The Cedarburg Weekly News
August 1, 1883
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

Mr. P. BODENBACH Sr. of Milwaukee was in town, the guest of our pioneer miller, Mr. J. TROTTMAN.

John R. BOHAN, editor of the Advertiser was in town last Monday, and as usual paid the NEWS office a pleasant call.

Mr. A. BODENDOERFER of the Concordia Mills of Hamilton, sold nearly all of his Texas ponies at public auction last fair-day. He received a very reasonable price for them. Mr. Wm. FITZGERALD was the auctioneer.

A number of former Cedarburg residents were noticed among the excursionists last Sunday. Among those we noticed, Mr. and Mrs. F. MEYER, Mrs. BACH, Mr. and Mr. W. SCHROEDER, Mr. E. HILGEN, Miss Anna LIESENBERG, Mr. and Mrs. H. HORNEFFER, Mr. BRENDEMUEHL and many others.

Mr. Wm. RETTBERG has accepted the position of superintendent of bridges of the Milwaukee & Northern R.R. Mr. R. is an able and experienced bridge builder and the company could not have secured a better man. He has commenced work yesterday.

If you wish to buy coal for the coming winter, call on Charles GOTTSCHALK this week, for he intends to go to Milwaukee and make arrangements with some firm for as many tons as are ordered.

Hon. James HEDDING, District Attorney of Ozaukee Co., from Port Washington was in town last Wednesday and paid the NEWS office a pleasant call. Mr. H. informs us that the water had risen so high between Saukville and Port, that it was almost impossible for anybody to wade through it with a team.

A farm containing 77 acres, in town Calumet, Fond du Lac Co., known as the Fred. SHUERWAECHTER farm will be sold to the highest bidder on Thursday, September 6th 1883 by the administrator Mr. Henry MEYER, of Mequon.
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MARRIED -- At the bride's parents, in the town of Grafton, on Sunday the 29th inst., Mr. Charles SCHEFT of Cleveland Ohio, to Miss Emma MINTZLAFF of Grafton. The ceremony was performed at 11 A.M. in the Lutheran Church by Pastor WESEMANN. After the ceremony the merry wedding party returned to the home of the bride's parents, Mr. & Mrs. Charles MINTZLAFF whose warm-hearted hospitality provided for all the guests in such a manner that general enjoyment prevailed. Our best wishes for the future happiness and success go with the happy young couple.
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GRAFTON CORRESPONDENCE
Hay crops in this neighborhood will be the heaviest known for years, though much of it has been spoiled by the heavy rain.

Rye and barley will be next in order this week, both appear to be in a very fair condition.

Last Tuesday (the 24th inst.) evening the Proprietors of the Worsted Mills here gave a grand festival, in their newly finished mill to a large assemblage of people that had collected there; the feast was continued late that night or rather early the next morning, and was a most joyous and agreeable entertainment.

Mr. Peter SPEHN has now become sole owner of the brewery here he having bought out the share of Chas. SCHLEGEL, the Captain reports doing a good business, which we think, is well deserved.

Mr. Theodore WOLTRING Jr. will have a picnic, at the Lower Falls, on Sunday the 19th of August next, a grand time is anticipated.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
August 8, 1883
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

Mr. Eggert LAU's horse ran away last Thursday afternoon near Grafton and completely demolished his buggy.

Messrs. SAUER and PODOLL, the artists of our town have gone to Milwaukee to attend the Photographer's National Convention.

M.G. BOHAN, publisher of the Ozaukee County Advertiser, and D.M. JACKSON were in town last Monday, and paid the NEWS office a pleasant call.

MARRIED -- At Cedarburg last Wednesday Mr. George STEIERT to Amelia KRAMER both of this town. We wish the young couple a long and prosperous life.

Mr. Chas. VOGEL was elected a delegate of the Herman Sons lodge of this town, to attend the State Convention of that society at Sheboygan one day last week.

We paid a flying visit to Port Washington yesterday and had to hurry home after attending County Court, to read proof for to-day's NEWS. The city looks clean and thrifty, no loafers about the streets.

