Time Machine Trip to April 1933

 

Kaukauna Times - April 1933

By Lyle Hansen

April 7, 1933

Regenfuss Brewery -The return of the good old beer will be celebrated by the Kaukauna German Band here this evening. The fifteen members will march from the Van Lieshout garage to the Regenfuss Brewery, playing all the good old favorite German songs. How much amber fluid is to be consumed is not known at this time, but it will undoubtedly be sufficient, or at least enough to make the undertaking a success.

 

Anton Jansen was re-elected village president in Little Chute Tuesday.

 

Martin Williams was elected President of Combined Locks April 4 election.

 

April 11, 1933

Two Little Chute youths were rescued from the Fox River Friday afternoon after clinging to their overturned rowboat for about an hour. Martin Van Boekel and Peter Van Toll calls for help were heard by workers at the pulp mill. Sylvester Vanden Heuvel went to their rescue.

 

April 14, 1933

John D. Lawe, Kaukauna's oldest resident, passed away at home here Tuesday night following an illness of about a year. Mr. Lawe was 95 years old. Honorable John D. Lawe, 95, picturesque survivor of the generation of pioneer and son of the founder of Kaukauna, George W. Lawe. Mr. Lawe had been a printer, an editor, soldier an owner of theatres and hotels. In the Civil War he served under Generals Sherman and Grant and for a time was aide de camp to General Grant. With his passing, the name of Lawe dies. The home occupied by him was on the property once owned by Andrew Jackson. It came into the possession of the Lawe family when Jackson was President, and the deed bears the signature of Jackson. Lawe's father, George, founded the city of Kaukauna and selected the name.  George Lawe once owned the property from Kaukauna through Appleton to Little Lake Buttes Des Morts. John D. Lawe will be buried in Green Bay.

 

April 21, 1933

A&P Food News:

Saturday Meat Specials—Round or Sirloin Steak—2 lbs., 15c; Pork Roast—lb., 7c; Pork Chops—2 lbs., 25c;

Summer Sausage—lb. 12c; Chickens—lb., 19c; Butter—2 lbs., 43c.

 

April 25, 1933

Joseph Mathias, 13 years old received a scalp wound Saturday afternoon when he was accidentally shot in the head by a companion, Charles Damrow, age 14 years while they were in the woods near the city limits on the southside of Kaukauna. The gun, a 22-caliber revolver, discharged the bullet glancing the temple of Mathias. The case was investigated by officers of the police department.

 

April 28, 1933

 

R. H. McCarty, poor master, asks that anyone having a vacant lot which he would like 'to donate for use by one of the city’s unemployed to raise vegetables for his own use should contact him as soon as possible.

 

Erection of a 200-foot suspension bridge over the Wolf River at the Gardner dam camp in Langlade county, has started. The entire project is being sponsored by Kaukauna people, the Thilmany Pulp and Paper company the Rotary club. The work is being done by volunteers.

1933 Willies Sedan