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Time Machine Trip to January 1935

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen


January 8, 1935

Norbert Gerend and George Birkenmeyer were both seriously injured when a truck in which they were riding left the road on highway 41 near Appleton. 

 

January 11, 1935



Charles E. Raught

With many milestones unpassed in the road of life and where the setting sun had cast its taller shadows to the east, he wearied off the trail and fell asleep. It may with truth be said that when Charles E. Raught passed into the great beyond and closed his eyes in that long and mysterious sleep from whence no travel ever returns, all who knew him mourned with deep and sincere grief. Mr. Raught passed away at his home on Crooks Avenue on Friday following an illness dating back to November 26, when he was stricken with paralysis. For a while it was thought that he might recover, but a relapse on New Year's Day prevented that.  He gradually weakened until pneumonia set in. Mr. Raught was a citizen with deep concern for the community, always making an effort to do more for the city. He was editor of THE TIMES, for a period, was elected mayor, was the postmaster and a banker in Kaukauna, and is said to have done more to advance the material welfare of Kaukauna than any other single individual. Final rites will be held on Tuesday.

 

James Lang, a Kaukauna man, to play the lead role in the play Cagliostro at St. Norbert College. Lang is a senior this year.

 

Anton Kroll, Draper Street Kaukauna, is the proud possessor of an honorary medal from the mayor of Chateau-Thierry, France and it was presented to him for helping to save the town from destruction during the World war.

 

January 18, 1935

The village of Wrightstown is proud to announce that the American Legion post has been reorganized and again ready to resume the duties of this organization.

 

The Kaukauna and Kimberly joint ball will be held at the Nitingale Ballroom. Kaukauna and Kimberly will be two of more than 5,000 cities and villages in the United States that will hold a President Roosevelt birthday ball Wednesday, January 30. The purpose of the birthday ball is collecting funds to help the victims of infantile paralysis and support research to fight the disease.

 

January 25, 1935

Harold Donohue of Appleton was awarded a settlement of $2,450 in a court ruling against E. F. Wieckert of Kaukauna for injuries he received on January 25, 1934. Donohue was standing in the crosswalk waiting for the bus when he was struck by the Wieckert car.


The FERA “Federal Emergence Relief” total payroll for the week ending amounted to $175.60 for the thirty-one men employed during the week. The men worked 3 days per week. 

 

Last Wednesday morning the temperature reached 26 degrees below zero. This is the coldest day in the past several years. Schools remained open but a large number of absences were reported. 

 

 

January 29, 1935

The inquest into the death of Hilton Skennadore, age 35, came to an end Friday when a coroner’s jury at Freedom found that the man who was killed early Saturday morning at Freedom came to his death as the result of being struck by a car, the driver of which is unknown.

 

By Tuesday evening 100 per cent of the businesspeople of Little Chute is expected to join in sending birthday greetings to President Roosevelt by telegram.

This is the mechanical brain completed by the engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. The brain can solve problems in 15 minutes that would require five mathematicians four months to do.

Hollywood actors Myrna Loy and Cary Grant visit with pilot Amelia Earhart on the set “Wings of Dark” in which Earhart stars.

Kaukauna High School - Winter 1935





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