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.