Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Time Machine Trip to April 1928


April 1, 1928





Mayor W. C. Sullivan polled a total of 1353 votes to secure the mayor’s seat. Sullivan carried every ward in the city over his two rivals for the position.  

The census bureau says United States population next July will be 120,013,000. At the end of the century the population will be 256,000,000. In the last eight years the population has increased 14,302,389 as the births exceed by one million the deaths each year.

The excitement of the election was enlivened Tuesday morning by a garage fire at the Goese home on the corner of Tenth street and Kenneth avenue. Two cars, a Hudson and an Essex, were totally demolished by the flames. It is believed the fire started in the Essex.

April 6, 1928
Another lot of baby chicks made the walkin ring around the post office today with their chirps. Three hundred were included in this lot. It is expected that many thousands of little chicks will find their way in and out of the local postal station.


April 10, 1928
Anton Jansen, village president of Little Chute, is ready to enter strenuous objections at the railroad commission hearings to be held Wednesday this week. Mr. Jansen will protest the discontinuing of service on the interurban from Neenah to Kaukauna because of the number of Little Chute people who use the street cars. 

April 17, 1928
Does the average reader of The Times seek only those articles which express his own convictions? Is he afraid to read the thoughts of men who attack his cherished opinions? How many of us in reading what another writes attempt to secure the fair intendment of the authors? Or, do we impute the hot flame of indignation in defense of our own position. There are three sides to a story, “my side, your side and the right side.” You will never find the third side unless you can see the other two sides.

April 20, 1928
George Hopfensperger, 24 years of age, died Wednesday as a result of injuries received when he was crushed under the dipper of a steam shovel here at the Kaukauna Quarry.   

 April 24, 1928
In the fall of 1881, in a little one story wooden structure, G. W. Fargo, with his wife, Margret, established the business which now is marking another milestone in its business life in the opening of Kaukauna's largest store, home of Fargo's furniture and undertaker business, located on Wisconsin Avenue. Local and out of town people showed much interest in the formal opening of Fargo’s on Wisconsin avenue. Every woman entering the doors of the building received a fine gift and the prize contest had a large number of registrations. Baskets of flowers donated by various firms in the area were spread throughout the building.


April 27, 1928
The number of registered voters in Kaukauna now totals 2,600.




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