Ozaukee County Newspapers

February, 1886

The Cedarburg News
January 6, 1886
Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin

LOCAL MATTERS

Mr. Alf. HARTWIG of Eau Claire is home.

Mr. & Mrs. J.H. WINNER of Milwaukee were in this city last Monday.

Dr. A.W. KRAATSCH and wife of Plymouth, spent New Year's Day in this city.

J. SCHROEDER & Son of this city are agents for the 'Jennie June” sewing machine. See ad in another column.

Our merchants and business men are busy taking up stock which is done every New Year.

Remember the monthly meeting of the Cedarburg Fire Company which will be held Friday evening.

The annual masquerade ball at H. HAAS of Thienville will be held on Feb. 21st 1886. Weber's Band is engaged.

The annual meeting of the Cedarburg Mut. Fire Ins. Comp. was held in the basement of the Turner Hall last Tuesday.

Andrew CAREY will sell all his farm and household utensils at public auction on the 16th inst. W.H. FITZGERALD of this city conducts the sale.

City Marshall GOTTSCHALK arrested two tramps last Saturday and lodged them in our city jail for several hours, after which they were released and ordered to leave the city at once.

The grand ball at the Apollo Hall which was to have taken place on Sylvester evening, will be held next Sunday Jan. 10th. Weber's Band furnishes the music. Everybody is invited.

TOLL Bros. have just finished and erected the beautiful monument over the grave of Mrs. James HILGEN. it is claimed to be the finest monument ever erected on our cemetery.

The ball held at the Hilgen's Spring Park on New Year's eve by Messrs. McDONALD, DAVIS and DAILEY, was well attended. Creamer's String Band of Grafton furnished the music.
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NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS

Notice is hereby given that the tax list of the City of Cedarburg for the year 1885 has been delivered to me for collection, and that I will receive payment for taxes at my office for thirty days ensuing the date of this notice. After that time I shall proceed to collect the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the persons charged as the law directs.
Dated December 14th 1885, John C. KUHEFUSS, City Treasurer.

The Cedarburg News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
January 13, 1886

LOCAL MATTERS

Mr. and Mrs. H.K. GANNON of Milwaukee were in the city Sunday last.

Miss Hermine SONNENBERG of Milwaukee was visiting in this city for a few days last week.

D.M. JACKSON of Port Washington and F.A. LAMDIN of Good Hope were in the city Thursday last.

The ball at Apollo Hall did not take place as advertised last Sunday on account of the cold weather. The next ball will be the annual masquerade ball on February 6th 1886.

On Tuesday Jan. 12th 1886, at 8 o'clk A.M., Oliver Raymond BOERNER, infant son of Mr. & Mrs. G.A. BOERNER. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

The Fremont House at Watertown, H. REINKE, Esq., Prop., is said to be the best stopping place in Watertown. Special attention is given to traveling men. Mr. REINKE was formerly a citizen of Berlin and we hope that he will prosper in his new undertaking.

The annual masquerade ball of the Cedarburg Turn Verein will be held on Saturday the 31st day of January. it is the intention of the Verein to make this ball one of the best ever held before. A fine programme will be arranged which will be distributed commencing with a grand street parade in the afternoon.
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At the monthly meeting of the Cedarburg Turn Verein the books of the assistant treasurer were looked over and it was found that many members have not paid their monthly dues for some time. it was resolved that the assistant treasurer be instructed to call on each one before the next meeting and collect them. Whoever refuses to pay will be expelled from the Verein.
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The first masquerade ball of the season will be held by Hilgen Bro's. at the Hilgen's Spring Park on Saturday, January 23rd. A room will be furnished for the gathering of the masks until the grand “polonaise” will be played by Weber's Orchestra. All are most cordially invited to attend.
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The Cedarburg Mutual Fire Ins. Co., held their annual meeting Jan. 5th '86. The following directors were elected: J. W. MILBRATH, Frank WILDE, C.F. KENNEY, Wm. VOGENITZ, John F. BRUSS, J. JAEGER, Thos. HALPIN, Chas. ZAHRLING, B. WULF and will meet at the office of the Comp. on Saturday Jan. 16th to elect their officers.
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PATENTS GRANTED

Patents granted to citizens of Wisconsin on January 5th 1886, and reported expressly for the NEWS by C.A. SNOW & Co., Patent Lawyer, opposite U.S. Patent Office, Washington D.C.

