Time Machine Trip to May 1881

 

Kaukauna Times - May 1881

By Lyle Hansen

May 6, 1881

Last week while blasting was in progress at Thanner & Gelle's new pulp and paper mill, a flock of ducks happened to fly over just as a blast was fired. Even at about 300 feet in the air, one was killed by a piece of stone. Captain Nicholson took the fowl home for his dinner.

The growth of Kaukauna has been wonderful during the past year and that growth, we believe, is a substantial one. From a mere hamlet of 300 or 400 people we have grown so that at this writing 1200 or 1500 is the actual population of the young city. And still they come and yet there is room. All these people are busy. Not an idler is to be found on the streets. These people are earnest workers and believe that Kaukauna has a future. Within two years from now it is safe to predict that the population will be at least 5000. Mills, factories, machine shops, etc. have already been started that, when completed, can hardly fail of drawing that number of people hither. These institutions are on a scale larger than ever before known in this valley. They will entirely ellipse and overshadow all similar manufacturing enterprises now inaugurated in this section and we will shortly have the liveliest young city in Northern Wisconsin.

Mrs. J.B. Elliott of Mt. Vernon, O., for the past six months has been a great suffer. She thinks a snake of considerable size has grown in her stomach. She says she can feel it crawling around and biting her. Physicians ordered her to fast for ten days and then coax it out with a pan of milk. After five days without anything to eat she became prostrated and subject to fainting spells and compelled to take nourishment. The case is of much interest among the medical fraternity.

May 13, 1881

A sweet little spring blossom in the shape of a bouncing baby girl appeared at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Eiting weighing 11 pounds. The delighted father furnished the boys the cigars.

Racine – A little daughter of Mr. Joseph Myrtle is very sick today; her brain being badly injured from the effects of jumping rope. It is probable she will not live. Every parent should warn their children not to jump rope as two to three deaths occur from its effects every year.

A Janesville lady, schoolteacher, who is 80 years old is still an active teacher.

Two hundred men are employed at the Kaukauna Waterpower Company. 

May 20, 1881

Telephones have been put in connecting the offices of Dr. Tanner and Bidwell at the Kaukauna Times, and the Eastman Bros.  The instruments work to a charm, all you have to do is stand in the Doctor's office with the door open, and call to Bert Eastman who has his window open, and you can talk just as well as if it were no telephone connecting them.

May 27, 1881

J. E. Casey of Oshkosh, and Joseph Schraw, of Kaukauna, arrested two young men about a mile this side of Wrightstown Wednesday morning. They were wanted in Oshkosh for breaking into a dry goods store. All the stolen goods were found in their possession.  

Time Machine Trip to April 1961

 

Kaukauna Times – April 1961

By Lyle Hansen

 

April 5, 1961

A total of 13 candidates for public office in Tuesday’s election spent a total of $213.13 in pre-election campaigning according to City Clerk Karl Martzahl. Seven candidates reported no expenditures.

 

April 11, 1961

Interesting aldermanic races in all five Kaukauna wards on Tuesday was credited for the 53 percent turnout of voters in the spring election.

 

April 14, 1961

The Kaukauna Klubbers baseball team will begin preparing for competition in the Fox Valley league Sunday when manager Jerry Klarer holds his opening drill of the campaign at the Dodge Street diamond.

April 19, 1961

One Hundred and sixty-eight miles per gallon must be a world’s record. The achievement was made by a team using a 1924 coupe that was highly modified. The rules set by the Shell Oil Company required that all vehicles have four tires on the road and weigh no less than 2000 pounds. Additional requirements stated the vehicle must have at least 100 cu. in. displacement motor.

Students at Kaukauna High School are planning to attend school in their “Sunday Best” Friday according to Hope Goetzman student council president. The dress up day is not a competition of new fashions, but it is merely an opportunity for the teachers as well as the students to observe the change in attitudes if any that can be produced.

 

April 21, 1961

 

The fourth annual Open House for potential students and the general public is scheduled at the Outagamie County Teachers college in Kaukauna on Wednesday April 26.

 

The Outagamie county board Wednesday voted 28-26 not to approve the construction of a multi-million-dollar airport in the county. On Thursday it was learned just before press time that the board voted again and approved the measure 32-22.

 

April 26, 1961

Incomes to the two trust funds out of which social security benefits are paid exceeded out go by $648 million during the year of 1960. The fiscal calendar estimates for the long range up until the year 2025.

