Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Time Machine Trip to September 1915

 

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

September 3, 1915

At 12:35 last Saturday noon the electric current supply for the city of Kaukauna was turned on for the first time from the new plant on the south side canal, the transfer being made without a hitch. This change should mark a new era in the industrial advancement of the City of Kaukauna, which hereafter will be designated as the Electric City of the Fox River Valley.

Manager William Van Dyke of the Vaudette announces that a feature film, the Frank Case, will be shown tomorrow evening. This film is based on the famous case of Leo Frank, whose celebrated trial ended with a death sentence, commuted to life imprisonment, after which Frank was lynched.


The statistics on Outagamie County contain interesting data. The county has 9,980 children in school, 130 school districts and a total of 158 teachers.  


September 10, 1915

With the opening of the new power plant the Utility Commission announced a reduction in the rates ranging from 15 to 25 percent. This will mean quite a savings to the users of electric light and power and will make it possible for many to have electric service installed in their homes that have not had this modern convenience up to the present.

Mrs. Christina Johnston, age 98 years, Kaukauna, enjoyed her first automobile ride yesterday afternoon. She and her daughter, Mrs. Peter Christofferson, were given a ride by Mr. and Mrs. Julius Grimm who were visiting. She proclaimed this was the happiest day that she has spent since she has been in America.


September 17, 1915

John Simon, Kaukauna’s alert motor cop, who has nabbed off quite a number of auto  and motorcycle speeders this season, was nipped himself at Kimberly the other evening for failing to have a taillight after hours.  


The Mulford bowling team opened the season last Monday with a victory over their old rivals, the Appleton Monarchs. The games were rolled at Little Chute at the opening of the new Miller’s alleys in that village.


The post office department has taken a lease of the room in the Central block, next door to The Times’s offices. The same is being fitted up for the transfer of the South Kaukauna post office thereto from its present location in the Grand View Hotel block.


Resolved by the Mayor and city council that the North Side Park Commissioners are hereby empowered to purchase from Merrit Black of this city, the following piece of land for park purposes. At a point where Black Street intersects Wisconsin Avenue to the shoreline of the Fox River.

 

September 24, 1915

The three Kaukauna banks have announced they will not participate in any way in the proposed loan of a billion dollars to England and France for war purposes.

Salina, Kan. – Anna Conrad caused the arrest of James Barnes on a charge of assault. She showed the judge the vacant space in her mouth of two missing teeth. The judge assessed a fine of $15 against Barnes. He then ordered that the $15 go to the city treasury.

Hereafter no children will be allowed to carry lunch or dinner baskets into the mills of the Kimberly-Clark company, according to a new rule made by the Central Safety committee.


September 30, 1915

Football coach Krieger has scheduled the Kaukauna High School eleven to play West Green Bay at Green Bay Saturday.

Left end, Fred Olm, Leon Sadlier; left tackle, Henry Olm; left guard Kalk; center, Rennicke; right guard Kircher, Fredenall; right tackle, Husing; quarter back, Hinnenthal; right half, McLaughlin; full back, Miller; right half, Griffith; Jon Sadleir and Schatzka.



Hundreds of children from the Catholic schools and hundreds of men and women thronged about the northside depot Wednesday evening to welcome the Right Rev. Paul P. Rhode, the new bishop of Green Bay, when the special train stopped for five minutes in Kaukauna. The children carried flags and cheered the churchman as he stood on the rear platform of the last coach.






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