Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
March 4, 1930
Word from Washington, D. C. states that Richard
“Red” Smith was signed as the baseball coach of Georgetown university. Red
graduated from Kaukauna High School and Notre Dame and was later signed by the
New York Giants. Last year he was a free agent and signed by the Boston Braves.
Smith is also a football player of note having played with the Green Bay
Packers and the New York Yankees.
Slipping and sliding on a glassy surface floor
at Brillion Friday night Coach Little’s Kaukauna High basketball squad took it
on the chin in the last game of the season when the Brillion High School handed
the locals a 16 to 11 defeat. The slippery floor surface highly waxed and
polished for dancing found the players having a tough time holding their feet
under themselves.
March 7, 1930
Workmen’s compensation insurance on all city
employees will be purchased by the city was decided by members of the common
council at Tuesday’s meeting.
March 11, 1930
Four tires, several cartons of cigarettes,
candy and gum were taken from the City Service gasoline station at Draper and
Gertrude streets here sometime Monday night. This is the second time within a
past couple of months that this station has been robbed. Police cleared up the
first robbery by the arrest of two young men.
Candidates for Kaukauna
Mayor
About fifteen members of the local American
Legion post were at work here Sunday morning putting some of the finishing
touches on the river wall. Work has been done on the river wall for the past
two summers.
March 18, 1930
Little Chute – Work on razing Little Chute’s oldest
landmark, the building in the corner of Grand Avenue and Main street, will be
started soon. A modern filling station is to be erected on this spot.
March 25, 1930
The tug Ryan was the first boat to make the
trip down the Fox River after the opening of the 1930 navigation season with
coal for the Kimberly Mill.
March 28, 1930
A record of 32 consecutive years as city clerk
is the enviable position that Louis C. Wolf, city clerk, finds himself
in at the present time. This year Mr. Wolf has opposition however, his opponent
being Lorenz Mayer.
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