J.R. DAVIS, Bristol, wiffletree hook
J. DOTY, Marion, coupling & splicing railway rails
H.P. HEITMANN, Ableman, heating stove
H.D. McKINNEY, Janesville, check rein hook
E.P. ALLIS, Milwaukee, saw mill carriage
E. STEMKE, Horn's Corners, egg register
W.D. SLAUSON, Racine, baling press
E.M. WATSON, Beloit, pipe lifting machine
F.H. WEST, Milwaukee, steam trap.
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We had the pleasure of a call from Mr. Geo. GAMM of the Kirby House in Milwaukee. It will be remembered that he lost his wife some three months ago, an estimable young lady, a daughter of Wm. CALLAGHAN, near this city and in whose family his only little child is taken care of. it was the reported serious sickness of this child that brought him out there. We learn that the child is out of danger. Mr. GAMM brought us greetings from our old time friend Col. Geo. W. FEATHERSTONOUGH. We never meet the Col. in Milwaukee without remembering the clever trick by which he, while a member of the Territorial Legislature, secured a place as door-keeper for one of his constituents, who was objectionable on account of a well founded rumor that he had served a term in some eastern state prison. But the Col. was bound to get him in, and when the proper time came, he presented the name of his candidate and after saying a few words of recommendation, he continued “to be sure my young friend has served his country before in State prison, but this out to be no objection,” and he then went on in his style, making the members of the House believe that the whole was a base slander on the man, and he was elected to the place over all opposition.
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AT PORT WASHINGTON

We visited Port last week Thursday to transact some legal business and after getting through with it, spent an hour or two with several old friends and acquaintances whom we accidentally met, very pleasantly. The new planing mill is fast nearing its completion and is built in a most substantial manner with the best machinery for work; the cold weather etc. may delay the opening for a month or two yet. business at Port seems to be lively; sickness does not prevail to any extent and the three physicians have an easy time of it. An old settler Nicholas KENNA, whom we have known nearly forty years, has been gathered to his fathers. He reached the good old age of 85 years and was never married, thus showing that old bachelors can live as long as married men, which is denied by statisticians, and it may be true if the average is considered. Mr. BAER has lately purchased the corner where his saloon is located at a comparatively low price from a Chicago party. We were glad to learn from friend LYMAN that the Iron Works situated near the harbor are doing a good business and the business they add to places where they are located, he told us that the taxes on these establishments in Chicago were merely nominal in comparison to those on other property, and that as a consequence of this policy pursued by the city, new factories are being put up in all parts of the city.

We were looking around for Senator BLAKE and others to wish them a happy New Year, but did not find them in. With Brothers BOHAN and FEHLANDT, we had a “prost all 'round” at John NEUENS, of course. Mr. NEUENS takes great pride of having the purest wines and unadulterated liquors in his wholesale establishment and finds that his efforts in that line are duly . . . (unreadable portion) . . . according to the figures of the county board of equalization of taxes, we have no reasons to be jealous of the growth and prosperity of Port Washington, but we must try here to keep ahead without the aid of the county board!

The Cedarburg News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
January 20, 1886

LOCAL MATTERS

An infant child of Mrs. EMBLING died Thursday, Jan. 14.

Mrs. MEMMLER of Thiensville was in the city Wednesday, Jan. 18.

The members of the Cedarburg Band will have their annual mask ball Mar. 6.

Dr. BLANK of Riceville, Wis. was in the city last Monday.

Dr. SENN of Milwaukee was in Cedarburg last week in attendance on Mr. VOGENITZ.

Mr. C. MEYER of the Apollo Hall fell on a stone near his residence and broke several of his ribs.

Misses GOETZ and FANNEIL of Port Washington were in Cedarburg a few days last week.

A little daughter (A very young lady) arrived at the house of Mr. Wm. SCHROEDER last Monday.

Miss Adeline SCHULENBERG, who has been staying with Mrs. BOERNER for the past six weeks, returned home to Brown Deer last Sunday.

