Hello Fellow
Time Travelers,
It’s that time again to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and
make trip back to January 1938.
The
big wheel is spinning Clyde
Schepp is
taking his place in the driver’s seat. The years are clicking back and in no
time we are back to Kaukauna’s south side.
We are out front of the Kaukauna Times on Main Street.
- Coach
Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers returns from recruiting trip.
- Highway
deaths set new records.
- New
Vaudette theater opens
The
hit parade song of the month.
Begin the
Beguine – Artie Shaw
https://youtu.be/pCXVxE_YeP4
Carl Hansen, the publisher, has left the newspapers for us by
the front door of the Kaukauna Times. Let’s see what’s in the news this month.
Your
old news man – Lyle Hansen
PS:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!
Two
teams appeared with new suits Sunday. The Papermakers appeared with silk
outfits that is pants, shirts and jackets, the color being a flashy red and
white. No other team has such as swell suits in the Valley nor has any team in
the league ever had the extra equipment like this one has. The Kaukauna girls also played for the first
time in my satin outfit composed of pretty yellow suits with blue trimmings and
blue sweaters. The Little Chute Legion supplied its team this year with a new
black and orange set of suits.
A
baby boy, weighing 5 1/2 pounds, born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kappell, at their
home on Highway 41, was hailed as Kaukauna’s first 1938 baby.
Alvin (Bing) McCormick Ambrose (Amy) Hammen
Alvin
McCormick, W. 9th St., was one of 19 Jordan College grid players who received
their J sweatshirts last week at Menominee Michigan. McCormick is a graduate of
Kaukauna high school. Two Little Chute residents also received sweaters. They
are Marty De Bruin and Ambrose Hammen.
The automotive licensing Bureau, Madison, said that
71,900 plates have been sold this year. That is 2000 less than last year. The
Bureau warns that drivers have until February 1 to purchase new plates. A total
of 715,605 plates were sold last year.
Coach
Paul Little’s high school cagers flashed some of their best form of the season
Thursday evening when they handed the alumni a 37 to 31 trimming before a lean
holiday season crowd. Vanevenhoven and Lambie with 10 and 9 points respectively
led the high school while Hatchell with nine points led the alumni.
Fire
losses from the city of Kaukauna during 1937 amounted to $57,119.76 as compared
to $3694.51 for 1936 according to the annual report of Henry Esler, chief of
the fire department. Esler said the 1937 loss was the largest ever recorded in
the city of Kaukauna. The largest fire loss of the year occurred in March when
$29,231.65 worth of damage was caused to the central block building and
contents on the corner of Main Avenue and Second Street.
January 7, 1938
George
Phillips paid a fine of $1 and costs in Justice of the Peace Abe Goldin’s Court
Wednesday on a charge of disorderly conduct.
On
suggestion of Mayor L. F. Nelson, the common Council voted to have the utility
commission prepare an advertisement and have it put in some trade magazines to
advertise the city.
January 12, 1938
Madison -
“16 years have been added to the average person's life during the last 25
years.” According to the state medical society in its first health release of
the new year. “In 1911 the average person lived the age of 41 years. In 1936
the average person lived to the age of 57 years. The average male born today is
expected to live 61.5 years and 64.6 years for females.
John
P. Kline was reelected Pres. of the bank of Kaukauna at the annual meeting of
directors of the institution.
Kaukauna
baseball fans didn't know what they were missing when they failed to see the
exciting games that were furnished by the city baseball league for only this
weekend there were two thrilling upsets and nearly a third one. Mellow Brewers
barely won over Kaukauna Barbers in overtime. By the score of 24 to 23, while
Gustmans were whipped 38 to 16 by the fast Pantry Lunchers and the Papermakers
lost to Greenwoods 17 to 14.
January 14,
1938
The
end of the first half of the city's basketball league shows George Block out in
front of all with 44 points followed by Dix who total 34 points, Jerry Vils and
C. Koch with 33 points each.
Kaukauna
high school basketball team looks forward to its first conference win of the
season tonight when they meet Clintonville high school at the Kaukauna
gymnasium. Both teams are in the cellar in tonight's game will be a battle to
get out of the depths of the lower berth. Coach Paul E. Little will again
depend on his first string five to knock off the truckers.
