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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1888
Page
4
Friday morning publication from Brain erd Minnesota Stern blocks rooms 5 and 7 prints Sleeper block Terms 1.50 per year Finest job printing in the city
A detailed railway timetable lists multiple trains between St Paul and Jamestown with arrivals and departures across routes to Wahpeton Duluth Superior and Ashland. It notes merged services, through sleepers to the Pacific, daily operations and occasional Sunday exceptions, plus freight trains carrying passengers but with uncertain reliability and possible cancellations without notice.
Local items include H Rosenblatt expanding purchases and court convening September 17. Duluth worker Chas Grinnell returns to Brainerd. O M Alstrom owner of a bruising fainting fit. Veon jewelry sale offers low prices to clear stock. I A White advances on Gurgen Mooer stables project with a 52 by 64 building. Brainerd St Cloud baseball game set for Sunday at 3 30 pm. admission 25 cents. Reverend McIntosh to address Christian education for multiple groups at Congregational Church September 6 with stereopticon views.
The Brainerd slate notes a corner lot purchase by A L Nutting with a 18 by 26 foot two story house planned for summer construction. A new presbytery meeting will unite Duluth Brainerd Two Harbors Tower West Superior N P Junction Cloquet on September 12. Mrs Gauze and Mrs Meisen plan Brainerd humane society. A union mass meeting at Congregational church Sunday features S Sherin. A Daddy Nolan show by Dan l Sully and company arrives next Saturday with Brooklyn Bridge scenery.
Crow Wing county selects I A White to construct a new poor house at the county farm in Oaklawn. Bids opened last Saturday show costs for a main 28 by 60 foot section with 20 foot posts and a 24 by 32 foot addition with 10 foot posts, plus a two ward upper story and separated lower floors. The two story, brick or stone basement complex includes a kitchen dining area and a 32 by 8 foot portico. completion is slated in about sixty days.
The Catholic fair ended Saturday evening, clearing 1100 for the society. Prizes awarded by vote included a toilet case won by Maggie Meekins, a gold ring won by Nora McCormick, a broom won by theviot, and a washing machine donated by Mrs Bannan won by George N. Day, with respective receipts 455 85 140 and 20.
A Motley resident allegedly offered two dollars for his neighbor's wife who accepted and received a bill of sale. The husband reportedly remains living with her amid jokes about continuing the stunt. A tin pan serenade was discussed but not carried out. The Register notes the odd episode may reflect on the paper's moral influence.
The city lists grand and petit jurors drawn Wednesday for the September term. Petit jurors include A L Hoffman John H Dennis James Willis Jr Martin Ovig W L Fratcher R H Capistrant W Brockway Frank Congdon Andrew Bennett L N Lowe Mike Donahue A F Daggett Thos Kennedy G E Frey John Anderson H A Boedecker Ed Breheny D A C Stoops Peter Walters G F Fenno J D Bowers B Rosenberg Chas Cross Dan Gunn. Grand jurors named: E J Brownson H J Spencer J A Rowell W E Entriken N D Root S W Searles Adam Brown Peter Schwinderman H C Stivers J W Ooh Isaac Seymour Jno T Frater H Cne Samuel Walker W S Martin T Sanborn T McMaster G A Keene George S Canfield Harry Patterson Walter Davis H S Totton J M Martin. We have just opened the largest line of flower pots ever brought to the city. D M Craix Co Veon has exquisite.
Elias Northup may move his family to Washington Territory if it proves to be a Garden of Eden. A WCTU meeting is set for Sunday with Mrs. E. L. Smith lecturing on temperance. A Republican rally at the school house featured Lum, Fernald, and Brony speaking in French. C. Ester will move his steam saw mill to the mouth of Noka Sebie to ease lumber-hauling. Mrs. Wilson Vanneps fell seriously ill. Wheat yields range from two to eight bushels per acre. oats are light. A Paris-level theatre scene praises Louis James and Marie Wainwright in Virginius at the Opera House next Wednesday.
In Minnesota Crow Wing County Probate Court on August 8 1888 Irma Camp Bind Samera petitions to admit the will of Mary A Camp deceased proved in county and letters testamentary issued. Hearing set September 15 1888 at 2 pm at the Probate office with three weeks of notice by publication in Brainerd Dispatch.
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