Time Machine Trip to May 1934

Kaukauna Times – May 1934

By Lyle Hansen

 

May 4, 1934

Fire destroyed the Moose Tavern just outside of Little Chute this morning at about 2 o'clock. The building included a tavern, grocery store, filling station and home of Henry Thode, owner and proprietor.

The farm home of August Nytes located on County ZZ east of Kaukauna was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. A group of neighbors formed a pail brigade and had the fire under control when the supply of water ran out. The home may have been saved by the Kaukauna fire department if the town of Buchanan had voted in favor of an agreement with Kaukauna last year.

 

May 11, 1934

Kaukauna's State League baseball team will open their 1934 home schedule in gala fashion here Sunday when the Electric City Brews meet the Sheboygan nine. The game will be preceded by a parade and flag raising ceremony.

 

May 15, 1934

The board of education held a special meeting Monday evening to discuss plans for the construction of an auditorium and gymnasium onto the high school. The results of the spring election showed the people of Kaukauna three to one in favor of the venture.

The total cost of direct relief in Kaukauna during April amounted to $2,332.34 according to the chairman the Kaukauna poor committee. The number of families receiving aid increased by 41 during April.

 

May 22, 1934

"Smith Day" will be observed in Kaukauna next Sunday. The two Smith brothers "Red" and "Les" will be in Kaukauna to play in Sunday's game. "Red" will play with the Madison Blues while "Les" will play for the Kaukauna Brewers.

 The Kaukauna High School band participated in the fifteenth annual state music tournament in Green Bay on Friday and Saturday. The band this year has made wonderful progress through the efforts of new director, Edward Galmbacher.

Arrangements have been completed for the big Indian powwow to be held in connection with the big band festival to be given at High Cliff park Sunday, June 10. James W. Cornelius, lineal descendant of Chief Jake, the last sachem of the Oneidas, will be in charge of the event.

  

         Stanley Dix                       Kenneth Vils

Two Kaukauna high school tracksters were able to place in the NE Wisconsin conference track meet in Neenah Saturday. Stanley Dix placed fifth in the 120-yard hurdles and Kenneth Vils ran third in the mile.  

 

Frank Minkebige met his death this morning when it is believed he fell from the railing of the second government lock in this city. It is believed he was on his way to the Outagamie mill when the accident occurred. Mr. Minkebige was 88 years old and had been retired for the past 15 years.

 

May 25, 1934

Time magazine published in the May issue a story about Kaukauna actor, Huge O’Connell. Mr. O’Connell’s part played in his latest production “The Milky Way” along with a picture of the young actor.

 

Two Kaukauna men were fined Wednesday afternoon. Sylvester Frank was arrested for driving in and out of traffic on Lawe street and Lester Ludtke was arrested following an automobile accident on Lawe street.  

 

May 29, 1934

Eighty-three students will graduate from Kaukauna high school Friday evening. Commencement exercises will be held at the school auditorium.

 

Petitions are being circulated by a group of Appleton and Kaukauna sportsmen requesting the Wisconsin Conservation commission to establish a wildlife refuge in the “Thousand islands” area outside of Kaukauna.

Farmers in the Chippewa valley area are bearing the brunt of the drought and forced to watch their cattle starve to death, Wisconsin Gov. Schmedeman has promised to go to Washington this week to demand federal relief.

Time Machine Trip to May 1924

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1924

By Lyle Hansen

May 8, 1924

Olin G. Dryer was elected principal of the high school at, a salary of $2,300. Mr. Dryer is the chemistry teacher in the high school.

 

The members of the junior class of the high school entertained the faculty and senior class at a banquet Wednesday at the high school. The members of the senior class are Dorothy Mirion, Clara Pennings, Lucina Hartjes, Anna Van Dyke, Harriet Van Den Berg, Julia Van Der Velden, Williard Van Handel, Isadore Mirion, Louis Ver Hagen and Adolph Couchaine.

 

May 15, 1924

Last Sunday three young men took advantage of the high state of water in the Fox River and attempted to shoot the rapids in a canoe below the dam. The trio made it as far as the high school before they waded ashore. The trio, Herbert Homan, Alfred Ristau and Warren Brenzel, vowed they will make another daring flight down the river next Sunday.

Three skeletons of slaves, found in Fort Green Park, Brooklyn, were almost buried with the honors of “Unknown soldiers of the American Revolution,” After the skeletons were found it was discovered that an iron ring had bound the wrist of each skeleton.

