Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
It’s that time again to fire up
the old “Time Machine Chair” and make trip back to October 1938.
The big wheel is spinning
Patt Huss 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.
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September relief payments are reported.
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Carl Giordana is leading Kaukauna scoring attack.
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Oil
painting placed in post office.
The hit parade song of the month.
Short’nin’ Bread – The Andrews 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: With the election coming, I can’t help but
think of the Bobby Bare song?
God Bless America again.
You must know the trouble that she’s in.
Wash her pretty face. dry her eyes again.
God Bless America Again.
October 5, 1938
All members of the New London high school
football squad walk out on the coach Monday morning when they were told they
would be required to purchase student activity tickets at 75c a semester in
order to participate in any school sports. “It's not the money that we object
to but the principle,” said a member of the team. The superintendent told them
they would have to buy the tickets or quit the team. They refused and walked
out in a body.
Whether or not it was due to the complement
article in the Milwaukee Journal describing the Thousand Islands, there was a
large crowd of sightseers in that section of the city Sunday. People from as
far as a way as Illinois scouted in an out of the rocks near the old railroad
bridge in an effort to retain some of the beauty with their movie cameras.
The Little Chute Flying Dutchman scored a 9-0
win over the Clintonville eleven Sunday the opening game of the season before a
large crowd of fans. The Chuters scored a touchdown in the second quarter when
Hammen shot a 25-yard pass to Block in the end zone.
October 7, 1938
Experiment use of reflecting type of paint for
centerline markings on highways is being followed with interest by state
highway officials. The paint contains tiny round heads. These tend to catch and
reflect headlights and make the brighter centerline visible for some distance
ahead of cars at night.
Adam Rice, Wrightstown, paid a fine of $1 and
cost in Justice Abe Goldin's court Monday for failing to stop for
arterial.
A profit of $22 was realized from a benefit
movie sponsored by the senior class of Outagamie rural normal school last
week.
GREEN BAY - The Packers large
stadium is likely to be filled to the very ears Sunday afternoon for the
renewal of its classic grid feud between Green Bay and the Detroit Lions. For
the expected 25,000 spectators coach Lambeau will send out his famous line and
backfield, currently rated just about tops in the world of football.
Pupils of the New London high school continued
their strike this week after the football squad refused to go out for practice
Monday when the order was posted by the superintendent that all participants in
extracurricular activities must purchase a student activity ticket for 75c. A
large student following paraded the downtown streets Monday night carrying
signs reading “Since when do athletes pay to play?” About half the 300 pupils
picketed the school building Tuesday afternoon and the rest made no attempt to
go through the pickup lines.
Cost of relief during September totaled
$1548.84 according to the monthly report of the relief director Joseph V.
Krahn. There were seventy-eight persons on relief August 31. Thirteen cases
opened in September and twelve were closed. There were 148 men and 10 women
employed by the WPA programs during the month, 8 girls and 10 boys were on the
NYA program.
October
12, 1938
Carl Giordana, a Kaukauna sophomore, scored a pair of
touchdowns and piled up a tremendous amount of yardage in leading Kaukauna to a
20-13 win over Clintonville. Giordana's performance was said by many to be one
of the greatest individual efforts displayed in the last several years by a
Kaukauna gridder and that already he is one of the best to ever wear the orange
and black.
Phil Zwick, the Wisconsin flash, the world's
most traveled featherweight who was visiting with relatives and friends in this
city, has just received information that he is to meet Dave Costillaioux of
Montréal, on November 7 at Toronto Ontario, Canada.
October 14, 1938
G. S. Mulholland former assistant cashier for
the bank of Kaukauna, was sentenced Tuesday to one year in the house of
correction by a federal judge in Milwaukee after he pled guilty to an
embezzlement charge. Mulholland admitted taking about $4300 from various
accounts.
GREEN BAY - The Green Bay
Packers and the Brooklyn Dodgers will meet at State Fair Park at 2 o'clock when
the respective coaches unleash their attacks. Last Sunday, Green Bay City
Stadium was packed with 21,968 fans to make it the biggest Pro football crowd
in Wisconsin history, as the Packers were defeated by the Detroit Lions 17-7.
Coach Curly Lambeau says the team dare not repeat a loss.
What does a wagon maker think after he's been
making wagons for 60 years? That’s the central theme on the life and work of William
Klumb, Sr. Mr. Klumb’s establishment is on Dodge street in this all but
wagonless city. Klumb has scarcely any
business in the auto body any more now that the bodies are made of steel. When
this reporter entered the Klumb shop, the elderly man was working on a wheel of
a truck that had buckled the day before. He said “It's a little harder to get
work nowadays.”
October 19, 1938
Over 200 persons visited the Grignon home last
Sunday according to William Wolf who is in charge. Twenty NYA boys were
employed there this week.
St. Mary’s grade school gridders defeated St.
Boniface of De Pere by a score of 38-6. St. Boniface has never defeated St.
Mary’s on the gridiron. Jack Truyman scored a touchdown on the very first play
of the game. Baeten scored in the second and third quarter and Niesz made
three, one in the third and two in the fourth quarters.
Sherman Powers - Kaukauna high school
displayed their best football of the season Friday night at New London to
emerge with a 13-6 victory before a large crowd. The high school eleven
received a severe setback Monday when John Wendell, big tackle and end was
operated on for appendicitis and will be out for the season. It was again Carl
Giordana, who led the Kaw attack, with his fine football carrying. Sherman
Powers displayed some of the finest tackling on the field and seem to figure in
every play. Clayton Watson at the other halfback post also put on a nice ball carrying
exhibition and Bob Niesen at quarterback stood out with his blocking and on
defense.
Peter A. Gloudemans, 69, pioneer Little Chute
merchant and former president of the village died unexpectedly at his home
Wednesday morning of heart disease. He was born in Little Chute in January 1869
and lived there his entire life. He served on the county board and as village
President from 1911 to 1921. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Little
Chute, founded in 1906, he was president of the institution at the time of his
death.
October 26, 1938
The Kau-Hi-News celebrated its tenth birthday
last week. The school paper was started in 1928 as a project of the English
class. The first editor-in-chief was C. P. Goetzman, who at present is city
editor of the Kaukauna Times.
The H. T. Runte company, west Wisconsin avenue,
is the only business in Kaukauna, which was established 65 years ago and is
still operating. The business was started by Otto H. Runte, who died 28 years
ago. The business which began in 1873 is currently operated by Otto’s son
Herman T. Runte.
Augustin Deuel Grignon, 52, grandson of Charles
Augustin Grignon, who constructed the Grignon home in this city 100 years ago,
died at his home in Los Angeles, California Friday. He was the last of the
Grignon heirs. He was born in Kaukauna on March 21, 1886, the son of Augustine
and Catherine Deuel Grignon. He has been a resident in California since
1912.
October 28, 1938
A valuable addition to the post office is an
oil painting 4 by 6 foot in size which shows Augustine Grignon trading with the
Indians and others near the old Ducharme home which was situated at the rear of
the present Grignon home. The mural was painted by W. Vladimir Rousseff at his
home in Fish Creek, Wi. under a WPA project.
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