Time Machine trip to August 1922

 

Kaukauna Times – August 1922

By Lyle Hansen

 

August 3, 1922

 

Officer McFadden took three local youngsters between the ages of fifteen and eighteen into custody being found slightly under the influence of liquor Sunday evening. Police arrested a man Wednesday and charged him with manufacture of moonshine liquor.

 

August 10, 1922

Alice Loraine Daly, an attractive schoolteacher, who has won the Non-Partisan League nomination for Governor of South Dakota, declares that she is too busy to think of marriage and is not occupied to give it thought now, for she is going to be the first woman Governor of the United States.

Marty Lamers pitched a pippin of a game Sunday against Menasha allowing only five hits and whiffing two batsmen. Leo Smith had a perfect day at bat getting two singles, one double and a home run in four trips to the plate.

 

August 17, 1922

The new 1922 Buick automobile which the Times will award the successful contestant in its subscription campaign has been on display in front of the Times office on Second Street where it has attracted admiring attention of passerby’s.

 

August 23, 1922

Wisconsin Avenue Bridge partly collapsed under the weight of one of Lindauer's trucks loaded with stone this noon about twelve-thirty. The front of the auto is resting on the undamaged portion of the bridge, while the rear is about three feet lower, the driver of the truck Curly Van Compel, escaped injury.

August 31, 1922

William Beyer, of this city, has been awarded a Founder's Scholarship for the year 1922-23, according to word received last week by his parents. Mr. Beyer is at present a student at Carnegie   Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.