Time Machine Trip to November 1915

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

November 5, 1915

 

Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 2, General Poncho Villa is preparing to attack the American troops at this place. The guns began to fire in support of General Villa’s advancing forces. One American was shot by a machine gun bullet as the bullets peppered the United States custom house.

During the month of October, the electric department of the city of Kaukauna extended its services to supply 146 new electric lights in homes, stores and industries in Kaukauna and lights were added at Little Chute. “The Electric City”.

High school boys and girls will sing Christmas carols in Kaukauna, for the first time in history of the city reviving an old English custom.

November 12, 1915

 

George Kromer’s Hotel

A bad runaway occurred on the south side Tuesday morning resulting in serious injuries to two ladies who were driving home. Mrs. Joseph Heup had a broken collar bone and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank King, also had a broken collar bone. The horse became unimageable coming down the Crooks Avenue hill when the rig struck its legs from behind. The rig overturned at George Kromer’s place on Third Street. 

 

The county board of supervisors passed a resolution Wednesday offering a reward of $1,000 for the capture of Wenzel Kabat, who escaped from prison. He is the convicted murderer of Michael McCarty of Kaukauna.

The Green Bay & Mississippi Canal company had recently sold 37 acres of its land on the south side to Joseph Lehrer which adjoins his farm.

A big, gaunt wolf is roaming the fields north of Kaukauna. In the stillness of the night his weird howls bring back to the early settler’s memories of the old days. 

 

There is a new sport in Kaukauna. It is automatic baseball and is installed in the Kuehn building on Second Street. An electric motor-driven machine throws out the balls like a pitcher to the batter.

 

November 19, 1915

 

Fargo Furniture 

Burt Fargo had recently moved out of the old Fargo home next to his store on Wisconsin Avenue and is converting the old dwelling into display rooms.

 

London, England - Nov. 17., 185 persons were killed in the Lyceum theater by a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin in a raid.

November 26, 1915

 

All money contributed to the Community Christmas Tree fund will be delivered by December 15. The purpose is to provide a “Merry Christmas” for the deserving poor of Kaukauna.

William Wolf broke his shoulder while engaged at work Tuesday at the new mill of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company.

Harvey Young and Harold Brown, students of Kimberly High school in Neenah, were experimenting in chemistry class with chlorine gas, such as is being used in the war in Europe. Young shoved the bottle under the nose of Brown. Brown toppled over and was taken home. He is now under the care of a physician.

 

The Kitchilinski family, consisting of a mother and nine children were left deserted here a few months ago by her husband. The poormaster last Saturday shipped the family to Niagara, Marinette County which was their former place of abode and where they will be cared for. The scamp that deserted them should be placed before a firing squad.