Time Machine Trip to January 1970

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

January 7, 1970

The high school wrestling picture has brightened Thursday night when the Ghosts grapplers defeated Appleton West 31–19. This is the second straight KHS wrestling triumph. Highlighting the Ghosts effort for the evening was Jeff Van Asten’s pin of Chuck Sample of West in only 55 seconds.

The first baby born at the Kaukauna Community Hospital in 1970 weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces and 20 inches long. A girl born to Mrs. Lucille Hietpas Thursday morning the first day of the new year. “I told everyone I would have a baby on the first and by golly. I did,” beamed the happy mother.

Officer Patrick J. Campbell of the Kaukauna Police Department was one of law enforcement officer from 22 departments who graduated Wednesday, December 31 from the Special course of instruction at the Wisconsin Patrol Academy at Camp McCoy in western Wisconsin.

Pvt. Dale R. Nagan has returned to the U. S. Army Engineering School, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, after spending two weeks at the home of his parents in Kaukauna. Pvt. Nagan is a 1969 graduate of Kaukauna High School. 

January 14, 1970

Led by Leon Franzke and Allen Borchardt the Kaukauna Ghosts humbled the Omro Foxes 82 to 53 Saturday night in the KHS gym. Franzke scored 27 points and his teammate Allan Borchardt tallied 19 for the Ghosts. The win is the sixth triumph for basketball coach Ken Vander Velden this season against 5 defeats.

Pfc. Richard J. Wimberger has returned to the Second Light Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona, after spending ten days at the home of his parents on Eden Ave. Kaukauna. Wimberger is a 1967 graduate of Kaukauna High School.

Funeral services were held at Holy Cross Catholic Church for 39-year old Mrs. Patricia Hooyman, two sons, Michael, 21 and Christopher 4, and two daughters. Catherine, 15, and Sarah, 9. The four Hooyman children perished with their mother in an early morning fire last Sunday, January 11, Only the father, Marvin Hooyman and an 18-year old son, Gary, survived the tragic blaze. The Hooyman tragedy has aroused in Kaukauna’s deep-felt sympathy for the family of the deceased. Mayor Gilbert Anderson was moved to send words of sympathy and a fund drive was started for the survivors of the tragic fire which took so many lives.

January 21, 1970

Captain Arthur W. “Doc” Borcherdt, Medical Company, is this week’s Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., player of the week in intramural basketball competition. Borcherdt led his team to victory over the 557^th Signal Company last week. He scored 29 in the game.  Captain Borcherdt is a former Kaukauna resident graduating Kaukauna High School in 1960. He graduated from Stevens Point University in 1965 and received his Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1957.

January 23, 1970

Howard A. Jansen of Kaukauna has taken a position at the Ozaukee County Mental Health Clinic in Port Washington, Wisconsin. Jansen is a 1963 graduate of Kaukauna high school and a 1970 graduate of University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.  

Time Machine Trip to January 1960

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

January 4, 1960

The first baby born in 1960 at the Kaukauna Community hospital and the recipient of many gifts from Kaukauna merchants was Miss Donna Jean DeCoster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert DeCoster, Kaukauna. She arrived at 10:26 p.m. on New Year’s night.

52 new homes started here in the past year. This is the first time in six years that construction has fallen under 1 million dollars.

January 6, 1960

The profits of the KEW rise and fall with the volume of water that flows through the Fox River. In 1958 the profits were the lowest since 1938. The flow of water in 1958 was the lowest since 1938.

January 8, 1960

Van Dyn Hoven Auto Sales received the Studebaker-Packard franchise. First showing will begin today of the latest models. The dealership will continue to sell the Buicks.    

January 13, 1960

The Ice Carnival for grade & high school students will be held Sunday at the Tenth Street rink according to recreation director James Gertz.

An estimated 500 persons, including Badger Northland employees and dealers, salesmen and distributors of company products, their wives and guests, were on hand Monday for the dedication of the new addition to the Badger plant, which featured talks by Governor Gaylord Nelson, E. H. Jennings, Chairman of the Board of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company, Mayor Joseph Bayorgeon and firm president, Vincent Rohlf. All the talks were well received by the crowd and the dedication ceremony came off as a success.

The Grill restaurant has moved from the former location on West Wisconsin to a new location on East Wisconsin Avenue.

