Saturday, October 17, 2020

Time Machine Trip to October 1930

 

Kaukauna Times - October 1930

By Lyle Hansen

October 3, 1930

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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