 

April 28, 1961

Twenty-five years of cooperation between Kaukauna High School journalism students and the Kaukauna Times in publication of the weekly broadcaster page was observed at the annual dinner Tuesday at the Elks. Miss Francis Corry paid tribute to C.J. Hansen, publisher of the Times.

 

Time Machine Trip to April 1951

 

Kaukauna Times April 1951

By Lyle Hansen

April 4, 1951

Howard Fenske, one of the best southpaw fighters ever to be turned out of Kaukauna High school, completed his prep career last week. He had nine wins and one defeat in his bouts.

Daniel Geske, West Seventh street, recently completed his boot camp at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. 

Army sergeant Robert Bartels, who was recently home on leave, was wounded in the Korean fighting, according to word received by his parents. He received a bullet wound to his right hand and is confined to a hospital in Tokyo, Japan.

Three Kaukauna acrobats will make their first appearance on a TV show Saturday afternoon at Milwaukee. They are Pat and Lois Frank and Honey O’Brien. The girls are known as the Electric City trio.

April 6, 1951

Wilmer Rosenthal, 10-year-old, escaped serious injury Tuesday morning. He was hit by a car passing the school bus he had gotten off. He did not have any serious injuries and there was no damage reported to the car.

April 11, 1951

Kimberly – A memorial mass will be said for Private Ervin Melcher, Jr., 18, at Holy Name church, Kimberly. Pvt. Melcher was killed in action in Korea March 15, according to a war department telegram received by his parents Thursday night.

April 13, 1951

 

Joseph Schouten was elected to head the Kaukauna Lions Athletic club, a new organization within the Lions club.

Robert Miller, one of the hardest punchers ever to take the ring at Kaukauna High school, was named as the 1951 boxing captain, after a vote of team members. Miller has gone through three years of high school boxing without tasting defeat.

Wrightstown – Joseph Berger Jr., has been named valedictorian of the 1951 graduating class at Wrightstown High school.

Jerry Klarer, one of the better young baseball prospects from Kaukauna, reported to the Madisonville, Kentucky Class D team today for the 1951 season. Klarer is the first Kaukauna baseball to ink a professional contract in a number of years. He batted a .429 for the Kaukauna High School baseball team last year. 

Little Chute – Top honors in the woman’s division of the Wisconsin Archers association Indoor championship tournament held last weekend in Kimberly club house were won by Della Grimm of Little Chute. She shot a 660.

Phil Zwick, Kaukauna nationally known featherweight boxer, left over the weekend to make his home in Africa. A veteran boxer of over 25 years, Zwick fought more than 200 ring battles.

April 29, 1951

Lewis F. Nelson, former Kaukauna mayor and a strong supporter of the plan to establish a state park at Lower Cliff, testified in Madison Wednesday before a legislative committee on state parks.

Leo Hagany, Taylor street, a member of the Naval Reserve, has been recalled to duty. Hagany served in the navy for three years during World War II.

Little Chute – Barbara Strick, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Strick, Little Chute, was drowned in the waters of the Fox River about noon Thursday, when she fell into the river while playing along the bank.  

George “Stormy” Kromer, veteran baseball enthusiast and manager of several Kaukauna teams in the past years, resigned as an engineer of the Chicago and North Western railroad Saturday after 54 years on the job. Kromer, 74, hopes to spend his time with his first love baseball in the future. 

April 27, 1951

Corporal Shirley Mae Baeten, Kaukauna, of the Women’s Army corps is home on a 22-day furlough from her station a Camp Stoneman, California.   

Cpl. Myron Vande Hey, Wisconsin Avenue, has been reported wounded on the Korean front several weeks ago. He is recuperating in a military hospital in Japan from a leg wound.

Naval Aviation Cadet John A. Deering, Kaukauna, took off and landed his SNJ “Texan” trainer six times recently aboard the USS Monterey in the Gulf of Mexico to complete his training.

 

Lawrence A. Gerend was elected president of the Kaukauna Rotary club Wednesday. He succeeds T. H. Boebel as head of the club.

Time Machine Trip to April 1941

Kaukauna Times April 1941

By Lyle Hansen

April 2, 1941

A total of 87 Kaukauna residents are presently actively participating in the national defense program in the service of Uncle Sam in the armed services.  

George R. Greenwood was elected a member of the board of education in Tuesday’s election.

 

A chimney fire at the Joseph Munes Service Station on the corner of Crookes Avenue and Third Street occurred Saturday night. The Kaukauna fire department responded, and no damage resulted.

