Ingersoll and Wielané: Editors and Proprietors
The Brainerd Minnesota post office records list I. H. Ingersoll and W. Wielané as editors and proprietors of the publication. The item notes standard postal classification and publication entry.
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1897
Page
4
The Brainerd Minnesota post office records list I. H. Ingersoll and W. Wielané as editors and proprietors of the publication. The item notes standard postal classification and publication entry.
A collage of local ads and notices lists services from Smith & Winslow insurance and loans to Atwood's seeds and Dr Ribbel dentistry. It also notes rental rooms near the bank, sales at Sundberg's and Benson & Gray's markets, and local events including a Easter Sunday church service, Faust at the opera house, and a G A R encampment planning in Brainerd and Staples. Minor incidents include a break in at Ed Cullen's saloon and a missing boy case, with community updates on trains and local officials.
The Brainerd Lumber Co mill reopened Tuesday morning with a jubilant crowd of workers ready to return. Reportedly enough men gathered to staff three mills of similar size, and operations ran as smoothly as during peak season. Night shifts start next Monday, increasing labor needs. A stock note mentions box stationary at 15 cents per box from McFadden Drug Co.
The Passover began last Friday the 16th and runs eight days until tomorrow night. Orthodox and reform communities observe this period with unleavened bread. The first, second, and last days are principal observances, tied to the Exodus from Egypt and harvest feasts.
In the parish Easter meeting held Easter Monday evening in the church Rev Canon Pentreath presided. Reports from the rector treasurer Sunday school and guilds were read and found satisfactory. Elected for the coming year were Hon L P White senior warden W D McKay junior warden Thomas Halladay treasurer J C Small vestry clerk and vestrymen R F Walters A J Halsted J G Godey Chas Reuss Louis Wheatley Thomas Halladay J C Small John Lowey and E B McCullough Delegates to Diocesan Council Hon L P White W D McKay and J C Small A vote of thanks was given to Rev J G Williamson Mrs Harry Edwards the choir the Woman's Guild St Margaret's Guild and the Guild of the Good Shepherd.
The 12th annual encampment of the Park Region Association G A R will be held in this city on June 22 23 and 24 arrangements are being made to ensure a grand success.
G S McConrocs, superintendent, notes good seed oats available for the poor farm with a sample at L J Cale's grocery store.
A long list of locals and guests arrive, depart, or visit the city. Mrs. Geo. Allies returns from St. Paul, Bert Parker and others travel from Staples, Minneapolis, Fargo, Duluth, and beyond for Easter and business. Notables include ministers, judges, and the B. and N. M. general manager, with several wedding and home visits noted.
Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal Baking Powder Co. B.
O B Johnson admitted assaulting Martin Johnson with a beer mug and was fined ten dollars or fifteen days in jail. Martha Williams pleaded guilty to vagrancy and was discharged on condition she leaves the city. John LaFond faced indecent assault charges. preliminary hearing resulted in discharge by Judge Hoffman amid blackmail and rent security claims. Wm Staley and Ola Ross had preliminary examinations. Staley bound over to grand jury for 250 dollars, Ola Boss released on recognizance. Staley later released on habeas corpus for lack of jurisdiction. Call on Atwood for fine table sweet oil.
Benson and Gray rent the former Walter's shoe store space at Sixth and Front streets and plan to open a meat market there next week. They ordered an entirely new red oak fixture set of elaborate pattern and aim to provide fine quarters, a clean and tasty market, first class goods, and courteous service, expecting to win significant trade and perhaps the finest market in the northwest.
Special session of the board of education elected Supt. Carlton at 1200 dollars per year and named a large group of teachers with monthly salaries. The Y M C A arranged three entertainments with Stayton Lyceum Bureau. A Brainerd teachers convention led by state superintendent W W Pendergast was scheduled at the High School and Presbyterian church with a Memorial Day plan and community notices.
Julia A. Jackson and Miss Minnie Johnson received a marriage license from Clerk Parker and were wed by Judge S F Alderman in his office. The groom works as a bartender in Alderman Geo Gardner's sample room and the bride is sister to P M Johnson of a Sixth Street restaurant. Frank Menard and Grace Jones wed at the M E parsonage with Rev Opie officiating. Bert Lamb and Florence Dumpprope, Cass County residents, also licensed to wed. Seeds of all kinds and varieties, flower and garden, at Atwood's, the druggist.
Fred Engle formerly of this city and a brakeman for the Northern Pacific at Livingstone Montana was brought to the Sanitarium with a severely crushed foot requiring ankle amputation. The accident occurred while Engle was coupling cars his foot was caught in the coupler as another car struck. His relatives and friends here mourn his misfortune.
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