Ozaukee County Newspapers
June, 1885
The Cedarburg Weekly News
June 3, 1885
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin
LOCAL MATTERS
Rev. Th. FINK and wife of Cascade, Wis. were in the city Monday.
WIRTH Bros. new dry goods and grocery store is now open for business.
Hon. A. ZIMMERMANN of Mequon was in the city Tuesday.
Grand celebration at Hilgen's Spring Park on the 4th of July.
Mr. Henry GANNON and wife of Milwaukee were visiting relatives and friends in this
city last Sunday.
The bathing houses at the Hilgen's Spring Park will be in order next Sunday for the
parties wishing to use them. The boats will also be launched.
A new wire fence is being built around the Lutheran burying grounds; a new fence
should also be built around the one adjoining it.
Next Friday evening the monthly meeting of the Cedarburg Fire Company will be held
at the Cedarburg House. All members are requested to attend as important business
will be transacted.
The delivery of BRUSS Bros. machinery took place yesterday. Quite a number of farmers
being present from this and adjoining counties. They sold a large number of reapers,
threshing machines, hay-tedders, rakes, etc. and the sales of this year far exceed
those of last year.
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SODA FOUNTAIN
A splendid silver soda fountain with marble table has been put up by our enterprising
druggist and apothecary, Mr. E.A. GELTCH. Call and try the different flavoring extracts
such as raspberry, strawberry, lemon, sassafras, etc. only 5 cents a glass of such
delicious drinks and ice cold at that.
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The death of Chas. WERDEHOFF of Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, which
occurred on the 27th of last month, is very much regretted by all those who knew
him personally. The company loses in him one of their best and most faithful employes
who yet in the prime of life is thus suddenly taken away. To the bereaved family
and relatives we offer our most heartfelt sympathy.
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We often surprise our friends who inquire about the location of Cedarburg when we
tell them the city is only about four miles from the Lake Michigan shore. Still that
is the fact; and on the table land, one mile west of Cedarburg on a bright clear
day one can see a silver line of the shore about 15 miles in length, that seemingly
is only a little east of the city limits. From that elevation, on a clear day, we
often see the white sails of commerce and the long lines of smoke from the steamers
and vessels that are plowing the waves.
The same sights are visible from the steeples of our churches and from the roofs
of our highest buildings. It is not often, but still it occurs some times that we
can hear the waves roll, so as to distinguish the sound from that made by the wind
swaying the forest, and it is quite common that we feel the cool breeze from the
old Lake.
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The street commissioner experiences considerable trouble in making the side walks
from two or three persons in this city. The consequences will be that no side walks
will be made where opposition of that kind is shown and if the occupants should put
up any obstruction in front of their premises, so as to amount to nuisances, the
land will be condemned and the city will make such side walks as would have been
made in the first place. A good side walk of sixty feet costs nearly $25 and we should
think that any one would be glad to have this improvement made by the city and not
try to prevent it by sheer ugliness. Be warned in time to save costs and trouble.
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OWNERS OF UNLICENSED DOGS TAKE NOTICE
Owners of unlicensed dogs take notice that they will be prosecuted and fined, if
by the end of this week any canine species is kept by them without the fee being
paid. A few fines of $5 each imposed will bring this about perhaps more speedily
than all warning. The Marshal will be instructed to prosecute owners of unlicensed
dogs and kill all dogs about the city who may not have an owner from and after Monday
next.
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(OFFICIAL) PROCEEDS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL AND THE BOARD OF HEALTH
The Common Council met pursuant to the following call from the Mayor at half past
seven o'clock P.M. on the 28th day of May.
To the City Clerk:
You are hereby requested to call a special meeting of the common council to-morrow
evening at half past seven o'clock P.M. at the council chamber for the purpose of
organizing a board of health and to transact such other business as may be brought
before the council. -- F.W. HORN, Mayor
Council was called to order by the Mayor. Present: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH
and ZAUN.
Absent: Ald. WITTENBERG
An ordinance was introduced entitled an ordinance concerning the public health which
was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and ZAUN.
