Time Machine: Time Machine Trip to May 1921

Kaukauna Times – May 1921

By Lyle Hansen

May 7, 1921

School, churches, and other groups are being urged to support China Famine Week. It is estimated that five million people are dying from starvation. One dollar saves a life for a month.

Otto A. Look has sold his drug store at the northeast corner of Second street and Main avenue to the First National Bank and intends to move into the building on the northwest corner of Third street and Main avenue.

May 12, 1921

Undertaker L. C. Feehan and Fred Meinert left last Sunday for Freeport, Ill., where they secured a handsome aluminum finish service car which they drove back to this city. The car is a strikingly beautiful piece of work and can be used for carrying flowers, boxes, and caskets.

The entertainment given by the kindergarten department of St. Mary's school last Sunday evening was a great success and a credit to Sister Beata. Robert Parman recited a piece entitled "The Old Woman and the Pig" without a mistake or any hesitation. Robert Magee and Dolores Conlon performed a duet "Let the Rest of the World Go By." The program was applauded as the "cutest thing we ever saw."

Were you one of many thousand workers in the state who telephoned your office that you would not be at your desk on the day the blizzard raged through the state? If so, did you stop to think that you would not have been able to notify your employer if the thousands of telephone operators had not braved the storm and reported for duty.

May 19, 1921

1921 Kaukauna high school assembly.

The Class of 1921 will present as its class play, "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," a comedy in three acts. The cast of players includes: Grace Brenzel, Sylvester Coffey, Edward Ryan, Joseph Sadlier, Stanley Smith, Walter Beyer, Edwin Miller Roland Schrader, Evangeline Mayer, Rose Jaeckels, Grace Hanson, Evelyn Beckstrom, and Cecelia Rademacher.

The graduation class of Little Chute high school will be the largest to have graduated since the high school was introduced. The class numbers ten:

Misses Emma Miron, Laura Van Den Wildenberg, Mary Molitor, Myrtle Verstegen of Little Chute. Ruth Greiner, of Freedom; Viola Buer, Kimberly, Lester Verstegen, Arnold Van Den Berg and Joseph Garvey of Freedom. Commencement exercises will be held at the Little Chute theatre on May 27.

May 26, 1921

Word has been received here that Private August P. Promer, United States Marine Corps, son of Charles Promer of this city, has won high honors in the West Indies Division rifle competition held recently at Guantanamo, Cuba. Private Promer made a score of 623 out of a possible 700.

Kaukauna Memorial Day program will begin with the service men marching from the library to the cemeteries on the southside then to the Lawe street bridge for the ceremony for the “Unknown Dead”. After the ceremony they will march to the cemeteries on the northside of the city. All service men are asked to turn out for the exercise in full uniform as a token of respect for their dead comrades.

Survivors of the Civil War present at this year’s Memorial Day program:

John D. Lawe - John H. Chamberlain - Reuben Whittier - James Conway - James Hamilton – A. A. Kern - John Merbach - John Banker - John Skillcox of Green Bay - Herman Pauly of Seymour.

Honoring Kaukauna World War Dead