Time Machine Trip to July 1940

Kaukauna Times - July 1940

July 3, 1940

Miss Armella Boucher won first place in the sesquicentennial queen nomination contest which concluded Saturday. She polled a total of 371,500 votes. Miss Lorraine Martin was runner-up in the contest being only 1900 votes behind the winner.

 

PARIS – Chancellor Hitler shown making an inspection tour of Paris recently. In the background is the Eiffel Tower.

One person was killed and five injured, one of the injured being the Rev. Cornelius Raymakers, pastor of St. Francis Church, Hollandtown, in an automobile collision Friday night on Highway 57 about five miles south of DePere. Four of the victims, including the dead, were of one family. The dead person was Mrs. William Wierschke, Greenleaf.

 

Mayor Gantter attacked the business ability of the Kaukauna council members. “I don’t believe any one of you men possess one ounce of business ability” he said at the council meeting. Alderman Oscar Alger, president of the council rose and demanded the mayor apologize to the council. The mayor ignored Alger and continued “Here we are supposed to look out for the taxpayers of the city of Kaukauna. I am trying to build up this city, cut down relief and save money while you continue to waste city funds.

July 5, 1940

Members of St. Mary’s Boy Scout troop 27 will hold their meeting this evening at High Cliff park. A group of five boys are spending a few days camping there.

July 10, 1940

 

James W. Lang, sophomore English instructor at Kaukauna High School for the past five years, is leaving this morning for New Orleans, La., where he has accepted a position as director of publicity for Loyola University.

Two men, one from Milwaukee and the other from Rockford, Illinois, who were driving a car with Illinois plates were picked up Friday by Kaukauna police. They had no registration card for the car, no drivers’ license and the car had no brakes or lights. They were turned over to the county sheriff’s department.

July 12, 1940

The Mellow Brew baseball team is hitting the apple at a .314 clip for the first eight games this season.

 

E. F. Rennicke, who is active in many organizations in Kaukauna is the general chairman of the sesquicentennial committee which is making plans for observation of the 150^th anniversary of the coming of the first permanent white settler to this community and the state of Wisconsin.

The old joke about "Don't take any wooden nickels" has lost its humor in Kaukauna. It is no longer a joke. Wooden nickels are worth real money; they are real money. Your merchant is cooperating to put the pageant here over by distributing wooden money to both customers and through his employees. The money is backed up in the local banks by legal funds so that everyone at any time can cash it there if desired. The money is one way of making the public pageant conscious. The money is just a small part of the big pageant, hopefully the biggest Kaukauna has ever seen, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Dominique Ducharme, the first white settler in Wisconsin.

July 24, 1940

Restoration of the old Grignon home is now officially approved by WPA administrators. The actual work will begin in 90 days. Last week the government authorized $12,000 for the restoration of the Kaukauna homestead.

July 31, 1940

The township of Kaukauna was started in 1839 and not in 1842 as is commonly believed according to original records held by William Wolf, custodian of the Grignon Home. The town of Kaukauna, then known as Kakalin, was created March 8, 1839, by the territory legislature and signed by Henry Dodge, who was territorial governor. The township included all the land from De Pere south to Brothertown in Calumet county, and from Appleton east to the town of Morrison.

The Kaukauna Klub All Star softball team has been busy making a name for themselves winning their fifteenth game of the season. Front row: Jack Burton, Sherman Powers, Jay Balgie, John Niesz, and Bill Alger. Back row: Les Arndt, manager, Ralph Johnson, Don Van Abel, Art Koehne, Sonny Filz, W. Van Abel, Bill McCormick, Pebs Kappell, Don Steger and Earl Mollet, Manager. Not shown in photo are Ed Eiting, Bill Peterson, and Frank Dean.