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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1894
Page
4
A brief notice shows editors and proprietors entered at the Brainerd Minnesota post office as second class matter, indicating publication and mailing status.
The Brainerd region reports various items including Mrs. Sarah L. Sleeper's Minneapolis trip, local business advisories, social events, and upcoming entertainments. Notices cover church services, rail work, factory shifts, and a circus queen at the Sleeper Opera House with ticket sales and community events.
The Olympic theatre in Brainerd burned last night and was totally destroyed with its contents. Fire discovered at 11:45, unable to stop the blaze. Watchman Humphrey Lynch escaped as the building collapsed near his room. Incendiary origin suspected. unoccupied for months. Built in 1893 by Kellehan & Quinn, opened June that year, James Kellehan the owner. Valued at $6,000 with $3,000 insurance.
Conductor Straub, son in law of Mrs C Creasen and a Missoula resident, was held up near Helena last week by a masked highwayman. He handed over $2.50 and his watch, refused the watch, was shot through the thigh with a 44 caliber pistol, then crawled toward a lighted engine as the robber escaped. Doctors report a deep flesh wound but no arterial damage.
The court draws jurors H C Stivers Alex Cameron J L Berg C M Patek Ed H White G W Young C E Cole R Parker C A Walker C B Rosenberg A Atherton L P White Sr H E Brooks L P Johnson M K Awartz etc. A special G A R train via Chicago Milwaukee St Paul to Pittsburg Sept 8 9 10 15 offers half fare plus 10 dollars. return by Sept 25. Also ads offer 500 sheep for sale and young horses wanted. local businesses advertise be in beef, doors and fire insurance offices.
Public schools will begin Tuesday morning September 4 in the city. Assignments list Lincoln building First ward Miss Bess Mulrine principal second grade Miss Rich first primary room Miss Lizzie Somers third grade Miss Badeaux fourth grade Whittier Second Ward J C Hart principal Miss Clark first primary Miss Lowey second primary Miss E Murphy third room intermediate Miss M Fuller fourth room Mrs E Cahoon fifth Miss E Fuller sixth Miss Reinert seventh grade Lowell Third Ward H P Skinner principal Miss Norrish first primary Miss A Murphy second primary Miss E McPherson third room intermediate Miss J Paine fourth room Miss Atkinson Harrison Fourth Ward Miss Maggie Somers principal second grade Miss Nellie Merritt first primary Miss Miller third room intermediate Miss Snow fourth room Washington Fifth Ward C E Young principal and high school Miss Lelia Johnson assistant principal Miss M Merritt first primary Miss Crowe second primary Miss Gilman third room intermediate Miss Canan fifth intermediate and grammar Miss Woods sixth room grammar
Touch up and varnish your wagons for spring trade at Congdons. A full line of T. L. Blood & Co paints just received at C. B. White's. Buy your meats at C. A. Walker & Co.'s, the finest in the city. Fresh stock just opened at C. B. Whites. Get prices on paints varnishes and brushes for painting this spring.
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