“Home Happenings.” from the January 20, 1888 Independent
Home Happenings.
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Rev. D. C. Savage will preach in the schoolhouse at Jacksonport Sunday next at 3 P.M. A cordial invitation is given at all attend.
We desire to call the attention of our readers this week to the new advertisements of A. W. Lawrence & Co., C. Feldmann and St. Jacob’s Oil.
We commence this week a serial story by County Clerk McDonald. It is profitable reading if not very interesting. It is entitled “Proceedings of the County Board.”
The bi-weekly sociable of the M. R. church will be held at the residence of Mr. A. Shaw next Wednesday evening. Refreshments will be served. All are invited to attend.
A number of our citizens went down to down to the brewery Wednesday evening and surprised young Mr. Hagemeister, who has charge of the brewery. A good time is reported by all present.
Mr. L. A. Larson has decided to take no action in regard to the selling of the whiskey to his son by Jacob Leonhardt. The boy has confessed that he did ask for the liquor for his father, which practically clears Mr. Leonhardt in the matter.
Quarterly services will be held in the M. E. church on Sunday next. Love feast at. 10 A. M. preaching at 11 A. M., followed by the communion service. Preaching at 7 P.M. Subject for the morning discourse, “Christ the Foundation Stone.” All are invited.
Henry S. Schuyler Post, No. 226, G. A. R. are making preparations to give their annual ball on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 22, Washington’s birthday. The post is a worthy organization and our people should see that the ball is well patronized.
The action of the common council in authorizing the street committee to offer wire for fences to parties within the city limits provided they furnish the posts and do the work deserves the hearty commendation of the community. This will prevent a good many of the large drifts which block travel in the city.
George Mainz, whose saloon was burned down at Baileys Harbor early last Friday morning, will most likely locate in this city and start a saloon here. He has purchased the house owned and occupied by Wm. Gerard on the lower part of St. John Street, which he will remodel into a saloon, provided he is granted a license by the city council.
Scene—The morning after a recent festival in this city. Ladies washing up the dishes and disposing of the eatables remaining over from supper. Lady customer, desiring to make a purchase— “I’ll take that cake over there.” “Oh no, you don’t want that. That isn’t a good cake.” Customer—“Well, it ought to be. I used eight eggs in making it.” Tableaux.
In the “Menominee Melange” of the Marinette Eagle occurs the following item which is of local interest: “The boot and shoe store which C. N. Ettinger sold to Dr. Hutchinson, of Marinette, is still in the hands of the sheriff, to satisfy a claim some Chicago parties had against Ettinger. It is claimed that the sale was fraudulent, but we know nothing of the merits of the case.”
Wednesday afternoon as Chas. Fuller was feeding a small job press In THE INDEPENDENT office, his left hand was caught in the press and the ends of the second and third fingers taken off. The second finger had a large portion of the nail taken off and the bone was also injured. Dr. Sibree attended to the injured member. The wound is very painful but will result only in a slight disfiguring of the fingers.
Monday morning the mercury dropped down to twenty degrees below zero the coldest day of the season. In some portions of the city it is reported that it went down to twenty-six below. Sunday morning it was about two or three degrees warmer. It is stated that some one in the city reported that at about three o’clock Monday morning the thermometer was down to 32 degrees below. This morning the thermometer registered about sixteen below.
Mr. John Leathem expects shortly to take a trip to New Orleans, and points in lower Louisiana to look after some cypress lands which are offered for sale in that state. Several large lumber firms on the west shore and in various parts of the state have made heavy purchases in that vicinity. Capt. Wm. Auger will accompany. Mr. Leathem and they will take a camping outfit and thoroughly inspect the timber. There are about 24,000 acres in the tract.
The ice on Green Bay is now considered safe for steady travel and regular trips are being made every other day by different teams. Oscar Haines and Theodore Jacobson of Bay View have established a regular line which is making tri-weekly trips. They have a covered sleigh in which they have a small sheet-iron stove which keeps the passengers comfortable. R. T. Thorp expects to make regular trips every other day, and also Henry Spencer, of Menominee. The ice is not near as thick as at this time last year but is considered perfectly safe.
We understand that Capt. Ed. Cox and Dan Perry propose to start a saloon out on the ice about half way between this city and Menominee. They are constructing a light “shanty” similar to those used by fishermen and will most likely move out the first of next week. They will dispense whiskey and beer to the traveling public and the fishermen and are inclined to think that they will make money in the enterprise. As the territory is entirely in Wisconsin they are supposed to take out a license, but in just which town is a very difficult question to settle, and what they propose to do in the matter remains to be seen.
The blizzard which started up last Thursday night and continued all that night and all day Friday was the most severe experienced in this neighborhood for some years. The storm was also wide spread and in Minnesota, Dakota and Nebraska many lives were lost, and not a few in Wisconsin. The snow was piled up in huge drifts blocking travel in the county for several days, as will be seen from the time required by the different mail lines in getting through. The only stage which reached this city on Friday was the Ellison Bay line, which reached here about 8 o’clock that evening. The Ephraim stage managed to struggle through at about noon on Saturday, and the stage due Saturday reached here at about five o’clock Sunday afternoon. The Green Bay stage due Friday night got in about three o’clock Saturday afternoon, and the one due Saturday night reached here Monday afternoon. Since Monday all the daily stage lines have made their regular trips. The Ahnapee stage due here last Friday did not reach here until Wednesday of this week. The roads are all now in a passable condition.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive