Person:Augustus Carteaux (1)

{geni:about_me} Lumber Trade and Meat Markets Then 1889 was the day of much lumber business in Warsaw. Fresh and cured sawed lumber could be purchased from Lesh's at 174 West Market, from Daniel Hardman at 230 West Market, from A. J. Mershon at 44 South Columbia, from Fred Myers at 63 West Market, or from Andrew Thomas at 76 West Center where Bashore is now. Street numbers then were not the same as now. Extensive log yards were in the west part of town. Quite a community had grown up around the old depot on Union street so much that it was called West Warsaw. In 1889 the selling of fresh meats was not a part of the grocery business. Meat was sold at six places. The outskirts of the city were the scene of several slaughter houses. Perry Brown had a market at 29 South Buffalo; Daniel Deeds had a market at 2 Union street; Jackman Brothers at 20 East Center; E. O. Milice at 12 East Market; William C. Milice at 18 West Center; and Netter & Meyer at 5 East Center. Most shops then made their own bologna, dressed their own beef, dressed their own turkeys and chickens and rendered their own lard. The outside room of the shop was kept cool. The clerks sat in the rear room by a stove in the winter time. Lake ice was used in the large refrigerators. A drip barrel stood in the back room in which bad boys could be ducked in the cold ice water if the occasion demanded. If a boy did an errand for the proprietor, such as carrying some packages over to the hotels, he was entitled to roast a wiener or two in the stove and have a lunch. There were no ammonia pipes and no enclosed cases at low temperatures as we have now. Gus Carteaux and Dick Haas are about the only two old butchers that are still living here today. Carteaux had a shop where Ringle's are now in a frame building in 1896. Perry Brown was in the next door north. A good cat was a necessary adjunct to these old shops to keep the rats away. Robinson's are old butchers, for they had a shop in the Moon block in 1899.

Warsaw in 1889: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kosco/warsaw892.html

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Obituary of Josephine Romary http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=9d43ab97-9b70-4f88-a844-2aa50806468e&tid=6852341&pid=-1211141944

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