Time Machine Trip to February 1916

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen KAHS

February 4, 1916

The new and beautiful church structure which has just been completed by the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran society will be dedicated Sunday by a series of three services during the day and evening, commencing at 9:30 in the morning.

 

The Pierce-Arrow automobile owned by John McNaughton of Kaukauna went over the side of the incline going up to Louis Bergeon’s paint shop on Washington Street Saturday morning and dropped 10 feet striking on its side. The body of the car was damaged but the driver, Henry Crooke of Kaukauna, escaped with a broken wrist. He was lucky to have escaped death.

 

Charles Glye, a Kaukauna boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Glye, of the South side, who had been employed as a chauffeur in Milwaukee for several years, had the honor of driving the car that conveyed president and Mrs. Wilson from the station to the hotel and later to the auditorium on their visit to Milwaukee Monday of this week. It can be remembered that Arthur Schmalz of this city, present chauffeur for Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Wertheimer, was selected as the driver for President Taft at the time.

 

Twelve to six, favor Kaukauna, was the score of the basketball game between Kaukauna and Little Chute High School teams at the auditorium last Friday afternoon. The girls’ basketball team of Kaukauna High School will play the girls team of the Little Chute High School at Little Chute Saturday evening.

 

The boys of Kaukauna High School are about to organize an anti-cigarette league, which is expected to be the death nail of the coffin nail so far as the high school students are concerned. Officers of the league will be elected, and the members will pledge to abstain from the use of the nails at a meeting to be held next week.

 

Eight Kaukauna boys enlisted in Naval Service. The following young men have just enlisted at the Naval recruiting station and are to report there next Monday for duty to be sent east for training on some of the various training ships stationed in Newport News, New York Harbor. The names reported are Frank Zeuhl, Alphonse Jacobson, Rudolph Ristau, Frank Wodjenske, Fred Milz, Alfred Weirauch and Irving Mantei. All the boys are eager to begin their term of four-year service, and they'll be looking forward to the opportunity of seeing the great outside world.

 

February 11, 1916

 

Fox Club Basketball Team. Left to right Ben Bell, Gold Lindauer, Ed Haas, Gordon Mulholland, Leo Nagan, Gus Lindauer, Bill Haas, Mgr. Norb. Rennicke.

Thursday evening at the Kaukauna auditorium the Little Chute Northwesterners were given the greatest surprise of their lives when the Fox Club basketball team instead of turning the other cheek and accepting another defeat such as having been administered them a few weeks previous at Little Chute avenged themselves by defeating the Northwesterners by score of 41 to 11.

 

Why doesn’t the railroad company put in electric lights at the shops? But finally, the question has been settled. The contract between the Chicago Northwestern Railroad and the City Electrical Department was signed by Mr. A. J. Farrelly, administrator of the company, Mayor Raught and Supt. Montgomery Monday afternoon of this week. The plans call for 196 lighting units to be installed in the shops.  

 

February 18, 1916

Beautiful weather and the great interest brought many to see the fine church structure of the Trinity Ev. Lutheran society, which was dedicated here on Sunday and drew an immense crowd to witness the ceremonies which were carried out without a flaw.

 

The Supreme Court rendered a decision last week upholding the state law prohibiting the sale of liquor to Indians. Michael Dragon of Green Bay, against the state appealing the decision of the lower court and that he was found guilty of selling liquor to an Indian. Dragon had contented the Indian came under the excepted cause. “Except civilized persons of Indian descent not members of any tribe” the court declared this not the case. The Wisconsin state law states no liquor can be dispensed to any full-blooded Indian in Wisconsin, whether such Indian is affiliated with any tribe or not.

 

Frank Minkebige, Sr., an employee of the Outagamie Paper Company, was seriously injured last Thursday night while at work at the mill and it's feared his injuries may prove fatal. While engaged in taking stock a pile of pulp nearby toppled over onto him completely burying him and severely crushing him by the weight. He was not found for almost an hour later when Adam Kerry the night watchman came along by way of a tour of inspection.

 

February 24, 1916

Poormaster H. J. Mulholland and Chief of Police Richard McCarty have disposed of the Charlie Wenzel family this week, who have been city charges for some time past. The two girls were placed in the Children's Home at Sparta, a state institution, and the oldest boy will be farmed out under the direction of the court. Mrs. Wenzel had been placed in hospital temporarily as she had been suffering for about a year from a broken arm. The probabilities are that the arm may have to be amputated, after which she will be placed in a home for the poor somewhere at the expense of the city.

The most valued Civil War relic among John Lawe’s varied collection, is an old, tattered battle flag shot full of bullet holes by the Johnny Rebs, and most of Its revered folds missing. It was picked up sometime after the engagement at the siege of Vicksburg Miss., after the battle of Champlin Hills, May 16th, 1863, and so it is something like 53 years old.

Minneapolis, Minn, - Men and boys who fly over the snow with the speed of birds are carrying terror and death to the wolves of northern Minnesota. No wolf can outrun these flying men where the wolves break through the thin snow crust, while the men, who have their skis skimmed the surface easily. There have been more than 100 wolves killed, the greatest slaughter of wolves ever known in that section.