Resolved: That the common council of the city of Cedarburg hereby organize themselves
as a board of health and for that purpose the council stands adjourned until Saturday
the 30th inst. at half past seven o'clock P.M. which was adopted by all the members
(4) present. -- Fred. G. SCHUETTE, City Clerk
Meeting of the board of health of the city of Cedarburg, held immediately after the
adjournment of the common council on the 28th of May 1885. Present: Mayor HORN, Aldermen
BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and ZAUN. Absent: Alderman WITTENBERG.
On motion Mayor F.W. HORN was chosen President and Fred. G. SCHUETTE Secretary of
said board.
The following resolutions were offered.
Resolved: That the health officer is hereby directed and authorized for the preservation
of the health of this city, to do and perform all such acts, that are in his opinion
necessary and proper under the laws of this State and under any ordinance of the
city relating thereto.
Resolved: That the health officer be and the same is hereby authorized to put the
city in good sanitary condition and generally to exercise all the duties as a health
officer of said city in accordance with the laws of this State and the ordinance
or ordinances of the city relating to that subject. Resolutions adopted by all the
aldermen (4) present.
Adjourned upon motion until Saturday evening at 8 o'clock May 30, 1885. -- Fred.
G. SCHUETTE, City Clerk
Common Council met pursuant to adjournment on the 30th day of May 1885 at 7 1/2 o'clock
P.M. Council called to order by the Mayor F.W. HORN, roll called. Present: Aldermen
BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG. Absent: Alderman ZAUN.
A committee of the Cedarburg Fire Company appeared before the council stating that
the company would have to expend at least five hundred dollars for necessary improvements,
such as the building of a tower, etc. asking an appropriate from the city for these
purposes.
Alderman WITTENBERG offer the following (unreadable portion) . . . sum of two hundred
and fifty dollars be allowed to the Cedarburg Fire Company in aid of necessary improvements,
which was adopted.
(Unreadable words) . . .Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG.
Wm. H. FITZGERALD street commissioner, presented his account for services rendered
and money expended for labor and materials during the months of April and May amounted
to $74.97. On motion said bill was allowed in full.
Ayes: BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG.
Bill from C.W. LEHMAN & Bros. of $2 for dog tags which was allowed by the following
vote: Ayes: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG.
Bill from Cedarburg Woolen Mill of $90 for a safe as for resolution of the commoun
council which was allowed by the following vote: Ayes: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH
and WITTENBERG.
On motion the council adjourned until Saturday next the 6th day of June at 7 1/2
o'clock P.M. -- F.G. SCHUETTE, City Clerk, Cedarburg, May 30th 1885
Board of health met pursuant to adjournment on the 30th day of May 1885. Said meeting
was called to order by F.W. HORN, President, roll called, members present: BOHRTZ,
BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG and F.G. SCHUETTE, Sec'y. Without transacting any
business, board of health adjourned to Saturday, June 6th 1885 at 8 o'clock P.M.
-- F.G. SCHUETTE, Sec'y.
The Cedarburg Weekly News
Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
June 10, 1885
LOCAL MATTERS
Mr. Wm. HORNEFFER and wife of Milwaukee were in the city last Sunday.
Work is progressing rapidly on the new stone bridge across the Cedar Creek near Schroeder
& Trottmann's Mill.
The M & N Railway will begin to run their regular summer Sunday excursion trains
between Milwaukee and Elkhart Lake on Sunday, June 21st.
The Black Diamond Specialty Co., which appeared on the stage in the Cedarburg Turn
Hall last Saturday, left the city with a dozen or more rotten eggs on their backs
for remembrance sake.
Vitalized air and Cocaine administered for painless extraction of teeth call on Wm.
H. SCHLAEGER, 95 Wisconsin Street., Milwaukee or every monthly Fairday at the Washington
House, Cedarburg.
A large number of strangers attended the funeral of Mrs. HILGEN. Among them we noticed
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. WINNER, Mr. and Mrs. LUENZMANN, Mr. and Mrs. HANSEN and Mr. and
Mrs. E. HILGEN of Milwaukee, Mr. Wm. AHLHAUSER and Mr. and Mrs. Aug. KOENIG of Saukville
and a large number from Grafton, Mequon and other places.
