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Peter Laun accumulated the following newspaper articles. I wish to thank him for letting me use his research work to give a little history of our lake to everyone. I retyped the aritcles to put on the website.

 

 

Elkhart News, Sheboygan Herald - Aug 27, 1875

 

   For variety, one day last week, the Cottage people got up a picnic at Cedar Lake.  I did not attend.  A picnic of Chicago people reported from Davidson’s.

Sunday was a pleasant day at the lake, as Sundays usually are.  The noticeable event of the day was a wet joke on two Milwaukeeans.  One a tall typo on the News and the other a short bookkeeper from Anson Brp. Proprietors of the big grocery house.  They had taken the “Molley”, a nice little sail boat, and is coming into ort managed in some way to capsize her, and put themselves into the lake.  A solemn warning, the typo said, to all good children not to go sailing on Sunday.  By various shifts on the part of these gentlemen’s friends they were shifted into dry clothing and made quite presentable. I wish here to say, and be distinctly understood in saying, that both of these gentlemen at the time of the spill were entirely and all together individually and collectively sober.

   Thus far I had written in my letter when little Neddy notified me that the “Molley” was over again out in the middle of the lake. This time it was a young man from Manitowoc.  He had taken the boat for a sail and depending on the light steady wind had made the sail fast to one of the seats instead of holding it in his hand as good seamanship would have dictated, and hence the spill.  The young man was taken in charge by three ladies out in a boat named the “Union,” then cruising near, and landed at Tallmadge’s.  No particular damage to any one.

 

 

Elkhart News, Sheboygan Herald – September 3, 1875

 

   SUNDAY afternoon I strolled out in the “hill country round about” the lake, and from the top of one eminence I had a view of Elkhart on one had, whitened with numerous sails, a scene of busy life, and on the other Cedar Lake, quietly sleeping around its two green islands, and before me, through the trees, shone Little Cedar like a mirror set in green.  Little Cedar is a juvenile lake, lying low down and near the larger Cedar, but having no connection with it that I could discover.   This kettle country is full of lakes most of them too small for mention, the map makers thought.

   It is September, I promised friends in Sheboygan to leave the lake at that time, but I can’t come yet.  When Elkhart frowns on me, when the summer tourists, friends of mine, have gone with the birds to their southern homes, I shall again be at the Beekman, at your service.  Until then I hope to continue “Our Elkhart Letters”.

   Your Glenbeulah correspondent had best look a little out.  The blacksmith man, that sits up late nights, is after somebody with a big sledge.

   What queer things children sometimes get off.  A little one of some three years, at the Rural Home, was crying as thought his heart would break. 

 

 

Sheboygan Herald – May 26, 1882

 

   About 65,000 lake trout were “planted” in the different small lakes and the Mullet river of Sheboygan county, this week.  Of this number Elkhart Lake received 15,000, Little Elkhart Lake 15,000, Cedar Lake 30,000 and the Mullet river 5,000.

 

 

Sheboygan Cty News – July 15, 1885

 

ITEMS OF INTEREST,

   A tamarac or cedar swamp is very much of a curiosity to an Illinois or southern Wisconsin man.  Librarian Stone was out at Cedar Lake near Elkhart the other day with his son, a State University Student, to show him the curious Geological formations know as the potash kettles.  They went down into that hole in the ground misnamed “Little Cedar Lake.” (there is hardly water enough to call it a lake) The young man was astonished and quite sure he never saw anyting like it before and rather sure he never wanted to agin.  He said it made him feel as though he had committed a murder and had gone out of the world to hide.  They secured some specimens fo the curious “Water Pitcher plant.”  (Sarracenia purpure, of the Botany) with a cranberry vine, which are now to be seen at the S. L. A. rooms.  Could anything be more dreary than one of those almost intermable swamps?  The sunlight almost shut out by the interlaced tree tops, every step you sink half knee deep in the soft brown moss, pitcher plant leaves full of water, and over run with the thread-like cranberry vines.  All strange, nothing you ever saw before or ever will again except in a cedar or tamarac swamp.

 

 

Sheboygan Times – Plymouth News – August 8, 1888

 

   Quite a large part of City people spend Sunday at Cedar Lake.

 

 

Glenbeulah New – Plymouth Report --- June 19, 1890

  

   No act of our public officials can be of so much real service to the community as in removing and preventing anything which may be offensive to the public, and a cause of serious disease.  As the law confers ample power upon local boards any neglect of duty should be considered criminal.  Through inadvertence sometimes one local boards fail to set thoroughly, bu were they to full realize the supreme importance of proper sanitary condition our communities would escape much sickness, and deaths from contagious and epidemic, disease would be greatly lessened.  _- Prof. Vitale’s concert drew a full house, and was a satisfactory entertainment for the price.  The new summer resort at Cedar Lake is now in running order.  A commodious boarding house has been erected on the big island by Mr. Barnes, of Chicago and improvements are under way which will make it a bower of beauty and a place where the weary soul and body many find rest.  John Barber is erecting a boat house and building a number of row boats, and we expect to see pretty little Cedar one of the pleasantest summer resorts in the west. – Several local parties contemplate going into the berry business. Why not?  Why let Ripon get the $1,600 an acre for gooseberries and we not a share!—Mr. Austin is repainting his residence – Fishing parties are all the go.  Ed Heyn brought home a famous string the other day and Jack tells us some big yarns about a three-pound trout, Annie say his stories are fishy. – Measles seem to be making a general round among the little ones. Fortunately none have suffered any serious effects.