Ozaukee County Newspapers

August, 1884

The Cedarburg Weekly News
August 6, 1884
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

LOCAL MATTERS

On the 31st inst, the Cedarburg Band are engaged to play at Harmony Park in the city of Port Washington.

At the session of the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Hermann held at Watertown, Wis. last week, Charles LAU, of this place, was elected vice-president.

Judge EGHART and wife of Port Washington were in town last Thursday.

Mr. C. HORNEFFER of Milwaukee was in town on Monday.

On the 24th inst., John B. SIMON of Grafton will have an Ernte-fest ball in his new hall in which he invites his numerous friends.

Last Sunday a number of Port Washington folks picnicked at Thiensville accompanied by Prof. ZIMMERMANN's Band.

A valuable horse belonging to Mr. John REILY dropped dead last Saturday while tied to the post near the Catholic Church.

Mr. John B. SIMON of Grafton was in town on Tuesday, and a caller at the NEWS office.

A little son arrived at the house of Mr. ZIPTKE, one of our Lutheran School masters.

Mr. Charles SCHEFT, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting his father-in-law Mr. Chas. MINTZLAFF of Grafton.

A slight flurry of snow was observed by several people in this town early on Monday morning last.

A team of horses belonging to Mr. BUTZKE of the town of Jackson ran away last Thursday, severely injuring Mr. B. and wife.

Mr. John BACH of Butternut, son-in-law of Mr. John BUCH of this place was in Cedarburg last week on a visit.
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Next Sunday, August 10th, the picnic and ball will take place at H. SCHELLENBERG at Horn's Corners. He invites his friends and patrons. The Cedarburg Band will furnish the music.
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On Wednesday, the 19th inst. during the first week of the Teacher's Institute to be held at Cedarburg, Professors LAU and WALTERS of Milwaukee will exhibit at the Turn Hall a series of views illustrated by the means of a first class stereopticon, illuminated with the oxy-hydrogen light. A full programme will be published at the proper time.
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The opening of the new hall at Henry HAAS in the village of Thienville, will take place on the 24th inst. There will be a grand concert in the afternoon and a ball in the evening. Good music will be in attendance.
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We learn from Thiensville that the Mequon Cleveland Club effected at its meeting last Saturday a temporary organizations, and appointed a committee to report at the adjourned meeting on the 23d inst. at 6 o'clock P.M. at the house of F. ENGELHARDT, the names of permanent officers, etc. The meeting was quite enthusiastic and consisted of nearly two-thirds republicans. Let the good work go on.
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Quite a number of comfortable residences are being built in and on the outskirts of this village. Among them we notice three or four on the Columbia street; in a few years this will be one of the most lively streets in the village, if the owners of the land would only lay it out in lots and sell them at reasonable prices.
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THE CONCORDIA MILLS--These mills owned by Mr. BODENDOERFER at Hamilton near this village, are now in full operation again after having undergone a thorough repair with additions of the latest improvement in the manufacture of flour, etc.
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During the storm last Saturday two horses belonging to Mr. SCHEREBEL, living on the lake shore a few miles north of this city, were struck by lightning. The horses had just been fed. One was killed, the other is living but is both deaf and blind. No marks of the destructive element are visible on either horse. The were insured for $200--Port Wash. Star
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The farmer, John KLUG, who was reported dangerously hurt by getting under his horses and raper, is in a fair way of recovering, the injuries not proving very serious as first reported.
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The fire department of Cedarburg had their monthly turn out and trial of the engine last Saturday. Everything proved to be in good working order, but the bet protection against fires after all is the taking care of it in every household.
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DOGS vs. SHEEP
Some days ago Mr. Patrick HEMLOCK of this town lost twenty seven fine sheep that were killed during the night by dogs. When getting up in the morning some one in the family observed that the sheep were scattered over the farm and barn-yard and seemed to be frightened. Further investigation showed that dead carcasses were scattered all over and on one of them a dog was filling himself.

The dog was followed up and turned in at the farm of Mr. Thomas HALPIN, proving to have belonged to the late Patrick HALPIN. Although this item of personal estate left by the deceased to the heirs cannot be found in the inventory on file in the Probate office, it nevertheless has become a pretty dear one to the son and heir Mr. Thomas HALPIN; the damage of Mr. HEMLOCK having been assessed by three disinterested neighbors to eighty-six dollars, which sum Mr. HALPIN paid or agreed to pay at once. An effort was made to rope in some more of the dogs who must have participated in that nightly sport, by leaving some carcasses in the field and watching for the supposed other canines during the two nights following, but "nary" dog made his appearance; they were too cunning to be caught even with the fattest of mutton in unlimited quantities, or were cautioned by their owners not to appear, and so friend HALPIN will have to foot the whole bill, although there must have been more than one dog at the killing.

