Time Machine Trip to August 1934

 

Kaukauna Times – August 1934

By Lyle Hansen

August 3, 1934

Several thousand people from Kaukauna and surrounding cities and villages are expected to pass through the model home at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Diedrich Street over the weekend when it will be open to the public. The newly constructed home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hansen contains seven rooms and a bath, has been completely furnished by the B.W. Fargo Company with the latest in-home furnishings.

 

The FERA project on Crooks Avenue to widen the road and construct a sidewalk and railing was started Wednesday. Today thirty men were working on this project. The work on Plank Road started Wednesday and in one more week the storm sewer in the alley between Third and Fourth Street will be completed.

The construction of new residences in and about the City of Kaukauna is at a higher level at the present time than it has been for a number of years.

That Hitler still retains his power in Germany and his grip on the German imagination is shown in his Reichstag speech. Hailed with frantic acclaim in the street of Berlin by the people under his thumb.

August 10, 1934

Approximately 2,500 Kaukauna citizens got a glimpse of the president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as he passed through here yesterday morning. A broad smile and a wave of the hand from the president greeted the huge crowds which had their eyes glued on the presidential train. A cheer went up as the familiar figure appeared in the rear window, and the crowd returned the President's infectious smile.

Kaukauna has the distinction of having the first sons of the Legion drum and bugle corps in the state of Wisconsin. The group was presented with flags at a program held on the high school lawn Wednesday.

The Kaukauna common council at its meeting Tuesday evening amended the ordinance regulating the sale of liquor in the city abolishing the limitation of 20 taverns.  

August 14, 1934

Rewards totaling $5,000 are offered by Liberty Magazine for information leading to the arrest or capture of the five mad dogs, principal associates of John Dillinger, as yet at large.

 

John Hamilton 

 

Homer Van Meter 

Baby Face” Nelson

Charles A. “Pretty Boy” Floyd

Richard Tallman Galatas

August 21, 1934

How would you like to see a real honest-to-good African rhinoceros in the flesh? Well, you’re going to get that chance to see one at close range and be able to touch the thick armorlike skin. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer pictures are sending one this way to make appearances in front of the Vaudette Theater. 

August 24, 1934

Jake Baeten, Wrightstown, passed away at a Green Bay hospital from injuries received in an auto accident last Thursday morning. He was riding in a car that struck a milk truck. Another passenger in the car Fred Woodke died at the scene. The driver of the car Jack Calaway escaped without serious injury.

Federal agents made four raids in Kaukauna over the past weekend and made four arrests. A prohibition agent dressed as a bum, had made a purchase of a pint of "moon" of each of the residents prior to the raids. They were Ervin Weber, William Chopin, George Walsh and Irvin Besaw, all of Kaukauna.

August 28, 1934

The House of David baseball team will play the Kaukauna Electric City Brewers in a night game under the lights at the Kaukauna baseball diamond Saturday evening September 1. There will be plenty of thrills as well as laughs. 

Open season on sturgeon will open September 5 and will continue until October 31. The limit will be five during the season and a tag which costs five cents must be attached to the tail of each sturgeon that is caught. The sturgeon season is in effect in our area on Lake Poygan, Lake Winnebago, Big and Little Lake Buttes des Morts and on the Wolf River.

The congregation of the Kaukauna Gospel Tabernacle which services have been held in the northside tent all summer, journeyed to high cliff on Lake Winnebago Saturday for a baptism of nineteen by immersion.