Time Machine Trip to June 1935

Kaukauna Times

June 4, 1935

A total of 1300 people made use of the city swimming pool during the month of May, according to Clifford H. Kemp, director.

Kaukauna’s State league entry got back on victory row with a 3-1 win of the hapless Oshkosh Indians Sunday afternoon. The game was played at what was supposedly the Oshkosh fairgrounds but what looked more like the bottom of a recently drained lake. The players literally, skilled about in the going after the balls until the late innings, when the field dried off sufficiently to permit a game to be played.

 

Pigeons from the Greenwood loft took first and second places in the 238-mile old bird race from Charles City, Iowa.

 

June 7, 1935

A capacity crowd jammed the Kaukauna ballpark last night to view the Brewer-House of David tilt despite the football weather and went home well satisfied as the Brews won 5 to 2.

 

J. F. Cavanaugh, superintendent of schools, and Olin G. Dryer, principal, presented 82 seniors of the class of 1935 with diplomas as the commencement exercises were conducted Wednesday evening.

Marcus Nigl won the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a student at Kaukauna High School. He was awarded the Lang trophy, an award to the student named by the faculty as the best all-around student.  

 

Lorraine Martin, 13-year-old has the wonderful record of not missing a single day or ever being tardy in her eight years attendance at St. Mary’s school. She graduated as an honor student this morning.   

 

June 11, 1935

Mrs. Martha Zahn, 37, wife of William Zahn, manager of the Deep Rock filling station, Third Street, passed away this morning at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, as a result of severe burns. She had heated two pails of water for washing on a stove on the main floor and was carrying them down the basement steps when she fell Monday morning spilling the hot water on to herself.

While enjoying an afternoon of motorboating on the Fox River had the misfortune of having his motor die just as he was nearing where the power canal branches off the river. He tried to use his oar from being drawn in the canal. When he had almost given up, a rowboat with two youths appeared and with a rope were able to pull him to the north shore.

 

June 14, 1935

The Kaukauna police have been notified that many of the younger boys have been throwing stones. The Chief of Police R. H. McCarty wishes to announce that severe prosecution will follow any more complaints. A large window was broken recently at Holy Cross Church by a stone.

According to an announcement made today by Mrs. Ross C. Grignon, who has charge of the historical Grignon home in this city. The home will be open for public inspection, beginning Sunday, June 16, and will remain open until further notice. 

 

June 18, 1935

 

If persistence is one of the virtues that goes with winning a job in these depression times, Paul Martin of Kaukauna should not experience much difficulty. Paul holds the unusual distinction of not missing a day at school for twelve years.

 

The pay roll for FERA workers for last week, which was paid Saturday amounted to $858.85, according to Lyle Webster work secretary. The wages were divided between 71 men and 10 women. 

 

June 21, 1935

Mayor John Niesen opened a discussion concerning the sewage disposal plant which seems certain to be constructed in the near future. He mentioned that Appleton has already made applications for funds to build a disposal plant.

 

June 28, 1935

Kaukauna’s own boxer, Phil Zwick, is enjoying an extended trip in foreign countries. Letters have been received from him from Columbo, Ceylon, India and a card from Egypt. 

 

The first and only beer drinking contest in the Midwest will be held at Milwaukee on Saturday June 29. The entries have already reached five hundred.

 

Lawrence Neveu, nine years old of Green Bay was killed Wednesday afternoon when he was kicked in the back of the head by a horse. He was with his brother David and his cousin Ronald Neveu as they were playing in a park. They saw a horse grazing in nearby field. The boys tried to mount the horse when it kicked back, striking Lawrence in the head.

 

Son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Brewster West Division Street.

 

Son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Orville Myse, West 8^th Street.

 

Son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Kavanaugh West 8^th Street.

 

Son John Sylvester, born to Mr. and Mrs. Ves. Berens Second Street.

Forty men are now employed in the construction of the Wrightstown bridge which when completed will cost $200,000. According to Jerome Verhasselt, village president plans are being formulated for the dedication of the bridge late this summer.  

 

Time Machine Trip to June 1925

 Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

June 4, 1925

John Lenihan of Chicago has set a record in High School baseball by batting out 18 safe ones in 19 times at bat for a season’s average of .947. 

The Thilmany baseball team defeated the R. R. Shops 7-5 on Tuesday afternoon. 

June 11, 1925

Most of us get the bulk of our knowledge of the world about us from newspapers and there is no denying the value and importance of what comes to us in that way. We can rove over the whole world in a few moments. The aviators take us to Iceland or to Siberia or to Patagonia.