The resignation of T. H. Boebel, left as superintendent of schools in Kaukauna was accepted at the Tuesday meeting of the Board of Education and the appointment of Julian Bichler as his successor was made. Boebel's retirement will take effect on July 1, 1960, but in the interim, Bichler will serve as Superintendent elect February 1, which will enable him to make contracts and sign new teachers for the 1960-61 school year. The retiring superintendent is leaving the education field after 41 years of service, 16 of which have been in the Kaukauna school system.

The KHS Debate Team took first place in the recent Neenah meet, in which 11 schools were represented. Seated are DeLyle Bowers and Tom Verhagen and standing are Don Beyer and Dwight Bastian.

The National Safety Council has presented seven postal employees for accident free records from 2 to 29 years. Postmaster Robert Grogan presented awards to John Brouchek, Jerry Klarer, James Siebers, K.W. Kuchelmeister and John Tulloch. 

Kaukauna High School

Basketball Players

 Ken Kavanaugh                     Myron Zachowski

              Harry Gast                                Bill Borcherdt               

Time Machine Trip to January 1950

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

January 4, 1950

John Kramer who is stationed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base at Tulsa, Arizona, left Kaukauna last Wednesday after spending Christmas holidays with his parents on Sarah St.

The firm which manufacturers the cheese food carrying Kaukauna’s name to the far corners of the country has changed its name from the South Kaukauna Dairy Company to Kaukauna Dairy Company, E. A. Gilling, general manager, disclosed Monday. The name change took effect January 1, 1950.

January 6, 1950

Packers gridders turn in their football togs for lighter basketball gear tonight when they invade the St. John High School gym in Little Chute for a game with the Little Chute Recreation basketball team. Pictured top, ‘Jug’ Girard, and Andy Uram. Bottom, Ted Fritsch and Ken Keuper.

Mary Giordana and Willis Ranquette clicked on a series of 1133 to win the first annual couples’ handicap bowling tournament held at the S & B alleys. Eighty-three couples were entered in the competition.

Dr. J. H. Doyle, served the citizens of Little Chute over a half-century, died early yesterday morning after a two-year illness. Dr. Doyle was 79 years of age at the time of his death. Village president John H. Vandeyacht has declared Monday an official day of mourning.

Mary Giordana and Willis Ranquette clicked on a series of 1133 to win the first annual couples’ handicap bowling tournament held at the S & B alleys. Eighty-three couples were entered in the competition.

The biography of Miss Dolores Vander Loop, Kaukauna’s twirling ace will appear in the 1950 Library edition of the book “Who’s Who in Baton Twirling.” De De first started twirling in 1942.

January 11, 1950

The first 1950 baby born to parents living in Kaukauna was a nine-pound, five-ounce son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Montanye. The boy was born at 4:20 Saturday morning at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton. He will be christened Keith Richard Montanye.

January 13, 1950

An early morning fire yesterday again threatened with destruction the brick Central Block building, the corner of Main Avenue and Second Street, which was once before damaged by fire in March 1937, to the extent of $50,000. Yesterday's blaze, which started in and completely gutted out the Avenue Bar, operated by John Blaha, at the north end of the building on Main Avenue adjacent to the alleyway, also spread to the adjoining Pechman Studio of F.J. Pechman, 114 Main Avenue, The latter was also badly damaged by flames, smoke and water. The estimated damage to the building, tenant’s property and that of the smoke filled adjoining Verfurth Shoe Store, the W.C. Ditter and Son Plumbing establishment and the offices on the first and second floors, amounted to $25,000.

January 18, 1950

Marcus Nigl was named “Man of the Year” in Kaukauna. More than 50 members of the local Jaycee organization and prominent citizens crowed into the Ritz Club Monday. Mayor Doty Bayorgeon recalled that “Nigl was the one man who was always around when there was work to be done but was usually absent when there was credit to be taken for doing it.”

January 25, 1950

The Galloping Ghosts rolled up their highest point total of the season Friday night as they steamed to a 55-45 victory over Clintonville. The victory of Coach Asher Shorey’s battling Ghosts served as a warning to the rest of the league they will be plenty tough during the remainder of the year.

January 20, 1950

Kenneth L. Roloff, Kaukauna aviation cadet, is at Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma, where he is receiving his flying training in the B-25 bomber. Kenneth graduated Kaukauna High School in June of 1943 and joined the military the same month.

