By Lyle Hansen
May 3, 1929
Over fifty percent of this year’s forty
graduates of the Outagamie Rural Normal School in Kaukauna have accepted
teaching positions in rural schools for the next year according to the school
principal W. P. Hagman.
John McNaughton, 45 years of age, one
the foremost financiers and president of the Bank of Kaukauna died Thursday
evening after a lengthy illness. He had attended schools in this city before
attending Princeton. Following his graduation, he came back to Kaukauna as a
collector in a bank.
Mayor A. C. Rule of Appleton vetoed the
resolution for the city to rent the upper floor of the proposed new ten-story
Irving Zuelke building in Appleton. The council had passed by a vote 11 to 1
for the city to rent the floor. Mr. Zuelke has withdrawn his offer to build and
the site will be parking and a gasoline filling station.
May 7, 1929
The Union Bag and Paper company’s mill, for the
past twenty-nine years in Kaukauna, will shut down this summer. According to
management, the reason for the closing of the mill is the competition from
newer plants. Last year the bag making department was transferred to Orange,
Texas.
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Last Monday morning an excited voice talked
over the telephone to a prominent local man and told him of a discovery made on
his farm in the town of Buchanan. He told of digging on his land and had found
what seems to be gold nuggets. He had asked a friend if he could help him
obtain the services of an assayer. The local man refused to name the Buchanan
farmer but did help him find an assayer.
May 14, 1929
Anton Jansen, village president of
Little Chute, will be participating in the 1929 WTMJ Wisconsin Community series
on May 15. The Little Chute band and many soloists will be heard.
A new service station and main office for the
Andrews Oil company of this city will be constructed on the corner of Doty and
Lawe streets on the site of the old Lord home according to Dale Andrews head of
the local company.
Ten years ago, Oregon imposed a tax on
gasoline. This year New York and Illinois passed their tax bill and now every
state has a gasoline tax varying from two to five cents per gallon.
May 17, 1929
Jas. McFadden, local assistant chief
of police and Elmer Ott, athletic director of the Kaukauna schools, saved the
life of little Florence Gussert, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Gussert, Doty Street, when she fell into the draw on the Lawe Street bridge
Friday morning. Sixty little children of
the Holy Cross School under the direction of the sisters, were coming from the
Kaukauna auditorium when the accident occurred. The draw began to open as the
children were crossing the bridge when little girl attempted to leap the gap,
but it was too wide for her and she fell thirty feet into the river. The
screams of the children alerted officer McFadden who was standing by the Bank
of Kaukauna at the top of the bridge.
May 21, 1929
The bodies of August Mollen, 36, and George Van
Berkel, 34, who drowned in the Fox River May 12th, near Little Chute
were taken from the river Sunday morning after the tail race had been drained.
Military honors were accorded the men at the double funeral held at St. John’s church
at Little Chute.
A slightly smaller class than last year will
graduate with the 1929 class of the Kaukauna High School here June 7th.
The 1929 class numbers 65 students.
The Seniors today Friends
for life.
May 24, 1929
Arthur Schmalz, post commander of the American
Legion, states that a well-known local resident has donated the sum of $100 to
the local legion post for use in the fund to fix up the Legion park, that
narrow strip of land running between Oak Street and the river wall.
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