Time Machine Trip to June 1960

Kaukauna Time - June 1960

June 1, 1960

Wisconsin unemployment compensation new rate will begin in July. The rate of $49.00 per week the old rate being $47.00.

Taking part in the commencement in the civic auditorium Friday evening will be 201 seniors.  

A stream of water from near the base of the Kaukauna water tower started flowing Tuesday morning. An estimated of 6000 gallons per hour were flowing. The leak will be welded closed once the water level is low enough according to the KEW officials.

June 3, 1960

Judith Haen became the tenth consecutive girl to win the coveted Lang Trophy at class night. Jane Barribeau leads the class in scholastic ranking with Dwight Bastian placing second.

June 10, 1960

Big Bewildered Badger bagged between Buildings. A 15-pound badger was bagged early Wednesday morning after it had been cornered in a passageway between businesses on 3rd Street. Carrier boy John Rabideaux happened upon the badger while delivering newspapers for the Times. An effort was made to trap the animal in a drum but when that failed it was shot by Kaukauna police.

Workers at the Steiner Tissue Mills here in Kaukauna have agreed on a new two-year contract. Wages will range from $1.77 to $2.05 per hour with a 6 cent raise per hour increase in 1961 and 1962.

Three Area Ladies finalist in Movie Queen Competition

June 22, 1960

The Kaukauna High School alumni rally was held in Hollandtown over the past weekend. More than 350 graduates, teachers and guests were present. John W. Blake of Western Springs, Ill. had the duties as rally master. John graduated from Kaukauna High School in 1939. He spoke of the special event and its means of bridging the gap of graduates over the years. The 50-year class of 1910 was honored as they sat at the head table.

Golden Anniversary Class of 1910 at left Joseph Vielmetti, Florence Armstrong Vielmetti, Martin J. Heindel, Mayme Mankosky Heindel, Edward Kools, Mary Hoolihan Kools, Lois Lambie Nelson, Luther J. Pollard, E. A. Nelson, and Mildred Glass Maples.  

HANK HANGS ‘EM UP – After some 55 years as one of Kaukauna’s top bowlers Henry (Hank) Minkebige right emptied his locker at the Bowling Bar, thereby serving notice that he had officially quit his chosen hobby. Watching Hank remove his bowling shoe from the locker is Jerry Lamers, a life-long friend and bowling partner. Hank was clutch man on the 1920 state championship team and later won 14 national, state, and regional bowling events. His 719 series stood as a city record for 25 years. Hank began bowling and pin setting at Hilgenberg Lanes, the present site of the Bowling Bar on Wisconsin Avenue.

June 29, 1960

Green Bay Packers season tickets sales for the four league games in Green Bay have now passed the 29,000 mark, according to General Manager and Head Coach Vince Lombardi. This total is 2523 over last year. The first two games are oversold and with the Champion Baltimore Colts and the new Dallas Cowboys for the third and fourth games, it would be only through the purchase of season tickets for fans to see the games.

  

1960 Buick Electra

 

1960 Cadillac

Time Machine Trip to June 1950

Kaukauna Times - June 1950

June 7, 1950

62 students from Saint Mary's parochial school will be presented their diplomas at graduation exercises Monday evening at the church. Reverend Joseph Esdepsky, pastor of Saint Mary's church will present the graduates.

The morning train to Milwaukee for two decades a traditional fixture in city transportation, will ride the rails for the last time next Sunday, Chicago Northwestern road officials announced here this week. Replacing it will be a slick new diesel streamliner which will whistle through Kaukauna at 60 mph like his late afternoon twin, stopping only in Appleton.

Residential, business and industry building in Kaukauna for the month of May alone almost equaled the entire amount spent for such construction during all last year, revealed today by city engineering officials.

Robert Grogan was elected commander of post No. 41, American Legion at a meeting of the organization held Tuesday night at the Legion Hall. Clyde Steele is the retiring commander.

107 Students of Kaukauna High School received their diplomas on Thursday evening at the Civic Auditorium. Band director Elwood Bleick directed the band in playing pomp and circumstance.

