Kaukauna Times April 1921
By Lyle Hansen
April 7, 1921
The north and south
sides united last Tuesday and passed the bond issue for a new high school by a
margin of 503 for and 401 against. The women of Kaukauna were credited with the
passage of the bonding issue.
The community was startled last Saturday
morning to learn that the northside depot had been broken into in the early
morning hours and the U. S. mail sacks robbed of valuable contents. Part of the
loss is $2,600 of Thilmany bonds. It is
time to have a more secure location for the mail to be left at the station.
April 14, 1921
The girls’ 1920-21 basketball team of Kaukauna High
School: Top row left to right - Mildred Kern, Helen Guilfoyle, Miss Boettcher,
Odanah Hahnemann and Martha Van Abel. Bottom row - Lorraine Thelen, Ada Grebe,
and Olive Jacobson.
“Friday, March 11, the
girls’ basketball season ended and although we have not turned out a
championship team, nevertheless we feel well paid for the time and energy we
put into it. The season opened with a big carnival at the auditorium. It turned
out a great success and netted the girls enough money to purchases their
beautiful sweaters which were the envy of all the other teams. This year we
played eleven games the scheduling we owe to our able manager, Lorraine Thelen.”
Otto A. Look has sold his drug store at the northeast
corner of Second and Main Avenue to the First National Bank and intends to move
into a building on the northwest corner of Third Street and Main Avenue.
Since the beginning of the spring term the
enrollment of St. Mary’s kindergarten has increased to a total of 90 pupils. If
you wish to witness one bright spot in Kaukauna visit St. Mary’s kindergarten.
Riverbank needs
clean-up. Now that navigation has opened and the steady stream of automobiles
and pedestrians will soon begin the summer travel, it is certainly high time
that something was done to make the riverbank "a thing of beauty and a joy
forever."
April 21, 1921
One of the oldest oaks
of the Fox River Valley has fallen. Alexander Grignon is dead at the age of 87
years. He was born in Green Bay, August 24, 1834, and came to this section when
the present site of the city of Kaukauna was a vast wilderness. His mind was a
storehouse of valuable information of the Fox River Valley. He saw the steamboat
replace the birch bark canoe, and steam and electricity come into existence; along
with the automobile, taking the place of the old stagecoach.
April 28, 1921
Walter Look arrived home
Sunday, from Madison, where he is a senior in State University School of Journalism.
He was sixteen hours on the road owing to the blizzard.
There seems to be a general European propaganda
in this country to induce our people to accept most of the burdens which the
people of Europe brought upon themselves as result of their fights over
property and the senseless national hatred which the age-long struggle had
developed. We have not the slightest responsibility for any of the misery which
they have brought upon themselves. Acts of charity by this country and not the
fulfillment of any obligation, except that of humanitarian feeling which impels
to the relief of misery regardless of its cause. – San Francisco Argonaut.
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