 

May 22, 1924

No, there is no truth in the report that Mulford's flag was flying Monday in celebration of Ves Berens capture of a finny monster at Lake Poygan the day before. The flag was hung simply to display the new style of flagpole which the American Legion wants all merchants to adopt.

The school board decided at its meeting Monday night not to employ in the future any married women as teachers in the public school and that any teachers who enters the matrimonial state during her term shall automatically terminate her connection with the scholastic force.

 

P. T. Thompson, 62, an employe of the Combined Locks Paper Company, drowned in the Fox river Tuesday night. While the boatman was getting his oars to row Thompson across the river, he fell off the dock and was drowned before help could be given him.

 

William Schultz, aged 52, who recently moved from Forest Junction living on second street, was found in the waterpower canal about 4:30 last Friday morning. It is unknown how he happened to fall into the river.  

 

May 29, 1924

Last Friday morning the tug, Jane, was towing Barge No. 1 when the forge accidentally struck the right gate of the fifth lock. The tug, George D. Ryan, was in the lock with Barge No. 5 when the gate was forced open. The resulting damage to the forge and the lock will be several thousand dollars and navigation will be suspended for at least two weeks.

Time Machine Trip to May 1914

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1914

By Lyle Hansen

May 1, 1914

An automobile driven by John McNaughton got stuck in the mud on Walter Avenue last night. The patrol was called in for assistance, but after three attempts, the rope broke, and the machine was left in the mud overnight.

 

Fred Reichel, who controls considerable pastureland in the vicinity of Beaulieu hill has placed a fence around his land so as to keep the cattle from running at large. He has not only posted signs informing the public to Keep Out and Do not trespass but has a bovine patrol in the fields. Bill Schlude and Joe Eppinger had attempted to take a short cut across the field and were forced to make a run for it by the cow patrol.  

 

May 8, 1914

Several new Buick autos have made their appearance on our streets this week. This brings the total to five machines, all self-starters, which have been sold so far through the Gus Ristau agency.

 

The final hearing in the adjustment of the taking over of the electric light plant by the City of Kaukauna from Kaukauna Gas, electric Light and Power company was before the Madison circuit court this week.

 

Last Saturday afternoon, 2 motorcyclists shot past a horse buggy at a very rapid rate of speed, the horses became frightened and ran away with the buggy containing 3 ladies. The ladies were driving home on 7th St. when the two cyclists passed them. The carriage was tipped over and badly smashed and all the ladies were thrown out and were injured.

 

Mrs. Valeria Van Acker of Kimberly, said to be the first person in the United States ever prosecuted under Section 205 of the Criminal Code of the United States government laws, for trying to remove cancelled marks from the United States postal stamps. She pleaded guilty before Judge Geiger in Milwaukee last Wednesday and was fined $50. The woman worked at the Kimberly Paper Mills. Her task was to sort wastepaper, some that contained used postage stamps.

 

May 15, 1914

The opening dance at the High Cliff pavilion will take place on Tuesday evening. Several new buildings have been erected at the park this year and Mr. Niesen, manager of the park, has invited everyone to visit this pleasant summer resort.

The Kaukauna Farm Implement Company, who together with Wm. Van Lieshout of Holland, purchased forty Ford automobiles last winter and have sold ten so far.

 

May 22, 1914

An error in last week's Times resulted in a letter to the editor. The article read as follows:

"Twin boys were born a few days ago to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Driessen at Marion, Wis." In reply: "I want to advise you that you have made an error in placing the credit to me as the one making the double play. I have been in the matrimonial game for nine years and have produced three singles and have as yet to land a double."

Forest fires are raging in the north country. The village of Alfred, 13 miles from Escanaba was wiped out on Sunday. People rushed to the river and stood up to their necks in the water. Many towns in Wisconsin and Michigan are now gone.

 

May 29, 1914

The Kaukauna ball team has taken a stand, and no outside advertising will be allowed on the newly erected fence around the baseball grounds. Wm. Johnson, manager, and Geo. Kromer, captain, have let it be known that the only signs to be painted on the fence will be by local businessmen who have been kind enough to offer financial support and help boost the local organization.

The first excursion of the season will be this Sunday to High Cliff. The boat will leave Kaukauna at 8 o’clock in the morning and Little Chute at 9. The Kaukauna band will play on the boat.

