Ozaukee County Newspapers

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

LOCAL MATTERS

Miss Ida EGHART of Port Washington was in town for a few days visiting.

Misses Lucy BECKER of Milwaukee and Annie KNAUTH of Brown Deer were in town last Sunday.

Messrs. H. HORNEFFER and family, W. SCHROEDER of Milwaukee, H. STEIN and family of Brown Deer, and F. ENGELHARDT and F. HILGER of Thiensville were noticed among the many strangers at the Masquerade Ball.

The Masquerade ball at Thiensville was quite a large affair, considerable masks being present and among them some very elegant costumes. A large crowd of our citizens were in attendance and they report having had a very good time.

Do not miss the Mequon Masquerade ball next Sunday evening. The Cedarburg orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion and everybody should attend.

Mr. Oscar KOENIG and family and Miss Odelia KOENIG of Saukville were in town last Sunday.

The Cedarburg Brass Band has now also organized an orchestra, and at the next concert will play part of the programme.

The masquerade ball at the Hilgen Spring Park will take place on the 16th inst. Every body should turn out as it will be quite an affair.

We were much pleased with a call to our private Sanctum last Sunday afternoon, from Messrs. Jos. MOFFET and J.C. McKENNEY of Milwaukee, who came out here the day before, and with Dist. Atty. CLARK attended the Masquerade Ball at the Turn Hall Saturday night where they enjoyed themselves for several hours. If we had known of their being present, we would have gone over and looked in also, as the Hall joins our office, wishing always to pay attention to distinguished strangers visiting our place.
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A BEAUTIFUL RESIDENCE FOR SALE
A large 2 story stone building, 30 x 40 with a large kitchen attached, situated 1/4 of a mile east of the village of Cedarburg, containing 5 acres of land with all modern improvements, will be sold at a very low price. E. HILGEN, Sen. Proprietor
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We learn from the Free Press in Milwaukee that Mr. Wm. A. PORS of Port Washington has formed a law partnership with Mr. HENLEGEN in Milwaukee and intends soon to remove to the latter city. The Port Washington Star modifies this in saying that Mr. PORS will remain a resident at Port Washington but will be found in his new law office in Milwaukee during weekdays, returning to his home Saturdays and leaving again for Milwaukee on Mondays of each week.

Mr. PORS has had a good deal of practice and is as well read a lawyer as can be found in this State. We wish him all possible success and admire his activity. The who law business (proper) in this county is not enough to keep a louse alive, much less half a dozen Attorneys. The two Counties of Washington and Ozaukee ought to be put to-gether again.
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OBITUARY
We are grieved to announce the death of Mrs. Bertha LIESENBERG, wife of our townsman Mr. William LIESENBERG, who died last Thursday evening in the 34th year of her age of a complication of diseases after a long illness. Besides her husband, she leaves six children from 12 to 2 yrs. of age to mourn her untimely end. The deceased was Mr. LIESENBERG's third wife that he lost through death; she was a good and hard-working woman and it was perhaps her not taking proper care of herself, that brought on the sickness in the first instance.

She was buried last Sunday afternoon and the funeral sermon preached by the Rev. E. G. STRASSBURGER, of whose congregation she was a member. May she rest in peace.
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THE BEAST AND THE BEAUTY
The Port Washington Star of last week contains a sensational story of a man by the name of August KLOETY, who lives on the east side of the Milwaukee river in the town of Grafton and about half way on the road from the latter place to Port Washington. The picture of the man and the dirty hovel he burrows in, are quite correctly given, but as to the young, beautiful and accomplished lady, we must entertain grave doubts as to her sanity at least in uniting herself to such a man and accepting such home with him. If she had trusted to a correspondence with him and came out here to marry him, her eyes must have been opened by looking at the fellow to whom such article as soap (not the Arthur article) has probably never been known, and at his miserable shanty, hardly fit for cattle to winter in. Far better for the poor girl, if she is what is represented, to have sought the depths of Lake Michigan close by, before uniting herself to the miser. “The beast and the beauty” would have been a more proper heading for the Star's article if all statements are true concerning the young woman.

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

LOCAL MATTERS

J. J. DURNIN of Milwaukee is in town visiting this week.

John WEBER, the brewer, is hauling stones for a large dwelling house which he intends to build this spring in the vicinity of the Woolen Mill.

John O'BRIEN of Cedarburg and Ellen OSBORN of Jackson were united in marriage by Father DURNIN, Tuesday the 12th inst.

