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 lastSunday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We were much pleased with a call to our private Sanctum last Sunday afternoon, fromMessrs. 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 Saturdaynight where they enjoyed themselves for several hours. If we had known of their beingpresent, 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 1/4of a mile east of the village of Cedarburg, containing 5 acres of land with all modernimprovements, 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 Washingtonhas formed a law partnership with Mr. HENLEGEN in Milwaukee and intends soon to removeto the latter city. The Port Washington Star modifies this in saying that Mr. PORSwill remain a resident at Port Washington but will be found in his new law officein Milwaukee during weekdays, returning to his home Saturdays and leaving again forMilwaukee on Mondays of each week.

Mr. PORS has had a good deal of practice and is as well read a lawyer as can be foundin this State. We wish him all possible success and admire his activity. The wholaw business (proper) in this county is not enough to keep a louse alive, much lesshalf a dozen Attorneys. The two Counties of Washington and Ozaukee ought to be putto-gether again.
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OBITUARY
We are grieved to announce the death of Mrs. Bertha LIESENBERG, wife of our townsmanMr. William LIESENBERG, who died last Thursday evening in the 34th year of her ageof a complication of diseases after a long illness. Besides her husband, she leavessix children from 12 to 2 yrs. of age to mourn her untimely end. The deceased wasMr. LIESENBERG's third wife that he lost through death; she was a good and hard-workingwoman and it was perhaps her not taking proper care of herself, that brought on thesickness 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 thename of August KLOETY, who lives on the east side of the Milwaukee river in the townof 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 doubtsas to her sanity at least in uniting herself to such a man and accepting such homewith him. If she had trusted to a correspondence with him and came out here to marryhim, her eyes must have been opened by looking at the fellow to whom such articleas soap (not the Arthur article) has probably never been known, and at his miserableshanty, hardly fit for cattle to winter in. Far better for the poor girl, if sheis what is represented, to have sought the depths of Lake Michigan close by, beforeuniting herself to the miser. “The beast and the beauty” would have been a more properheading 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 intendsto build this spring in the vicinity of the Woolen Mill.

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

The wife of Mr. J. G. FRANK of Jackson, died last Friday night in the city of Milwaukeewhile there for treatment. Her remains passed through this village last Saturdayafternoon and were buried last Sunday afternoon.
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On the 6th inst. a very pleasant family gathering took place at the residence ofMrs. HILGEN, the widow of the late Fred HILGEN of this place, to celebrate the 70thbirthday of the old lady. Only the nearer relatives were present with the exceptionof two of her sons-in-law, numbering forty-five persons. It is needless to say thatevery one of the company enjoyed the celebrations, and all united in wishing themother and grandmother many happy returns of the day. Mrs. HILGEN is nearly as activeand lively as she was forty years ago when she with her husband and with their oldestdaughter, 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 STOPPEHBACHof Jefferson has taken his departure to the “undiscovered country, from wherebournno traveler returns”. In old times and while he resided in Watertown, we met himvery often, but of late years it did not exceed half a dozen times during any oneyear. The last time we met him and had a pleasant chat over old times was at theSaint Charles Hotel in Milwaukee last fall, and he looking so well we never expectedto 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 lastweek, aged 58 years. As was slated in our last, the difficulty under which he laboredwas strangulated hernia and all that medical skill could do proved unavailing. Thefuneral was held in Jefferson Monday and was conducted by the Masonic order of whichMr. STOPPENBACH was a worthy member. It was one of the largest funerals ever heldin this county, delegations of the principal citizens from nearly all the towns beingpresent. It is difficult for the pen in a brief notice like this to do justice tothe character of a man like Mr. STOPPENBACH. For over thirty years he has been largelyidentified with all the interests of Jefferson county. He was the soul and life ofthe business interest of Jefferson. Large hearted, broad and generous in his estimatesof man and affairs, he possessed besides, an energy and indomitable purpose thatfound 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 hisloss 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 WEGEMANNof Horn's Corners for $5,400.

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

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

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

M. RAPPOLD will sell his farm and household utensils at auction on the 12th of March1884. 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 splendidlittle cottage this spring near his old dwelling house. Carpenter Albert KNUPPELgot the contract.
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The monthly Stock Fair held at this place last Monday was largely attended by peoplefrom this and adjoining counties. A notable feature of the fair was the exhibitionof Esterly's self binder by the agents Messrs. LAMDIN, FITZGERALD and MOONEY of thisplace. One of our substantial farmers, Mr. John DUNN who had purchased one of thesebinders last year and had it in use, happened to be present and put his team beforethe machine to show how it worked. A quantity of rye straw was soon on hand and amidsta driving snow storm, the self binder took up, bound and threw out about 100 bundleswithout 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 workeda farm belonging to his mother, two miles west of here, committed suicide by hanginghimself in the loft of the house. Family difficulties are said to have been the causeof 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 bythe cow catcher, carried a short distance, and then fell between the depot platformand engine wheels, where he was rolled over and dragged along until the train cameto a stop. Excepting slight abrasions of the skin, FERDERMEYER received no externalinjuries.

However a fracture of two or more ribs, and a wound of the lung compensate for anymangled 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 wasremarkable 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 doctorhas hopes.
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Ozaukee County will shortly lose two of her old settlers. Port BRIMMER of Sec. 3town Saukville sold his farm for $6,500 last week, and will probably go to Californiain the spring. Josh MONTGOMERY of Sec. 33 town Fredonia sold his place for $7,500and 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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