Time Machine Trip to November 1921

 

Kaukauna Times - November 1921

By Lyle Hansen

November 4, 1921

The Legion football team is anxious to rid its game of the unwelcome guests who have been piling up the Fred Reichel lumber behind the fence so that they can see the games without expense. Mr. Reichel has authorized the Legion to put an end to this condition. Get inside the gates, boys, no real fan ever tries to sponge a ball game.

November 10, 1921

Ferdinand Meinert was the victim of a peculiar and distressing accident when he was run over by his automobile and sustained a compound fracture of both legs a trifle above the ankle. Mr. Meinert was working on his car when his daughter started up the car which plunged forward and caught Mr. Meinert and forced him against the cement wall of the garage. Medical aid was promptly summoned, and the man given the necessary attention.

John Vanden Berg of Little Chute was instantly killed Wednesday morning when his automobile collided with the Appleton-Green Bay bus at the intersection of Main and Wilson streets. Vanden berg with his son Henry was driving a Chevrolet car. Henry was not injured in the accident.  

November 17, 1921

Floyd Scholl of this city while driving between this city and Appleton collided with a farmer's rig last Monday near Little Chute with the result that the farmer's horse was killed. The accident occurred while Scholl was passing the rig.

The Kaukauna American Legion football team, playing the entire game in a mild blizzard, and on a muddy and slippery field, defeated Little Chute, 16-0, deciding the championship of the Fox River Valley.

November 24, 1921

Stephen Peeters recently received information of his appointment as village postmaster and is waiting for the official confirmation before he can enter upon his duties.

Volleyball, the tired businessman’s game that is guaranteed to make fat, punchy men light as a fairy will be played every Friday afternoon at the Auditorium.

 

At a joint meeting of the forces of the C. & N. W. shops of the city held Thursday evening it was unanimously voted to accept a five-day week instead of a reduction in the working force. Some of the workers who were laid off last June experienced considerable trouble in locating jobs within the city.

Otto Lambrecht, a young man of this city, was shot Sunday morning at De Pere by a marine who was acting as mail guard. One shot shattering the bone in his left arm while another struck his right arm. A third shot grazed his heart. Lambrecht and Jack Pomeroy, also of Kaukauna, were attempting to catch a ride on the train which was heading south to Kaukauna. The guards have orders to shoot to kill. Lambrecht is currently at St. Vincent’s hospital in Green Bay. His condition is not serious.

This Sunday November 14, 2021 

Knights of Columbus & St Ignatius Catholic School

Parish Support Weekend and Pancake & Porkies Breakfast. 

Sunday November 14 from 9 am. to 1 pm at St. Mary's parish. 

This breakfast will be open to all parish members, St. Ignatius families, and the community. Cost is a free will offering and all proceeds will be donated to St. Ignatius Catholic School.