Time Machine Trip to May 1915

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

May 7, 1915

Boys and girls who roller skate on the sidewalks are requested to keep away from freshly laid cement sidewalks for a couple of weeks after the walks are opened to pedestrians.

 

London - The number of ships torpedoed by German submarines in the 48 hours between Saturday and Monday has numbered ten. Many people have died. 

A wedding took place at Holy Name church, Kimberly, Tuesday morning at which the bride did not change her name. Ben Wulgaert and the former Stephanie Wulgaert were married.

If the state industrial commission rules favorably on the child labor law, a school for apprentice papermakers may be instituted in Appleton. It is a plan to select boys between the ages of 16 and 18 years for the school. The boys would attend school one day and work at the mill 5 days each week to get their practical experience.    

 

May 14, 1915

High Cliff Park summer resort overlooking Lake Winnebago will open for the season of 1915 on Sunday, May 23. M. H. Niesen, proprietor of the High Cliff summer resort, has finished making more improvements at the park overlooking Lake Winnebago.

London - Eleven hundred and fifty persons lost their lives with the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland Friday afternoon. There were 100 Americans that perished.

 

Dr. G. J. Flanagan is still in a state of wonderment over the report that he had been killed in an automobile accident last week. Dr. Flanagan became aware of the story after he received a telegram from an old friend about the incident.

 

May 21, 1915

A class of twenty-six will graduate from the Kaukauna High School this June. The class has chosen the sweet pea as their class flower; their class colors are orange and black and their motto: "The Elevator to Success is not Running. Take the Stairs."

 

English Course:

Arthur F. Burns

Maybell Dorothy Driscoll

Ester Marguerite Fargo

Michael J. Sadlier

 

German Course:

Florence Mary Black

Bonita Genevieve Huhmann

Hazel Viola Jumps

Elsa M. Konrad

Major Jay Kuehn

Eunice Blanche Mulholland

Erwin Louis Olm

Grace Carol Zekind

 

Modern Classical:

Margaret Adah Cooke

Adele Joseph Corcoran

Hazel Ruth Leone Karls

Ester Marguerite O’Boyle

Anna Marcella Thompson

 

German Commercial:

Eleanore D. Cooper

Ruby Marguerite Filen

Florence Helen Hoolihan

Cecilia Loretta Ryan.

 

May 28, 1915

The officers of the Kaukauna Paper Novelty Co. have announced the re-organization of the company and a change in name. The company will be known as the Badger Tissue Mills of Kaukauna.

 

Ridge Point will be opening Friday evening, May 28, and every Friday evening until further notice. There will be dancing on Monday, May 31 Memorial Day in the afternoon and evening.

 

Luther Lindauer has purchased a new Mack automobile truck which he will use to haul crushed stone. The truck has the capacity to carry six yards of stone.

A series of bungles and almost innumerable errors were responsible for Kaukauna’s defeat Sunday at the hands of Little Chute. 

 

Time Machine Trip to May 1905

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

May 5, 1905

A new double-fed newspaper folder has been purchased to be added to The Times equipment, and when installed, the form of the paper will be changed and enlarged.

 

On May 1st, the ownership of the Times passed to a new firm Raught and Winsey, who succeeded in co-partnership to the entire possessions of the plant. The new addition in the firm is Mr. Charles J. Winsey.

 

A burglar, whose operations would indicate that he was perfectly at home about the place, made his way into the Transient Saloon in the Central Block on Main Avenue, sometime Tuesday night and stole $19. 

 

May 12, 1905

Kaukauna Lodge No. 962, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was organized in this city last Saturday, starting out with a membership of twenty-four charter members. Delegates were present from Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Two Rivers, Neenah-Menasha, and Appleton to welcome the new members.

 

A man whose appearance would indicate the vocation of tramping, had both feet severed stepping down from his perch between the mail car while stealing a ride on passenger train No. 5 Ashland division yesterday afternoon at Tigerton. He is currently in serious condition. 

 

May 19, 1905

Thousands of feet of new cement sidewalks and curbing are being laid in Kaukauna this season.

 

Because of damages incurred by Edward Balgie, principal of the Little Chute public school, damages to the extent of $5000 have been sued against the Wisconsin Traction company. On Sunday evening April 9^th, Professor Balgie was riding on the car and made his payment with a five-cent coin. The conductor refused to accept the coin saying that it was a “slug,” and ejected Balgie from the cat, at a point about a mile from Appleton. He was forced to walk to Appleton and stay overnight.

 

The greatest fire that Appleton has ever experienced occurred Monday morning. The Riverside Fibre and Paper Company’s pulp mill took fire while a crew over 100 men were employed. The loss will probably be approximately $125,000. 