Wanted women 20 to 60 years old to pick cherries in the largest cherry orchard in the world. Easy outdoor work, good money, good food, sanitary community houses to sleep in. Martin Orchard Co, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

June 18, 1925

Nellie Amter, 17, of New York City studies music at Cleveland, O. She has limited funds for travel, so she often hitch-hiked home for visits. Her rules are don’t get into a crowed auto; and don’t accept rides after dark.

A few weeks ago, there was an important conference of physicians, chemists and other men of science at Washington to determine whether, or not “leaded gasoline is so poisonous a compound as to endanger the public health.

About eighty-five per cent of all the petroleum in the world comes from the wells in Mexico and the United States. That may gratify our pride at the moment, but will North American petroleum be exhausted when the supplies of other countries remain almost untouched?

James Hoolihan, 16 of Whitney Street, Kaukauna is in the hospital where he is recovering from the amputation of four toes, Hoolihan and two friends “bummed” a ride on the train Tuesday evening. As the train was pulling out, he slipped, and his foot was crushed by the train.

It’s too long a time between drinks for the farm horse. Farmers will take a jug of water to the field for themselves but think nothing of making the horse wait until he goes to the barn at noon or night for his drink.

Dear Miss Flo – Recently a gentleman aided me in repairing my car when I was quite distant from any town. He was so kind that I asked his name and address. It so happens that we are of the same town, I should like very much to know him better. Would it be considered a breach of better rules of etiquette to write to him?

Flo - If you wish to know him better, you might have your father, brother, or other male member in your family to write him thanking him for his kindness to you. 

June 25, 1925

A dry cleaning, dying and pressing establishment to be known as Sanitary Cleaners will be open on or about July 1st, at 113 West Second Street. Milton Metz, at present, employed at the Mulford clothing store at 115 East Second Street, will be in charge.

Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette died Thursday of heart failure, he was 70 years old. His health began to fail before the 1924 Presidential campaign in which he was the Independent presential candidate.   

Time Machine Trip to June 1915

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

June 4, 1915

1915 8th grade graduation Holy Cross Herbert Haessley, Frank Matlock, Henry Benotch, Leroy Ristau, James Maher, Mary Regenfuss, Julia Block, Hattie VanEperen, Magdalen Heindel, Mildred Haessley, Ruth Conlon, Florence O’Boyle, Helen Callahan, Frances Minkebige and Marie Bayorgeon, Priest Rev. Peter Lochman.

Governor Philippe signed the Dobie bill last Friday allowing license dealers to sell cigarettes to adults but forbidding the sale to minors.

The Boy Scouts performed an excellent service last Friday afternoon when they voluntarily polished up the north side canal bank. The boys turned out in the body and removed as much of the unsightly debris along the bank as was possible for them to gather and carry away.

 

Under the war revenue act which went into effect last fall all baseball clubs charging admission to the game directly or indirectly must pay a register fee of $10.00 for the fiscal year. The ruling affects practically every baseball team in the nation.

 

June 11, 1915

John Jacobs received his new 5 passenger Overland automobile Saturday which he finds a great improvement over the horse driven surrey that he had owned for a long time as he can now take his whole family easily as it is and 35 horsepower machine.

 

In realizing the daily papers, one would think the whole world had gone war crazy. Nevertheless, the great mass of American people is quietly pursuing their daily business in the same spirit of people and good-will they are accustomed to manifest toward others. Let us all give thanks that we are citizens of this great and glorious nation under the stars and stripes of freedom and liberty.

M.S. Felton sold 440 acres of the Oneida Stock Farm for $36,900.

The 4200-horsepower electric plant of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company on the south side canal was taken over by the mayor and Utilities Commission Tuesday, under the contract which has been the course of negotiation since last fall, and the city is now in full control of this big power plant.

Sunday, June 27th, has been decided upon as the date for the laying of the cornerstone of the new Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, the foundation for which is now nearing completion.

June 18, 1915

1915 Nicolet 8^th Grade School Graduates.

While drilling a well on the farm of Anton Hartzheim in the town of Buchanan Joseph Faust and Son struck one of those pockets of natural gas which seem to exist in many sections around Kaukauna. The gas was struck at ninety feet and when released shot up the hole and ignited from the fire in the boiler. The flames shot into the air thirty feet and burned for nine hours before going out and allowing the drilling to continue.

