketball team robbed a wholesome defeat to the Mounted Orderlies of Company G Appleton on Wednesday night at the local opera house when they beat them up 55 to 14.

 

The Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company started off the new year of 1916 with a benevolent act in giving what is practically a raise in wages to the workmen in their employment by adding to each man's pay six percent of their year's wages in a lump sum at the end of the year. That is, next Christmas a man earning $1000 during the year will receive $60.00 as a Christmas present.

 

Owing to the general prevalence of the grippe and influenza there was some talk last week of keeping the schools closed for another week after the holiday vacation, but after giving the matter due consideration the city authorities decided to let the schools convene and then assert how sickness might affect the attendance.

 

Estherville, Iowa can now claim to have the oldest lady automobile enthusiast in the state if not in the whole country. Mrs. M. E. Jehu, aged 73, recently purchased a car and took charge of the car and experts to drive it regularly.

 

January 14, 1916

 

Mr. Fred Merbach and Frank Balgie were among the Kaukaunaites who attended an auto show at Milwaukee this week and while they were there arranged to take the agency for the Enger Twin 6 - a new 12-cylinder motor car which is selling for only $1095.

 

Among the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Tuesday was one affirming the decision of the lower court which awarded Mary Eccles a judgment for back salary against the high school district of the city of Kaukauna. Those interested in the case will recall that Miss Eccles, who was under contract to teach at the high school several years ago, was discharged without being given proper hearing. She then brought suit against the city for the remainder part of her salary under the existing contract.

 

January 21, 1916

Carlisle, Pa. - When one realizes that a Chippewa Indian boy has to ask his mother for a piece of pah-tah-me-she-me-bah-ske-ne-si-gah-ne-we-ko-be-baw-kwa-she-gan when he wants apple pie it will be understood that the seemingly cumbersome names carried by many of the Indian students at the school are really not only on burdensome to the redskin as would first appear. Among the students on the roster are such as Katie Owns-many-horses, Nancy Kicks-the-iron, Frank Smells-the-log, Edward Dismounts-Twice, Dalia Essen-to-hate, Flora Well-known and Henry Knocks-off-two.

 

Joseph Meyerhofer, recently arrived in the United States after 16 months service in the German army, visited Kaukauna one day last week while trying to locate his uncle John Meyerhofer. Meyerhofer, who is about 36 years of age, having seen active service in the trenches, is able to tell some very interesting stories of the present territorial conflict. One of his hands was maimed by the explosion of a hand grenade and was also wounded in the leg from a bullet. Two of his brothers were killed fighting for the Fatherland.

 

William Van Lieshout who but recently completed the large new garage on Lawe St. is already crowded for space in the building and in order to care for the increased demands for space and the prospects of future growth of business has already laid out plans for the enlargement of his place of business. The Ford garage seems to have been established at an opportune time because Mr. Van Lieshout has been rushed with work ever since he opened for business.

 

Renn & Co. started Monday to harvest the annual ice crop from the river above the dam, and at present have a crew of men engaged in filling the Chicago and Northwestern railroad companies’ icehouse on the south side. The Renn icehouse on the north bank of the river will be filled later.

 

January 28, 1916

Mr. W. B. Montgomery, manager of the Kaukauna Electric Light Company, was in the Village of Little Chute yesterday and informed them the new wiring operations are about complete, and the new street lights the village has contracted for the next year will be installed and going on or before the first of February.

 

Kansas City - When Timothy Riley got one look at his bride-to-be the romance was a bust. Riley drove his brand-new farm wagon up to the front of the Union Station, hitched the team and then stood guard at the exit door. He wore a red carnation by which the bride was to know it was him, all the lovemaking has been done by mail. The bride, who was to have come from Nevada, was to wear a Palm Beach suit. A few minutes later a Palm Beach suit, garnished with numerous boxes and bungles hovered in sight. Riley took one look, snatched the carnation from his buttonhole and fled. The bride appeared to be fully 20 years older than him, which probably was the excuse for his hasty flight.

 

A baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pleshek

A baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Raiche

A bouncing baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. John Warner

A baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keyzer

A baby born to Mr. and Mrs. William Powers

A baby boy brightened the home of Mr. and Mrs. Weyenberg, Little Chute

 

Twenty deaths occurred in the city during the month of January.

Most deaths were the result of influenza.