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OBITUARY -- Died in this city on Friday, June 4, 1885 at 4 o'clock in the morning,
Louise, relict of the last Frederick HILGEN, after a long and painful sickness. The
deceased was born at Hatten in the Grand Dukedom of Oldenburg, Germany, on the 6th
day of February 1814, and consequently had reached the age of 71 years and four months
lacking a few days. She had with her husband 13 children of whom eight are yet alive,
the rest dying young at Charleston, South Carolina, where the parents resided first
from the year 1837 until 1843, when they removed to Milwaukee with the one surviving
child the present Mrs. D. WITTENBERG. It was chiefly on account of the loss of the
children, that a change of residence was thought by them desirable. The late Frederick
HILGEN had been in the United States several years before his marriage, but returned
from Charleston, S.C. to Germany for the purpose of getting married to the deceased
in the year 1837, and their nuptials took place at Hatten on the 11th day of August
1837, after which event the couple immediately returned to Charleston. In the year
1845 the family removed to Cedarburg where the deceased with her husband have resided
ever since. If it had not been on account of a local incurable disease, the subject
of this sketch might have lived many years longer as she had a strong and robust
constitution, enjoying life most heartily until some time last fall when the fatal
disease of which she died made her first appearance. The deceased was of a most amiable
and kind disposition and her loss is heavily felt in the whole community. At all
social gatherings she was to be found and had a kind word to say to each on such
occasions. As a wife and mother she had few equals and no superiors, being busy all
her lifetime to secure the comfort of her husband and children. At every birthday
in the family extending to the many grand children, she was the first to call on
those who did not live with her but had a home of their own, congratulating them,
assisting in celebrating the event and making appropriate birthday presents, which
custom she kept up religiously until she was taken ill. For the poor and needy she
always had a good word and assistance at hand.
The very large attendance at her funeral, which took place last Sunday at 2 o'clock
P.M., was a sign of the love and respect she enjoyed in the community in which she
had resided for the last forty years. Weber's music corps, aided by four musicians
from Bach's Milwaukee Band, played funeral pieces of music, preceding the hearse
from the family mansion to the cemetery. The funeral oration at the grave was delivered
by Mr. Chas. WILKE in a very impressive manner. The Cedarburg Maenner Choir sang
a few verses on the occasion and all that was mortal of her was then consigned to
its last resting place. Peace to her ashes.
The Cedarburg News
June 17, 1885
LOCAL MATTERS
Mr. Carl ANNEKE and family of Milwaukee were in the city last Sunday.
John B. SIMON of Grafton will have a concert and ball on the 4th of July.
A little daughter of Frank DOBBERPHUL, 11 years of age died last Monday.
J. SCHROEDER & Son have received a new stock of dry goods and groceries.
Don't forget the picnic on the 4th of July at Hilgen's Spring Park.
Mr. Wm. CORRIGAN of Milwaukee and James CORRIGAN of Sioux City, Ia. are in the city
visiting.
Next Sunday the Mequon Lodge will have a picnic and ball in the Turn Hall Park at
Mequon.
The first excursion of the M & N Ry. to Elkhart Lake took place last Sunday the
14th inst.
John ARMBRUSTER, the jeweler, is selling his entire stock of jewelry at greatly reduced
prices. Call early and examine them.
The ball at the Apollo Hall was not as well attended as usual owing to the unfavorable
weather.
DIED -- In the town of Cedarburg on Monday the 15th day of June, Jeremiah BOWE, Jr.
of consumption at the age of 36 years. The funeral took place this morning.
Wm. KENNEDY who assaulted Claus MEYER last fall received a pardon from Gov. RUSK
last Thursday.
Dr. Theo. HARTWIG wishes to inform the public that he has received a fresh supply
of vaccinating virus.
The new post master at Saukville, Mr. Anthony ALHAUSER, is making preparations to
move the office into his place.
The iron doors for the jail for the city of Cedarburg will be completed next week
and work will begin at once to build it. It will be located in the rear of the Turn
Hall.