When the revisors of our statutes incorporated into them a good dog law for the protection of sheep chiefly, it was supposed that no successful attempt could be made to repeal it, and yet it was done by the farming interest represented in the legislature that it was intended to protect, merely because it was a tax and farmers, as a general thing, are opposed to taxes. Since the repeal, the number of useless and dangerous curs have increased to a great extent; we believe that in this village alone there are some two hundred or more, of whom nine out of ten are not worth the powder and shot it would take to kill them. A tax of $2 apiece would soon reduce them to at least one-fifth of the present number or it would bring us a tax on a useless luxury of five or six hundred dollars a year.

In talking over this matter with Mr. James NOLAN a farmer near this village, he said to us that he and other farmers had to give up the raising of sheep because the dogs were constantly after them; some boys from the village with shooting irons followed by two or three curs, would follow the creek to hunt ducks or go across the fields in search of birds; and game being scarce, the dogs would turn in killing or chasing the sheep; the difficulty of identifying the dogs and to trace them to their owners, making the recovery of damages almost impossible.

Let us have the old tax on dogs restored again; it will pay in the end and allow the raising of sheep again, especially on farms near the village.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
August 13, 1884

LOCAL MATTERS

A tramp arrived at the house of J. ARMBRUSTER, proprietor of the new jewelry shop.

Next Sunday the children of our public school will have a picnic in the Turn Hall Park. For particulars see posters.

Mr. A.D. BOLENS, local editor of the Port Washington Star, was in town on Wednesday last.

The excursion to the Park last Sunday was quite an affair, fully two hundred and fifty persons participating. In the evening a grand ball was held in the hall.

While the carpenters were at work last Friday erecting the scaffold on J. SCHROEDER's store, one of them, Frank ERNST, fell to the ground receiving a bad scar on his forehead.

Dr. H. MAGER lost a case of instruments in this village and kindly requests the finder to return the same.

The picnic and ball at H. SCHELLENBERG last Sunday was well attended. A large number of our village folks being present also.

The harvest festival of the Cedarburg Turn Verein will take place on the 14th of September.

We learn that Mr. Adam JOCHEM of the town of Mequon, will remove to Sauk Rapids, Minn., where he has purchased in interest in a brewery. We wish him success in his undertaking.

DIED--near Watertown, N.Y. Aug 5th, Mrs. Eliza CROUL CONOVER, in the 98th year of her age,--the mother of Mrs. J. A. SMITH of this village.

Hiram SMITH and wife, of Sheboygan Falls were visiting at the domicile of our dairy editor, for two days last week. Mr. S. keeps about 55 cows in milk, the year round, and sells the butter they make to the Plankington House, Milwaukee.

Mrs. MEYER and Mrs. BACH of Milwaukee and Mrs. JOHANN of Depere with their families are spending a few weeks with their relations here.

G.A. BOERNER and (unreadable) for Bismark, Dak. last Monday, they will be gone about two weeks stopping off at all places of interest along their route.
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At the yearly meeting of the Cedarburg Turn Verein held at their hall on Tuesday, Aug. 5th, the following members were elected for the ensuing year: G. WURTHMAN, President; W.H. HORN, Vice President; H. BEHNISCH, 1st Turnwart; W. MURR, 2nd Turnwart; F.G. SCHUETTE, Secy; J.C. KUHEFUSS, Asst. Secy; A.R. BOERNER, Treasurer; C. MILKE, Asst. Treasurer; F. BERGMAN, Janitor; J. WEBER, Trustee for 3 years.
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Last week, a vote was taken in this town whether the bridge across the Cedar Creek on the east line from the depot should be rebuilt or not, and resulted in a small majority against the rebuilding. Is it not for the interest of the people of a town where a newspaper is printed to have the official notice inserted? We never heard of any such move until the morning when the vote was to be taken, otherwise we would have published the notice for nothing. It looks as if secrecy was intended in the movement.
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ASTRAY--Taken up the subscriber at his farm on the Green Bay road above Thiensville, in the town of Mequon, a span of horses, one black and one bay. The owner is requested to pay charges and take the same away.--John REYNOLDS
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We are extremely sorry to record the misfortune that overtook our former fellow townsman Dr. J.A. RUSSELL now at Tower City Dakota, caused by one of those storms to which that country has been so frequently subjected. We take from our exchange, the Tower City Herald, the following account so far as it relates to Dr. RUSSELL and family; it does not state whether the Dr. was at the time, Friday July 25th, with his family on the farm or at his office in Tower City distant 15 miles between the two. The crops on his farm must have been totally destroyed, a heavy loss on nearly three hundred acres of grain etc.