 

May 26, 1905

Four members of the Kaukauna High School track team who won places at the Northeastern Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Meet on Saturday last at Appleton left today for the state contest at Madison. They were Ed Lindberg, Raymond Dietzler, Mark Hayes, and Arnold Otto.

 

 

A concert will be given by the Mill & Nugent Silver Cornet Band in front of Tanner's Drug Store on Saturday, honoring the 25th anniversary of Dr. Tanner's arrival in Kaukauna, when the south side of town consisted of nothing but woods. Dr. Tanner has been very instrumental in the development of Kaukauna during the past quarter of a century.

 

1905 Kaukauna High School Graduation – 17 students

 

Joseph Curtin

Raymond Dietzler

Dell Glass

George Krahn

Elsie Rettinghouse

John Schneider

Rose Schubring

Stanley Slizeskie

Will Corcoran

Will Earles

Ed. Lindberg

Arnold Otto

Verna Pequin

Elizabeth Toe

Margaret Knight

Leo Moran

John Taugher

 

 

An attractive feature of St. Mary’s church of Kaukauna is the grotto of the Lady of Lourdes. Inasmuch as such representations are not commonly found in Catholic churches. 

Time Machine Trip to May 1895

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

May 3, 1895

Dr. H. B. Tanner was reelected as mayor of Kaukauna on Tuesday, narrowly defeating the challenger and former mayor Luther Lindauer. Tanner's margin of victory was 54 votes.

 

The new bids for the construction of Hotel Brothers were open Monday, and the contract awarded to an Appleton contractor whose bid was $18,050.

 

Some of the young ladies’ fashions should not lose sight of the fact that it is impossible for young men to “whisper love in their ear” in these days of balloon sleeves.

 

William S. Curtis, a switchman employed in the Northwestern yards at Appleton; while uncoupling moving cars last Tuesday evening caught his foot and fell. Both his legs were cut off by the knees. He died Wednesday morning. He leaves, a wife and two children, one seven weeks old.

The publishers of the KAUKAUNA TIMES have always promised whenever the field was ripe here to put in a daily paper and with this end in view the city is now being thoroughly canvassed for subscribers to assert if the venture can safely be made at present. Many of the businessmen have of late urged the starting of a daily and we wish to meet their demands if within our power.

 

Appleton, Wis. - Wenzel Schillibel who was arrested recently convicted of voting twice in the spring election and let off with a fine and cost of $17, on account of his ignorance and stupidity. He was arrested again today and found guilty of obtaining goods under false pretenses and assessed a fine and cost of $22. He had goods belonging to Andrew Hampel, a saloon keeper. Schillibel’s only defense was that Hempel was rich while he was poor.  

  

 

May 10, 1895

F. G. Passino & Co's elegant new soda fountain was opened to the public, one of Chicago's expert soda water dispensers being here to serve the various beverages obtainable here.

 

Oscar Thilmany, proprietor of the Thilmany Paper Mill is contemplating the addition of another tissue mill to meet the fast-increasing demands for this grade of paper.

 

Hortonville having been incorporated as a village; an election was held on Tuesday last to choose village officers. For president L. Jacquot received 99 votes and D. Hodgins 96.

 

May 17, 1895

Since last Saturday, not a wheel has turned in Kaukauna or any other city along the Fox from Neenah to Green Bay. Over 4,000 men are thus thrown out of employment, while the mills are losing thousands of dollars daily. Stopped as they were without a few days grace in which to make preparations, the mills are full of raw stock, molding and rotting; felts and wires are left upon the machines, with no power to turn the machinery to remove them, vats are full of pulp, and rotaries full of rags, chemicals going to waste, and damage visible on all sides, with no remedy at hand only an order from the government revoking their last order. The water was shut off to the mills by the government through an injunction from the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company to keep the river levels high enough for navigation.

 

For the first time in the history of the Fox here the water is low enough to display the bottom of the river near the dam, as much water as possible was drawn off this morning to lower the river so that repairs could be made to the leak in the dam.

The High School graduating class of ’95 has decided on June 13^th as the date of their commencement exercises. The class this year is larger than any of the previous ones, numbering thirteen.

 

Baraboo, Wis., - Mrs. Fry was about to be buried when it was discovered she was alive. She has since explained that she was conscious of what was going on about her but was unable to make her condition known and it was only by the greatest efforts that she moved her arm a trifle the day appointed for the funeral.

 

May 24, 1895

The city jail has been torn down and the material transferred to the new site near the new bridge, where it will be rebuilt by Contractor Solar according to revised plans. The new jail will be a two-story structure with police headquarters on the second floor opening from the bridge. A box car has been backed in on the sidetrack on the Island and will be used as a lockup until the new one is completed. It is now a case of being lodged in a refrigerator instead of the cooler.

 

Wednesday afternoon, the TIMES reporter took a stroll through the new factory of the Kaukauna Furniture Company and found everything to be in good running order and in top condition. Work at the new plant commenced last Monday.