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Ferdinand VOIGT, an old and respected citizen was found dead in his bed on the morning
of June 11th, while on a visit to relations in the town of Jackson. The cause of
his sudden death was heart disease.
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The Holly Hawk base ball nine of Milwaukee were in the city last Sunday to play a
game with the Cedars of this place and the Port Washington nine which took place
at Port last Sunday afternoon was altogether in favor of the Port boys. In five innings
the Port nine received 27 tallies and the Cedars 0. The home nine was beaten badly
but they say they were treated very nobly by the Port boys, and will in the curse
of a few weeks play another game at this place.
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SHEBOYGAN CITY
Last week we paid a flying visit to the city of Sheboygan, and not having been there
for nearly two years, we were surprised at the growth of the place.
It is but a few years ago when the valley of the river where the track of the Lake
Shore road is now laid through the city, was only valuable as a cow pasture and property
there was of hardly any value; now the whole of it is nearly occupied with manufactories
of different kinds. We only could stay a few hours and had no opportunity of visiting
those places of industry, except taking a look from the outside while our friend
Hon. W.M. ROOT had the kindness to drive us through various portions of the city.
New buildings are springing up everywhere and we found in several localities large
stores filled with goods of every description where on our former visit but a few
struggling houses were seen. If Sheboygan continues to grow in proportion as she
has done in the last few years, it is fair to presume that in a very shot time, she
will rank as the second city in the state. Of course, we met many friends and acquaintances
in our drive through the city and took occasion to visit at least a few at their
places of business. All seem to be busy and the stores were reasonably well filled
with customers for this the dullest season of the year. We were invited to look over
the new flouring mills of Hon. Wm. ELWELL whom we met in a store intending to make
this the last call before taking the 6 o'clock P.M> train for the north, but time
flew so fast that our obliging friend, ROOT had to put his horse to his best gait
to reach the station in time, and if it had not been for the train being several
minutes later, we would have missed it. We mention this merely to show how our friends
entertained us everywhere so that even railroad time was nearly forgotten. Hon. Simon
GILLEN was the first person we met after arriving from the Fond du Lac depot; he
is now Clerk of the Court, and friend DETLING still holds the office of Register
of Deeds. Some of the old settlers of Cedarburg will remember the father of Mr. DETLING
coming to the mill from his farm eleven miles west of here and doing his traveling
in early times nearly forty years ago. We could not leave the place without taking
a look at one of our earliest acquaintances and friends Hon. Jos. WEDIG, the Boss
Justice of the peace of the state of Wisconsin, he having celebrated his 25th consecutive
year of holding that office some years ago. Two more old neighbors Messrs. SCHLICHT
and SCHREIER, whose parents first settled in Germantown, we found at their old places
of business prosperous and happy. SCHREIER's beer is celebrated beyond the limits
of the city, and that we preferred a glass or two of it to the nauseating mineral
water that comes up over a thousand feet from the bowels of the earth, only ultra
temperance people will find faulty with, especially since we are yet clear of all
bodily ailments for the cure of which this water is so justly celebrated. At any
rate any person tasting it in its undiluted state, will not think it necessary to
send it to Chemist BODE to make an analysis of its contents. A very excellent mineral
sparkling drinking water, put up in bottles is manufactured out of it, but to take
it clear - good Lord deliver us! We had tried it before. Some of our friends here
in Cedarburg, when they heard of the burning of the Park Hotel and knowing that we
were in Sheboygan, thought that we might have been damaging the North Western Life
Insurance Co. by being roasted to death in due hotel fire style; but two things were
in the way of thus losing our precious life; we left in the evening before the fire
broke out and if we had remained, our stopping place was at PAPE's. We are always
lucky except in getting a good fat office, of which we do not yet despair of being
successful, so soon as the administration begins to think of the "german element"
of which the NEWS treats in another column of this number.
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MURDER AT MEQUON
Henry NEIERTZ was fatally shot Thursday afternoon by Peter GUIDINGER, in the house
of Carl FELTMANN, in the town of Mequon. The murder was premeditated, GUIDINGER having
procured the revolver in Milwaukee on Wednesday, for the express purpose of killing
NEIERTZ. An inquest was held before Adolph ZIMMERMANN. GUIDINGER was brought to this
city yesterday morning and lodged in jail on a commitment issued by justice Wm. F.
