Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
It’s that
time again to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and make trip back to August 1938.
The big wheel is spinning Diane Grissman is taking
her 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.
- The quarry is the most popular
swimming hole in town.
- Little Chute Doctor delivers over
6000 babies.
- Kaukauna purchases a bus to
transfer rural students to high school.
The hit parade song of the month.
Alexander’s ragtime band – The Boswell Sisters
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: Thank You to Joan
McGinnis Hue for selecting the stories for this month trip.
August 3, 1938
Eddie Schuler held Little Chute to but five hits
Sunday to score an easy 9-2 victory to keep Kaukauna Electric City Brewers in
second place in the Fox River Valley league. Marvin “Dago” Schuler started on
the mound for the Chuters but received bad support from his mates and before
the game was over gave up to Pete Wallenberg when the Kaws bats started to
click.
Three Boy Scouts of St. Mary's troop No. 27 were
included in a group of 95 who left this week for Gardner Dam Boy Scout camp.
The Kaukauna scouts included in a group are Jerome Luebke, Leroy Peters and Bob
Kalupa.
Sylvester “Ham” Hopfensperger of Kaukauna set a new
course record of 32 on the Fox Valley course Sunday morning while playing with
Gene Ditter and Stanley Kauth.
L. Mitchell of Black Creek was fined $1 and cost in
Justice B. J. Mitchka’s court Monday for failing to stop for arterial on Sunday
at the intersection of Delanglade and Lawe streets.
August 5, 1938
Dr. J. H. Doyle of Little Chute called at three homes
on Sunday and Monday and bought three babies into the world. It was not unusual
for Dr. Doyle to officiate at births where he has done a great many times. And
it is not unusual for the three families to have babies. The daughter born
Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. John P. Gerrits was her 13th child. The daughter born to
Mr. and Mrs. John VerVoort was their 16th child. The son born to Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Rutten was their 12th offspring. Dr. Doyle has practiced at Little Chute
for 39 years and figures he has officiated at the births of over 6000 babies.
The quarry proved to be the most favored swimming spot
in the city during the month of July, according to the monthly report submitted
by Clifford H. Kamp, city recreation director, who was in charge of the
lifeguards at the various swimming spots in the city. A total of 12,337 people
used the quarry during July.
The
honor of being champions of the City Softball league went to the Kaukauna Klub
team Friday evening, Front row John Niesz, Earl H. Mollet, Ed Bloch, Bud Tatro,
Bill Peterson; back row, Don Van Able, Art Koehne, Jim Judd, Ed Eiting, Bill
Kuchelmeister and Don Kobs.
A decrease of $276.08 was noted for the cost of the
poor relief in July according to the monthly report of Joseph V. Krahn, city
relief director. There were 90 cases on relief June 30 and 17 cases were open
during July. There were 16 cases closed during July leaving 91 cases on
relief. The number of men on WPA
projects during the month was increased to 146 while the number of women remain
the same at 10. 12 boys and 9 girls were employed by the NYA program during
July.
August 10, 1938
Gov. Philip F. La Follette and Matthew J Burns,
International president of Papermakers will speak at the sixth annual Labor Day
picnic at the La Follette Park on Sunday, September 4.
August 12, 1938
Herman Franz, Wisconsin Avenue, defeated Robert
Nettekoven, Park Street for the championship of the Junior boys’ tennis
tournament in the finals that were played this week.
Leo Zarter, Kaukauna golfer, reached the law of
average last Friday night when he made a hole-in-one on the third hole at the
Riverview golf course and Appleton.
A group of NYA workers under the direction of Elmer
Grebe started excavation work this week on the foundation of the Ducharme
Grignon Home which was built in 1790 just behind the present historic Grignon
home. The foundation of the home is to be restored as a result of the NYA
program. The workers recently unearthed some valuable relics. Among them was a
Canadian halfpenny 86 years old, many pieces of crockery leave to be more than
a century old bones believed to be those of an Indian buried on the property
and a large 12-inch key which was used in the early days.
August 19, 1938
In the Kimberly-Kaukauna playground day held at the
library playgrounds, the Kaws earned a clean sweep in the baseball games. In
the midget softball the locals won by a 13 to 9 count. The Kaws won the junior
section 8-1 behind a one hit pitching of M. Walsh. Bill Bell tossed a three-hit
ball to win the senior division game from the upper River club, 8-2.
The purchase of a bus to be used to bring rural
students to Kaukauna High School was decided upon at a committee meeting
Tuesday evening. The bus will be large enough to carry about 40 students and
will be routed from Kaukauna to Askeaton and then to Forest Junction and then
back to Kaukauna on Highway 10.
August 24, 1938
Arnold Herber, Green Bay Packer passing star, signed
his 1938 contract Thursday according too Curly Lambeau. Lambeau says his 1938
team will surpass that of the 1937 team and he is expecting great things from
his freshman players.
Two Kaukauna youths, Lawrence Kappell and Howard Voet,
were injured in an auto accident near Fond du Lac Sunday morning. Kappell
received a broken nose and Voet received a cut on his face. Both cars were
badly damaged. There were four people in the other car but three left the scene
before the police arrived.
August 26, 1938
Joseph and Richard Lehrer have made an offer to the
city to collect garbage from uniform containers at the rate of $.40 per family
per month and at the rate of a $1.50 a month for business places. Private
collections would be made once a week and collection from downtown districts
twice-a-week.
Kaukauna’s drum and bugle Corps sponsored by Post 41
American Legion will begin its trek to the north land Saturday morning where at
Ashland it will defend the title as state champs at the American Legion
convention to be held at that city next week.
August 31, 1938
Outagamie County officials are now awaiting action on
their application for a WPA grant on the proposed new courthouse at Appleton
before further action is taken on plans for the new building. The County board
set a building fund which has now reached a total of $128,804. However, the entire
some is not in cash at the present time and the board forestalls raising taxes
during the depression.
The 1938-39 term at Kaukauna High School will begin on
Tuesday morning, September 6 at 8 am according to Olin G. Dryer school
principal.
The wigwag signal which will be installed by the
Chicago Northwestern railroad at Gertrude Street intersection arrived last week
and has been stored at the North Side depot.
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