 Seven seniors honored at KHS class night exercises.

June 9, 1950

 

Tony Canadeo

The Green Bay Packer stock drive in Kaukauna will be launched officially next Monday night, according to campaign chairman Larry Verhagen. Several members of the Packer organization will be on hand to help Kaukauna launch their stock drive. “Jug” Earpe, publicity director for the Packers, and Tony Canadeo have both consented to attend. Canadeo was the leading ground gainer for the Packers last year.

June 14, 1950

Kaukauna’s population grew from 7382 to 8361, a gain of 13%, in the past decade, it was disclosed this week by the district census office at Green Bay. In terms of percentages this was the second lowest gain in the county.

June 16, 1950

 

Miss Sharon Lee Goldin of Kaukauna will lead the Flag Day parade held Wednesday evening at Appleton. She will March ahead of the Appleton city band.

June 28, 1950

All departments of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Mill will shut down Sunday morning, July 2nd, it was disclosed by company officials today. The Mill will reopen 7:00 AM Monday July 10. The shutdown is in line with the company's annual vacation and will permit necessary repairs to be made throughout the plant.

Bill Appleton

A split Second was enough to tell a tale for driver Bill Appleton last Sunday as he pushed his sleek streamlined little racer down the Lawe Street bridge course to edge out Daniel Weyers for the city Jaycee Derby crown and a pack of prices.

June 30, 1950  

Corporal Mark J. Niesen, who has been stationed at Selfridge Air Force Base at Mount Clement, Michigan, received his discharge from the army this week and will be returning home.

Pictures of the city’s Memorial Day parade.

Huck Finn day winners are David Linskens, right, first place, won a bicycle, in the costume contest. Second place a casting rod, went to Ronald Derus, second from the left. Wilfred Mischler left, and David Benotch were finalists in the contest.

Patricia Brem and Celine Ryan were the first two girl scouts in the history of scouting in the city of Kaukauna to receive the Curved Bar, the highest award in girl scouts. Shown with the scouts are their mothers Mrs. Steve Brem and Mrs. Edward Ryan.

Time Machine Trip to June 1940

The Kaukauna Times - June 1940

June 5, 1940

The remains of some of Wisconsin’s oldest inhabitants have been discovered here on the famous Grignon estate site of the state’s first permanent pioneer home. Months ago, a crew of NYA boys, landscaping the grounds of the Grignon estate came upon one of the fossils in a bed of limestone. At first, they thought they had found fossilized fish, but Professor Thiesmeyer of Lawrence College described the specimens as some of the largest and most perfectly preserved specimens of the Ordovician age 350,000,00 to 500,000,000 years ago.

 

Carlton Schmitt’s 1902 Peerless touring car has been sold to a museum in Providence, R. I. and was sent on its journey via a box car. The automobile was purchased by Schmitt seven years ago for $5.00. The museum offered him $950. The car cost $6700 originally and is the only one in existence.

June 7, 1940

 

       Lucile Faust - Lee Gifford

Lee Gifford, valedictorian of the class of 1940, and Lucile Faust, salutatorian.

Stanley Lizon was elected commander of American Legion Post No. 41 Tuesday evening as head of the organization.

Graduation at Holy Cross for forty-three grade school students.

49 graduates get diplomas at St. Mary’s Grade school.

Under the direction of L. F.  Nelson signs and markers are marking Kaukauna’s historical sites. When the signs are erected a tour of Kaukauna’s historical spots will assist people to see the many interesting things Kaukauna has to offer.

June 14, 1940

Marion Hopfensperger defeated Virginia Van Dyke in the finals of the high school girls’ tennis tournament to repeat as champion.

June 19, 1940

German cavalry marching past the Arc de Triumph in the very heart of Paris Sunday. The capture of Paris was the beginning of the end of French resistance. 

Norbert Vande Yacht, 21, of Kaukauna was named “King” of the 91^st annual schut held by the St. Francis Hollandtown Sunday morning by bringing down the last piece of the wooden bird target from atop an 80-foot pole on the 687^th shot. 