We are informed by Dr. H. MAGER that a kind of fever is raging a little ways from Hamilton in the town of Cedarburg, and five families so far reported to be down with it. The Dr. says it spreads like the Yellow Fever did down South.
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Those wishing to attend the concert and ball at Horn's Corners next Sunday can have the opportunity to do so for the small sum of 25 cents, return trip, as Mr. J.C. KUHEFUSS will run his bus in the afternoon and evening.
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On Saturday next G.A. BOERNER of Boerner Bros., W.H. HORN, our station agent, and Frank KOENIG, chief operator of the M & N R.R., go to Noquebay Wis., the present terminus of the Northern road, to spend a few days hunting, fishing and fighting mosquitoes.
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Mr. John BECK a former employee of the elevator of Jacob ZAUN's, has become a partner in the business. Mr. B. is a very intelligent and industrious gentleman and his friends will be pleased to learn of his success.
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The picnic and ball at Horn's Corners will take place on Sunday, August 12th 1883. Mr. SHELLENBERG has engaged Luckow's Band of West Bend for the occasion, and a good time is assured. Every picnic ever held at Horn's Corners was a success owing to the friendly manner in which Mr. SHELLENBERG receives his friends. All are respectfully invited to attend.
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Last Friday while Mr. BESCHTA and family were out harvesting, a tramp entered their house and finding one of Mr. B's daughters home, asked for a drink of water. While the girl was getting the water for the thirsty wanderer he took the privilege of searching the bureau, but not finding any valuables in there, searched around until he observed a vest hanging on the wall from which he took a watch and chain. He left after drinking a glass of water, but the girl suspecting something wrong, for she had seen him at the bureau, went and told her parents. They immediately went to the house and found that Mr. B.'s watch and chain was missing, they followed the thief and overtook him near the depot at Weber's Hotel. He was arrested, and sentenced to jail for thirty days.
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Mr. Geo. D. PLANT of Chicago, with his son, has just left, after spending a few weeks in Cedarburg, where he lived in his youthful days, with his parents, who were among the oldest settlers of this place.

When we look back to the time that we were County School Superintendent, and visited a school in which we found Mr. PLANT as teacher, although then a mere youth, we can call to mind the favorable impression he had made on us, so much so that we were full of anticipation of greater things for him in the future, and find all that now realized, we are disposed to give ourselves credit for having been no superficial observer of human nature.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
August 15, 1883
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

Miss Hattie McELROY of Granville was in town visiting for a few days.

Miss Julia BELLEW of Chicago is home visiting her parents and friends.

Mr. Henry HAAS and B. HERZIGER of Mequon were seen on our streets last Monday.

Mr. Conrad HORNEFFER of Milwaukee was in town last Wednesday and made a pleasant call on his numerous friends.

Mr. Michael DEMPSEY, of Saukville, was in town last Saturday on business and was a welcome caller at the NEWS office.

A team of horses belonging to Mr. F. GANGER of Jackson ran away last Saturday and demolished his wagon, and split one of his horse's hoofs, otherwise no damage done.

A floater was found on the shore of Lake Michigan, in the city of Port Washington. It is supposed to be a Milwaukee man, but as he could not be identified he was buried in the Port Washington cemetery.

Among the many strangers last Sunday we noticed some of our former Cedarburg residents, they were, Messrs. E. HILGEN, H. BOERNER, R. STALLMANN, W. HILGEN, W. KALLIEBE, F. MEYER and wife, Minnie, and H. RAUTMANN, Mrs. G. BACH, F. VOGENITZ, W. & C. HELWIG.

Last Thursday afternoon Mr. Jos. LUEDERS left his cattle out in the pasture in which the second growth of clover had just commenced to grow. Toward evening the stock was bloated fearfully from the young clover and before Dr. HENCKELL could arrive, four valuable cows died, the rest were saved.
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A special meeting of our school district will be called next Saturday the 18th inst. at 7 o'clock P.M., for the purpose of building a furnace in the school-house. This will be a very good plan; it will save the trouble of the teachers and pupils in carrying wood, take up no room as stoves do, give a uniform heat through the whole building, and most of all save our district some money.
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Don't forget the excursion to Plymouth next Sunday. At the last monthly meeting of the Cedarburg Turn Verein, it was resolved to attend the Turn Fest in a body with the Cedarburg Band at the head. All are invited to attend, and tickets can now be had at reduced rates. All those who wish to join the Turners, whether members or not, will have to notify the committee, consisting of four members: Messrs. G. WURTHMANN, Chas. VOGEL, W.H. HORN and W. WEBER.
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The following members were elected at the yearly meeting of the Turners held at the Turner-hall on Tuesday the 7th inst.:
1st Speaker - John WEBER
2nd Speaker - G. WURTHMANN
1st Turnwart - H. BEHNISH
2nd Turnwart - W.H. HORN
1st Secretary - F.G. SCHUETTE
2nd Secretary - J. KUHEFUSS Jr.
1st Treasurer - A.R. BOERNER
2nd Treasurer - W. MUUR
Janitor - F. BERGMANN
Trustee for three years - Chas. VOGEL
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Dr. F.G. BREINIG died at his residence in Milwaukee last Sunday morning of consumption aged 44 years, leaving a widow, but no children. The deceased was well known here, having been summoned very often to attend difficult cases in this place and neighborhood. The editor of the NEWS loses in him more than a passing acquaintance, and will miss him sadly while visiting Milwaukee; it was seldom indeed, that we did not meet on these occasions and when time permitted, had a pleasant chat together. May he rest in peace.
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Dr. D.W. LYNCH of West Bend, formerly or Richfield, was here on Monday last for a few hours on business, visiting friends at the same time and having a pleasant chat with us. The doctor is a Cedarburg boy, but left here when he was quite young; still there is, and always has been, an attachment in him to the town where the old family homestead is situated.
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Mr. ASCHE with a gang of masons and laborers is busy getting out stone from the quarry opposite the mill, for the purpose of building a culvert on the main street in this village where the small creek crosses. We think that now would be the proper time, while these men have opened the quarry, to get the bridge across the mill race near the mill, on the road to the depot, as also the one at the planing mill, constructed.