 

Mayor Tanner headed the police force last Friday evening after 11 o’clock and started out to make a round of the city’s saloons to see if the 11 o’clock closing ordinance was being conformed to. The wet goods houses were all closed.

 

Washington D.C., May 21 - The income tax, which has received so large a share of the public attention since the beginning of the session, is a thing of the past. The Supreme Court declared the entire act invalid and unconstitutional.

 

The Kaukauna ladies “set the pace” and now the bloomer costume is being adapted in other cities along the Valley. The Advocate speaks about Miss Sweet who was the first to appear at Green Bay last week, adding that “the bloomer costume presents a vision of loveliness that is simply irresistible.”

 

May 31, 1895

The new hook and ladder truck for the fire department has arrived. It is a "bute."

 

Although the new telephone poles on the bank of the canal raised the wires 120 feet above the water, they were not high enough to allow a sailing vessel to pass through last Friday. The tips of the mask touched the wires, and they had to be lowered. An additional splice is now being added to the poles.

 

Julius Martins has resigned his position as traveling salesman for the Anson Bros. of Milwaukee and intends to start a grocery store on the south side.

Time Machine Trip to May 1885

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

May 1, 1885

A new hotel will be one of the great improvements on the South Side this season. The fine corner lot on Third Street, near Duggan's Hall, has been purchased for this purpose and work on the same will begin immediately. The dimensions for the main building are sixty by one hundred feet and three stories high, making it one of the largest hotels in the country.

Chicago - An electrician while repairing a light apparatus on the 21^st. lost his balance on the ladder and grasped the wires attached to the light. He was shocked and died.

A St. Petersburg dispatch reported that another engagement has taken place between the Russian troops and the Afghan natives on the frontier. Of the 1,700 Russians engaged nearly all were killed. 

May 8, 1885

Kline Bros., proprietors of the South Kaukauna mills, find their flour is in great demand, and have the honor of being the manufacturers of the first to be sold on the floor of the new Chicago Board of Trade.

A watchman has been stationed at the grave of millionaire Cyrus McCormick to guard it every night since his death a year ago and a large salary was paid to an old servant Mike Allen who took the job. The effects of sitting in the graveyard each night for a year has resulted in the lonely watcher sickened and he died a few weeks ago. A speedy erection of the mausoleum now contemplated will relieve the watchman’s duties.   

The veterans of the Texas Army of the Revolutionary War of 1836 against Mexico met at Sherman Tex. and celebrated. Davy Crockett’s famous bowie-knife was exhibited. Mr. Phillips was present; he raised the first Lone Star flag on the Rio Grande.

May 15, 1885

Dr. Ed. Phelps, while acting as umpire for a game of baseball a few days ago received one square in the nose, hot from the pitcher's hands. The results were, of course, a broken nose, but Doc's experience as an umpire more than compensated him for the trouble of wearing it in a sling for a few days.

New York – An old woman whose face had been familiar for years as a beggar had been missing for some time. She recently reappeared looking much younger her rags had given place to a tidy dress. She explained that after twenty years of begging for money she had invested all her money in the market. She said she was now 39 years old and was retiring on her investments which are substantial. She says she was 18 when she began dressing as an old lady in rags begging on the street.

May 22, 1885

On Saturday last a noble Redman, answering the name of Abram Jones, was brought before Justice Simons, on Saturday last, charged with drunkenness. An effort was made to have him name the person who sold him the liquor, but the "big injun was heap cute," and refused to "squeal." He was given 30 days in the county jail.

The strike at Eau Clair practically ended on the 13^th with the prompt action of sixty special police who made half a dozen arrests and confiscated the drums of the strikers. 300 to 400 of the excited strikers armed with sticks marching to beating drums attempted to compel the Eau Clair Lumber Company steam mill to suspend work.

Little suits of velveteen in dark red, hunter’s green and blue are to be the stylish dress suits for little boys this spring.

 

May 29, 1885

We learn that one "old timer," of the North Side, objects to the city government paying for printing the proceedings of the Council, ordinances, etc. This "old timer" will soon begin to understand that the city business is not run on the plan of the old town board, which ran things on the "still hunt" plan, and as they had nothing published; the public knew nothing of their proceedings.

A million and a quarter of cat skins are used annually by furriers.

 

Liberty, Mo., - While the circus was unloading here Tuesday morning, Emperor, the largest elephant, fell while being led from the car. He sustained injuries which he died from. The elephant had been on exhibition for forty years and was worth $10,000. He was estimated to be about 105 years old.

Dr. H. B. Tanner is making extensive repairs on his house opposite the Northside public school; he expects to move his family there about the first of June, leaving the Reuter block where he has had his residence for the past four years.