June 21, 1940

The Thilmany Pulp and Paper company has renewed its contract with the company unions. The one-year contract calls for a flat two cents an hour increase in all wage rates. The company has also granted paid vacations for employees with three years or more of service.

A. M. Schmalz was elected president of the Building and Loan association at the fifty-third annual meeting of the directors.

June 28, 1940

The Mellow Brews registered win number six Wednesday night when they defeated the Neenah Merchants 9 to 8 in 11 innings. Ralph Wurdinger made his first appearance in the Brew lineup and hit a timely triple in the eleventh scoring the winning run on a squeeze play.

Time Machine Trip to June 1930

Kaukauna Times - June 1930

June 3, 1930

1930 Junior Prom

Graduation exercises of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran school took place Tuesday evening with nine students receiving their diplomas from Rev. Paul Th. Oehlert, church pastor. The graduates include Gertrude Grebe, Elizabeth Gast, Dorothy Sager, Hazel Remter, Ruth Trittin, Wilma Keil, Eva Borneman, Frederick Hein and Irene Cotter.  

A graduating class of forty-eight students are receiving diplomas this year from the Outagamie Rural Normal school in Kaukauna according to W. P. Hagman, principal of the local school. The list includes students from Green Bay, Shiocton, Kaukauna, Appleton, Royalton, Denmark, Eagle River, Little Chute, Chilton, Bear Creek, Pulaski, Manawa, Stockbridge, Hilbert, Forest Junction and Wrightstown. 

June 6, 1930

Robert Grogan and Roland K. Beyer, members of the graduating class of 1930 of Kaukauna High School, were awarded the Lang Trophy, given annually by A. M. Lang, to the student carrying the best all-around school record, both scholastically and in extracurricular activities during the four year period. This is the first time that two students tied for the honor.

June 10, 1930

The graduation class of 1930 Kaukauna High School includes the following students:

Alice Balgie, Floyd Bay, Roland Beyer, Mabel Borchardt, Mary Boyd, Viola Brown, Rose Buchberger, Lucille Courtney, Wilbur Derus, Robert Driessen, Margaret Erickson, Gala Foxgrover, Leone Frank, Evelyn Gerharz, Kenneth Gerharz, Donald Grebe, Margaret Courtney, Emmet Frank. Adeline Grode, Robert Grogan, Wilbur Haass, Victor Haen, Dorothy Hartzheim, Gladys Heimke, Geraldine Hentz, Joseph Hoffmann, Jewel Heubner, Edward Jirikowic, Hazel Juergenmeyer, Florence Kappell, Caroline Kauth, James Kavanaugh, Margaret Kiffe, Cleon Klarer, Cletus Klarer, Margaret Kline, Elizabeth Lennert, Charlotte Mayer, Collette Meinert, Carl Melchiors, Carol Miller, Samuel Miller. Olga Mislinski, Charlotte O’Barski, Irene O’Barski, Ruth Paschen, Alice Regenfuss, Mary Renn, Clifford Rohan, Charles Schaefer, Edna Schomisch, Milton Schmidt, Alice Skalmusky, Al. Smudde, Alice Trittin, Rosalie Van Abel, Gerald Vandehey, Melvin Van Dyke, Merlin Van Dyke, Luke Van Lieshout, Lucina Vanevenhoven, Margaret Weirauch, Josephine Whittaker, Alice May Whittier, Willmer Wink, Ralph Wilpolt and Clive Wolf. 

June 13, 1930

A new King of the Hollandtown Schut was crowned Tuesday at the eightieth revival of the time-honored event at the St. Francis church in the person of Leonard Williams of Hollandtown. Twenty-two marksmen were endeavoring to bring the tough bird atop the lengthy pole to the ground.

June 17, 1930

Butted by a cow in a pasture of the farm of his father north of Kaukauna, little Nicholas Schumacher, 7-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Schumacher, was fatally injured Sunday morning. The lad died as a result of internal injuries.

