Time Machine Trip to September 1931

 

Kaukauna Time – September 1931

By Lyle Hansen

September 1, 1931

The Kaukauna baseball team beat Shawano 8-2 to win the 1931 Fox River Valley league championship.

Front row, Joe Vils, Clarence Pocan, Marty Lamers, Ray Wenzel, Al Michelson, and Danny Collins. Out front Harold “Porky” Siebers, mascot.

Back row, Henry Keyzers, Jack Lamers, John Phillips, Les Smith, Norm Clusman and Len Smith.

Fred Olm won his second consecutive Kaukauna Golf club president’s trophy at the local course Sunday, be defeating Gene Ditter on the 34^th hole of the 36-hole match.

September 4, 1931

Bernard Blau, 21, of Oshkosh, was crushed to death early Wednesday morning between a barge towed by the Cook and Brown company tug and the concrete locks at Little Chute. He had fall into the water after trying to jump from the barge to the locks. The young man is survived by his mother, nine brothers and six sisters.

The Hotel Kaukauna has passed from the management of William Utz to local interests. Meta Ferrell will be in charge of the hostelry. It is the intention of the local management to render first class service.

School children of Kaukauna whose parents are in bad straits financially. Will receive free haircuts during the coming school year from the union barbers of this city. Six barbers are included in the group. They are Jule Mertes, George Egan, Clifford Brandt, Norman Foxgrover, Charles Collins, and Leo Schlezewake. Because of widespread unemployment and the attending lack of finances, many school children have been unable to have regular haircuts. 

 

Dale Andrews was renamed commander of Kaukauna post No. 41, American Legion at a meeting held Tuesday evening.

 

September 15, 1931

With 418 students enrolled in the high school, there are 40 more pupils than there are room desks according to O. G. Dryer, principal. In order to make up for the lack of desks a number of students are using armchair seats with tables set alongside for books.  The number of students is the greatest ever enrolled in the school.

 

September 18, 1931

Showered with congratulations, flowers, gifts and cards, John D. Lawe, Kaukauna’s oldest resident started what he calls his 95^th trip. Mr. Lawe celebrated his 94^th birthday. He was born in Green Bay September 17, 1837, son of the late George and Catherine Lawe. When two years of age Mr. Lawe came to Kaukauna with his parents. He was a student in the first class taught at Lawrence college in 1848. His course interrupted by the unfinished condition of the school building required him to return to Green Bay to school. He left school in 1856 to work at the Milwaukee News and later at the Milwaukee Sentinel. He returned to Green Bay to establish a newspaper called the Bay City Press. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. F, 32^nd Wisconsin volunteers for the Civil war being discharged in 1864. He returned to Kaukauna following his father’s death in 1895 and lived here ever since.    

 

September 29, 1931

Sheboygan won its second straight victory over Kaukauna in the state semipro championship by the score of 11 to 8 at Sheboygan Sunday. The game played before over 2600, the largest crowd ever to witness a game here.