Time Machine Trip to June 1933

 

Kaukauna Times – June 1933

By Lyle Hansen

June 2, 1933

 

A capacity crowd attended the class night exercises of the senior class of 1933 last night. Miss Margaret Fargo was named valedictorian and winner of the Lang Trophy. She maintained an average of 94.46 percent in her four years at K.H.S. Miss Gertrude Buetow was named salutatorian and maintained an average of 93.13 during her four years at Kaukauna High.

Rev. Edward N. Haessly of Kaukauna will celebrate his first solemn mass at 10 a.m. Sunday morning at Holy Cross church Kaukauna. Rev. Haessly was ordained Thursday evening in Green Bay.

June 9, 1933

More than 800 women braved the extreme heat to attend the three-day session of the Kaukauna Times Cooking School held at the Kaukauna High School Auditorium.

During the period from1919 to 1932 our Federal Government was perhaps the most expensive government that ever existed according to senator McKellar of Tennessee.  Up to the war the nation never reached a billion dollars per year. For the years after our government has spent five billion dollars per year. This increase is primary due to the expansion of the government.  

According to alderman Brewster chairman of the poor committee $2,910.12 was dispensed for maintenance of the city poor families. 

June 13, 1933

The Boy Scouts of Troop 20, Kaukauna, will put on a demonstration in the fire department of knot tying, tent-pitching, water boiling, first aid, relay race and lifesaving.

June 16, 1933

Many Kaukauna people saw the dirigible Macon at close range shortly after midnight Tuesday when the giant airship passed low over the city enroute to Green Bay.

June 23, 1933

Clifford "Cliff" Kemp graduated from La Crosse State Teachers College on June 8. He majored in athletics. Cliff is a 1928 graduate of Kaukauna High School.

Possibly the biggest and best hour of entertainment of the month was enjoyed by nearly 400 citizens at the Park School diamond Thursday evening when the old timers were defeated by a score of 13 to 10. Dr. Leigh, official physician for the old timers was in ready to administer medical aid to his favorite team. Conlon stopped play in the middle of the game when he discovered that Ed Haas of the old timers was doctoring the ball with a piece of sandpaper. Henry Olm, old timer’s catcher, in the final inning called for a relief runner as he was “all in.” 

The fatal shooting of Raymond Hinkens, age 14, of Little Chute Monday morning has been ruled accidental by a coroner’s jury. Hinkens and Maurice Van Sustern were shooting near the river when he handed the .22 caliber rifle to Van Sustern, and it accidently went off.

The body of Agnes Bowers, age 15, resident of the St. Joseph orphan’s home, Green Bay, was recovered from the Fox River Saturday morning at approximately the same spot where her sister, Edna, age 14, drowned Thursday afternoon. The Bower girls are former residents of Kaukauna.

June 30, 1933

A three-day celebration is being planned to dedicate the opening of the new Claude Allouez bridge in De Pere over the coming weekend.

One hundred pigeons owned by members of the Kaukauna Pigeon club were released at Britt, Iowa, Sunday morning. A bird owned by Louis Chizek copped the race which was 300 miles.