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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
10
The notice warns that many imitation baking powders on the market are made from alum and dangerous acids. It identifies Royal Baking Powder Co in New York as a producer and warns of poisonous content in rival products.
Featherstone attends Hoffmans event and a Lion Moulders ball planned at Gardner Hall tonight. Mr and Mrs C A Burton report their five year old son ill with scarlet fever. Lawyer P J Murphy moves his office to Room 4. Sleepers list for the week. Gun club meeting Monday night failed to meet. A nine pound daughter born to Mr and Mrs Alba Hall on Saturday April 21. Fisher and Walters expand lumber yard stock at lowest prices. Aaron Johnson and Hulda Erickson wed on Saturday April 21 with Rev J A Johnson officiating. Anthony Nolan learns pension increased from 6 to 8 dollars monthly from April 17 1897. Beach and Son shift grocery stock into Columbian block store, aim May 1. Nels Ellingson to auction stock May 7. Widow of Alfred Anderson's claim for damages settled for 500. Unity Lodge IOOF delegates W Murray and R Vallentyne chosen for St Paul meeting June 13–14. Licenses issued for Allen Deckeman and Katie Jones and for Ernest Rockwell and Marie Snell. Fisher and Walters street stock moved to Spencer and Jeffery firm. N P freight depot fire quelled by chemical extinguisher. Dispatcu error corrected on stock ownership of N P bank shares held by Ware, later sold to Hemstead and McGinnis.
Dr. H F Simmons osteopath will be in Brainerd on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays starting May 1. He will practice at the residence of Mrs H J Spencer and offers treatment for chronic troubles.
River fishing remains illegal until May 1 with arrests already occurring elsewhere. Post office stamp books now on sale in three sizes 12, 24, and 48 stamps with prices 25, 49, and 97 cents. each adds one cent for binding. Chief Nelson seized 63 sticks of dynamite and 15 yards fuse found near Brainerd Lumber Co mill. likely stolen from the boom company for river log jams.
Hans Peterson suffered a severe foot injury when a B and M switcher train knocked a keg of spikes onto his foot while he was unloading at the North Pacific yard. He was removed to the sanatorium for treatment.
A. F. Ferris F. B. Johnson W. A. Johnston and W. B. McClenahan chosen as Brainerd representatives to the Grand Commandery Session of the Imperial Knight in St Paul in May. The gathering will bring together prominent men from across Minnesota.
A Clulow Concert Co program is planned at the M. E. church on Tuesday next. A recent testimonial praises the group’s voices, bright pieces, and entertaining variety, with Mrs. A. W. Green endorsing the event.
The Congregational church Missionary Society will meet with Mrs John Isham at Third and Ivy streets on Wednesday afternoon May 2 to sew for a destitute family. All helpers invited to bring thread needles and scissors. Donations of money clothing bedding towels or needed home goods may be left with Mrs Geo A Keene at Fourth and Kingwood streets.
John OToole faced municipal court on a Monday charged by his wife Kathrine with assault. Judge Mantor presided with no attorneys. Kathrine described injuries while OToole denied the claim. A fine of 5.00 and costs was imposed after the hearing.
A stream of visitors and residents’ travel highlights Brainerd notes. J J Howe visited Minneapolis, Ed Hurley Cass Lake was in town, and Mrs L S Budd Seal N D came to visit. Others include Mrs Fred Watson, Mrs Geo Ames, and lawyer E W Crane visiting relatives. Mayor Johnson hosts Rev Clulow, while S H Robinson from Livingstone shakes hands. Maybelle Davis visits St Paul, J F Peterson stays with Mobergs, and Mrs James McDonough leaves Brainerd for Battle Creek. Mrs Julius Kiebler returns from Winnipeg, Mrs John Graff arrives from Arlington for a sister’s illness. Spalding and Irish travel to St Paul to equip a drug store, E E Beard moves to Oregon after Campbell machinery work, Belle Wilson returns to St Cloud for Normal school, Mrs Geo Sieben visits ailing sister Mrs Frey, County Attorney Alderman plans Connecticut trip, Warner family settles in Brainerd after West Superior move.
Rev. G W Gallagher attended a church council in Aitkin for Wickwire ordination and preached the ordination sermon. Mrs Clulow’s Bemidji lectures drew an appreciative audience at Peoples Church East Brainerd. The M E Ladies Aid met at the parsonage. one new member joined and plans to paper and clean the church this spring.
C B White secured the contract to build a full two story modern residence with basement on block 80 9th street north for Ed Lynch. The nine room home includes a bathroom hot water heating electric lights and will cost about $3000. Lynch sold his current residence to Joel Smith.
City talks point to a potential double track steel bridge over the Mississippi by the Northern Pacific this summer to replace the existing wooden span. No material orders or contracts have been placed yet, though a prior material order was canceled two years ago.
John Claybundy of East Brainerd was arrested by Chief Nelson for stealing a gold watch and cash from Burleson. The watch was recovered on his person, and he is slated to appear in court at 10 o clock this morning.
A week of real estate transfers shows multiple residential dealings, with values from 100 to 1 000 dollars. Notable sales include Frank Jarboe to Chas Elliston at 5th and Pine for 300 dollars plus 40 acres, and various transfers by J R Smith and G M Wilson on Hartley Norwood Kingwood and 9th streets. Minnesota Savings Fund Co. completes several transfers totaling 880 dollars and 100 dollars on Southeast Brainerd lots.
Aged resident A G Anderson of Pequot Minn died Wednesday the 25th. Delia Vaartz infant died at East Brainerd Tuesday morning of pneumonia aged six weeks. Leonard W Harrington three years died Sunday at 231 Farrar Street East Brainerd of pneumonia. Madge O Rockenbach three months died Wednesday April 25 of brain fever, burial in Faribault Minn. Rockenbach employed in L J Cale grocery. Lumber and building supplies offered by Fisher Walters.
Brainerd Business College trains young men and women for honorable, practical work with minimal time and cost. The institution emphasizes efficient programs and affordable tuition to equip graduates for the job market.
A mass temperance meeting under the Anti-Saloon League will be held in Gardner Hall next Sunday at 8 PM. Most churches will cancel evening services to attend with their pastors. Mayor J A Johnson of Fargo will join and speak on running a prosperous town without liquor revenue.
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