Time Machine Trip to March 1924

 

Kaukauna Times – March 1924

By Lyle Hansen

March 6, 1924

Marx Haid, 72, was instantly killed in an accident at the Outagamie Paper Mill Tuesday evening about seven. Mr. Haid was well known throughout the city and will be missed by the community and his family.

Aldermen have approved the concrete paving of Dodge Street last Tuesday evening the cost to be borne by the county.  

The weather has been spring like recently, but the overcast Monday resulted in eight inches of snow.

March 13, 1924

The hospitality of Chief McCarty was taken advantage of by five men who were passing through town last week. It seems that the five wanted to escape the rigors of a March night and asked if they might spend the evening in the city Bastille. The next morning, all attempts to awaken the guests failed, and upon further inspection showed that the guests were put in a cell where five gallons of illicit liquor gathered in some raid had been stored. The doors were locked for two more days, and the visitors were directed out of town and told never to darken our city's jail again.

Otto A. Look passed to his eternal home Monday morning after a two-week illness. He moved his family here in 1901 entering in the employment of Dr. Tanner at the Tanner Drug store on Third Street. He purchased the business in 1911 changing the name to Look's Drug Store.   

 

March 20, 1924

Mr. Wittmann, manager of the Royal Clothing Store, has the world's largest sweater on display at the store booth at the winter fair which will be held on Friday and Saturday this week. The sweater was made in Milwaukee and a guessing of the weight contest is being held.

March 27, 1924

All the people of Kaukauna have extended their sympathy to the parents of John Niesen, four years of age, who drowned in the river last Friday. He had strayed out onto the ice unnoticed by the friends he was playing with at his home on Wisconsin Avenue. John’s brothers were the first to notice he was missing and went to the river to find him floating.

Albert Schermitzler, while working at Kline Stone Friday morning, had the misfortune of having a stone chip strike him in the eye. He was transported to Dr. Flanagan of Kaukauna then to Appleton. The eye could not be saved, and he will be off work for about a month.