A masquerade ball will be held at John SIMON's hall in Grafton on February 20th, at Henry HAAS in Thiensville on the 21st of Feb., and at the Mequon Turn Hall on the 14th of Feb.

The masquerade ball at the Apollo Hall takes place on the 6th of Feb. A grand free lunch will be served and a free bus will run to and from the hall during the evening.

Mr. Chas. BORNEMANN of Milwaukee was in the city yesterday. He wishes to inform his numerous friends here that he will again open a pool and billiard hall at No. 347, 3rd street.

The quarterly sociable of the Cedarburg Music Verein will be held in the Turner's Hall on Wednesday evening, Feb. 3d. The prospects are that the evening will be even more delightfully spent than on the former social.

The Mardi Gras festivities of the present season in the neighborhood seem to be more numerous this year than ever before. A jovial soul can be on a continual masquerade for almost two months to come.

Mrs. KNAUT and Mr. MILBRATH of Town Granville, Milwaukee Co., were in Cedarburg last Wednesday, attending the funeral of Mr. G.A. BOERNER's child.

Day before yesterday we had a pleasant call from Messrs. John H. WINNER and Geo. BACH of Milwaukee, while looking after their interests in this place. Mr. WINNER left again on the 2 o'clock P.M. train for Milwaukee on the same day.

Last Thursday, Mr. BENDER of this place received a telegram from his son, Fred., who is sick in Atchisson, Kansas, asking for help. Mr. BENDER was obliged to refuse the assistance desired as he had been sickly all winter, and had at present to money to spare.

The Turn Verein is making grand preparations for the coming masquerade ball on the 30th inst. There will be a grand procession in the afternoon in which all should take part. The T.V. is making extraordinary efforts to make this the finest ever held in Cedarburg.

The last fall of snow has given us excellent sleighing. For a moment the young man's face was lighted up with a contented smile as he contemplated the splendid track, and though of some happy individual with whom he could enjoy this wintry treat. But an unpleasant recollection casts a cloud over his genial countenance, and he sighs as he looks at his purse which shows unmistakable signs of dissolution. However, the livery man is in his most happy mood, for he has struck a bonanza.

Mrs. HAVERMANN of Horn's Corners returned from Milwaukee a few days ago, where she had been under the treatment of Dr. SCHNEIDER, the oculist. She was stricken blind last summer from a severe nervous shock at the sudden news of her father's death. Dr. SCHNEIDER says it is impossible to operate her eyes successfully, though he thinks a cure may be effected by administering remedies inwardly.

Last Sunday a few of our young men and ladies took advantage of the fine sleighing to drive to Milwaukee. They stopped at the Republican House where they had a fine supper served and visited “Aimee” at the New Academy in the evening. Though they were met by a snow storm on their return, they report having had a most enjoyable time all through.
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TEACHERS MEETING AT SAUKVILLE

The following is the programme of the Teacher's meeting to be held at Saukville, Jan. 30th 1886: 10:30 Proportion - E.E. BECKWITH; Declamation - V. GUDER; 1:00 Phonetic Spelling - Prof. MILLER, Mequon; 2:00 Reading from Barnes General History. Subject: Political History of Egypt, led by S.E. RICHERT, followed by general discussion. 3:00 Physiology: Narcotics and Stimulants - Supt. SCOTT; General discussion on practical school work.
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The following directors of the Cedarburg Mutual Fire Ins. Comp. were chosen at the annual meeting of the Company, held Jan. 5th 1886:

Mequon - John W. MILBRATH, Franz WILDE, C.F. KENNEY; Cedarburg - Thos. HALPIN, John F. BRUSS, William VOGENITZ; Grafton - Burchard WULFF; Jackson - John JAEGER, Chas. ZARLING. The following officers were elected out the their number, viz: For President - John F. BRUSS; Vice President - J.W. MILBRATH; Sec. & acting Treas. - Wm. VOGENITZ; Treasurer - Chas. ZARLING.
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Father DURNIN's announcement on Sunday last that the next would be his last Sunday in Cedarburg was to his congregation a very unwelcome and unlooked for surprise. He goes to take charge of the South Side congregation in the city of Racine. Father DURNIN has been pastor of the St. Francis Borgia Church at this place for almost five years. He found this church encumbered by debt, its people not a little discouraged as to the ways and means for its liquidation; he leaves it not only clear of debt, but with funds in its treasury, all owing to its excellent management and untiring energy. He, by his edifying life, gentlemanly deportment and good example, earned and, to the last retained, the esteem and respect not only of the members of his own church, but of all of the other different churches as well as those of no church, and leaves with the best wishes of every member of this community for his future happiness.

