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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