Time Machine Trip to May 1904

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1904

By Lyle Hansen

May 6, 1904

Owners of cows and other stock will do well to remember the local ordinance which prohibits the running at large of such animals. The new pound master has received strict orders to take up all stock found at large within the limits of the city. Kaukauna lawns have reached a stage where they are too valuable to the owners, and too beautifying to the city, to longer allow them to be used promiscuously for grazing grounds. The ordinance will be carried out to the letter and no leniency shown.

 

It is claimed the cost of living is gradually decreasing but will have to keep on for some time before the average consumer will be able to notice it.

 

Pope Pius X., in a letter to President Nick Chiles of Western Negro Press Association, urges all Catholics in America to be duly considerate of black people.

 

The Knox Construction company, which is building an interurban line between Green Bay and Kaukauna has so far progressed through DePere.

 

Dennis Turkey, an aged Stockbridge Indian and civil war veteran, was found stabbed to death on the edge of the Menominee reservation. Johnnie Frank a Menominee Indian is being held in jail charged with the murder. 

 

May 13, 1904

 

Christ Anderson is the owner of the first automobile in the city and is justly proud of the beautiful machine which he received during the past week.

 

May 20, 1904

A fifty-foot section of the north wall of the Meade & Edwards canal, near here thereof was swept away Tuesday night by the present high water. The pressure at that point was something terrific and as the wall was not extra strong it was pushed out and scattered promiscuously by the heavy flow of water which is at an extremely high stage.

 

Arrangements are being made this week for the cleaning out of the south side canal. The canal has stood idle for so many years that several feet of mud, cinders and general rubbish has accumulated in the bottom of the channel. The findings in the bottom lessons the fall of water and the corresponding power just that much. The Kaukauna Fibre Company and the Kaukauna Machine Works has been using water from the canal for power purposes this past month.

 

Athletes from Kaukauna High school made a good showing last Saturday in the Northeast Interscholastic meet at Appleton, capturing third place against a field of twenty-eight high schools.

 

The stockholders of the Kimberly Clark Co. decided to rebuild the paper mill destroyed by fire last year in Kimberly. The new plant will cost between $100,000 and $300,000.

 

May 27, 1904

Twenty-six young men and women will graduate from Kaukauna High School this week. The class motto is “Onward," Flower - Red Rose; Colors, Turquoise and White.

 

KHS Class of 1904

 

English Course:

  Robert E. Hamilton

  Harry C. Hanson

  W. Blair Hartley

  Matthew J. Kirwan

  Mayme M. Moran

  Harley J. Neff

J. Edward Weston

 

Modern Classical:

Edith Irene Bidwell

Henry J. Blau

Pearl M. Ditzler

Walter G. Fischer

Oneita C. Kuder

Charles D. Towsley

 

German Course:

  Janette L Anderson

  Harold E. Cornell

  Harold L. Donohue

  Margaret E. Kerr

  Effie H. Kenney

  Jacob J. Kline

  Fred W. Klumb

  Marie B. Konrad

  Leona K. Krahn

  Roy P. Kuehn

  Harriet L. Langdon

  Margaret McMahon

  Chester A. Wolf

  

 

Judging by the size of a couple of eggs that have been laid upon the editor's desk this week by Wm. Rohan of Hollandtown, they must have roosters out on the homestead that lay like they do out in Kansas. The eggs averaged eight and one-half inches around the long way and seven inches in circumference at the big end. Will says when a chicken is hatched from one of these eggs it's big enough for a fry the following Sunday.

 

A tramp who claimed he belonged to Menasha made the rounds of the residents on Wisconsin Avenue. He was under the influence of liquor and at each home asked for food.  At one home the food didn’t suit him, and he demanded something else. Marchal Conlon was called, and he was brought to the train and sent home.

 

Time Machine Trip to May 1894

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1894

By Lyle Hansen 

May 4, 1894

Columbus, O., A bill has been introduced providing that the legal heirs of any person killed by a lynching party in Ohio, shall recover the sum of $15,000 for injury. Persons found guilty of the crime shall be sent to the penitentiary for not less than three years. The money for the payment shall be levied by the state in the county where the crime occurs. 

 

The Times was made the official paper of the city by the council Tuesday evening.

 

      A few straw hats made their appearance on the street this week and fishing is a favorite pastime of a large number of our citizens now-a-days.