The wife of Mr. J. G. FRANK of Jackson, died last Friday night in the city of Milwaukee while there for treatment. Her remains passed through this village last Saturday afternoon and were buried last Sunday afternoon.
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On the 6th inst. a very pleasant family gathering took place at the residence of Mrs. HILGEN, the widow of the late Fred HILGEN of this place, to celebrate the 70th birthday of the old lady. Only the nearer relatives were present with the exception of two of her sons-in-law, numbering forty-five persons. It is needless to say that every one of the company enjoyed the celebrations, and all united in wishing the mother and grandmother many happy returns of the day. Mrs. HILGEN is nearly as active and lively as she was forty years ago when she with her husband and with their oldest daughter, now Mrs. D. WITTENBERG, first arrive in Milwaukee from Charleston, S.C. Long may she live to enjoy her old age, in the midst of her children and grandchildren.
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DEATH OF CHAS. STOPPENBACH. Another of our old time friends, Charles STOPPEHBACH of Jefferson has taken his departure to the “undiscovered country, from wherebourn no traveler returns”. In old times and while he resided in Watertown, we met him very often, but of late years it did not exceed half a dozen times during any one year. The last time we met him and had a pleasant chat over old times was at the Saint Charles Hotel in Milwaukee last fall, and he looking so well we never expected to live long enough to announce and mourn his death.

The following short sketch of the deceased taken from the Jefferson County Union, does the deceased no more than justice.

“Chas STOPPENBACH breathed his last at his home in Jefferson on Friday night of last week, aged 58 years. As was slated in our last, the difficulty under which he labored was strangulated hernia and all that medical skill could do proved unavailing. The funeral was held in Jefferson Monday and was conducted by the Masonic order of which Mr. STOPPENBACH was a worthy member. It was one of the largest funerals ever held in this county, delegations of the principal citizens from nearly all the towns being present. It is difficult for the pen in a brief notice like this to do justice to the character of a man like Mr. STOPPENBACH. For over thirty years he has been largely identified with all the interests of Jefferson county. He was the soul and life of the business interest of Jefferson. Large hearted, broad and generous in his estimates of man and affairs, he possessed besides, an energy and indomitable purpose that found not a peer in one in a thousand. His faults were few, and those were human. His virtues they were many. he was a grand, strong man, and his friends mourn his loss deeply.

The Cedarburg Weekly News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
February 28, 1884

LOCAL MATTERS

Matt ROOS, the Saukville cigar manufacturer, was in town last Monday on business.

Mr. Thos. BROGAN sold his farm, one half mile west of Cedarburg to August WEGEMANN of Horn's Corners for $5,400.

Dr. H. MAGER has purchased a fine black horse from E. WOLLNER, who brought it with him from the State of Illinois.

The masquerade ball at Herman HERZIGER was well attended, and all those who were present report having enjoyed.

Mr. H.K. GANNON and Miss Jennie CRAIG of Milwaukee were in town last Sunday visiting friends and relatives.

M. RAPPOLD will sell his farm and household utensils at auction on the 12th of March 1884. Also Wm. MARTENS who lives 1 1/2 miles south-west of Horn's Corners.

Mr. Herman HACKBARTH, section boss on the M & N R.R. line, will build a splendid little cottage this spring near his old dwelling house. Carpenter Albert KNUPPEL got the contract.
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The monthly Stock Fair held at this place last Monday was largely attended by people from this and adjoining counties. A notable feature of the fair was the exhibition of Esterly's self binder by the agents Messrs. LAMDIN, FITZGERALD and MOONEY of this place. One of our substantial farmers, Mr. John DUNN who had purchased one of these binders last year and had it in use, happened to be present and put his team before the machine to show how it worked. A quantity of rye straw was soon on hand and amidst a driving snow storm, the self binder took up, bound and threw out about 100 bundles without missing a single one.
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On going to press we learn that a young man by the name of Herman PATTENGE, who worked a farm belonging to his mother, two miles west of here, committed suicide by hanging himself in the loft of the house. Family difficulties are said to have been the cause of the rash act. He was a good hard working boy.
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FREDONIA CORRESPONDENCE
Tuesday afternoon, as the north bound passenger train was running into Fredonia station, William FEDERMEYER met with a serious accident which may result fatally.

The old man, getting on to the track as the train was coming in, was picked up by the cow catcher, carried a short distance, and then fell between the depot platform and engine wheels, where he was rolled over and dragged along until the train came to a stop. Excepting slight abrasions of the skin, FERDERMEYER received no external injuries.

However a fracture of two or more ribs, and a wound of the lung compensate for any mangled limb the old man might have received. FERDERMEYER is 78 years old, a Luxemburger, and for his age well preserved and hearty. Eye-witnesses of the accident say it was remarkable that the man was not cut to pieces; as it is, he will have a hard pull, if ever he recovers. At present the injured man is doing quite well, and the doctor has hopes.
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Ozaukee County will shortly lose two of her old settlers. Port BRIMMER of Sec. 3 town Saukville sold his farm for $6,500 last week, and will probably go to California in the spring. Josh MONTGOMERY of Sec. 33 town Fredonia sold his place for $7,500 and thinks of Kansas as his future home.

Ed LUTZEN of Saukville bought MONTGOMERY's place, and MILLER of Belgium township, BRIMMER's, which he turns over to his son.

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