A distilling plant, valued at between $50,000
and $75,000 located on the Joseph Bauer, Jr. farm about 1 1/2 miles northwest
of Sherwood was completely destroyed Wednesday afternoon by three squads of dry
agents under direction of W. Frank Cunningham, head of federal prohibition
office at Milwaukee, which swooped down on the place. The plant was believed to
be the largest and best equipped alcohol still ever found in Wisconsin. Five
men were held in the county jail at Appleton following their arrest by the sponge
squad.
Local police picked up a knight of the road
sleeping near the Chicago and northwestern railroad tracks in the vicinity of
Lummerding’s service station Thursday. The man was placed in jail until this
morning when he was ordered from the city.
Les Smith, manager of Kaukauna baseball club for the past three years and
last year the league's leading hitter, was unanimously named the Most Valuable
Player in the loop by officials of the Fox River Valley League at a meeting
held in Green Bay Sunday evening.
October 10, 1930
In line with Mayor Fargo's belief that
unemployed men about the city in needy circumstances be given opportunities for
employment, the common council decided to reject all bids entered for the
laying of the sewer extension on Dodge Street and have the work done under the
supervision of the local board of public works, Joseph Kuehn will supervise the
work which will be done by local workmen.
Reports from Oconto Falls, where the Bank of
Oconto Falls was robbed Thursday morning of currency totaling about $5000 state
that although the tactics employed in the robbery were similar to those in the hold-up of the Bank
of Kaukauna here recently and although the description of one of the bandits
resembles one of the holdup men, employees of the bank believed that the
hold-up was carried out by amateurs and not regulars such as a quartet in the
local robbery appeared to be.
October 14, 1930
Green Bay – With Englemann and McCrary filling
the shoes of the absent Johnny Blood in great style, the Packers had little
trouble defeating the Minneapolis Yellowjackets 27 to 13 Sunday before a crowd
of more than 10,000.
Motorists are to remember that pedestrians have
the right of way at a controlled intersection.
“Here lies the body of Donald Gray
Who died defending his right of way.
He was right, dead right, as he walked along.
But he’s just as dead as if he’s been wrong.”
October 21, 1930
Wild and wooly western tactics were tried on
Charles Staidl, Outagamie County
motorcycle officer, but a modern windshield equipped motorcycle caused the
attempt to go array, the report states that two men attempting to lasso him as
he rode from Stevensville to Green Bay Sunday morning. The lasso hurled through
the air, slipping against the windshield, and brushed off the hat from his
head. Luckily, the rope did not become entangled in a machine for a bad fall
might have resulted. By the time he turned around and returned to the spot the
men had driven off.
A telegram was received here this morning by J.
J. Miller from Phil Zwick, states that the local featherweight boxer
knocked out Eddie Cools of Pittsburgh in the third round of a scheduled ten
round match in Philadelphia Monday night.
October 31, 1930
Compensation was asked by relatives of Theodore
Dashner under the workmen's compensation act, as a result of his death when he
leaped from a truck belonging to Thomas Hagany of Kaukauna near Weyauwega on
August 14th and was killed. According to reports of the accident
what caused Dashner’s death, he was hauling a truckload of horses for Hagany
near Weyauwega when the horses became frightened and starting to break through
the cab of the truck. Dashner leaped from the truck to escape the animals and
struck his head on the road.
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