Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen - KAHS
August 3, 1916
Friday evening a car
with seven passengers in a Mitchell automobile owned by Dr. Frank Babcock of
Kaukauna narrowly escaped death around 9:00 p.m. on Friday south of town. No
one was badly injured but they were shaken up. A tree stump caught the car as it dropped,
preventing potential fatalities before it completed a somersault and landed
back on its wheels 12 feet below road level. New wheels were installed, and the
car was driven to Appleton under its own power.
Wisconsin reached
103,560 registered automobiles in the state. The state's residents will spend
$58,000,000 on automobiles in 1916.
The United States
Indian Commissioner in the Department of the Interior, issued an order strictly
prohibiting the sale of liquor to Native Americans. The rule applies
universally, regardless of whether individuals are U.S. citizens or classed as
wards of the nation.
John VanRight, aged 24,
was killed Monday morning when his arm contacted a live electric wire while
working as a lineman for the Wisconsin Traction Company repairing a broken
line. Funeral was held Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. at St. John’s Church, Little
Chute, with fellow linemen acting as pallbearers. Burial in Little Chute
cemetery.
Albert Demming bought
five acres of land from the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Co. The land is situated
just west of Boyd Avenue on the crest of Beaulieu Hill.
Governor Philipp was
officially advised by Attorney General Owen that Wisconsin soldiers deployed at
San Antonio cannot vote in the September primary or November elections without
physically returning to Wisconsin.
Auto Show at the State
Fair on September 11–16 at the State Fair. 59 factories will show over 200
model specimens of 1917 pleasure cars, totaling more than $1,000,000 in value.
August 10, 1916
Nearly 5,000 men of the
Wisconsin brigade marched 10 miles to Ten-Mile Hill enroute to maneuver grounds
at Leon Springs. Every man carried a 60-pound pack while singing "On
Wisconsin".
Johanna Bowers, the
7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Bowers on Wrightstown Road, fell off
a load of sand, and a wheel crashed her side around 6:00 p.m. Saturday. She was
taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Appleton but succumbed to her severe
internal injuries.
Jacob Lang assumed
duties as the new postmaster of the north side office on Monday morning,
succeeding J. C. Mitchell. Post office employees presented Mr. Lang with a
bouquet of roses, while retiring postmaster J. C. Mitchell received a smoking
set with a box of cigars from the clerks and rural carriers.
August 18, 1916
A tractor plowing
demonstration for the farmers of this vicinity was held this afternoon, and
will be continued tomorrow all day, and probably Saturday, at the farm of the
Hurkman brothers, across the "marsh", just north of the Kaukauna city
limits. Everybody interested, whether a farmer or not, is invited, but farmers
are especially invited, because the demonstration will show what a tractor will
do for them, how it saves expense, labor and delays in all kinds of farm work.
Besides its use for plowing, the tractor is invaluable to farmers in handling
hay, filling silos, sawing wood, baling hay, grinding feed, and innumerable
other things which every farmer must do.
The city electrical
department has just completed the installation of a ten-horsepower motor at the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway shops, this being the first electric power to
be installed there in the recent electrifying of the shops. The motor operates
in the car-wheel department now located in the west end of the carpenter shops, operating the wheel press
and boring machine.
The Union Bag and Paper
Company has commenced some important improvements at their plant on the water
power canal, which means a lot of work for skilled mechanics and also for
common hands. Work on all of these improvements scheduled to commence by
September first.
Walter Langlois, a
delivery boy for J. L. Anderson, suffered a fractured right shoulder on
Tuesday. He was jerked from his wagon by the horse he was driving.
Lake Winnebago and the
Fox River are heavily polluted with thick green scum, causing dirty green tap
water with an offensive odor. Swimmers at local beaches are reporting skin
infections from the water.
Frank Van Drasek (age
7), son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Van Drasek, Sr. Attempting to catch a ride on a
loaded stone truck near the Island quarry, he fell beneath the rear wheels. He
suffered severe internal injuries and died on the way to St. Elizabeth's
Hospital in Appleton.
Wrightstown has a new
high school. A new two-story red brick high school with a full basement is near
completion on the east side of the Fox River. Built by contractor Frank Egers
for less than $20,000, it is set to open for the fall term in September.
Nearly 50 Oneida
Indians have moved to Kaukauna for manual labor opportunities, with more
families continuing to arrive. They are noted for being prompt and reliable
workers.
Jacob Hill (age 89),
revered Oneida chief who moved to the Oneida Reservation from New York 83 years
ago has died. He often served as a minister at tribe funerals and spoke at
public occasions.
August 25, 1916
The New 1917 Ford Model
features a restyled 1917 model with a larger radiator in a black enamel casing,
a sloped hood for a streamlined body, and crown-shaped front fenders. 200 units
shipped to Wisconsin—one per dealer.
Kaukauna Fibre Company is
sold to a Milwaukee man for $104,000. The sale price fully covers all creditor
claims dollar-for-dollar, with several thousand dollars remaining to be
distributed among stockholders.
Mrs. William Van
Lieshout suffered severe burns to her hands and arm on Saturday while ironing
clothes. Residual gasoline, used for cleaning, ignited when exposed to the heat
of an electric flatiron.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ristau
and family completed a 200-mile trip to Marinette County, camping near
Brookside in a new silk balloon-cloth tent. Gus noted poor, sandy road
conditions in the Coleman, Brookside, and Oconto regions.
August 31, 1916
M. A. Wertheimer
received a postcard sent via Holland from Oscar Thilmany in Germany —his first
update from him in several months. The card confirmed that Mr. and Mrs.
Thilmany are both in good health.
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