Kaukauna Times – November 1932
By Lyle Hansen
November 1, 1932
In an order by the
public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Kaukauna Electric and Water Department
rates were reduced by approximately 10 percent a total of $13,000 per
year.
Miss Laura Knickerbocker fell into the Fox
River canal while crossing the lock Saturday morning. She had to swim nearly 100 feet before she
reached safety. She was on her way to
work at the Thilmany bag plant when she encountered a strong wind.
The work of rebuilding the old Mill block, on
the corner of Third and Main, which was razed by fire a year ago is progressing
rapidly. The Kaukauna Times will move into its new home on the north end in
December. The remaining portion will be two stories one front will face Main
Ave. and the other face Third Street.
November 11, 1932
Dr. Albert Leigh was
elected president of the Kaukauna Golf Club for the 1932-33 year at a meeting
of the board of directors held Wednesday evening. J. P. Kline was named vice-president and Ed
Kalupa secretary, and Gordon Mulholland, treasurer.
Herbert A. Stone, former editor, and publisher
of the Kaukauna Times, died in Neenah Friday at the age of 63. Mr. Stone
succeeded Hopkins and Cates who were the ones who had started the newspaper in
September of 1880. Stone took over the duties of the Times in 1881. He and his
employees slept in a small back room of the newspaper office which was a 20 x
20 one story lean-to-shed on the southside of Wisconsin Ave.
November 18, 1932
According to an announcement made by W. S. Mulford, plans have been completed for his retirement from business. Ill health is stated as the reason why. It was back in 1886 that Mr. Mulford opened a clothing store in the building now occupied by Paschen’s Restaurant. Three years later he purchased the building in which his store is now located.
November 25, 1932
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Niesen, West Wisconsin Avenue are observing their 57th Wedding
anniversary.
John Haid, Kaukauna policeman, was the first to report having a deer this season. Officer Haid was hunting with Dr. D. M. Gallagher of Appleton, south of Ashland. The four-point buck was shot twenty minutes after the season opened.
The new Lawe Street
bridge opened for boats to pass 1218 times in 1932. The Wisconsin Avenue bridge
would have a much higher total inasmuch as many lighter crafts can pass under
the Lawe Street bridge it having a greater clearance.
Dale Andrews of the Andrews Oil Company
revealed today that his company had obtained the exclusive franchise for
distributing Phillips products in Northeastern Wisconsin.
St. John's was undefeated or scored upon in the 1932 season
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