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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1891
Page
4
N. H. Ingersoll and T. Wieland publish a weekly issue every Friday morning from Brainard in Crow Wing County Minnesota. Offices are in Sleeper block rooms 5 and 7. Annual subscription is $1.50. Describes itself as the finest job printing office in the city.
The record lists passenger arrivals and departures No 5 9 11 6 10 12 with times from the South Duluth and West, plus connecting Morris and Brainerd accommodations. Several freight trains No 55 56 provide schedules with cautions that movements are not reliable and may be abandoned by the company.
Merrill of Aitkin and Mrs. McChesney of Barnesville visit Brainerd while J C Heesell of Little Falls and Miss Edelbrock of St. Cloud are guests. lumber industry updates, postmaster trial postponed, registrations for spring election urged, and local real estate activity plus church festival planned.
Dan Caffery arrives from Grand Rapids this week. Peter Fisher dies at the poor farm at 32 from heart failure. County Treasurer Beckfelt picks H D Powers as deputy. Marriage licenses issued for Thomas V Thomson and Jennie G Jamison. John Olbu and Annie Krauser. Local social at BrainerdAuxiliary Ladies visit Staples at C H Hodge residence. Arlington hotel changes hands with Nellie Ward succeeding R R Wise. Little Lillie, 17 months, dies of bronchial pneumonia. funeral at Third Ave residence. Council urged to oppose new sewer on Main or Kingwood without benefiting property owners. county to bear half of extending main from Arlington Hotel.
The May Louise Aigen Co. tours Brainerd with eight weeks of opera at the Grand, presenting Shaughran Confusion Camille and Two Orphans this week. Miss Aigen praised as a strong emotional actress leads a solid company with manager F. C. Huebner and C. H. Truesdell, with low admission 10 20 and 30 cents and more performances planned tonight and tomorrow.
Miss Marion Willis of Boston will present a superb entertainment at the M E church in town tomorrow evening. A critic lauds her as an artistic gem whose recitations sweep the keyboard of human feelings and hold audiences with magnetic presence and dramatic genius. Those who hear her once are eager for a return engagement.
Pine City Lodge No 81 of the B of L F plans its 10th annual ball at the roller rink on Tuesday evening May 25. Members spare no effort to outdo past events with elaborate decorations and fine music. Tickets are priced at 1.
The Gun Club tally for Wednesday lists 20 birds total with 14 singles and 3 pairs among shooters Paine J Westfall White Mantor and others. Scores show multiple round outcomes and a final line of paired shots indicating performance variations across participants.
To ice consumers. Due to higher car shipping costs, Walters sets seasonal ice at 12 dollars for 25 pounds daily and proportionally higher. Monthly rates apply except July and August at 2 dollars, with July and August at 3 dollars per month.
Public notice lists a teachers examination at the Brainerd Court House on Friday and Saturday May 1st and 2nd. J. A. Wilcox County Superintendent of Schools announces the event as the last public examination for the period.
Auditor Louis Tache of Crow Wing and Cass Counties Minnesota announces a tax sale on May 4 1891 at 10 oclock in the forenoon in Brainerd Minnesota. Lands in Crow Wing and Cass Counties with delinquent taxes penalties and costs will be sold if not paid by then.
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