On June 15, The Village of Denmark east of here was incorporated.

A remonstrance was filed with the common council Monday evening by parents of children attending Park School, objecting to the issuance of a new license to Otto Luedtke saloon on Lawe Street because of the state law not allowing any saloon to be within three hundred feet of school property.

Miss Pearl M. Ditzler was pleasantly surprised when on Tuesday last she was accompanied to Waverly Beach by the pupils, members of her Glee club and the alumni, all eager to show their appreciation for her kindness and work during her six years as a teacher of English and History in the Little Chute high school.

This house and 40 acres of land in northern Wisconsin is only $800.

Time Machine Trip to June 1905

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

June 2, 1905

People who have had occasion to drive into the country report that farmers have commenced working out their poll tax and incidentally ruining the country roads. The work consists of plowing up the ditches and placing the loose earth in the center of the highway.

1905 Kaukauna High Graduation Class

Modern Classical Course 

Justin Joseph Curtin

Raymond J. Dietzler

George Krahn

Else Rettinghouse

Rose H. Schubring

John N. Schneider

Stanley J. Slizeski

 

German Course

Will Cordoran

William E. Earles

Edward A. Lindberg

Arnold C. Otto

Verna Pequin

Rosana Elizabeth Roe

 

English Course

Marguerite E. Knight

Leo E. Moran

John F. Taugher

 

June 9, 1905

The Russian Fleet was practically annihilated by the Japanese Fleet over the weekend. Word from Manchuria is that the Czar's troops are in open muting. This is the crowning disaster in a series of calamities that have overtaken Russia since the opening of the war.

Five new locomotives have been ordered for the Ashland division of the Northwestern and will make their appearance in a couple days. They are heavier than the present engines.

 

Burglars broke into a saloon at Wrightstown Tuesday night and robbed 2 slot machines belonging to Gus Johnson of this city of $50. Certain Wrightstown parties are suspected.

 

H.H. Patterson, a brakeman of the Northwestern Road had both feet taken off at Eland Junction Wednesday night and at present it is in the hospital in Clintonville. He was on top of the freight car at the time of the accident, setting the brake, when the chain broke letting him to the ground he fell between the rails. He makes his home in Kaukauna residing with his mother.

 

June 16, 1905

The meeting of the property owners along the north bank of the government canal was held last week to take some steps toward ascertaining what the prospects might be for securing a retaining wall along the canal. A committee will visit Oshkosh to confer with Congressman Davidson about the matter.

 

June 23, 1905

Running at full speed, an "extra," consisting of a switch engine and caboose, crashed into a handcar late Friday afternoon on a bridge spanning Konkapot creek, a mile and half east of the city. Of the ten section men aboard all saved their lives by jumping except Eugene Hughes. In his effort to escape Hughes came in contact with the front edge of the engine and was thrown into the creek at a point the water was five feet deep. Sam Ross descended to the bottom and succeeded to bring him to the surface. He was alive but then died of his injuries.

It was decided Justice Lennon’s court Saturday that Mrs. Ernestine Grimm of Kaukauna is not guilty of taking flowers from her mother's grave in the spirit of revenge after they had been placed there by her sister.

 

Joseph Jacoby of the Town of Buchanan met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon. The young man employed as a car repairer in the yards here was transferred to Port Washington. While working under a freight car, another car coming down the track bumped into it, one of the wheels passed over his left foot. He was taken to the hospital in Manitowoc it was found necessary to amputate his foot at the ankle.

Appleton and Kaukauna played baseball on Sunday afternoon, resulting in another defeat for the boys from the county seat. The low score 5 to 2 made the game an interesting one from the start. The Appleton tossers blamed Umpire Johnson for giving the game to Kaukauna. Of course, some excuse is better than none at all.

 

June 30, 1905

The water in the Fox River is gradually receding, having gone down several inches since the first of the week. The majority of boats are again making regular trips.

 

It is almost certain that a soldier’s monument will be erected in Kaukauna in the next year or two. The members of the Women's Relief Corps have the matter in charge and expect to raise the necessary funds through entertainment and contributions. The amount of money to be invested is presently unknown and will be decided at a later date.

Hotel Brothers narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire at an early hour on Saturday morning. Henry Lake, night watchman, visited the dining room and found it filled with smoke. Going down to the basement he discovered a fire in the laundry room and lost no time in sounding the alarm. The firemen were on the scene and remarkable time and soon had a lead hose playing on the fire. Many of the guests were aroused by the smoke and the alarm.