George
R. Greenwood was elected Pres. of the Kaukauna advancement Association at a
meeting of the Board of Directors held at the Hotel Kaukauna.
A
Milwaukee man has the distinction of being the first person to be arrested and
fined for drunken-driving in Kaukauna and in Outagamie County for the year
1938. He was arrested by Kaukauna police Monday evening when he was driving his
car in erratic manner on crooks Avenue. He was arraigned in Justice of the
Peace Abe Goldin's court Tuesday afternoon and was fined $50 and costs, a total
of $54.75.
Lewis
F. Nelson was reelected Pres. of the farmers and merchants bank at the annual
meeting of the directors held Tuesday evening at the bank.
Coach
E. L. Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers has returned from his annual football
scouting expedition to the Pacific coast and some important announcements about
the players are expected in the immediate future. While on the Pacific coast he
interviewed a number of collegian gridders about joining the 1938 Green Bay
Packers squad. This will be Lambeau's 12th season as the Packers pilot and he
has high hopes of bringing another gridiron championship to Green Bay.
A
counter type ice cream freezer has been installed in Looks drug store this
week, it will permit them to make ice cream right in their store. It is the
only machine of this kind in Kaukauna and can make any flavored ice cream
sherbets and ices.
Cities
of the Fox Valley region have just about finished the job of laundering the
Lake and streams before their front doors. In the 12 years since the state
Board of Health and the conservation commission completed their water pollution
surveys, the municipalities of this heavily populated area have spent $5
million on a system of sewage disposal plant's design to restore the purity of
the valley’s waters.
January 19, 1938
Kaukauna
high school won its first mid-eastern Wisconsin conference basketball game of
the season Friday evening when they defeated Clintonville 27 to 17. Bill Alger,
lanky freshman center, led the Kaws in the scoring column with 10 points.
The Kaukauna Merchants Girls basketball team flashed
their best form of the season here Sunday to score an 8 to 3 victory over Green
Bay and their first win of the season.
Dorothy Timmers was high scorer with 4 points.
According
to Clifford H. Kamp, boxing and wrestling instructor at Kaukauna high school
said this year's squad is one of the best balanced team he has ever seen.
January 21, 1938
Boy
Scout Troop No. 20 will conduct a court of honor Monday evening according to
announcement made by Wallace Mooney, scoutmaster.
Calls
made by the members of the, police Department during 1937 totaled 1034 according
to the annual report of James E. McFadden chief of police. Speeding was the chief cause of the arrests
last year the report showed there being 63 persons arrested and fined on that
count during the year.
More lives were sacrificed in highway accidents in
1937 that any other year in Wisconsin history. The state recorded 870 traffic
fatalities in 1937, contrasting with 805 traffic deaths in 1936. Outagamie
County reported 220 serious accidents with 24 fatalities.
The
common Council refused to accept compromise suggestions from the officials of
the Chicago Northwestern railroad company in regards to the installation of
wig-wag signals at four Kaukauna crossings and went on record as calling for
three wig-wag signals to be installed. Superintendent of the Lake Shore
division of the railroad stated that the company had looked over the crossings
involved and it came to a collusion that only one crossing might need a wig-wag
signal. He said that under the law the city would have to pay part of the cost
of the installation of the wig-wags which is estimated to be about $3500 each.
January 26,
1938
William Van Dyke, the manager and owner of the
Vaudette, first opened a theater in Kaukauna in October 1912, and had been
operating the Vaudette in the same building ever since. The construction of the
new building will be the first time the Vaudette has moved locations. Hugh
O'Connell, a former Kaukauna resident, will appear in many pictures in the new
Vaudette Theater which opens here tomorrow.
Kaukauna's new theatre, the Vaudette, situated on East
Second Street, will stage its grand opening on Thursday evening with the first
show scheduled for 6:00, according to an announcement made by William Van Dyke,
owner and manager. The doors of the theatre will be opened at 5:45. The name of
the opening feature is "Back in Circulation."
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