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
Dr. J.A. RUSSELL returned about midnight on Saturday from his homestead, fifteen miles north-west, bringing with him Mrs. RUSSELL and daughter Lizzie, whose escape from instant death is indeed wonderful. At 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon the storm struck them with hardly a moment's warning and the house, 16 x 20 two stories high, was picked up bodily and thrown to the ground on its side. Both ladies fainted. Mrs. RUSSELL recovered first and found herself partially covered with small articles, and hemmed in between the side of the building and the large cook stove, but Miss Lizzie (15 years of age) did not fare as fortunately. She lay insensible under a large kitchen sink. Mrs. RUSSELL soon extricated her, and both clambered up the studding to the side window, and getting through it dropped to the ground and sought shelter under a hay stack until the storm passed over. Then in their wet and hail-torn dresses they walked two miles to the residence of Mr. SMITH, who with the ladies, returned about 7 o'clock in the evening, and entering with a ladder, secured some dry clothing. While on their return to Mr. SMITH's for the night, the second - or 8 o'clock hail storm - struck them, and with hands in front of their faces to catch their breath, they fought the storm for a mile and reached shelter, with swollen hands, clothing nearly out cut off with hail stones, and their bodies all bruised therefrom. Their escape is indeed wonderful. They are now at their residence in Tower City recovering from the terrible ordeal through which they have passed.

On Monday Dr. RUSSELL, with a force of men, went out and raised the house. When nearly perpendicular, the stove and a large trunk were found clinging to the side wall nearly up to the second story floor, where they were thrown by the storm.
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FOR SALE--One or two lots with a one-story dwelling house, in the south part of the village Cedarburg on the west side of the main street will be sold at reasonable terms. Enquire at the office of William VOGENITZ, Cedarburg, Wis.
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FREDONIA--Aug. 10th
Robert MUEHLBERG, a farmer, was presented with twins, a girl and boy, by his wife on Sunday the 3d inst.; all doing well.

Chas. DRUEBENBACH, the deranged person I wrote you about, returned home after wandering around four days.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
August 20, 1884

LOCAL MATTERS

Mr. J.W. JOHANN of Depere was here on a visit last Sunday.

Our barber, J.W. RAEDER, and family will remove to Sauk Rapids, Minn. next Monday.

The picnic of the children of the public school took place last Sunday in the Turn Hall park. The little ones enjoyed themselves until 9 o'clock in the evening in dancing and other amusements.

Mr. Ernst FROEHLICH of the Golden Eagle clothing store of Milwaukee is home on a two weeks vacation.

Next Sunday, Aug. 24th, the harvest festival at J.B. SIMON, in Grafton, will take place. Prof. ZIMMERMANN's bank will furnish the music.

The opening of the new hall at Henry HAAS in Thiensville will take place next Sunday the 24 inst. Henry invites everybody to come and have a good time.
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The teachers' institute of Ozaukee Co. opened in our public school house last Monday, with a very large attendance of teachers. Messrs. S.A. HOOPER of Milwaukee and Chas. LAU of this place are conducting the Institute. Prof. J.W. STEARNS, president of the State Normal School of Whitewater will be here tonight and lecture in the school-house on the subject of "Learning to Read" to which everybody is invited to attend.
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Last Saturday evening about 9 o'clock the Hotel of Mr. B. WEBER near the depot came very near being destroyed by fire. We learn that the fire originated in one of the upper rooms and the cause being that one of he boarders while in his room about six o'clock, after lighting his pipe left it, thinking everything was in good order. A spark must have flown out of his pipe and fell on the bed which caught fire and was soon ablaze. It was however discovered in time and the alarm given and by the assistance of the neighbors was extinguished before any great damage was done.
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CEDARBURG CLEVELAND & HENDRICKS CLUB
According to notice a large number of the citizens of Cedarburg assembled at the Washington House last Monday evening and effected an organization by appointing Wm. VOGENITZ, F.W. HORN, Richard MOONEY, H. SCHELLENBERG and Gustav PODOLL a committee to report officers of the club. The following gentlemen were proposed by the committee and unanimously elected: President, W.H. FITZGERALD; Vice President, G. PODOLL; Secretaries, Chas. WILKE and Fred SCHUETTE; corresponding Secretary, P.K. GANNON; Treas., S.S. LEONARD, who were also appointed to be the executive committee with the addition of Messrs. W.P. JOCHEM and W.F. SCOTT.

