History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

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ful, and continued until the death of Mr. Eoberts in 1900, after which it passed into other hands and was discontinued as a hotel.
The Schuetzen Bund, an old German organization for recrea¬ tion and benevolence, erected their large brick hall in 1875 on Cedar street. It was burned in 1892, and the basement built into a livery stable. The park on the lake shore road, so long occupied by the society for its summer outings and dances, was sold to the city for its waterworks plant in 1895.
The Neenah Theater was erected by popular subscription, costing $40,000, and opened December 26, 1902.
Mr. William Krueger, born in Mecklenburg, Germany, Sep¬ tember 14, 1830, came to Clayton in 1851 as a farmer and re¬ mained until 1866, when he commenced the hardware business in Neenah, which has developed into an extensive business with a furniture store added to its stock. Mr. Krueger was inter¬ ested in making stoves in the stove foundry of Krueger & Peck¬ ham, who in 1871 were employing twelve men and making 1,500 stoves annually. The business was closed in 1876 after an opera¬ tion of ten years by sale of the property to Kimberly, Clark & Co., who tore down the buildings for the extension of the Globe paper mill.
The brewery of Adam Ergott & Brothers is located in the west limits of the city on the bank of the lake, where it was established nearly thirty years ago. The canning factory near by was run for only three seasons. Sindahl & Matheson's plan¬ ing mill, formerly occupied by George Danielson, was started in 1907, after the burning of Mr. Sindahl's planing mill, near the Wisconsin Central depot. The carriage factory and garage of Mr. Charles H. Bergstrom is located on Cedar street.
Mr. George M. Schmid, who succeeded his father in the cigar making business, established in 1877, has built up a prosperous business, employing fifteen cigar makers.
Mr.^ Joseph Reek, the inventor of blackbo.ards, who is of Eng¬ lish ancestry, came from his old farm homestead near Lake Geneva, w^hich he still owns, to live oh the Deacon Mitchell place, just outside the city limits, a number of years ago. For many years he has been engaged in the invention of blackboards and his blackboard is now specified by school architects every¬ where. The slate stone blackboard is undesirable because of its porosity, which cuts away the chalk, creating too much dust. The blackboards of Mr. Eeek are made of a paste material, the