Time Machine Trip to June 1922

 

Kaukauna Times – June 1922

By Lyle Hansen

June 1, 1922

Ground was broken this morning for the new $150,000 high school building by Contractors Hayes and Langdon of Janesville on the site just west of Kaukauna auditorium, and there is nothing now to prevent the realization of the long-cherished dream of a modern high school building devoted solely to the interests of the high school students. The day is auspicious and will mark a notable advance in local history.

Manager J. 0. Possen is authority for the statement that the new city, or electric department building will be the only public building of its kind in the United States to be heated entirely by electricity.

June 8, 1922

Little Chute High School Graduating Class 1922

Top: Hattie Van Den Berg, Isabel De Groot, Theodore Van Den Boom, Prudence Gloudemans, Rosella Gerritts.

Middle: Louis Verhagen, Frances Lucassen, Frank Van Der Steen.

Bottom: Regina Verstegen, Isabel Gerritts.

A glaring instance of bad manners, if not worse, was the disgraceful display of a nearby city's beer truck which forced its way into a funeral procession yesterday for, a distance, of a block. A vast amount of indignation has been aroused by this unseemly interference. If there is no city ordinance against such a crime one should be enacted at once.

 

June 15, 1922

 

An incredible amount of rain fell between last Thursday evening and Sunday morning, not less than nine inches, according to reports given after the rainfall amount was registered. The storm was the heaviest in the history of the city. Second Street was a sea of water about five o'clock in the afternoon and all business was suspended throughout the city.

The storm created a great amount of damage in this city and its vicinity, the damage done to the Kaukauna ballpark being a story in, itself. The entire grandstand and fully a quarter of the fence enclosing the park is down as a result, of the ravages of the cloud burst and consequent flood.

 

Water entered the basements of a number, of southside businesses on Second Street when that street was flooded for a time. $2000 damage was done to merchandise at the Merbach Hardware company.

June 22, 1922

By a unanimous vote taken the other evening railroad men employed in this city decided to join in the strike on July 1st as a protest, against the cut in wages ordered by the U.S. Labor Board. The labor board's cut claimed that there had been a sufficient drop in living costs to justify the reduction.

 

June 29, 1922

Dr. H. B. Tanner writes the Times protesting the paper's misnaming of the creek running through east Kaukauna. The correct name is Konkapot Creek with due respect to the descendants of Jacob Kappel.

The creek was named after John Konkapot, an Indian who lived on a clearing one mile east of the railroad depot. One winter's day in 1822, while clearing the land, he accidentally drove the axe into his foot severing an artery. He died before help could be procured.