January 27, 1950

Through the first 13 games this season Duane Gast leads the Kaukauna team in scoring having now counted 119 points. Pat Lehman is the only other Kaukauna player who has surpassed the 100 totals with 103 points.

William “Bill” Van Able, Hollandtown, died at the age of 69 last Tuesday evening after an illness of two months. He was Justice of Peace in Hollandtown for the past 15 years and operated a farm and tavern there for 50 years.

1949 – 1950   Kaukauna Ghost Basketball Team 

Time Machine Trip to January 1940

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

January 3, 1940

R. H. McCarty, Kaukauna postmaster is again flashing his favorite auto license plates with the number 1875. “Dick” secures that number on his plates every year. The number represents the year of his birth. 

A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Smith at their home on the corner of Reaume Avenue and West Third Street on Monday evening, was the first baby born in Kaukauna in 1940. The boy was declared the winner of the third annual first baby of the year derby, sponsored by the Times and merchants.  

January 5, 1940

Fire losses in Kaukauna during 1939 amounted to $10,587.66 according to a report submitted by Henry Esler, fire chief. This is a slight increase over 1938 when the loss was $9,299.16.

January 10, 1940

John P. Kline was re-elected president of the Bank of Kaukauna at the annual meeting of the directors held Monday evening at the bank rooms.

John Felch, 94, Menasha’s last surviving veteran of the Civil war, died Friday at his home.

January 12, 1940

Salt Lake City, Utah – Kaukauna’s own Phil Zwick knocked out Dick Diamond in the second round of the main event Monday evening at a boxing show in that city. Zwick, slight of build, looking hardly like a fighter who boast victories over seven foreign champions, can fight whomever he pleases with the knowledge he’ll have local fans behind.

Lewis F. Nelson was re-elected president of the Farmer and Merchants bank at the annual meeting of the directors Tuesday evening.

Gustman Chevrolets slipped into top position in the Businessmen’s Bowling league Tuesday evening when they won three games from the High School Teachers. Ed McMorrow paced the winners with a 586 the high series of the evening. J. V. Krahn was high for the Teachers with a 449 series.

January 17, 1940

The first blizzard of the season visited the vicinity over the weekend with snow falling all Saturday night, all day Sunday and most of Sunday night. A strong north wind accompanied the snow to form large drifts throughout the city. 

Fire at the Tasty Bakery, located at 130 West Third street, caused $2,000 in damage Friday morning. Firemen carried Mrs. Clarence Vogt and her young son to safety from the second floor, where they lived, when flames blocked the exit.

January 19, 1940

Kaukauna Girl Scout troop held their meeting at Legion hall Wednesday evening. Merit badges were presented in needlewomen, Housekeeping and Child nurse. Cooking, Sewing, Bedmaking, Table setting, and knots tests were passed.

January 24, 1940

Lucile Faust, a senior at Kaukauna High School, name will be sent to Madison to be entered in the drawing for senior to represent Wisconsin in Washington D. C. by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Lucile was chosen by popular vote of her classmates and of the facility, for her qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. 

Wisconsin suffered 692 motorist and pedestrians killed in the roads in 1939. 6,424 persons were injured in 8,241 accidents. Outagamie county had 15 traffic deaths in 1939 compared with 18 in 1938.

January 26, 1940

The usual crop of rumors about the Green Bay Packers moving to Milwaukee is still in circulation but President L. H. Joannes of the football corporation dropped a bombshell to the reports saying that the Packer management have no thoughts of moving elsewhere.

January 31, 1940

Kaukauna High School cagers put the first dent in Neenah's previously undefeated record Friday night, when they scored an impressive 33-27 victory before the largest crowd in years at the High School gymnasium. Carl Giordana led the winners with 13 points.

The management of the Rialto theater has been receiving hundreds of queries daily regarding the movie, “Gone with the Wind”. Everyone wants to know whether this movie will come to Kaukauna stated Reuben Rosenblatt, manager.  Mr. Rosenblatt informed the Times that “Gone with the Wind” will definitely be shown at the Rialto shortly after the Lenten season.

Time Machine Trip to January 1930

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

January 3, 1930

In New Jersey the wife of a Baptist clergyman ran away with a chicken farmer. She advised her husband to get a divorce. The chicken farmer leaves directions for the care of his chickens and his three children.

Five knockouts, and all in the third round, are featured in Phil Zwick’s last nine fights. Zwick, local featherweight fought Carter Reed at Philadelphia New Year’s afternoon knocked the battling negro out in the third round.

