Time Machine Trip to June 1926

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

June 3, 1926

The Kaukauna Fire Department 1926. Members are, from left to right, (front row) Assistant Chief Henry Esler, Owen E. Roberts, James McMorrow, Walter Specht, Edward Ward, Walter Martzahl, and Carl Engerson; (back row) driver Charles Miller and Chief Albert Luckow.

 

A raise for city firemen from $100 to $110 per month, and for the two fire captains from $100 to $115 per month, recommended by the fire and police commission and brought before the council.

 

  

          Violet Redman                        Homer Metz

The musical comedy, “Pinafore” was presented before a large crowd in the Kaukauna auditorium last Tuesday evening by the Glee club of the local high school. The settings were very fine, and the play was well acted. The action centered around “Josephine”, played by Violet Redman, she is in love with a common sailor, this part being enacted by Homer Metz.

 

 

Dorothy Van Lieshout, Kaukauna high school representative in the annual Wisconsin state forensic contest, which was held at Madsion last Friday, won fifth place in the meet, in the extemporaneous reading, according to word received here.

 

A massive debate was brewing over the state of the Fox River, which was heavily polluted with raw sewage and paper mill waste. The community was grappling with a massive identity question: What is of greater importance—industry or fish? The mills, arguing that forcing them to build filtration systems would cost millions, bankrupt the factories, and destroy the local economy.

 

In broad daylight, while the workers were busy in the back processing milk, a thief slipped into the front office of the Kaukauna Creamery. The bandit managed to crack the small desk safe and make off with the entire weekend's cash receipts. What baffled local police was the timing—the office was left unattended for less than fifteen minutes.

 

June 10

The Rev. Father Buytaert of Wrightstown was declared the new "King" at the 76th annual St. Francis Society "Schut" in Hollandtown. Competing against 18 expert marksmen from the Fox River Valley, Father Buytaert won a $25 cash prize and the right to wear the silver-medal-bedecked "King's" coat by shooting down the last remnants of a wooden bird.

 

 

          Robert Radsch

Keeping the large audience which packed the Kaukauna auditorium last Tuesday evening for the 1926 class play “Adam and Eva”, in continual good humor, the cast presenting the production gave to local theatergoers the best comedy ever staged by Kaukauna high school pupils. Robert Radsch, playing the part of James King. wealthy businessman.

 

June 15, 1926

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCarty

 

June 17, 1926

Zwick trimmed Steve Nugent of Cleveland in a ten-round bout in that city Wednesday evening, according to a telegram received here. This was Zwick's twelfth win and he has shown constant improvement in each fight.

 

June 22, 1925

Federal Judge F.A. Geiger in Milwaukee has denied a U.S. government motion to dismiss a petition filed by the village of Little Chute. The village is seeking to block a federal criminal prosecution threatened after local officials refused to comply with an order to raise the level of a local drawbridge. Little Chute’s attorney argues the village is not responsible for the structure, claiming it is federal property and that the roadway serves as an Outagamie County trunk highway.

 

June 25, 1926

Phil Zwick, Kaukauna's fistic star, kept on his winning ways when he won his thirteenth straight victory in the ring by administering knock out drops to Mickey Dugan in the second round of a scheduled eight rounder at Cleveland Tuesday night.

 

Richard “Red” Smith, of Combined Locks a graduate of the Kaukauna high school, has been elected captain of the 1927 Notre Dame baseball team.

 

June 29, 1926

 

      Mayor W. C. Sullivan

In response to a proclamation issued by Mayor W. C. Sullivan, in accordance with a request made by the Sesqui-Centennial of American Independence, bells in all the schools, churches, and public buildings of Kaukauna rang out over a period of five minutes beginning at 11:11 a. m. Monday.

 

“Fat” Robedeaux would probably do better if he wouldn’t always come down to play in his “Sunday Go-to-Meeting Clothes,” say the critics. We’ve a tent up at the house, “Fat,” if you want to get a baseball suit made.