 

April 4, 1941 

Twenty-four people who were enrolled in the training program of the Kaukauna Vocational School were placed in private employment during the month of March.

 

The board of health approved providing swimming quarters in the quarry for this summer.

April 11, 1941

Myron Spry was elected commander of Electric City post No. 339, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a meeting Wednesday evening. He succeeds Edward Bush.

April 18, 1941

Phil Zwick, Kaukauna idol displayed Tuesday night just why he is going to get a shot at the world’s featherweight title, held by Pete Scalzo, when he scored a quick two-round knockout decision over Jimmy Maddox before a crowd of 1200 at the Kaukauna gymnasium. Phil had Maddox on the floor three times in the first round and two minutes in the second had Maddox out.  

April 23, 1941

The fourteenth annual Times’ electric cooking school goes down in history as one of the most successful ever. More than 3000 housewives attended the sessions of the school. The major award, an RC-4 model Hotpoint electric range was won by Mrs. Lynn Parker West Fourth Street Kaukauna.

April 25, 1941

An expansion program which will involve an expenditure of approximately $75,000 will be launched this week by the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company, C. R. Seaborne of Thilmany announced this week.

Captain Don Keil, a senior at Kaukauna High School has wound up one of the most successful high school careers in the history of the school. Don has lost only two bouts in four years of competition. He will be greatly missed on the squad.

 

April 30, 1941

Joseph Lingle, Kaukauna, was one of 150 flying cadets, who Friday received a diploma and the coveted silver wings of the United States army air corps at Maxwell field, Alabama.

When you wish to contact the Kaukauna Times call 211 or 212. These are our two new telephone numbers since we have installed a new system in our office. This will practically eliminate the “line busy” answers when you call.

 

Time Machine Trip to April 1931

 

Kaukauna Times - April 1931

By Lyle Hansen

April 3, 1931

Marty Lamers, one of the Fox river valley’s most popular baseball players and managers, for many years a mainstay of Little Chute and Kimberly squads, will manage the Kaukauna entrants in the 1931 Fox River Valley League race. Les Smith, last year Kaukauna pilot had signified his intentions to retire from the managerial duties.

April 7, 1931

Crews of the C. R. Meyer & Sons Company, in charge of work on the Lawe Street Bridge, have been busily engaged in preparing the yards and razing the old iron bridge. Up to yesterday evening one crew, at work dismantling the old bridge had finished ripping up most of the sidewalk on the draw, and the iron railings had been taken off that portion of the bridge.

April 10, 1931

Combined Locks - Malachi Ryan was re-elected village president and member of the county board of supervisors in Tuesday’s election without opposition.

Little Chute – Anton “Casey” Jansen was reelected president of the village of Little Chute at the Tuesday election, winning by 89 votes over Anton A. Hietpas.

Senator William Borah of Idaho has refused to except an increase of $2,500 a year as senator because “he had been elected to a $7,500 job.” Altogether he turned back $15,000 to the United States treasury.

April 17, 1931

Improvements being made in the Lawe park in front of the John D. Lawe residence between Lawe and Catherine streets. The old apple orchard planted in 1860 by George W. Lawe, father of John Lawe, is being removed. In their place will be planted some fine shade trees.  

April 21, 1931

A goodly number of men out of work are expected to register on the list compiled this week by the representative of the state employment committee who will be at the municipal building. The jobs to be for the construction of Highway 10 near Forest Junction with funds from the increase of tax on gasoline.

April 24, 1931

General construction work on the new concrete dam in the Fox River above the Lawe Street Bridge is expected to start between May 1 and May 5, according to word received today from the office of the United States district engineer in Appleton. Preliminary work is now being done on the project.

A press report taken from the Tacoma Washington paper sent to Kaukauna states: St. Mary’s college has a human skyscraper in the person of Richard “String” Landreman of Kaukauna Wisconsin. The 6 feet, 8-inch football player makes him the tallest young man whoever juggled a pigskin in this section. He will be playing the center position this season in basketball of St. Mary’s.

April 28, 1931

Petitions protesting the removal of the horse trough on the NE corner of Crooks Avenue and Third street were presented to the city council last Tuesday and the question was referred to the board of public works for study. The following morning city workmen began removing the water trough over the protests of citizens.

A derailed rail car, crashed in the yards of the Kaukauna Lumber and Manufacturing company on the Island Saturday afternoon burying Robert Schubring of this city, an employee of the lumber company beneath the debris of the crushed wall and demolished chimney and caused severe injuries. A locomotive, pushing three box cars came into the limber company.