Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
March 5, 1915
1915 Kaukauna High School Basketball team, Standing left to right: Lester Kalk, Lyle Webster, Coach Fred Kruege, Juneau Husting, Holmes Miller. Seated, left to right: Karl Rennicke, Henry Olm, Foster Miller.
William Stammer, superintendent of the country
workhouse, may have to face charges for allowing the escape of a number of
prisoners. Stammer admitted that he had allowed Fred Wilson, who was sentenced
to 15 days, to go away at the end of eight days because the man had rheumatism
and felt he was doing the county a favor by allowing him to leave.
At the city council meeting the resignation of Mayor John Coppes was presented for consideration. Under the rules of the postal department a postmaster is not allowed to hold any other elective office. Mayor Coppes decided to file his resignation at this time to allow time for a successor to be chosen at the coming spring election.
W. J. Armstrong & Co., the firm who has been buying large quantities of hay at Kaukauna all winter, have shipped five hundred carloads to Illinois, where it is used for feeding British army horses which are to be shipped across the ocean to be used in the present war.
The pumping station of
the Kaukauna water works plant is now operated by electricity and without
regular attendance, the power, being controlled at the electric power station.
This plan has been contemplated for some time and for a long time past the
Utilities Commission and Supt. Wm. B. Montgomery have been working out the plan
which is now in operation, and which will save the city quite a sum of money in
the cost of operation. Of 'course, this means direct savings to the taxpayer.
The Thilmany Pulp and Paper
Company have planned large and additional improvements to their plant on the government
canal, the enlargement of which will commence as soon as the weather permits.
The Thilmany Company has proposed to build several new buildings, including a two-story
structure, 72x220 feet in dimensions, with a basement, which will be used as
the finishing department for the plant, and will also store manufactured products.
Also to be constructed is a 40x140-foot dimensioned building. In the structure
will be the extensive printing plant of the Thilmany Company, and their
carpenter and blacksmith shops, with some storage space for miscellaneous stock.
A new office room will be constructed, in addition to the others, and will be
much larger than the present facility
March 12, 1915
John Minkebige dropped
one of the large bowling balls on his foot Monday evening at the Hilgenberg
Bros. alleys, injuring the member so badly that he is laid up for repairs.
The common council is getting
everything in readiness to start the first sections of permanent street paving
that, have ever been laid in this city. The road committee expects to have
everything ready for work as soon as the weather will permit in the spring, and
the coming summer will produce the first permanent street work that has been
put down in Kaukauna aside from macadam roads.
The Kaukauna jail has sheltered Carl Benson,
the man pursued by phantoms, the lone wanderer who knows no rest and seeks the
jails of every town he strikes, because within their wall he feels safe from
the men he imagines are ever at his heels. Chief of Police R. H. McCarty’s
records show the Benson was here March 13, 1914, a year ago.
March 19, 1915
One of the oldest
landmarks on the waterpower of Kaukauna-the old Kline mill on the south side
canal, will soon be no more, work of entirely razing the structure having been
commenced. The mill was built in 1883, being the second manufacturing institution
to locate on the south side power canal.
The Right Rev. Joseph J. Fox, bishop of the Green
Bay diocese, died Sunday afternoon at the Alexian Brothers’ hospital, Chicago.
March 26, 1915
The petition to the
post office department asking that Postmaster John Coppes to be allowed to
serve out his term as Mayor proved of no avail. The Postmaster again considered
a year too long a period and refused to suspend the rules and regulations which
forbid postmasters holding any other elective or appointive office.
Think Spring
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