June 20, 1930

“Speed,” the little rat terrier belonging to Joseph Lehrer, who recently set quite a record by killing 103 rats in one hour and fifteen minutes, will no longer be able to compete in speed with the rodents as result of an accident which occurred on the farm. The dog while chasing a mouse ran into the path of an operating hay mower losing a leg.  

June 24, 1930

Two Appleton men were taken into custody by officers Harold Engerson and John Haid at the soft drink parlor operated by C. Trettin on Wisconsin Avenue. The two men had obtained about $7 worth of candy, gum, and cigarettes and less than $1 in change, when they were captured by the local police officers.

June 27, 1930

Plumbers are at work installing a new drinking fountain at the corner of Second Street and Main Avenue to replace one broken by an automobile.

1930 Cadillac V16

Time Machine Trip to June 1920

Kaukauna Times - June 1920

June 3, 1920

The graduating exercises of the high school class of 1920 were held Wednesday evening at which time twenty-nine young people were given diplomas. This is the largest class since 1912. The class comprised the following:

Gladys E. Bentrock, Norman G. Boettcher, Laure Corinne Boyd, Lester J. Brenzel, John N. Corcoran, Howard Norman Delbridge, James Edson Demarest, Lillian E. Glenzer, Joseph J. Gerend, Sybil LeuRue Griffith, Bessie Vivian Haas, Arthur J. Jones, Evert R. Lindstrom, Agnes C. Maher, Alice Lilian Martens, Bertram Joseph Mayer, Edith Grace Meyer, Catherine M. Miller, Selma H. Miller, Ethel Lilian Ozburn, Landa C. Rasmussen, Harold W. Redman, Lloyd H. Scholl, Floyd Franklin Schrader, Edmund J. Simon, Lester J Smith, Erna C. Specht, Melvin Albert Trams, and George Edward Wiggers.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Thilmany and daughter, Miss Elsa, formerly of this city and for the past eighteen years resided in Germany, arrived in Kaukauna Tuesday and are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Stribley. Mr. Thilmany founded the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company in 1889, and sold it to the present owners in 1902, and moved to Germany.

Chief of Police R. H. McCarty will forgive the party who removed his umbrella from the police station during the rainstorm of Saturday May 22^nd if, now that the rain is over, the umbrella must be returned to its owner.  

June 10, 1920

An organization is formed by four Kaukauna men Joseph McCarty, Henry Killian, Ray McCarty, and Dr. G. J. Flanagan and is known as the Jos. McCarty Construction Co. Since 1908 Mr. McCarty has operated successfully in the contracting business as an individual.

Twas on a bright June morning on Tuesday of this week, that an ordinary postmaster fared forth from our city in a Ford coupe and at even-tide he returned to his home a king seated in a royal Sedan with medals and a royal cape. John Coppes our South Side postmaster, who’s mighty 38-70 artillery brought down the bird which St. Francis Hollandtown had selected as the trophy for the annual “Schut”.

June 24, 1920

Patrick Sullivan and Frank Sullivan, no relation, were fighting on a street corner. Policeman Sidney Sullivan, no relation, arrested them. Desk Sergeant Michael Sullivan booked them on a charge of disorderly conduct. Lockup keeper Jerry Sullivan escorted them to their cells. Warrant Clerk J. L. Sullivan issued the complaint. All no relation. They were arraigned before Judge Dennis W. Sullivan, no relation. He discharged them.

Theodore Eiting had a barn raising last Monday and forty neighbors were present and lent a helping hand. A bountiful dinner and supper were served to all. When completed Mr. Eiting’s barn will be thoroughly modern and suitable to his dairy herd.

Park School Third grade class 1919 – 1920

Time Machine Trip to June 1910

June 3, 1910

The publisher of The Times is pleased to announce that we have recently inaugurated an improvement in our mechanical department which places us another stride in advance. In keeping with our well-known policy of always giving subscribers the greatest possible return for their money, we have just installed one of the latest improved patterns of the two-letter Junior Linotype. By its use we will be enabled to issue a better paper than we ever have been in position to produce heretofore, although The Times has for years been one of the largest weekly papers in the state.