JAHN where he will await the action of the circuit court. He is about 60 years and
has a family.
NEIERTZ, it seems, came to this community many years ago, bringing with him $1,100
which he loaned out on interest, meanwhile living with GUIDINGER, who is a relative.
He never paid any board but told GUIDINGER that when he died he would leave his (GUIDINGER's)
children $100 each. Last Fall they had some trouble and NEIERTZ changed his place
of abode. Thursday he wished to examine some papers and went to FELTMANN's residence
for that purpose. he was met by GUIDINGER who immediately fired at him, the first
striking him in the shoulder and the next in the mouth, killing him almost instantly.
GUIDINGER was immediately arrested on complaint of FELTMANN.
District Attorney JACKSON left Friday for the scene of the crime to collect and arrange
testimony.
The prisoner's statement was taken by Justice SCHWIN Friday. -- P.W. STAR
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CHEAP FOR SALE
Eighty acres of good farming land, 3 miles north of the city of Cedarburg. For further
particulars apply at -- Thos. MURPHY
The Cedarburg Weekly News
Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
June 24, 1885
LOCAL MATTERS
Hon. C.H. MILLER of West Bend was in the city last Tuesday.
Mr. Edward BLANK and wife of Reedsburg, Mr. Fred HORNEFFER and wife, Frank VOGENITZ,
Wm. HELLWEG, and Miss Bertha HANSEN of Milwaukee were in the city Sunday.
A daughter of Mr. Frank DOBBERPUHL died on Friday last of diphtheria, aged 14 years.
The funeral took place last Sunday afternoon.
The game of base ball played here last Sunday by the Cedars of this city, and the
Whites of Milwaukee; in nine innings of which the home club had four, the score was
4 to 11 in favor of the Whites.
Grand celebration of the 4th of July at Hilgen's Spring Park, and every one should
attend. Concert during the afternoon by the full Cedarburg Band and a grand ball
in the evening.
Try Boerner Bros. Pipe of Peace Smoking Tobacco, it is their own brand and guaranteed
a better smoke for the money than any other tobacco you can buy.
Wm. H. SCHLAEGER, Dentist, has removed from 302 Grand Avenue to 95 Wisconsin Street,
Milwaukee, since the 1st of May.
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DIED -- On Tuesday, June 15th, at 4 o'clock P.M., Bryan CORRIGAN, at his residence
in the town of Cedarburg. The deceased, though not confined to his bed until the
Saturday previous to his demise, had been gradually failing for some time past. Mr.
CORRIGAN came to Ozaukee county in the year 1846, where he remained up to the time
of his death. The high esteem in which the deceased was held by the community was
shown by the number of persons who followed his remains to the grave, his funeral
being one of the largest seen here in years. The remains were buried from St. Francis
Church, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Among those who attended the funeral from
abroad were: William and Michael CORRIGAN, sons of the deceased, Sioux City, Iowa,
David GARRILY, Milwaukee, Mrs. COONAN, sister-in-law of the deceased, Nellie and
William CORRIGAN, niece and nephew of the deceased, Milwaukee, and James CORRIGAN,
also a nephew, Sioux City, Iowa.
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RUNAWAY TEAMS -- An important decision was recently made by the supreme court of
Minnesota regarding the liability of owners of teams for damages caused by teams
running away, in cases where they have been left standing in the public streets unfastened.
The action arose in the city of St. Paul. As the charter of that city is very much
like the charter of Wisconsin cities, it is quite certain the Wisconsin supreme court
will follow the decision of the supreme court of Minnesota. The substance of the
decision is, that if the driver of a team leaves it standing in a public street unfastened
or unguarded, and the team runs away and does injury to persons or property, the
owner of the team is liable for the damages caused by such runaway and the court
says, "it is manifestly no sufficient excuse that the horses were believed to
be gentle and not vicious and had never been known to run away." The fact that
they were left unfastened or unguarded was proof of negligence.
The decision is sound and especially adapted to Cedarburg where runaways are the
order of the day.
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