January 7, 1930

Shawano handed a walloping to the tune of 32 to 9 to the Kaukauna High School basketball team.

January 10, 1930

Hugo Weifenbach was named president of the Farmers and Merchants bank by the board of directors. Henry Olm was named cashier and John Vande Loo was named assistant cashier.

January 14, 1930

City aid to the poor cost Kaukauna during the last month, the sum of $402.50, According to the report that the poor committee presented to the council Tuesday evening.

For Rent - 8 room all modern house, with garage at 306 Catherine St. House has all modern improvements, water softener and hardwood finished throughout. $35 per month.

John Schmidt retired as president of the Farmers and Merchants bank. He served as the bank president for the past 18 ½ years and was the first president of the local bank.

We've heard about the little pig that went to market, but now we have the story of a little calf that didn't want to go to market. Tuesday morning a truck carrying a calf was proceeding west on 3rd Street bound for the shipping point of the Kaukauna Livestock shipping Association. In front of the Hennes garage the calf slipped out of the truck and landed on all fours in the middle of the street. The truck continued down the road. Two men came along and half dragged the calf down the street so eventually the calf went to the market whether he wanted to or not.

January 17, 1930

Eleven trucks and two tractors, all equipped with snowplows, were out on the roads Tuesday and Wednesday clearing the highways in Outagamie County from the snow drifts which arrived with Tuesday’s blizzard. 

Reports from Appleton state that the system devised by the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company of this city to comply with the one-day-rest-in seven law, caused a great deal of interest among executives of various paper and pulp plants of Wisconsin at a meeting being held there. 

Herman T. Runte was re-elected president of the Bank of Kaukauna at the annual meeting of the stockholders Monday evening at the bank building at Wisconsin Avenue and Lawe Street.

January 21, 1930

Crimes speak louder than words. A man arrested in Chicago, accused of participating in the “St. Valentine’s day massacre,” was delighted to find that only policemen were after him. Said he: “I am glad to see you; I thought some guys were going to take me for a ride for sure.”

The lowest mark of the winter was hit by the mercury Saturday morning, with reports in this city giving the temperature at twenty-five below zero. Muffled ears, overcoats pulled up around the face and heavily mittened hands were the order of the day.

The cold weather caused a big rush on the local police station, no fewer than nine knights of the road seeking shelter at the station.

January 31, 1930

Governor Walter Kohler ousted Fred W. Giese, sheriff of Outagamie from office.  The removal of Mr. Giese resulted following charges made last summer of misconduct in office, accepting bribes from slot machine operators and the sale of confiscated slot machines and liquor making equipment. John Lappen was appointed to complete Mr. Giese’s term.

Time Machine Trip to January 1920

Kaukauna Times - Lyle Hansen

January 1, 1920

The employees of the Thilmany mill will soon be able to go to their work or return to their homes from the mill dressed in the best clothes as arrangements are being completed whereby the workers will have an area set aside for the exclusive use of the workers. The area will be equipped with steel lockers, baths showers and other facilities.

Arthur Schubring, of Kaukauna, has reenlisted for another year in the foreign army service and is now stationed in Germany. 

January 8, 1920

The report of an increase in the years of deposits from $271,000.00 to $423,000.00 the declaration of a semiannual dividend of eight per cent were among the items discussed at the annual meeting of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of this city Tuesday evening.

The sale of lots by the Thilmany Company begins next Thursday.

Night patrolman, John Haid, saved the Hoehne Machine Works from being destroyed by fire last Thursday night. While on his beat down Wisconsin Avenue, he met a man who asked him if there was a night watchman at the Hoehne plant, stating that he had seen a light through the window. Upon investigation patrolman Haid found that a fire was in full rage inside. He immediately broke open the door and after carrying several buckets of water, succeeded in conquering the fire.

January 15, 1920

The Little Chute Red Sox Girls Basketball team defeated Appleton last Monday night at Watry’s hall by the decisive score of 44 to 2. The girls will play the DePere City Team at Watry’s Friday night. Be sure and attend as the girls will make it worthwhile to be there to see them play as they have been putting up a snappy brand of playing and have lost thus far only one game. 

The Kaukauna Building and Loan association of Kaukauna can testify that the loans for the past year have increased from $210,000.00 to $244,850.00. Attention is therefore called to the splendid opportunity for a safe investment by buying shares in the company.