The latter need not be wider than about 20 feet in one span, and would cost less than a new long wooden structure. If built of stone, we have done with the raising of taxes forever so far as these bridges or culverts are concerned, while the present dangerous state of these structures may perhaps bring the town into trouble by paying heavy damages in cases of a break down.


Mr. PLANT has been, for the last sixteen or eighteen years, engaged in the cause of education, in Chicago both as Superintendent and Principal of Schools, and contrary to the usual fate of persons following that high calling, is now in independent circumstances. He has taken an active part in Politics, and is amongst the most prominent in advocating every measure calculated to advance the interests of Ireland, the native land of his parents; being a leader in Land League Reforms etc.

Last, but not least, he did not leave before showing his appreciation of the Cedarburg NEWS by handing in his subscription. Come again.
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The city council of Port Washington passed a resolution instructing the city clerk to give notice to all saloonkeepers, that they must not suffer any loud noise or singing in their respective places between 10 o'clock P.M. and 7 o'clock A.M. otherwise the offenders will be proceeded against by law, i.e. their licenses revoked. Some of the Milwaukee "cranks" may call it "Polizeistaunde." The boys must do all their singing and carousing after 7 o'clock in the morning and before 10 o'clock in the evening. This is a good democratic city; what have our republican friends to say about it now?
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There was quite a party from Port Washington enjoying themselves for a few hours at Hilgen's Springs. Among the visitors we noticed Messrs. PORS, BLANKE, LYMAN with their wives, also Judge EGHART, Messrs. SCHWIN and GOETZE, besides some others whom we did not meet, the crowd of guests from Milwaukee and the Odd Fellows from other places being rather larger than usual. From a distance we noticed our old friend Anthony ALHAUSER and some more Saukville people, but did not get a chance to shake hands. Better luck next time.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
August 22, 1883
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

Mr. James DALEY of Chicago, was home last Sunday on a short visit.

Mr. L.C. LARSEN of Port Washington was in town one day last week on business.

ZAUN & BECK have built a new coal shed near the depot and are busy filling it. Mr. Z. says he will deliver all orders by next week, at which time he expects to have his scale set up.

The majority of the Cedarburg Band were in Milwaukee last Thursday, to listen to the charming music of the Theo. THOMAS concert given in Schlitz Park last week.

The 28th of August the yearly St. Augustine Fest will be held at Mrs. BACH near Newburg. All festivals of the kind were always well attended and no doubt this one will be a success also.

A public auction will take place at Henry KEINER, one and a half miles east of the village of Hamilton on the 15th of September. Mr. K. intends to sell all his stock and farming utensils, and will make his future home in Marathon county.

Mr. Paul HAMMER, the cattle dealer of Milwaukee passed through our town last Saturday. Mr. H. is skirmishing around all over the country and buys all the fat cattle he can get hold of.

Last Saturday evening there was a general hurrah on our streets; at John ROTH's two young men were on the war path but did not find their match, and later in the evening there was a kind of "tailor convention" held near Carl BOETTCHER's saloon. No blood was shed or lives lost in both scuffles.