Time Machine Trip to June 1895

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

June 7, 1895

The Kaukauna Fibre Company’s plant was started up again this week. To secure water for the boilers a cofferdam was built across the tail race in the rear of the mill, the water raised several feet and a pipe laid to the pump at the mill.

 

The 1895 Commencement Exercises has a class of thirteen graduates. A large attendance witnessed the graduation.

Edward N. Blair

Joseph Chopin

Lizzie R. Daley

Mamie E. Dionne

Mamie E. Donahus

Florence B. Gibson

William J. Green

Madge R. Hayes

Ott H. Heilman

Otto Kowalke

Hugo E. Martens

Frank E. Rafferty

John N. Schlude

 

On Saturday last Liveryman Mulloy sent out postals after a fellow named Wippert who had stolen a horse and buggy from his stable a few days previous. He was arrested that afternoon at Oshkosh and lodged in jail until Marshall Kuehn went down and brought him back to Kaukauna.

 

One day last week H.N. Kinsley of this city walked into our office and laid on our desk a copy pf the Boston Garette dated Monday, March 12, 1770.

 

About ten small-pox cases have developed in Menasha and one person succumbed to the ravages of the disease Monday.

 

June 14, 1895

Luther Lindauer is running his quarry on the Island night and day to fill orders. About forty men find employment at present.

 

The second story of the new addition to the Thilmany Paper plant is nearly laid.

Under the management of Joseph Harp, Eden Park is once more becoming quite a popular resort. All parties visiting the place are sure of a good time and the best of treatment. The grounds are being made beautified again this season making it one of the finest places on the river for a day’s picnic.

 

The Kaukauna baseball team met their Waterloo last Sunday afternoon in the team from Oshkosh being defeated by a score of 8 to 11. Ill luck seemed to follow every play made by the home team while the visitors enjoyed just the opposite.

 

Boston, June 10 - The Woman’s Rescue League has adopted resolutions declaring that bicycle women and the coming “mannish woman” are productive of much harm and no real good, and that the “sporting woman” and the “mannish woman” and the “bicycle woman” bring disgrace on the true woman. The league condemns bicycle riding by young girls and woman for these reasons: 30% of the fast girls that have come to the Rescue League for aid were bicycle riders at one time. This is resolved that since the closing up of the houses of ill repute in Boston the sporting girls are taking to bicycle riding because they can better apply their vocation on account of the opportunities given as cyclists.

 

June 21, 1895

A Little Chute correspondent writes the far-famed "evergreen avenue," in front of the Catholic Church there, which has so long been a landmark in the Fox River valley and from its association with the good Father Van den Brook had come to be a much-loved historical monument, has been destroyed. The trees have been cut down and sold for firewood, and where once stood those beautiful trees rich in memory of pioneer days and the man who planted them, all is barren and conventional.

The Y.M.C.A. Debating society of the Thompson club closed its season last Monday evening with a very pleasant gathering to which a few friends outside the members were invited. Mr. O. Van Hecke acting as toastmaster, Fred Fischer responded to the toast, “Our City.” And for a short time carried the listeners back to the early days of Kaukauna and worked up through the modern improvements that have been made.

Wisconsin Governor William H. Upham is in New York on business connected with the promotion of European immigration to Wisconsin. There are in Wisconsin 25,000,000 acres of land as yet unoccupied. The real work is for the immigration commission to acquaint the world that this land is available at a nominal cost and will make fertile farms for thousands of families.

 

An Oklahoma jury, in a drunk and disorderly case, returned a verdict declaring the defendant not guilty of the charge and the sitting judge guilty and assessed the cost against the judge.

 

Last Saturday morning the renowned Richard Egan alias “Dick” was arrested on a charge of assault and battery and waltzed off before Judge Mitchell to make his plea. He was found guilty and requested to dig up $3 and costs as the price of the sport the night before. Not having any change in his jeans, he promised to raise it if permitted to go out and call on a friend. He was permitted but unlike the dove that was sent out from Noah’s arc he failed to reappear and in due time policeman McCormick went out on the hunt for his man. Dick was found hiding in an oat bin and a tussle followed in which he jumped through a window and made his escape into the country. Along toward evening the prize-winning thirst of Dick got the best of him and he jumped astride a horse and came to town to quench it. With the Wild West flourish, he rode up in front of one of the saloons on the Avenue and ordered some of the sample fluid. Policeman McCormick with an eye of an eagle sighted his game and shortly after Dick was being led up the street under captivity with boots off and handcuffed for safekeeping this trip.

