Time Machine Trip to February 1933

 

Kaukauna Times – February 1933

By Lyle Hansen 

February 3, 1933

Last Wednesday, Norbert Hennes was ice fishing on Lake Poygan when a fish pulled his hook, line, sinker and tip-up through the hole. All week long he has been kidded about the big one that got away. This week he went back to the same area and spudded a new hole. Looking into the water he spotted a tip-up. This time it didn't get away, a seven-pound pickerel. Good going, Norb.

Mrs. Wm. Lucassen of the Holy Rollers bowling team rolled the high three game series in the Ladies league Thursday evening with a 503 total.

John Mulholland, East Eighth Street, locomotive engineer on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad has retired this month after working for the railroad for forty-six years.

Old Dobbin, who for many feared was doomed to extinction, has staged a comeback. The farm horse, which during the years of tractor popularity, has been neglected and almost forgotten has suddenly found favor as cheap power.

The first unemployment relief bill in Madison to make its appearance in this session of the legislature was sponsored by Socialist Senator Polakowski of Milwaukee. It provides for the confiscation of all personal income over $10,000 a year.

A loss estimated at $5,000 resulted from a fire which destroyed the residence of Arnold Sweers on Highway 41 in the town of Vandenbroek. The fire started from an overheated stove. Both the Kimberly and Little Chute fire departments failed to respond to alarm calling them to the blaze. Anton Jansen, Little Chute village president, said the department refused to answer the call because in the past the Town of Vandenbroek refused to pay the $50 fee for service.

 

Dirt roads in Outagamie County are in fair condition according F. P. Appleton, County highway commissioner. Mr. Appleton said that some of the roads started to break up, but most are in fair condition. 

February 10, 1933

The salaries of all public-school teachers in the City of Kaukauna will be reduced by 15 percent for the balance of the school year; it was learned after a meeting of the school board last evening. The council also passed an ordinance which will cut all city employees’ wages by 15 percent except for the police and fire departments. It was pointed out that everyone is at this time taking a cut some way or other.

According to the monthly report of R. H. McCarty, poor commissioner, to the council Tuesday evening a total of $2,982.69 was spent on city poor during the month of January.

February 17, 1933

A would-be assassin fired five bullets into the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Miami, Florida, Wednesday night, wounding Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago and four others, but the president-elect escaped unscathed.

February 21, 1933

Sherwood – Miss Irene Olson, teacher at the Francis Scott Key school for the last two years, had her legs badly frozen walking the two and a half miles to school about 10 days again. She has been under doctor’s care since that time. The temperature registering 32 below at the time she left home for the trip to school. She had intended to reach the school and start the fire before the children arrived. When the doctor was summoned that evening, it was feared that amputation of the right leg would be necessary. She will require several months to recover.

February 24, 1933

Cliff Kemp, of this city, was among the 25 LaCrosse Peds who received gold football awards at LaCrosse Monday. Cliff is a three letterman and headed the seniors’ of 1932 squad.