Time Machine Trip to February 1931

 

Kaukauna Times - February 1931

By Lyle Hansen

February 23, 1931

Six robberies occurred Sunday according to the Kaukauna police department. Four of them were residents and thought to be the work of the same gang. The other were a filling station and money from a local church. It is thought that all the robberies were the work of youths.

 

The Board of Education 

Front: Lester J. Brenzel,   Edward Grebe,   Mrs. John Regenfuss,   Lewis F. Nelson.

Back row: Herman T. Runte,   Nicholas Haupt,   James McFadden,   

 

The hiring of a second full time janitor for the Kaukauna High School to assist C. J. Jennerjahn, was the principal business transacted at the Kaukauna board of education Monday evening.   

 

February 6, 1931

A giant pair of shoes have made their appearance at the Verfurth Shoe store. The shoes are size fifteen and measure fourteen inches long.

 

Members of the Kaukauna Post No. 41, American Legion, voted unanimously in favor of the immediate payment of a cash bonus to ex-service at their meeting Tuesday evening.

 

February 10, 1931

Mayor Fargo has been named president of the Fox River Valley Municipalities association, an organization composed of ten cities and villages in the valley. The organization has been created for the purpose if mutually benefitting members through organized efforts. 

Troup 20, Boy Scouts of Park school, held a meeting Monday evening. Stanley Dix and Robert Woelz were advanced to first class and Dean Ball was advanced to second class. Robert Hoehne and Floyd Driessen made tenderfoot scouts.  Olin G. Dryer, troop committee chairman made the awards to the boys.

February 20, 1931

John D. Lawe, local Civil war veteran spoke to the children of the seventh and eighth grades of the Holy Cross school on “My Days in the Civil War, Thursday. Mr. Lawe giving a vivid firsthand account of the battles in which he participated.

 

February 24, 1931

How to Keep from Growing Old.

Always drive fast.

Always race the locomotives to crossings.

Be sure to pass a car on curves.

Never look behind you when you back up your car.

Remember a few shots of booze will enable you to make your car do stunts.

New drivers should be taught to drive fast in heavy traffic it gives them experience.

It is fun to drive in the trolley tracks for smooth going.  

February 27, 1931

John A. Johnson, 57 years old, spent ten years in Waupun prison for a murder which he did not commit. The state of Wisconsin has agreed to put $5000 in a trust fund to help in his declining years. He was accused of killing a 7-year-old girl. The police used third degree methods to extract a confession from him by telling him there was a lynch mob outside the jail, and they would turn him over if he did not sign the confession.