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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1890
Page
5
Brainerd Dispatch edited by Ingersoll and Wieland is published weekly from Sleeper Block rooms 5 and 7 Crow Wing county Minnesota. Subscriptions are $1.50 annually and the paper bills itself as the city’s finest printing office.
The timetable lists trains arriving from the south at 2:00 p m daily except Sunday and 1:20 p m daily including Sundays, from the west at 12:50 p m daily except Sunday and 2:10 p m daily, and from the east at 1:10 a m daily and 7:50 p m. Departures include No 5 at 2:20 p m daily except Sunday and No 7 at 1:30 a m daily. Freight No 56 arrives Staples 8:45 a m and goes Duluth 9:15 a m, No 55 runs Staples 6:45 p m west.
Brainerd and area residents appear in a dense stream of social notices and updates. Sickness and death touch families Ole Erckson and relatives send thanks. Margaret Thompson dies at 60. Gust A Sangala marries Sophia Maantala. Henry Gooch dies after injuries in Billings. Swell of visits includes Rev J B Rorvik, D F Sexton, and many local movers.
The article describes the wedding of Joshua Hurd and Annie Campbell ten miles north of the city with Rev. C G Muller officiating. It details attire, attendants, guest list, gifts, and the couple's move to Minneapolis. It also covers city council actions, tax equalizations, and school board decisions from August 1890.
Notice states the firm Hazen & Co is dissolved with Ed Hazen retiring. M C Totton will continue the business and assume liabilities and collect all accounts. Dated Brainerd Minnesota August 1 1890. Also mentions various local ads including shoes harness department and clothing stock.
Albert Atherton of Brainerd reports nine valuable brick deposits on Block 41 owned by L F and Geo W Knox and along the creek near the National hotel. The beds yield high quality clay suitable for yellow cream Milwaukee bricks and red St Louis bricks. Atherton seeks land on reasonable terms to start works, with a 100 000 brick contract from G G Hartley of Duluth for a new bank building, per Grand Rapids Eagle.
Beginning Monday September 1 the Baker Opera company appears at the Grand Forks Opera House for a week of music and merriment. George A. Bakers English Serenades Olivette features Miss Kitty Marcellus in the title role with Miss May Douglass as Bathilde as Frank Deshon as Coquelleot provokes laughter. Forest City Quartette E A Clark Emmet Drewe Ed McCaffrey and Jack Mackay perform a rich musical interlude to delighted audiences.
The Grand Rapids Eagle recalls the Lottie Lee voyage from Brainerd lasting eight days with engines weak, logs to pass, and scarce food. Passengers included Capt Powers and Alderman Whitney, welcomed by Chief Drumbeater at Grand Rapids. Some travelers returned by rail while others planned birch canoe descent to save time.
The exposition opens August 27 and runs to October 4 with Edison’s Paris Exposition lighting display, Thompson welding apparatus, Strauss Vienna Orchestra, Reeves band, Pompeii pyrotechnics, Japanese jugglers, Shetland ponies, and a creamery plant. Excursion rates apply. admission is 25 cents. Also a note of thanks for a geranium placed on a grave for the Harrison family.
The contract was let today to J. W. Hinkley to erect the new Hammond block for the Y M C A on the corner of Winter street and Tower avenue for 40000. Work will begin at once. The four story brick stone and iron structure will rise at West St. Paul Wisconsin August 20.
A local notice describes Day's great cash sale with cheap children's shoes, infant shoes, wool hats, and men and women’s apparel. It promotes gents Oxford ties at 1.38 and men’s wool items, plus other sale items and a Brainerd address Box 1572.
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