Time Machine Trip to February 1925

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen 

February 5, 1925

A number of seniors in high school have formed a basketball team and have christened it the 25’s. Last Friday they played the Bear Creek team, winning 8-6 before a large crowd. This Friday they will meet a Kimberly team at Kimberly. The line-up includes Armond Licht, Ray Smith, Gordon Walsh. Muriel Kern and Cornelious Mayer. The team is being coached by Stanley Beguhn an instructor in the high school.

 

Last week The Times received two drawings of “Old Pop”, in our comic strip and these will be forwarded to Cartoonist Edward McCullough to be entered in the nationwide contest. The two entrees were submitted by thirteen-year-old boys Willard Grode and Leo Rabideau.   

 

Salaries of city officials for the coming year were fixed at the regular meeting Tuesday evening. The salaries as fixed are as following: City attorney $600 per year; city physician, $300; fire chief $200 per year; chief of police $1,800 per year; police and patrolmen $1500 per year.

 

The much-discussed driver’s license bill is introduced in the legislature. It would license all who drive cars at 25 cents. The license would be revoked for recklessness, drunkenness and failure to stop after an accident.    

 

February 12, 1925

Julius Martens and Fred Merbach while returning from Madison on Saturday afternoon in a dense fog drove into a freight train two miles from Bever Dam. Although the machine was demolished it was found that the men had suffered no serious injuries.

 

February 19, 1925

In a last-minute rally, the Kaukauna High School basketball team defeated West De Pere High School on Friday evening 13-11. At the end of the half De Pere was leading 10-3 due to poor guarding of the locals. The Kaukauna High School girls team defeated the normal school squad 5-3 in an overtime contest. The games were witnessed by more than 500 people.