Time Machine Trip to February 1929

February 1, 1929

The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company’s shops, part of which will be permanently discontinued and dismantled after March 1^st. The railway shops have ranked second only to the paper mills as the chief industry of our city.

A report says that Cornelius Verbaeten, proprietor of the hotel at Wrightstown, was sentenced to thirty days in the Brown county workhouse and fined $100 when he plead guilty to a second offense against the liquor law. 

February 5, 1929

Famous stories of the frozen north of the Yukon palled before the story of a brave young local nurse who last Thursday battled a raging blizzard on foot for forty miles to reach the bedside of a patient who needed her services. Miss Fern Lambie, who has been staying in Shorewood received a call from Seymour that she was needed  quickly to take care of her 19-year-old niece. All trains were snowed in and highways were blocked by drifts. This did not stop her from hiking off on her 40-mile trip. The lone hiker stopped at various farm houses, for a brief rest, on her trip of mercy. She arrived at her destination Seymour Saturday afternoon having covered the distance in 50 hours and 45 minutes.

Neenah’s red clad warriors, favorites to win the state basketball championship same to the Kaukauna High gym Friday evening. They defeated the home team before a record size crowd 24 to 7.

February 8, 1929

President Coolidge, in his last address to the business organization of the government, called attention to the rapidly mounting cost of government. From $3,900 million in 1921 to $7,900 million in 1927 is a serious matter and a heavy drain on the economy of the country. This is a red flag warning us of the disaster of a depression ahead.

February 12, 1929

William Van Dyke, proprietor of the Vaudette Theatre, states that beginning February 17, "talkie" motion pictures will be shown for the first time here with permanent talking picture equipment, a "Moviephone."

February 15, 1929

Charles Clune, town of Buchanan, was fined $500 after he had pled guilty Tuesday to a charge of violating the state prohibition law. He was arrested after a raid was conducted on a small building which contained a 75 gallon still on his property.

February 22, 192

Olin G. Dryer, principal of the Kaukauna High School and captain in the reserve army, has been notified by the commanding general of the sixth corps area he has been accepted on the county committee of the Citizens Military Training Camp enrollment organization.

February 26, 1929

Forest Junction – A truck mounted rotary snow plow is being given a trial on Calumet county highways this week. The plow leaves a path sufficiently wide to enable vehicles to pass. 

Louis Faust of this city was renamed president of the Wisconsin Well Drillers’ association at the annual meeting held in Milwaukee.

The slaying of seven gangsters in Chicago at one time has aroused great interest over the country. “What bitterer satire could there be on the enforcement of law in Chicago to have gangsters disguising themselves as policemen”. This, they thought was only a police raid. They had nothing to fear from that.