At the meeting of the local post of the American Legion it was decided to change the name of the post to Kaukauna Post No. 41 of the American Legion. While George Bodde was the first Kaukauna soldier, according to the war department to lose his life in battle, it has developed that several other local boys also made the supreme sacrifice at this time.

January 22, 1920

Andrew Lambie, 68 years of age, was the victim of an accident at the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company last Thursday afternoon. He was caught by a moving elevator which resulted in two broken legs. He was immediately removed to St. Elizabeth hospital where his is resting as comfortable as possible.

January 29, 1920

Invigorated by a rest of two weeks the Fox Club Cagers renewed activities on the local floor by scalping the Neenah Federals 28 to 14 Tuesday night and crimp whatever title hopes the visitors might have cherished. Although outweighed man for man the Foxes were until Garvey started feeding the ball to Hayes and Husting. The local boys played a more defensive game making the Federals shot long shots while the Foxes made all their points from close range.

Silver is now selling to $1.37 an ounce.

Time Machine Trip to January 1910

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

January 7, 1910 

Smell 'Em Out Bill, or the Big Skunk Hunter of Beaulieu Hill, is the appellation by which William Schlude is now known among his friends. Bill won the dis-stink-tive title a few days ago when he made a catch of nine of these fur bearing as well as odorifous animals in a hole in a patch of woods between here and Holland. Bill had nine polecats dangling from his belt and has since realized $35.00 there from as the monetary fruits of his catch, and is now numbered among the great hunters like Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Texas Jack and a few more of the celebrated characters of hunting history.

Thanks to the efforts of the Editor of the Kaukauna Sun Newspaper E.T. O’Brien the fare on the Inter-Urban from Kaukauna to Kimberly has been reduced to five cents. He has been urging the company to reduce the fare for some time.

 

The Inter-Urban tracks on Lawe Street have resulted in another accident. Mr. & Mrs. B.W. Hayes were driving down Lawe when the rail of their cutter caught the edge of the track and they both were thrown out on to the road. The couple was not seriously injured, and Bat held on to the reigns to stop the horse within a block.

A big snow caused the mail train to delay. It’s a case of getting the mail when it comes, it doesn’t pay to grumble because complaints won’t help.

 

Ice skating is greatly enjoyed all along the Fox River. 

Skates are available at stores in the area.

January 14, 1910

"Pete" Schreiner, the well known baseballist, is developing into quite a cartoonist and is causing great mirth of late among his south side friends by cartooning them in up-to-date events in which they have been participants. Pete has a large blackboard at M. H. Niesen's Little Cozy on which he produces his work in crayon and changes the "feature film" three times a week.

Fred Langlois has opened a new restaurant in the Pabst building on Second Street. He says just stop in anytime and watch us hustle.

The Lindauer – O’Connell Pulp Mill started operations at Little Rapids this month. 

Mrs. Jennie Verhoven age 70 of Little Chute died. She was one of the original settlers to come to Little Chute with her family from Holland in 1848. Father T. J. Vandenbroek of Little Chute made the arrangements for three ships.

January 21, 1910

It has been reported at various times of late that the Kaukauna Fibre Company was planning to build a one machine paper mill in connection with their sulphite fibre plant, and preliminary plans had been drawn accordingly, but the project has been dropped as another deal was made last Saturday  by  which  the Thilmany Pulp & Paper Company has taken over the management of the Kaukauna Fibre Co. plant, and will operate the same the balance of the year, using the product at their north side paper plant.

Two Kimberly ladies had an exciting experience. While attempting to take a short cut across the river on the ice up from the Kimberly Dam, the ice broke free and began to sink.  The ladies managed to jump to safety but not before getting wet up to their knees.

Mr. M.H. Niesen, Secretary of the Wisconsin Liquor Dealers Protective association urged Saloonists to stop the sale of liquor to minors, drunkards and men who are not providing for their families.

January 28, 1910

"Have you seen the comet?" is the question most frequently asked among people they have met during the past week. It seems the present nebulous formation known as a comet is without a name, or in other words is a "tramp comet," but scientists of the astronomical world are very busy trying to properly locate it, and name it. Any clear evening, with its tail spread out on the western horizon, this new planetarium stranger can be clearly seen with the naked eye in the neighborhood of the evening star which shines much brighter than its new neighbor. It can be seen from about 5:30 o'clock on for half an hour or more when it sinks below the horizon.