The proprietor of the Brewery will enlarge his already massive ice house this summer, for the quantity of ice now on hand will not be sufficient during the summer for the amount of beer they are selling.
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On Sunday September 9th 1883, the yearly harvest festival at Horn's Corners will take place. Mr. SCHELLENBERG has engaged the full Cedarburg band for the occasion and a good time may be anticipated. The festival will be held in the woods of Mr. D. BARELMAN which is one of the nicest woods around the country; everything will be fixed up in grand style, benches, tables and a large dancing platform for those wishing to dance during the day and evening. All should attend.
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It was in the earlier part of last week when a rumor reached this place that three gentlemen of our acquaintance the Messrs Carl von BAUMBACH, GERHARDI, and von KALTENBORN of the firm of Baumbach & Rosenthal in Milwaukee, were contemplating a visit to this place and to make the journey on foot. Expectation was on tip toe among the numerous friends and acquaintances of the gentlemen, whether they really would undertake the perilous task "bei die Hitze", and bets for and against their coming as indicated, were freely made. The rumor however was fully confirmed on Friday when one of our citizens, Mr. BOCLO, received a letter from Mr. von KALTENBORN, stating that one of the trio, Mr. von BAUMBACH had backed out (sensible man that - ED) but that the writer and GERHARDI would start on Saturday at four o'clock from Milwaukee intending to arrive here at 10 o'clock P.M. Meantime Mr. BOCLO was requested to advise one of our landlords of their coming, to have a good supper ready by that time and to take care of their satchels which were to arrive with the 8:45 P.M. Saturday express, to be deposited at their rooms at the Washington House. Everything was done as ordered and we, together with some other gentlemen waited until after 10 o'clock, but the travelers did not put in an appearance. Learning however next morning (Sunday) that they had come a little later, we at once dispatched one of the reporters of the NEWS to interview the gentlemen in question. The reporter soon returned stating that the two gentlemen had eaten a very hearty supper after their arrival and had started before 6 o'clock that morning for Hilgen's Spring Summer Resort to take one of those delicious baths to be had at that establishment. After finding them the following conversation took place:

REPORTER - "What induced you to come up here on foot?"

TRAVELERS - "We challenged each other to do it, but Mr. von BAUMBACH backed out and paid forfeit."

REP. - "Did you encounter any perils on the journey?"

GENT - "We did escape one at least. We were overtaken by a double seated buggy coming from Milwaukee, the front seat being occupied by two fine looking farmer girls driving the team, while the back seat was invitingly empty."

REP. - "Why didn't you ask the girls to take you along?"

GENT. - "We might give a number of reasons beside our pledge of footing it the whole distance, but the main reason was our being both married men and our wives might hear of it." (Rep. aside d__d fools)

REP. - "Didn't the girls look back after passing you?"

GENT. - "They did probably to see how we looked in the cloud of dust stirred up by their horses and buggy; we both were very good looking men when we were young but too modest to imagine that now any girls would look at us twice." (Rep. aside: I don't know about that, hate to trust you.)

REP. - "Any other perils on the journey?"

GENT. - "None, and for the rest of the journey only saw a small boy on the read and a litter of pigs."

After the long interview, the reporter asked the gentlemen to step into our editorial rooms, where a gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. FITZGERALD imported by the S.C. HERBST Importing Company in Milwaukee, wished to make their acquaintance. Mr. FITZGERALD was not there however in person but in spirit, and after being introduced, both gentlemen were very agreeably surprised of the old fellows fine qualities.

The gentlemen left Cedarburg for Thiensville, about 4 P.M., in good spirits, where a carriage with some friends awaited them, although the thermometer ranged here even at that hour between 90 and 92 degrees in the shade. It was the hottest day of the season.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
August 29, 1883
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

Mr. Thos. FLYNN, the machine-agent of Mequon, was in town last Monday.

Mr. Eugene TURNER, of Port Washington, was in town last Friday on business.

Remember the harvest picnic at Chr. KLUMB on Sunday, Sept. 26th. A grand ball in the Turner Hall in the evening.

It is rumored that Mr. JAUCKE will build a new hotel this coming spring. That looks like business, and our village can boast of having some first class hotels.

The new hotel built by Mr. J.C. KUHEFUSS, is nearly completed, the masons are plastering all the rooms and the carpenters are busy laying the floors. It makes a good appearance and will be furnished with all the latest improvements.

Attend the harvest picnic at Henry HAAS next Sunday. the picnic will be held in the Thienville Park, and in the evening a grand ball in the Turner Hall will be given, which closes that day's enjoyment.

The harvest ball and picnic at Herman SCHELLENBERG on the 9th of Sept., should not be forgotten. A good crowd is expected from all the surrounding towns, and everybody may expect a jolly time.

A tramp arrived at the house of Mr. DINGLE, and he feels happy. Although the mother was reported to be very low yet, Dr. MAGER informs us that she is on the way of recovery.
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Deputy Sheriff GOTTSCHALK had the pleasure of catching a horse trader who swindled a farmer from Saukville, by trading horses last Monday. He overtook him near Thienville, and after fussing around a while gave the horse up. The farmer may be thankful that Dr. HENEKELL told him in time what kind of an animal he had traded, and it was a pity Supt. WHITEHEAD wasn't around any more.
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Among the many strangers who attended the monthly fair at this place, we noticed Supt. WHITEHEAD, of the Humane Society of Milwaukee. Mr. WHITEHEAD came out here to look for poor, disabled or ill-treated animals, and he was lucky enough to find one horse which was killed immediately. It would not do any harm if he would call around a little oftener, for we noticed horses, on previous fairs, which were poor, crippled and ill-treated, and a disgrace to a man that would lead such a poor animal around.

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