Tributes of respect were paid to the honored dead by the living comrades of the Grand Army on Memorial Day. Loving hands scattered flowers in the silent resting places in memory of the dead veterans there.  We have dead soldiers in fourteen cemeteries and many battle fields and southern burial places. Our dead outnumber the living veterans and the difference is fast increasing.

June 10, 1910

In the dual track meet between Lawrence and Ripon last Saturday on Lawrence Field, Appleton, Frank M. Charlesworth of Kaukauna, was second highest point winner on the Lawrence team. The Kaukauna athlete took two firsts and a second, making all thirteen points for the Lawrence side. He was beaten only by Beyer for individual honors, the latter taking all three weight events which gave him fifteen points.

The announcement has been made that William F. Cody, known the world over as “Buffalo Bill” is to retire. Since 1872 he has been before the public as a showman in the Wild West performances.

The stampede begins to Alaska as estimated of 15000 people will be leaving Seattle for Nome and other points north this month. The people are drawn to Alaska by reports of rich discoveries in the Iditarod gold fields.

June 17, 1910

The unusual spectacle of two large boats passing each other in the government canal occurred Wednesday noon. The Leander Choate bound down river and the Gov. Transport Wolf upward bound both whistled for the Lawe Street Bridge at the same moment and met each other in the widest part of that channel, the bend just below the bridge where they slowly and safely passed.

Nearly 25,000 of the immigrants who arrived at the United States ports during the past year ending June 30 were denied admission and compelled to return to the country where they came. Various reasons were assigned for the refusing to allow them to remain. Physical defects and the probability of them becoming public charges were the most frequent reasons. The year ending admitted over 1 million new arrivals. 

June 24, 1910

A blazing carload of cedar logs piled ten feet high rushed up to the north side depot Tuesday shortly after the noon hour and demanded assistance. It was almost useless trying to extinguish the fire with the small depot hose and so the fire department was called up and promptly responded. The fire was not easily extinguished as the entire load was blazing fiercely before a double line of hose could be trained on it and it took about an hour and a half to hunt out the last smoldering embers.

The spur of munificent prizes for the aero plane flights has brought on a campaign likely to be decisive. Nearly the whole world is anxious to be shown that man can fly like a bird. Big money will await the aviator who can transport passengers several hundred miles and return them to the start. This will prove the flying machine to be more than a mere toy.  

  

The story of Corky August 1893

Kaukauna, the oldest recorded settlement in Wisconsin, will be 230 years of age this Saturday, June 13^th. There will be no formal birthday gathering due to the virus. You can celebrate with signs and balloons in your yard. You are also encouraged to go for a drive through the city between 1 and 3 in the afternoon and enjoy this great city.

In honor of the “Birthday of Kaukauna,” This is a story from the past. 

August 5, 1893 - Kaukauna Times

This boy Corky was kind of a roustabout in the newspaper office. He was 14 years old and his real name was Madison Corkhill, but on the very first day of his arrival someone had called him “Corky” and Corky he had been from that time forth. Corky was grateful for the opportunity of earning five dollars a week paid to him at the newspaper office and he didn't mind what they called him. Moreover, every person in the office had a nickname of some kind. Corky was a day worker, he was at everybody’s beckon call and did a little of everything. He picked up the mail from the post office, made the paste for the counters and kept the business office free from dust and disorder of any kind. No one knew much about him except for the fact he answered the help wanted ad. The office manager, Mr. Baynor, remarked to the other employees that Corky was a first-rate errand boy.

Mr. Baynor was late getting to work on payroll day and several persons had been in to see him. It was noon before he sat down to work with the money and envelopes before him. All the other employees at the news office but Corky and the manager had gone out to lunch. A store owner came in and asked him to accompany him to his store about running a full-page ad. Mr. Baynor agreed and told Corky to “Keep an eye on the money” until he got back. “Very well sir”, replied Corky with his usual politeness and readiness to do anything he was asked to do. Mr. Baynor was gone about five minutes when a man came into the office and asked for a copy of the morning paper. Corky handed him a copy but the man did not leave after he paid for it. The man asked to talk to the editor. Corky told him he was not in. He then asked to talk to the foreman of the job printing department as he had a big order to be done. Corky was in the hall with his hand on the doorknob when he suddenly seemed to hear the Mr. Baynor telling him to “Keep an eye on the money.”