A vice President from each school district was also appointed with power to appoint his own secretary. The following named gentlemen were elected: A. BODENDOERFER, G. PODOLL, Louis KASTEN, John MULLANEY, James NOLAN, Jr., Died. BARELMANN, Her. SCHELLENBERG, Jerry O'BRIEN, Nic THEISS.

After a few words of thanks from the President elect, the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the executive committee after the same has fully organized, secured a hall for the meetings, etc.--P.K. GANNON, Chr. pro tem. Fred SCHUETTE, Sec. pro tem.
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The entire National Guard of Wisconsin will be in camp commencing next Monday at Cold Springs for the first time since the close of the war. Visiting companies from other states will also be present to contest for prizes to be offered. All branches of the service will be represented, Cavalry, Artillery and Infantry, all under command of Gen. C.P. CHAPMAN, Adjutant Gen'l, and Capt. Chas. KING, U.S.A., as Military Director.

Attractive programmes will be arranged daily, and evening drills will form an important part of the weeks work. The grounds will be brilliantly illuminated by electric lights and every arrangement made for the convenience and comfort of visitors. No one should fail to visit the encampment.
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STEREOPTICON
From hand-bills distributed through our town yesterday morning, we see that Messrs. LAU and WALTHERS from Milwaukee will give their entertainment in the Turner's Hall next Thursday.

We have never seen a stereopticon nor have we an idea of it definite enough to give a detailed description of how this new thing is made to work. All that we were able to ascertain is that photographic views on small glass slides are by means of magnifying stereoscopic glasses thrown on a large screen of canvas, thus producing a lifelike relief picture of the object on the glass. By those who have seen such pictures, the effect is pronounced to be most wonderful, and we would not hesitate to recommend to old and young to visit the entertainment, as it promises to be a refined, interesting and instructive affair.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEWS
Bismarck, D.T., Aug. 15th '84
Dear Father:

We got here at 6:30 PM yesterday and find this a lively little city of about 5000 inhabitants. It is a long and tiresome journey from St. Paul to here, the tracks of the Northern Pacific being in poor condition and trains not running faster than about 17 miles per hour on an average.

The DIETRICH Bros. (Joe and Jake) are doing a large business here, they have a large meat market and grocery store; they have six men in their employ and ten horses on the road all day, they buy their stock (two or three car loads at a time) from stock ranches way out in Montana. During the day their stock is pastured on the plains by a cow boy. We will remain here until Monday morning.

After visiting La Crosse, St. Paul and Minneapolis as I wrote you in the first letter, we went to Minnehaha Falls about five miles from the latter place, you no doubt have read about it often so it is of no use to describe it.

On our way here we stopped of at Tower City, the home of Dr. RUSSELL, we found the Dr. and family all well and happy in spite of the shaking up they got at the time of the storm. They send their regards to all friends at Cedarburg and vicinity. We only had a few hours time so we did not go out to his farm some four miles distant from the village; he made us promise to get off on our return and take a days hunt with him, as the lakes and prairies are full of ducks and chickens. Tower City is quite a place for the few years of its existence and the Dr. has great hopes of it being a large city in the near future.

The country from La Crosse to St. Paul is rough; the St. Paul road runs all the way along the Mississippi. On the other side of the river are high bluffs, the tops of which you can hardly see from the car windows, this is a splendid ride and it is worth anybodys time to go and see the scene.

When we get to Minneapolis we will go to Lake Minnetonka the noted summer resort. it is about 18 miles from the city, trains runs each way every 30 minutes which are always crowded to their fullest capacity. From Minneapolis the country is more level by covered all over with what they call scrub oak the highest of which are about 10 feet, this continues as far as Fargo. After leaving there you lose all sight of trees and nothing can be seen as far as the eye can reach but prairie and sky with here and there a small farm house or a claim shanty. The crops are all in stacks and some has been thrashed. I am well and feel first rate.--Wm.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
August 27, 1884

LOCAL MATTERS

Mr. L. C. LARSEN of Port Washington is attending the institute this week.

Mr. Theo. KRAUSE has removed his barber shop in the building formerly occupied by J.W. RAEDER.

Messrs. H. SCHELLENBERG and John MAAS returned from Michigan last Sunday.

Messrs. LAU and WALTHERS were greeted with a fair audience at their stereopticon performance in the Turner Hall last Thursday evening.

