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 thiscity last Sunday.

The bathing houses at the Hilgen's Spring Park will be in order next Sunday for theparties wishing to use them. The boats will also be launched.

A new wire fence is being built around the Lutheran burying grounds; a new fenceshould also be built around the one adjoining it.

Next Friday evening the monthly meeting of the Cedarburg Fire Company will be heldat the Cedarburg House. All members are requested to attend as important businesswill be transacted.

The delivery of BRUSS Bros. machinery took place yesterday. Quite a number of farmersbeing 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 exceedthose of last year.
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SODA FOUNTAIN

A splendid silver soda fountain with marble table has been put up by our enterprisingdruggist and apothecary, Mr. E.A. GELTCH. Call and try the different flavoring extractssuch as raspberry, strawberry, lemon, sassafras, etc. only 5 cents a glass of suchdelicious drinks and ice cold at that.
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The death of Chas. WERDEHOFF of Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in Milwaukee, whichoccurred on the 27th of last month, is very much regretted by all those who knewhim personally. The company loses in him one of their best and most faithful employeswho yet in the prime of life is thus suddenly taken away. To the bereaved familyand relatives we offer our most heartfelt sympathy.
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We often surprise our friends who inquire about the location of Cedarburg when wetell them the city is only about four miles from the Lake Michigan shore. Still thatis the fact; and on the table land, one mile west of Cedarburg on a bright clearday one can see a silver line of the shore about 15 miles in length, that seeminglyis only a little east of the city limits. From that elevation, on a clear day, weoften see the white sails of commerce and the long lines of smoke from the steamersand vessels that are plowing the waves.

The same sights are visible from the steeples of our churches and from the roofsof our highest buildings. It is not often, but still it occurs some times that wecan hear the waves roll, so as to distinguish the sound from that made by the windswaying the forest, and it is quite common that we feel the cool breeze from theold Lake.
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The street commissioner experiences considerable trouble in making the side walksfrom two or three persons in this city. The consequences will be that no side walkswill be made where opposition of that kind is shown and if the occupants should putup any obstruction in front of their premises, so as to amount to nuisances, theland will be condemned and the city will make such side walks as would have beenmade in the first place. A good side walk of sixty feet costs nearly $25 and we shouldthink that any one would be glad to have this improvement made by the city and nottry 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, ifby the end of this week any canine species is kept by them without the fee beingpaid. A few fines of $5 each imposed will bring this about perhaps more speedilythan all warning. The Marshal will be instructed to prosecute owners of unlicenseddogs and kill all dogs about the city who may not have an owner from and after Mondaynext.
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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 pastseven 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-morrowevening at half past seven o'clock P.M. at the council chamber for the purpose oforganizing a board of health and to transact such other business as may be broughtbefore the council. -- F.W. HORN, Mayor

Council was called to order by the Mayor. Present: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICHand ZAUN.
Absent: Ald. WITTENBERG

An ordinance was introduced entitled an ordinance concerning the public health whichwas adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and ZAUN.

Resolved: That the common council of the city of Cedarburg hereby organize themselvesas a board of health and for that purpose the council stands adjourned until Saturdaythe 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 theadjournment of the common council on the 28th of May 1885. Present: Mayor HORN, AldermenBOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and ZAUN. Absent: Alderman WITTENBERG.

On motion Mayor F.W. HORN was chosen President and Fred. G. SCHUETTE Secretary ofsaid board.

The following resolutions were offered.

Resolved: That the health officer is hereby directed and authorized for the preservationof the health of this city, to do and perform all such acts, that are in his opinionnecessary and proper under the laws of this State and under any ordinance of thecity relating thereto.

Resolved: That the health officer be and the same is hereby authorized to put thecity in good sanitary condition and generally to exercise all the duties as a healthofficer of said city in accordance with the laws of this State and the ordinanceor ordinances of the city relating to that subject. Resolutions adopted by all thealdermen (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'clockP.M. Council called to order by the Mayor F.W. HORN, roll called. Present: AldermenBOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG. Absent: Alderman ZAUN.

A committee of the Cedarburg Fire Company appeared before the council stating thatthe 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 thesepurposes.

Alderman WITTENBERG offer the following (unreadable portion) . . . sum of two hundredand 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 renderedand money expended for labor and materials during the months of April and May amountedto $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 followingvote: Ayes: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICH and WITTENBERG.

Bill from Cedarburg Woolen Mill of $90 for a safe as for resolution of the commouncouncil which was allowed by the following vote: Ayes: Aldermen BOHRTZ, BRUSS, FROEHLICHand WITTENBERG.

