A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Wisconsin > Ozaukee http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1540 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=49082 Submitted by: sagg Article Title: The Cedarburg Enterprise Article Date: July 7 1880 Article Description: Local News Article Text: The Cedarburg Enterprise July 7, 1880 Cedarburg, Ozaukee County LOCAL GOSSIP Did you celebrate? Rye is being cut now. It is again very warm. BOCLO sells some very good cigars A rifle club would not be very bad. Circus on the 22nd. Look out for it. Cattle fair at Saukville next Monday. Dogs ought to be muzzled these days. Can't the swimming nuisance be stopped. Winter wheat is somewhat damaged with rust. A fresh lot of groceries just received at F. BOERNER's. Our justice courts seem to be very attractive now-a-days. The addition to WIRTH's store is fast approaching completion. The rain last Sunday, being the 4th of July, was bad for a great many. A. BODENDOERFER is repairing his mill and placing it in modern style. Attend the school meeting next Monday evening at the school house. Considerable gun powder was used to salute the fourth last Saturday night. F. BOERNER shipped three bushels of cherries to Milwaukee last Saturday. A picnic of our public school is now talked of to take place next Sunday. The Hilgen Manufacturing Co.'s lumber yard is being restocked with lumber. E. LAU, the Hamilton blacksmith and wagon manufacturer, is just rushing things. Groth & Co., dealers in hardware, are kept rather busy now putting up eave troughs. Our business houses and hotels were most appropriately decorated on the 4th and 5th. We hear of another fracas between women of this place that happened last Wednesday. A grand display of fire works took place on the public square last Monday night. J. F. HILGEN managed the affair. The rain put a clause in the celebration of the Fourth but was all made up on the fifth, that day being nice and clear. The millers along Cedar Creek were short on water the latter part of last week and had to shut down in consequence. M. AUDIER's paper is said to be below par. We thought the bellows would give out some time, and it will be in the near future. John F. BRUSS, the north side grocer, received a large, fresh stock of groceries which he will dispose of very cheap for cash. Candidates for the county offices are beginning to talk confidentially to every and anybody and shaking hands is quite frequent. Prof. ZIMMERMANN's band furnished the music for the St. Francis Borgia's Total Abstinence Society dance at the Turn Hall last Monday night. BOERNER is selling out his summer clothing at and below cost. Those wishing to buy a nobby suit of clothes for summer wear will do well to give him a call. Mr. G. BANSE purchased the Hamilton Turn Hall last Saturday. Consideration $625.00. For what purpose Mr. BANSE intends using the hall we are not informed. The grave yard east of the village is being visiting almost daily by children to mutilate the graves by picking flowers therefrom. This should be stopped at once. We would call attention of our readers to the card of JACKSON & YOUNG, Attorneys, Port Washington. They pay special attention to collections and insurance. A large number of our citizens and their wives went to Milwaukee last Saturday to see the Great Inter Ocean Circus and Menagerie which exhibited in Milwaukee on the same day. Fourth of July accidents were numerous last Sunday and still more so last Monday. The daily papers are filled with "frightful accidents, horrible burning," etc. in consequence. Mr. W. CARBYS, enumerator of the town Mequon, sends us the following statement of his labors for which he will please accept our thanks: Inhabitants – 3,023; Farmers – 404. We would call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of F. L. HARMS of Grafton, which will be found in another column. Mr. H. is one of Grafton's best merchants and the articles described in his "ad" are only a portion of the goods he is dealing in. Give him a call and be convinced. Mr. G. PODOLL has shown us a complimentary chromo sent him by the Studebaker Wagon manufactory, of South Bend, Ind., of which he is agent. It is an exact representation of one of their carriages, which was used by the reception committee upon GRANT's return to Chicago, on November 12, 1879, from his trip around the world. The picture shows also the following gentlemen who were the occupants: Gen. U. S. GRANT, Carter HARRISON, Mayor of Chicago, and Hon. Thos. HOYNE. The carriage was drawn by a beautiful matched team of six horses, the property of Mr. Leroy PAYNE of Chicago, and driven by himself. Mr. P. takes pride in showing the above chromo to his friends, and well he may, as it is the most beautiful of the kind we have seen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERSONALS Mr. VOGEL intends moving to Oshkosh this or next week. Register W. ZASTROW paid this place a pleasant call last Sunday. Mr. Fred MEYER of Spencer, Wis., was in Cedarburg last Thursday. Dr. Theo. HARTWIG went to Milwaukee last Friday morning on business. Mr. Willie SCHROEDER, of Milwaukee, was in Cedarburg over the fourth. Mr. J. E. CORRIGAN was home visiting friends and relatives the past few days. Mr. C. E. WHIEPKING of Grafton, celebrated the fourth in Cedarburg in the evening. Miss R. McFARLAND of Madison is in Cedarburg visiting at her brother's, Rev. J. B. McFARLAND. Mr. W. CARBYS, chairman of the republican county committee, celebrated the Fourth in Cedarburg last Monday. Mr. HAYES, of Oconto, formerly a resident of Cedarburg, after an absence of five years, is at present visiting friends and relatives here. Mr. W. BOEHME, of Milwaukee, son of our respected townsman, Mr. A. M. BOEHME, spent fourth and fifth with his parents and friends here. Mr. J. C. CORRIGAN arrived last Saturday afternoon from Chicago, where he has been making arrangements to ship ten car loads of spiles. Mr. HECHT and family of Milwaukee arrived in Cedarburg last Saturday for the purpose of spending the hot season at rooms at the Hilgen Springs Park Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. HORNEFFER, of Milwaukee, celebrated the fourth in Cedarburg. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. SCHROEDER. H. HORNEFFER and wife of Milwaukee, were also here over the Fourth. Henry GANNON , of Milwaukee, and son of our popular townsman, Mr. P. K. GANNON, paid his parents and friends a pleasant visit the past few days. Henry is now employed in the retail grocery store of Niland Brothers, Grand avenue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE FOURTH The anniversary of the day of American independence was not so fully celebrated on the Fourth as was the intention on account of the drenching rain that kept coming down all afternoon, putting a clause in the festivities – but in spite of al that, the Turn Society and Fire Co., with CHELOCHUSKY's band at the head, formed a line at the Turn Hall and marched to the Hilgen Springs, where they enjoyed themselves as best they could under the circumstances. Towards night the weather became clear, making it appear more friendly to those that happened to be at Springs. In the evening all repaired to the Turn Hall to make up for lost time by dancing. A very respectable crowd was in attendance and dancing was kept up until "early in the morn". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE FIFTH On the fifth, the St. Francis Borgia's Total Abstinence Society celebrated the National day of Independence – having very fine and clear weather throughout the day and evening. The programme as advertised was carried out to a letter – forming a mounted procession at their Hall, at about eleven o'clock they marched through Cedarburg to the Woolen Mills from thence back to the Hilgen Springs, where they dismounted and made preparations to celebrate the Fourth in grand style. The afternoon's programme was as follows: Reading of the Declaration of Independence – John MULLANEY. Oration – D. J. HEMLOCK. Address: Washington and Lincoln – J. E. CORRIGAN. In the evening a dance was had in the Turn Hall that was well attended and everybody enjoyed themselves. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WI-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! 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