Mr. Adam JOCHEM and family of Mequon and J.W. RAEDER and family of this place, leave today for Sauk Rapids, Minn., their future home.

The opening of the new hall at H. HAAS in Thienville took place last Sunday. Quite a number of Cedarburg folks were present, and took part in the enjoyment.

W.H. HORN and G.A. BOERNER returned from Bismarck, D.T., last Friday.

Mr. John BECKER and family of Chicago are here on a visit. The guests of F. BECKMANN.

Robert BOHRTZ, Geo. ZAUN and F. FAGAN left last Monday for Oshkosh to attend the State Normal School.

The Cedarburg Band will play at M. GLEASNER's in Port Washington next Sunday.

The picnic at Grafton held by J.B. SIMON was very well attended and ZIMMERMANN's Band of Port Washington discoursed very good music.
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A runaway occurred here last Saturday when a farmers team cam tearing along the main street of our village with a wagon loaded with grain. Right in front of our office the wagon struck the bridge over the sewer and two of the wheels were completely smashed which brought the wagon and horses to a sudden stop doing no further damage. The horses ran away while the owner, Mr. Chris. HERMANN of Jackson was standing on the wagon in the act of unloading, he saved himself by jumping after the team started, being unable to reach the lines.
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MEQUON CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS CLUB
An adjourned meeting of the club was held on the 23d inst. at the House of F. ENGELHARDT in Theinville, when an organization was effected by the election of permanent officers as follows: Wm. F. JAHN, President; Ad. ZIMMERMANN, Vice President; Chris. KLUMB, Secretary; Chs. FERGE, cor. Sec.; F. ENGEHLARDT, Treasurer.

The executive committee will consist of the President and fifteen members, one from each school district in the Town, to wit:

Wm. F. JAHN, F.E. TOENNLESSEN, H. KICKHAEFER, Henry MEYER, Carl REICHERT, G. SCHNEIDER, F.P. UERLINGS, Wm. VETTER, Ph. DAUM, Fred THIERMANN, Hartwig LAU, Albert SELLE, Aug. HODANN, Carl ELKE, Aug. HOFFMANN, Nic BECKER.

A vigorous canvass will be made to enlist members and a general grand mass meeting will be held at the Mequon Turn Hall on the 14th day of Sept. next when some of the best German and English speakers will address the citizens. A great time is apprehended and a full band of music engaged.
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Last Wednesday evening, Mr. J.W. STEARNS, president of the State Normal School at Whitewater, delivered an address to the members of the Teachers' Institute and people of Cedarburg on the subject of “learning to read”. His treatment of the subject was masterly, very instructive, and especially interesting to those engaged in the work of education. He is a pleasant speaker. For more than an hour, he held the closest attention of his audience.

Wednesday afternoon, Mr. STEARNS visited the Institute, conducted an exercise in Reading, and delivered a short address on “Morals and Manners.”

The following is a list of the names of the teachers attending the Institute: Mary SAVAGE, Jane REYNOLDS, Clara SCHNEIDER, Mary KIEFER, Edw. BLEWEFT, Mich. DOCKERY, Theod. WICHMANN, John KRICK, Rollo ECKEL, Kitty GRESSNER, Lulu KACHLER, Marg. REYNOLDS, Nicholas THENO, Mich. SCHNEIDER, Bernh. FRANZEN, Effie MOORE, Jenny DEMPSEY, Julia DEMPSEY, Emma RITTERBUSCH, Frankey BRADLEY, Joseph RICHERT, Valent. GUDEX, Peter REYNOLDS, Martha LAU, Wm. RINTELMANN, Chas. MUELLER, August RITTERBUSCH, Eliz. KELLY, Eugene GANNON, Francis SMITH, P.A. LYNCH, Martha GANNON, Louis JUERGENS, Hermine RAAKE, Robert MILLER, Frederic WEBER, L.C. LARSEN, Katie GOGGIN, Josephine M. THELEN, Lena STEINMETZER, Mary BRADLEY.
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FREDONIA, WIS. Aug. 25, 1884
We are on a fair way to have a Cleveland and Hendricks club at this place. Last Saturday a committee, with John FINTZEN as chairman, drafted a rough constitution and nominated officers for a permanent organization. Next Saturday all this will be acted upon; and the Fredonia Cleveland and Hendricks club a settled fact.

The extreme northwestern part of this town was visited by a severe hailstorm on Thursday night.

Tomorrow three or four young men will be tried before Justice CIGRAND, for burning a bundle of grain not their own. I hope to be able to give a long correspondence in a few weeks.

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