The Cedarburg News
Cedarburg, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
January 27, 1886

LOCAL MATTERS

The mask ball at John RINN's of Decker's Corners takes place on Feb. 7.

Henry BARTHEL, clerking at Stark Bros., Milwaukee, has been home in Cedarburg for a week or two.

John WEBER has adorned the fronts of the saloons with some new and tastily made up beer signs.

Frank DELLES and D.M. JACKSON of Port Washington and W.F. JAHN of Mequon were in Cedarburg last Monday.

John BARTH of this city will run a free bus to John SIMON's Grafton, on Feb. 21st. The bus will leave this place at 5:30 and 6:30 P.M.

Some good marksmanship was displayed in the scuffle with the mad dog. The animal was killed at the seventeenth shot.

There was a dance at BACH's near Newburg last Sunday. A few Cedarburg boys were present, and report a boisterously good time.

The other day two tramps, the noblemen of America, made their debut in Cedarburg. The Marshal set them to work at sawing into a wood pile on the square.

We are informed that the Turners of this city will give an extraordinary fine supper on the evening of their mask ball next Saturday the 30th inst.

Last Friday Wm. MARQUARDT, a section hand, was accidentally struck in his face by a spike maul that slipped out of his hand. His nose was nearly severed from his face.

The masquerade at Hilgens Springs last Saturday was a comparative success. Considering the blocaded state of the roads leading into the city and the coldness of the weather, the attendance was quite fair. Grafton, as is almost the case with Cedarburg dances, was well represented.

We can now sing: “Snow, snow, beautiful snow!” with a vengeance, as we have now more of the feathery article than we can well take care of. The strong wind accompanying the last storm drifted the roads badly in many places, and gave the town and city lots of work clearing the way.

The American tramp is noted for his sharpness. Two of them sawing wood appeared very busy and had their job done in a remarkably short time. They got their pay and skipped. However, it transpired later that the work was not half done. The sharpers had put the cut wood on top of the pile, while entire pieces filled the space below.
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The Cedarburg Band took a pleasure trip to Horn's Corners last Sunday. It was one of their off days, and they contrived to spend it very agreeably to themselves. Mr. SCHELLENBERG, with his usual hospitality, contributed largely to their enjoyment.
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Be careful not to miss the Turner's Masquerade next Saturday, the 30th inst. There will be a collection of monstrous celebrities of all kinds of race and color; and it will be worth the price of admission alone to see the grand menagerie of immense frogs, sluggish mud turtles, frisky monkeys, fierce bears, patient camels, grave elephants, strong, wild horses, lordly roosters, etc., etc. If the weather is favorable the procession in the afternoon will be very large. All should help swell its numbers. Tickets are now on sale at the Cedarburg Woolen Mills, Boerner Bros., Hentchel & Jochem and Fred Beckmann.
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On account of the poor condition of the roads, the fair of last Monday was but moderately large. The dealing in livestock especially was at a very low ebb. Some particularly anxious buyers stood on the roads leading into the city, on the look-out for any animals that might be brought in for sale. But they generally waited in vain. In other respects the business of the day was quite fair.
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Last week Cedarburg was visited by a genuine mad dog scare. On Thursday a savage looking dog was seen several times running through our streets, showing all the symptoms of hydrophobia. That evening the sight of an offensive canine sitting quietly on the side-walk struck the heart of the passenger with fear and apprehension. the suspicious creature was always given a wide berth. Last Friday morning the real mad dog was tracked and shot near the Woolen Mills. it is said that some dogs here were bitten though the truth of the statement cannot be ascertained. If such is the case, something should be done to ward off any possible danger; for it would certainly not be very pleasant thing to be forced to make a visit to Paris encumbered with hydrophobia.

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