 

June 28, 1895

Several of the saloonkeepers who are shut out under the new saloon limit ordinance will fight the legality of the ordinance. They will tender their license money to the city and if refused they will deposit it in the banks to await future developments.

 

The Union Cornet Band will celebrate at Eden Park on the Fourth. There will be a street parade in the morning and a concert in the afternoon. A grand display of fireworks will take place at the park in the evening.

 

Kaukauna put up their worst game of the season at DePere last Sunday seemingly trying to see which one can make the most errors instead of the best plays. As a result, they were sent home with lowered colors and a score of 9 to 22.

 

The hook and ladder company took the new truck out for a practice run Monday evening, scaling the north side public school building. Judging from the time made, they will stand a run of this kind every few days.

 

Time Machine Trip to June 1885

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen 

June 5, 1885

On Thursday of last week Jos. Koch watchman of the Renter Hub & Spoke Co., came up to the Bank building to see if everything was all right at that place. Anton Gerharz had been stationed to watch the Bank while the vault was under process of construction, unbeknown to Koch who mistook Gerharz for a burglar and was prepared to open fire upon him before he discovered his mistake.

 

Orange, Mass., - Willie Prentiss shot his father dead on the night of the 26^th. The father, while in a drunken fit, ordered his son to shoot at a cup which he held on his head.

 

Milwaukee – The case of the youth, who swallowed a silver dollar, still holds the attention of the doctors. The position of the coin was located with the aid of an electric battery.

 

June 12, 1885

Read ordinance No. 5, passed by the common council of Kaukauna their last meeting, and published this week. Look out for your animals in the future. Cows are allowed to run at large between the hours of five o'clock, a.m. and eight o'clock, p.m.

At police court on the 4^th Wm. Goltz was brought before Justice Mulholland to answer to the charge of using abusive language towards Mrs. J Green. He plead guilty and was fined the usual amount and costs.

 

Pickens County, Ga., has a post office named “Talking Rock”. The post office got its name when someone discovered a large stone upon was painted the words “Turn me over.” It required considerable strength to accomplish the task. On the bottom of the stone were the words “Now turn me back and fool someone else.”

 

The St. Paul Globe “So long as our laws continue to give murderers the presumption of innocence in their favor and then permit hair-splitting technicalities to rule out the evidence against them, just so long will there be lynching and mob law.”

 

June 19, 1885

The businessmen of South Kaukauna have decided to build a grain elevator. A fine location has been secured, nearly opposite the post office, and the work of construction will begin at once. The R. R. Co. will build a side-track to the elevator.

On Tuesday last the citizens of Kaukauna had the pleasure of witnessing an exhibition of steam fire engines. The competition was between two machines and lasted five hours. Good work was accomplished by both engines, each throwing a heavy stream a long distance.

 

A telegram received by the War Department confirms the reports of an attack by Apaches near Guadeloupe Canyon in which five soldiers were killed.

New York – Ships blew their horns in the harbor as the ship carrying Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty arrives.  More than one hundred ships crowded with spectators crowded near the French Ship carrying the Goddess. The day broke suspiciously for the formal welcome to Bartholdi’s great statue of “Liberty”. The sky was cloudless, and the rays of the June sun were shining. Along the river fronts great crowds gathered early in the day. Over the waters all sorts of gayly decked brightly decked craft sped hither and thither. The tall buildings and even the Stock Exchange displaying the stars and stripes. When the vessels that were to escort the Isere to Bedloe’s Island arrived in the lower bay the water was swarming with craft as far as the eye could see reach. The French man-of-war LaFlore headed the procession. Soon her gunners opened the salute of honor by firing twenty-one guns in the short space of sixty-one seconds.

June 26, 1885

The Bank of Kaukauna has recently built a vault in their building, which for proof against fire and burglars is equal to any in the country. The vault is built of stone and brick and is seven by nine feet in the interior. It is provided with shelves, etc., for storing books and papers. The entrance is guarded with two large, heavy doors both of which, of course, have combination locks attached. In addition to all this is a small steel burglar proof safe placed within the vault, which will protect the funds of the bank against any attack. This safe is provided with a time lock in addition to the ordinary combination.

 

Foreign dispatches tell of story of a native African prince of the Brass River territory, who was shot and slightly wounded by a native of an interior village. The prince took nine villagers as hostages, when the villagers failed to find the assailant, he had them all cooked and eaten.