On motion the council adjourned until Saturday next the 6th day of June at 7 1/2o'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 meetingwas 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 anybusiness, 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 trainsbetween Milwaukee and Elkhart Lake on Sunday, June 21st.

The Black Diamond Specialty Co., which appeared on the stage in the Cedarburg TurnHall last Saturday, left the city with a dozen or more rotten eggs on their backsfor 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 WashingtonHouse, Cedarburg.

A large number of strangers attended the funeral of Mrs. HILGEN. Among them we noticedMr. and Mrs. J.H. WINNER, Mr. and Mrs. LUENZMANN, Mr. and Mrs. HANSEN and Mr. andMrs. E. HILGEN of Milwaukee, Mr. Wm. AHLHAUSER and Mr. and Mrs. Aug. KOENIG of Saukvilleand 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. Thedeceased was born at Hatten in the Grand Dukedom of Oldenburg, Germany, on the 6thday of February 1814, and consequently had reached the age of 71 years and four monthslacking 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 firstfrom the year 1837 until 1843, when they removed to Milwaukee with the one survivingchild the present Mrs. D. WITTENBERG. It was chiefly on account of the loss of thechildren, that a change of residence was thought by them desirable. The late FrederickHILGEN had been in the United States several years before his marriage, but returnedfrom Charleston, S.C. to Germany for the purpose of getting married to the deceasedin the year 1837, and their nuptials took place at Hatten on the 11th day of August1837, after which event the couple immediately returned to Charleston. In the year1845 the family removed to Cedarburg where the deceased with her husband have residedever since. If it had not been on account of a local incurable disease, the subjectof this sketch might have lived many years longer as she had a strong and robustconstitution, enjoying life most heartily until some time last fall when the fataldisease of which she died made her first appearance. The deceased was of a most amiableand kind disposition and her loss is heavily felt in the whole community. At allsocial gatherings she was to be found and had a kind word to say to each on suchoccasions. As a wife and mother she had few equals and no superiors, being busy allher lifetime to secure the comfort of her husband and children. At every birthdayin the family extending to the many grand children, she was the first to call onthose 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, whichcustom she kept up religiously until she was taken ill. For the poor and needy shealways had a good word and assistance at hand.

The very large attendance at her funeral, which took place last Sunday at 2 o'clockP.M., was a sign of the love and respect she enjoyed in the community in which shehad resided for the last forty years. Weber's music corps, aided by four musiciansfrom Bach's Milwaukee Band, played funeral pieces of music, preceding the hearsefrom the family mansion to the cemetery. The funeral oration at the grave was deliveredby Mr. Chas. WILKE in a very impressive manner. The Cedarburg Maenner Choir sanga few verses on the occasion and all that was mortal of her was then consigned toits 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 cityvisiting.

Next Sunday the Mequon Lodge will have a picnic and ball in the Turn Hall Park atMequon.

The first excursion of the M & N Ry. to Elkhart Lake took place last Sunday the14th inst.

John ARMBRUSTER, the jeweler, is selling his entire stock of jewelry at greatly reducedprices. Call early and examine them.

The ball at the Apollo Hall was not as well attended as usual owing to the unfavorableweather.

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. RUSKlast Thursday.

Dr. Theo. HARTWIG wishes to inform the public that he has received a fresh supplyof vaccinating virus.

The new post master at Saukville, Mr. Anthony ALHAUSER, is making preparations tomove the office into his place.

