Time Machine Trip to November 1928

By Lyle Hansen

November 1, 1928

If the expected 3000 votes are cast in Kaukauna on Tuesday and Al Smith received 1839 votes and Herbert Hoover receiving 1170 votes, then the straw vote taken by the Kaukauna Times will have been correct.

November 7, 1928

The Green Bay Packers, the pride of Northeastern Wisconsin, handed Tony Latone and his Pottsville Maroons a 26 to 14 walloping in one of the most thrilling frays ever played on the local gridiron.

     

With a total of 2852 votes in the election here yesterday, Kaukauna citizens made a modern balloting record. Smith carried Kaukauna, but Hoover won the national election.

Will Rogers Says - “They talk about a man not being a good citizen if he don’t vote. If everybody didn’t vote, then none of the candidates could be elected and that would be the end of politics and we could just go out and hire some good man to run the country.

November 9, 1928

The New York Yankees, crack pro grid team, will face the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay Sunday. A crowd of about 10,000 people is expected to attend the game. “Red’ Smith played with the Packers last year as guard and fullback will be on the field. Many Kaukauna fans will be cheering for him as he got his football training with the Kaukauna High School team before going to Notre Dame and then to the Packers. 

According to V. A. Hansen, manager of the Kaukauna telephone exchange, 18 new phones have been installed here the month of October. 

November 13, 1928

The Green Bay Packers tied the New York Yankees 0 to 0 Sunday. The Packers are in third place with 4 wins 2 losses and 2 ties. Frankford holds first with Providence in second. Behind the Packers are the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, Detroit, Chicago Cardinals, Pottsville, New York Yankees and Dayton.

A march starting from Wisconsin Avenue and ending with a parade up and down the football field at the Kaukauna ball park. The participants were Joseph “Doty” Bayorgeon, who bet on Al Smith for presidency, and Alfred “Bud” Wagnitz, who places his wager on Hoover. We know who lost. To pay his wager, Bayorgeon was forced to wheel Wagnitz in a wheelbarrow, Wagnitz carrying a sign, “I bet on Hoover” and Bayorgeon carrying a sign “I bet on Smith”. Bayorgeon was dressed in a bathing suit, wore hip boots, and had a straw hat perched on his head.

St. Mary’s school of De Pere, considered the best among the grade schools of that city, proved to be little opposition for the fast-going Holy Cross eleven of Kaukauna on Saturday when the team clashed on the De Pere gridiron, the locals winning 37 – 0.

November 16, 1928

Robert Grogan, who with Paul Casey divided the quarterback duties on the 1928 championship team of the Kaukauna High School was elected captain of the 1929 squad. He succeeds Marvin Miller as fullback and captain of this year’s squad. The 1928 squad won the championship of the Northeastern Wisconsin Interscholastic conference of the second consecutive year. The Kaukauna team had a 6-0 season.

Ten years ago, the world was delirious in its joy at the conclusion of the titanic blood carnival that had convulsed civilization. It is well to reflect, once again on the struggle into which the United States was drawn into the bloody taste of war. Let us recall the sacrifice made by so many of our young men. No better memorial could be rendered to their memory than active steps to prevent such an outbreak from afflicting the world in the future. 

November 20, 1928

Formation of the Kaukauna Credit association has been completed here. The organization will be incorporated as a non-profit sharing corporation and will work with merchants and professional men in the city. 

November 27, 1928

Where there’s a will there’s a way!  Two local youths made their way to Madison Saturday, hitchhiking their way to the scene of the University of Wisconsin – Minnesota football game. When they got there, they found no tickets available. But the will showed up and behold not long after the local lads were inside selling balloons at the game.

November 30, 1928

The Green Bay Packers lost the toughest kind of a game to the Frankford Yellowjackets here Thursday by the score of 2 to 0 before a crowd of 8000 fans. A pass from center which sailed over Lewellen’s head early in the first quarter gave the Yellowjackets two points via the safety route.