Running back to the office he saw the man run out the door and a quick look at the desk he noticed the money was gone. The man was but a few yards ahead of him as he ran out into the street after him. The man noticing Corky chasing him turned and shook his fist at him and warned him to turn back. The man then ran down the alley, around the corner and down to Main Street. When Corky rounded the corner, the man was gone. Corky noticed the door to the department store on the corner and ran inside seeing the man disappearing down one isle. “That man is a thief, stop him” he called as he grabbed the man’s coat to prevent him from escaping. “What you mean boy” he asked laughingly? “I want the money” cried Corky. The man exclaimed “This boy must be crazy.”  “Will someone kindly assist me in freeing myself from this little rascals’ clutches?” the man shouted to the onlookers. At that moment, the door to a private office opened and out stepped Mr. Baynor, the business manager of the newspaper.  “Why Corky, what does this mean?” he asked. “It means this fellow has the payroll money in his pocket.”  The money was found in his pocket and the man was taken away by the police.  It was later discovered that the man was a notorious thief for whom a reward of $500 was offered by authorities in another city. The reward came to Corky and he made good use of it helping his mother and two brothers. Corky worked the rest of the summer at the newspaper as a helper. Corky was required to turn in his report card to Mr. Baynor to insure he was a good student. Corky held his job throughout his entire school term.

Time Machine Trip to June 1900

Kaukauna Times -  June 1900

June 1, 1900

The most terrible accident that ever happened in this vicinity occurred. Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, about two miles this side of Forest Junction a whole family consisting of a man, his wife, three children, and a brother were blown out of existence in an instant by dynamite.

Kaukauna High School Graduates 17 students for 1900:

Mary Katherine Bossard

William H. Boyle

Margaret Inez Brewster

Genevieve Germaine Donahue

Elmer Fullerton

Cora A. Glass

Clo Alvis Glass

Garlon E. Harrington

Kathryn Rose Heid

Frank Homer Kennedy

Leonard Nelson

Grace E. Potter

Charles J. Schiefelbein

George B. Schwachtgen

Kenneth Boyd Tanner

Pearle Alice Towsley

Lida Mae Wellington

June 8, 1900

Photographer Donner has just purchased the right to a new process for transferring photos to the inside surface of watch cases. It is the latest thing out. The likeness is transferred direct to the gold surface and has the appearance, and in fact is, printed right into or unto the plate.

June 15, 1900

Ristau Bros. keep putting in improvements at Hotel Ristau. This week they added a first-class bath. They have hot and cold water on both floors with closets for the ladies and gentlemen. This house has been so full all summer that they have had to use Columbia Hall for a sleeping room.

The Union Bag and Paper Company bag factory addition will start up next Monday with twenty-tour bag machines in operation, several of them being the new machines which make the automatic folding bag. There are to be eighteen of this type of machine when the whole plant is running. The finishing room is also completed and will commence operation at the same point as the bag making department.

June 22, 1900

Fire destroyed the barn in the rear of G.W. Fargo’s furniture store on Wisconsin Avenue last Tuesday morning, entailing a loss of upwards of $500.  Mr. Fargo had considerable of his undertaking stock stored in the barn and much of it was damaged. The origin of the fire is not known but those who first saw the blaze state that it started on the outside near the manure thrown from the barn. Owing to the continued dry weather spontaneous combustion was most likely the cause of the blaze.

June 29, 1900

A heavily loaded train of nine coaches of passengers from Fond du Lac and vicinity, crashed into a double header freight train in the Chicago & Northwestern railroad switch yards at De Pere at 10:10 o’clock Sunday morning. The baggage car telescoped the smoker, cutting it off completely just at the tops of the seats and smashed in the forward part of the next coach.  Seven were killed and over fifty injured some quite severely.