Time Machine Trip to July 1941

 

Kaukauna Times July 1941

By Lyle Hansen

July 2, 1941

Ed Haas was elected president of the Kaukauna Rotary club at the weekly meeting at the Hotel Kaukauna. Haas succeeds L. J. Merlo as head of the club.

Draftees from Kaukauna who were inducted into the army June 17 at Milwaukee have been assigned to Camp Polk, Louisiana. Among those sent to Camp Poke are Michael Gerharz, La Rue Smith, Jack Burton, John De Goey, Leo Kappell, and Harvey Mahn. Fort Polk will eventually hold about 18,000 soldiers.

Dr. Robert G. Mayer of Kaukauna received a degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin commencement last week. He is the first Kaukauna person to graduate from the Wisconsin school of medicine.

Marcel A. Van Camp, age 19 years, route 1 Kaukauna, drowned in the Fox River near Rapide Croche power plant. He was swimming in the river with four friends. Earl Ludke of Kaukauna was passing in his speed boat shortly after Marcel went under and located the body after diving into the water.

July 4, 1941

This picture show how an air mail pickup station operates. Kaukauna is included in one of the routes which will operate daily with air mail from this section to Chicago.

The state paid $20,055 in bounties on wolves and wildcats last year. There were 878 wolves at $20 each and 131 wolves cubs at $10 each. Wildcats were 237 at $5 each.

Cadet Robert J. Courtney Kaukauna graduated June 25 from the aerial navigation school in Louisiana. Cadet Courtney was among 16 cadets who graduated. 

July 11, 1941

Former assemblyman William Rohan stopped into the Times office yesterday to inform us that all passenger trains crossing Dodge Street near Konkopot creek are not flagged. The city ordinance requires a flagman to direct traffic at crossings. “This is a dangerous crossing” Rohan stated, and it is the duty of city officials to see to it that something is done about this crossing.

July 18, 1941

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Sanders of Little Chute celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Sunday July 13. They were married in De Pere in 1881.

July 25, 1941

Joseph Wolfinger, Dundas, has long been earning fame as an inventor, and although he is 84 years old, he still looks after his business which ships machines around the world. Since he devised an idea for making wooden shoes out of pulpwood in 1881, Mr. Wolfinger has patented more than 40 of his ideas. Today his grandsons are beginning to take over the business, but grandfather continues to invent.

July 31, 1941

Arthur M. Schmalz was re-elected president of the Kaukauna Building and Loan association at the annual meeting of the directors Monday evening.

Mrs. Edith Grignon, widow of Ross C. Grignon, a son of Charles Grignon, the builder of the historic Grignon mansion, has been engaged as official hostess and receives guest at the home which has been restored and recently opened to the public. Mrs. Grignon spends most of her time at the home and greatly enjoys telling of the history of the Grignon family.