 

Three saloon keepers were arrested this week for keeping open after 11 o’clock contrary to the city ordinances. They paid a fine of one dollar and costs for the first offense.

 

May 11, 1894

 

Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Tanner and Street Commissioner Posson, were seen carrying a crosscut down Crooks Avenue. The mayor had served notice to the Electric Light Company to move a pole which caused lines to be strung dangerously close to the sidewalk. Not having complied in the period of time provided the mayor took care of the problem.

Iron Mountain, Mich. – Five hundred miners carrying a red flag paraded the streets demanding food. They ordered Mayor Crowell to telegraph the Governor to send aid for 500 starving families immediately.

 

      The common council has taken into consideration the matter of placing fire alarm boxes in several places on both sides of the river.

 

      In all probability, the question of a system of water works will be taken up by the council at the next meeting, a Chicago firm having been corresponding   this   week relative to a franchise. The citizens will by no means object to any move along that line.

 

Gatesville, Tex. May 8 – Sheriff Hammack today arrested an ex-state representative and a constable for complicity in the lynching of Edward Cash a few weeks ago. Cash was dragged from his bed and lynched outside his home in front of his pleading wife. There are now eleven alleged lynches in jail.

 

Sturgeon Bay officials recently sent to an asylum a real wild man of the woods. He lived on herbs with little clothing and no fire to speak of. Enough was gleaned from his chattering to fix the fact that he was a veteran of the Civil war.

 

     Scottdale, Pa. May 4 – Wives of striking miners made a raid on the McClure Coke Company this morning. They were reinforced by the strikers and a pitched battle followed. Shots were exchanged between the strikers and the guards, firing several volleys. Thirty people were hurt in the encounter, several will die.

 

      Forest fires reports from the north woods are early this year. Dead wood dries rapidly and serves as kindling wherever there is carelessness in burning brush or whether there are sparks from locomotives or sawmills.

 

      San Antonio, Texas, May 8. – Another appeal to the world for assistance has been received here from the suffering people of Zapata County who are starving. The people have become so desperate that a band of 20 made a raid upon a general store for food supplies. The drought in that County has lasted for four years.

 

May 18, 1894

Hundreds upon hundreds of swallows nightly occupy the large chimney of the Holy Cross school. It is quite a sight to watch them drop down the flue just at dusk in the evening. At seven o'clock the air in that vicinity is literally filled with birds and then they commence to string down to their nightly abode. It is a mystery how so many of them fit in there.

 

About a year ago W. C. Kneibush, a brakeman on the Chicago & Northwestern road, had a coupling break while coupling cars and a piece destroyed one of his eyes. He brought action against the company to recover damages. A verdict of $2,500 was awarded to him.

    A resident who never used slang admitted that in learning to ride a bicycle he had to be humble to it.

 

      T. H. Relly, of Appleton, has the contract for putting in the foundation for the new addition to the Little Chute Catholic Church and has made much progress on the job. The church stands in the midst of an old burial ground and when the excavations were made for the foundations a number of old graves were encountered, containing skeletons and traces of burial cases. They were carefully transferred to consecrated ground. – Post.

 

Two tramps held up a young Hollander at DePere, telling him to put up his hands. He complied with the request tightly grasping his pocketbook in one hand thus managing to save it while the highwaymen went through his pockets without success.

May 25, 1894

Last summer City Clerk Hamer and Peter Feller spent several hundred dollars driving in piles of filling in the rear part of their Wisconsin Avenue properties but the heavy rains of late have completely demoralized the retaining wall. Since its building, the wall has been known as "Fort Hamer" but it has now surrendered to the weather after two weeks of lightning and rain.

 

Antigo is now lighted with arc lights. When can we see the same for Kaukauna?

 

The contract for building the new Holy Cross Church and parsonage was let last Monday morning, Jos. Schwenderman securing the job at $2836. The building will be a two-story structure with heavy stone foundation of good basement and brick veneer. The old parsonage will be removed from the lot owned by Fr. Rohde and fitted up for rent.

 

 Raleigh, N. C. May 22 – The Confederate soldiers’ monument in this city was dedicated today accompanied by a celebration never before witnessed in the South. It is estimated that over 20,000 visitors from outside points witnessed the dedication.

 

 The largest loan ever made to a single individual at one time by the Building and Loan association was made Monday. One thousand dollars was the amount.

 

  

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