Time Machine Trip to September 1928

By Lyle Hansen

September 5, 1928

A notice of quarantine for rabies has been posted in the town of Buchanan this week against dogs running at large because of the distract being infested by rabies.  The quarantine was ordered following the loss of several head of cattle in the town of Buchanan as the result of rabies infected canines.  

A crew of workmen of the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation are busily engaged in removing the tracks of the Green Bay-Kaukauna interurban line the service onto Kaukauna is now a thing of history. Saturday evening the last street car operated on the tracks. The company has been losing money for some time now and asked permission to discontinue the service.

Sherwood – Gordon Cornelius, 6 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Heiman, suffered fatal injuries when a seeder ran him over on his father’s farm Friday afternoon. The child had been riding on the seeder with his father, when the father got off and had left the vehicle. The horses started ahead suddenly throwing the boy to the ground and the seeder passed over him.

September 7, 1928

Hugh O’Connell

An item from the New York Times of August 28^th tells about the successes by Hugh O’Connell, former Kaukauna man, who has made a success on the big stages throughout the United States. Mr. O’Connell recently played in “The Rocket,” as a newspaper man to great reviews.

September 11, 1928

Bernie Abrott, Kaukauna hurler, iron man of the loop, who pitched every inning of every game played by the Kaukauna club in the Fox Valley loop. In the twenty games Abrott hurled 179 innings. He allowed few hits and pitched a no hitter against the pennant winning Kimber-Little Chute squad.

Double funeral service will be held at Little Chute tomorrow morning from St. John's Catholic Church for Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Janssen who died four days apart. Mrs. Janssen, 68, died at her home very suddenly of a heart attack last Thursday morning while her widower Garrett, 78, died following a stroke early Monday morning. A couple are survived by six daughters and six sons.

Arthur Schmalz was named post commander of the Kaukauna Post No. 41 of the American Legion. He succeeds Ed Haas who held the position for the past two years.

September 14, 1928

A warning by John Hyde, local night patrolman, was the cause of the capture of John Harris, Brooklyn, New York, by Appleton police Tuesday evening. A call came out from DePere of the robbery of the gas station attendant at gunpoint. Notice to be on the lookout for a Chrysler sedan bearing license of the state of Ohio as the suspect in the robbery. Officer died had received a warning to the corner of law until her Street driving there as a car which had been described down the street. He notified the Appleton police who stopped the car after a wild chase and arrested the driver.

Will Rogers Says – A Democrat is naturally windier than a Republican. He is out of office more and has more time to think of things to say. All a Republican has to say is “I'm in try and try to get me out.” While with a Democrat he only has to say something that'll get the Republican out and will also get him in. 

     The voters now go to the polls in an automobile, but they don't carry anymore in their heads than the old timer who went there on a mule, so the old bunk that you cannot fool the voter is the biggest bunk there is; he has been fooled all his life and he always will be fooled. 

September 18, 1928

Ten men of this vicinity, who had assisted in the treatment of cattle suffering rabies, are taking the Pasteur treatment to control any possible infection. This is an outgrowth of the mad dog scare in this section following the loss of several head of cattle as a result of rabies. 

The total valuation of the Hollandtown is as follows:

Horses, 542 …………. $52,175

Cattle, 2883 ………...$113,275

Sheep, 85 ……………….$815

Swine, 502…………….$6230

Wagons, sleigh 233…...$2555

Merchants’ stock ….….$1700

Motorcycles, 1 …….……$50

Automobiles, 231.…. $49775

All other personal prop. ..12,735

Personal property … $242,680

Rent estate …………$1,884,980

Total valuation…….$2,366,970

September 21, 1928

De Pere – Struck on the head with a heavy board and robbed of $20 by two men who waylaid him Tuesday night is the story told the police by Omer Pagel, 24, Wrightstown deckhand on the tug Jane, Fox River navigation company. Pagel said he left the tug and was walking east on James Street when one of the men rushed out from between buildings and grabbed him, the other hit him over the head with a piece of board. He was found by Robert Van Den Heuvel of the power plant who notified police. He is currently in a Green Bay hospital with injuries to his head and the back of his neck.

The Kimberly-Little Chute baseball team. Fox River Valley league champions for the 1928 season. The players left to right top row, Kotal, Len Smith, Hammen, and G. Pocan. Second row, Schell, Thein, and “Boots” Lamers. Bottom row, Lemmers, M. Lamers, Vanderloop, C. Pocan.