Local News Briefs Highlight Fire Race and Rail Change
A small rubbish fire behind the Dressen building prompted the fire department to respond. The Brainerd & Northern is set to become Minnesota & International after the railroad commission approved capital expansion. Yardmaster Williams moves to Great Northern Wilmar. Claude Burton succeeds him. The Brainerd High School baseball team plans to play Little Falls then St. Cloud. A public notice urges residents to update house numbers for a free delivery system.
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Brainerd
Little Falls
St. Cloud
Community Notices of Balls, Concerts, and Public Meetings
A series of local notices details the Fourth annual Retail Clerk's Union ball at Gardner Hall on May 3 1901, a free Scandinavian Glee Club concert at Johnson's hall on May 4, and public attendance urged. Other items note a new wholesale house excavation, a policeman’s ball funding uniforms, and church and lodge events.
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Retail Clerk's Union No
Gardner Hall
Cleary, McGinnis & Hemstead
Front and
Fourth Street
Pertinent Personal Notes From Brainerd Area Listings
Local briefs show numerous residents traveling to Minneapolis St Paul Bemidji and Brainerd for visits business or weddings including W E Winslow Joel Smith C E Allen Mrs R S Holden T G Butler J W Bailey G D LaBar O C Wright Lulu Woodward J L Smith Mrs A F Ferris W A Prentice and others. Notable events include marriages of Frank Wise to Theresie Foltz and Edna Johnson to W A Miller with subsequent moves to Brainerd Motley and beyond.
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O. C. Wright
Hamline
Geo. D. LaBar
Minneapolis
P. J. Vassaly
Little Falls
Henry I. Cohen
St. Paul
Lulu Woodward
Bemidji
Lightfoot
W. A. Prentice
New York State
Perham Bulletin
Leopold Foltz
Rush Lake
Miss Trasy
John Wise
Brainerd
Frank Mattson
Spokane
Wash
Scott
Octave Gelo
Y. Hobbs
QM. Duclos
Maine
Transcript
Pupils’ Gardner Hall Concert Praises Miss Barker
A Saturday evening concert at Gardner Hall by public school pupils under Miss Grace E. Barker, supervisor of music, impressed the city with the students’ polished training. The program featured grade songs and choruses, ending with the three act operetta Mother Goose performed by scholars, highlighting Barker’s energetic leadership.
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Gardner Hall
Grace E. Barker
Bridge Over Mississippi River Opens After Quick Replacement
The new steel bridge spanning the Mississippi River is completed at the site of the old structure. It carries traffic without delay, is over 600 feet long and about 75 feet high, and represents a notable engineering feat.
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Mississippi River
Church Activities And Sermons Noted For Sunday
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid meets next Wednesday May 1 from 2 30 to 4 30 with Mrs Alexander at 513 Maple Street. Rev M L Hutton of Warren Minnesota will conduct services at First Congregational Church next Sunday with both morning and evening services. St Pauls Episcopal outlines morning sermon The Hero of Private Life and evening discussion The Church and the Working Man with songs by Mrs Atherton Will Georgeson and Dank and Mr Pope leading offertories. A cordial invite to working men.
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Unity Lodge
1. O
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Sovereign
Grand Lodge of the Order
Tev. Hover
The
Baptist Church
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church
Alexander
Maple Street
M.L. Hutton
Warren, Minn
First Congregational Church
St. Pauls Episcopal Church
Deaths and notices including Rev John Squires and Mrs Anderson
Deaths sweep the community with Rev John Squires 83 at his daughter's home on 8th street north. Funeral at 8:30 p m at the house with burial in St Paul. Mrs Anderson dies at 48 after brain softening. service at Swedish Mission church Sunday at 2 p m. Baby Alonzo Becker dies meningitis. Daniel Murphy dies in St Joseph's Hospital. no relatives known. Also an ad for Rocky Mountain Tea at McFadden Drug Co.
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John Squires
Walter Davis
8Th Street
Davis
Baptist Church
Anderson
John Anderson
10Th Street South
Swedish Mission Church
A. P. Sjodahl
Daniel Murphy
Aitkin County
St. Joseph's Hospital
Clark’s Morgue
Marinda
Rocky Mountain
McFadden Drug Co
Salvage Sale of Damaged Dry Goods at Finch Van Slyck
A salvage sale of undamaged and lightly damaged dry goods is announced after Towle & Co. syrup factory fire flooded nearby storage. The buyer for Finch Van Slyck Young & Co. was summoned to St Paul to attend the sale. Insurance adjusted losses, and customers are promised very interesting bargains.
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St. Paul
Finch, van Slyck, Young & Co
Towle & Co
Fourth Street
Death of Alfonse J DeMeules in Mankato
Alfonse John DeMeules 47, long time Mankato resident and former Minnesota legislator, died Thursday morning from a spine injury and pneumonia after a fall. Survived by wife and two sons Edgar and Henry, with brother Louis J DeMeules and Adolph in Minneapolis. funeral Thursday at 6:30 pm at home, burial in Rochester.
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A. J. DeMeules
Mankato
Alfonse John de Meules
Union Block
Bjelland
L. Patterson Mercantile Company
A. J. Busch & Co
DeMeules
Edgar
Dubuque
Iowa
Henry
Brainerd
Louis J. DeMeules
St. Cloud
Adolph DeMueles
Minneapolis
Emily St. Pierre
Quesnel
St. Paul
Rochester
Guilford to return for petit larceny case May day
Pearl Guilford a moulder faced municipal court on a complaint of Geo Julian for petit larceny. Guilford pleaded not guilty, case continued to May 1 at 10 a.m., on own recognizance. Jack Burns pled guilty to disorderly conduct. fined $12.50 and costs. Burns alleged to have entered a domicile and used abusive language.
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Pearl Guilford
Geo. Julian
Guilford
Jack Burns
Mary Beckey
Burns
Sullivan
Also Mentioned on This Page
North 5Th Street
Kingwood
Dressen
Dispatch
Father Lynch
N. W. Fur Co
Minn
Stanley
Brainerd & Northern
Minnesota & International
Railroad Commission
Williams
N. P
Great Northern
Wilmar
Claude Burton
Brown
N.C. Baudette
Ira White
George P. Tawney
Knights of Pythias
Minnesota
White Cross Lodge
Board of Education
Washington School
Harrison
Johnston
E. S. Houghton
Detroit Optical College
W. EE. Winslow
Joel Smith
Park Rapids
C. E. Allen
T. G. Butler
Pequot
J. W. Bailey
Walker
G. D. LaBar
Cass Lake
J. L. Smith
A. F. Ferris
Waverly
John J. Peterson
Tacoma
Washington
Bertha Nelson
West Baden
Indiana
Robert Johnson
A. E. Moberg
Chicago
W. H. Mantor
Boone
J. N. Nevers
Jamestown
N. D
H. B. Bortel
Langdon, N. D
Mr. Bortel
North Dakota
Frank Wise
Theresie Foltz
Perham
St. Francis Catholic Church
Father Willibeard
7Th Street
Stratton House
Edna Johnson
J. L. Critchlow
W. A. Miller
Charles F. Hukari
Amanda Sophia Buskala
August Luckow
Flora Erickson
Alonzo
Alonzo Becker
2Nd Street
Henry J. Cohen
Sleeper Block
Front Street
East Front Street
Thomas
Atany Drug Store
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