The iron doors for the jail for the city of Cedarburg will be completed next weekand work will begin at once to build it. It will be located in the rear of the TurnHall.
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Ferdinand VOIGT, an old and respected citizen was found dead in his bed on the morningof June 11th, while on a visit to relations in the town of Jackson. The cause ofhis 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 agame with the Cedars of this place and the Port Washington nine which took placeat Port last Sunday afternoon was altogether in favor of the Port boys. In five inningsthe Port nine received 27 tallies and the Cedars 0. The home nine was beaten badlybut they say they were treated very nobly by the Port boys, and will in the curseof 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 therefor 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 LakeShore road is now laid through the city, was only valuable as a cow pasture and propertythere was of hardly any value; now the whole of it is nearly occupied with manufactoriesof different kinds. We only could stay a few hours and had no opportunity of visitingthose places of industry, except taking a look from the outside while our friendHon. 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 largestores filled with goods of every description where on our former visit but a fewstruggling houses were seen. If Sheboygan continues to grow in proportion as shehas done in the last few years, it is fair to presume that in a very shot time, shewill rank as the second city in the state. Of course, we met many friends and acquaintancesin our drive through the city and took occasion to visit at least a few at theirplaces of business. All seem to be busy and the stores were reasonably well filledwith customers for this the dullest season of the year. We were invited to look overthe new flouring mills of Hon. Wm. ELWELL whom we met in a store intending to makethis the last call before taking the 6 o'clock P.M> train for the north, but timeflew so fast that our obliging friend, ROOT had to put his horse to his best gaitto reach the station in time, and if it had not been for the train being severalminutes later, we would have missed it. We mention this merely to show how our friendsentertained us everywhere so that even railroad time was nearly forgotten. Hon. SimonGILLEN was the first person we met after arriving from the Fond du Lac depot; heis now Clerk of the Court, and friend DETLING still holds the office of Registerof Deeds. Some of the old settlers of Cedarburg will remember the father of Mr. DETLINGcoming to the mill from his farm eleven miles west of here and doing his travelingin early times nearly forty years ago. We could not leave the place without takinga look at one of our earliest acquaintances and friends Hon. Jos. WEDIG, the BossJustice of the peace of the state of Wisconsin, he having celebrated his 25th consecutiveyear of holding that office some years ago. Two more old neighbors Messrs. SCHLICHTand SCHREIER, whose parents first settled in Germantown, we found at their old placesof business prosperous and happy. SCHREIER's beer is celebrated beyond the limitsof the city, and that we preferred a glass or two of it to the nauseating mineralwater that comes up over a thousand feet from the bowels of the earth, only ultratemperance people will find faulty with, especially since we are yet clear of allbodily ailments for the cure of which this water is so justly celebrated. At anyrate any person tasting it in its undiluted state, will not think it necessary tosend it to Chemist BODE to make an analysis of its contents. A very excellent mineralsparkling drinking water, put up in bottles is manufactured out of it, but to takeit clear - good Lord deliver us! We had tried it before. Some of our friends herein Cedarburg, when they heard of the burning of the Park Hotel and knowing that wewere in Sheboygan, thought that we might have been damaging the North Western LifeInsurance Co. by being roasted to death in due hotel fire style; but two things werein the way of thus losing our precious life; we left in the evening before the firebroke out and if we had remained, our stopping place was at PAPE's. We are alwayslucky except in getting a good fat office, of which we do not yet despair of beingsuccessful, 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 houseof Carl FELTMANN, in the town of Mequon. The murder was premeditated, GUIDINGER havingprocured the revolver in Milwaukee on Wednesday, for the express purpose of killingNEIERTZ. An inquest was held before Adolph ZIMMERMANN. GUIDINGER was brought to thiscity 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 andhas a family.

NEIERTZ, it seems, came to this community many years ago, bringing with him $1,100which 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 placeof abode. Thursday he wished to examine some papers and went to FELTMANN's residencefor that purpose. he was met by GUIDINGER who immediately fired at him, the firststriking 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 arrangetestimony.

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 furtherparticulars 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 theWhites of Milwaukee; in nine innings of which the home club had four, the score was4 to 11 in favor of the Whites.

Grand celebration of the 4th of July at Hilgen's Spring Park, and every one shouldattend. Concert during the afternoon by the full Cedarburg Band and a grand ballin the evening.

Try Boerner Bros. Pipe of Peace Smoking Tobacco, it is their own brand and guaranteeda 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 residencein the town of Cedarburg. The deceased, though not confined to his bed until theSaturday 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 timeof his death. The high esteem in which the deceased was held by the community wasshown by the number of persons who followed his remains to the grave, his funeralbeing one of the largest seen here in years. The remains were buried from St. FrancisChurch, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Among those who attended the funeral fromabroad were: William and Michael CORRIGAN, sons of the deceased, Sioux City, Iowa,David GARRILY, Milwaukee, Mrs. COONAN, sister-in-law of the deceased, Nellie andWilliam 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 ofMinnesota regarding the liability of owners of teams for damages caused by teamsrunning 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 muchlike the charter of Wisconsin cities, it is quite certain the Wisconsin supreme courtwill follow the decision of the supreme court of Minnesota. The substance of thedecision is, that if the driver of a team leaves it standing in a public street unfastenedor unguarded, and the team runs away and does injury to persons or property, theowner of the team is liable for the damages caused by such runaway and the courtsays, "it is manifestly no sufficient excuse that the horses were believed tobe gentle and not vicious and had never been known to run away." The fact thatthey were left unfastened or unguarded was proof of negligence.
The decision is sound and especially adapted to Cedarburg where runaways are theorder of the day.

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