Local briefs from Little Falls and Brainerd area
Geo LaFond of Little Falls visits. Judge Sleeper holds court at Wadena. county commissioners in session next Tuesday. Demeuks goes to Sauk Rapids on business. Mrs Gardner visiting from New York. State Superintendent Kieh visits Brainerd schools. Four new butcher shops opened. Co K profits from Armory ball. Coal and wood yard opens. bob sleds advertised by D M Clark Co. Weather delays trains. storm doors boom for White White. Uncle Thomas Cabin staged at opera house. Motley's pine wood price. Brainerd cord price noted. Sparks recovering from illness at Little Falls. City clerk collects 363.50 from Third-Fourth St vicinity. Boiler inspector Patrick visits Brainerd. Bridge watchman arrests Shapiro for fast driving. jury acquits. Rev Beaulieu to conduct Episcopal services Sunday. Kowalski in town. snow covers ground. D M Clark Co advertises holiday bargains. Water pipe frozen myth explained by river drop. Water supply returns at 9 am. H Scott found guilty of stealing cigars from Lowe factory. 15 days.
Notable Local Notices From Motley Register
C C Neal served as office caller and ends project for Pacific coast to work as foreman on the Aitkin Age for winter. John Korth escaped county jail while quilts were retrieved. awaiting grand jury trial for burning Mr Shaller barn. Ole Nelson and Peter Johnson ran afoul of the law after a Saturday drunken outing. Nelson allegedly stole Johnsons watch and is jailed for twenty days. Wm Freyer injured at camp on White Fish lake. leg broken, treated by Dr Camp, then sent to Minneapolis. W B Hamlin left for Waterville as his wife lies critically ill. The Motely Register notes residents’ best wishes for her speedy recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Neal
Mr. Neal
Pacific Coast
Aitkin
John Korth
Korth
Mr. Shaller
Ole Nelson
Peter Johnson
Ole
Peter
Nelson
Houston County
Wm. Freyer
Nelson, Tenny & Co
White Fish Lake
Dr. Camp
Minneapolis
Local Nuptials and Obituary Notices Highlight 1887 Week
Robinson and Mrs. Schwartz wed in quiet ceremony at the bride’s residence with a small group present. James Thomas and Miss Carrie Olson marry at Gull River as Rev. Wood officiates. Thomas Wadham dies at 68 after a long illness. born in England, he worked on steam locomotives and later at the Northern Pacific, with Masonic rites observed at his funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Olson
M. E. Parsonage
E. A. Wood
E. J. Brownson
James Thomas
Carrie Olson
Gull River
England
Canada
Grand Trunk
Wabash
Toledo
Northern Pacific
Corliss
Fraternal Officers Elected and Local Notices Recap
Wildey Lodge and White Cross Lodge appoint new officers with named holds. Evergreen Lodge names officers for the term. W C T U suspends free reading room and reallocates to Y M C A rooms, thanking Brainerd business community and local editors for support. Local items note travel, deer hunting trips, school schedules, and early lumbering activity. Day and Meaghers advertise hosiery at bargain prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
5Th Street
Bank Block
Brainerd
W.C.T. U
Gambling and theft at Red Lake Falls hotel incident
A collector from Red Lake Falls is robbed of $85 after leaving his room unlocked at the Commercial Hotel. Police detain Sam and Clark gamblers with accomplices. items found include a bowie knife and a 44-60 revolver. They are later discharged due to lack of evidence while a saloon keeper in Aitkin faces action for whisky sales to Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Ledeboer
Merchants Collection Agency
Red Lake Falls
Commercial Hotel
Fargo
Clark
Sam
Duluth
the Globe
Marshal Campbell
Aitkin
Brainerd public aid debate stirs local industry plans
Citizens in Brainerd remain split over assisting the Water Power Company with public funds. The debate strains Brainerd as a manufacturing center, with opponents fearing jeopardized growth if the anti boomer minority prevails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd
Wrater Power Company
Reservoir control sparks united Mississippi front
A Little Falls Transcript note urges northern Mississippi cities to unite for government reservoir policy reform to stabilize year round water flow. It warns current changes favor steamboat interests and argues a steady supply would benefit St Cloud Little Falls Brainerd and upstream towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Mississippi
Minneapolis
Mississsippi
St. Paul
St. Cloud
Little Falls
Brainerd
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Day & Meagher’s
Jen
Iver
Sity
Sissth Street
Faine & CO
Paine
KF. G Sundberg
Front Street
Bet
Wm Gilbert Chock Co
F. G. Sundberg
weNor
Evergreen Cemetery
Cali
Losey & Dean
Froceries & Provisions
Stour and Reed
St. Be
Een 6Th
Cor
Laurel and Sixth Streets
Bradbury & Peabody, Proors
N. McFadden
Seymour
Sherwood
Towne-Mcfadden Bloce
Brainerd Dispatch
Crow Winging County
Cass
N. H. Ingersoll, F. W. Wieland
Editors and Proprietors
Crow Wing County
Minnesota
Minneosta
Jamestown
Wahpeton
Wadena
Superior
Ashland
South
Winnipeg Junction
Grand Forks
C. H. Closterman
Montana
Motley
Geo. LaFond
Sleeper
A. J. Demeuks
Sauk Rapids
E. F. Barrett
The
Stillwater
J. H. Hallett
Kieh
Brainerdigh
Co. K
Armory
Hazen
D. M. Clark & Co
White & White
Thomas
Opera House
Motley Jack
Russel Sparks
Fourth Streets
Robert Patrick
Fergus Journal
Cross
Max Shapiro
Mississippi Bridge
C. H. Beaulieu
Episcopal Church
Kowolski Kowakowski
North Praine
H. Scott
A. G. Lowe
Scott
Mr. Lowe
E. ¥. Merrill
Stivers
Dispatch
Kraft
Fifth and
Front Streets
Peter Mertz
W. B. Hamlin
Waterville
Mrs. Hamlin
Register
Motley Register
Wildey Lodge No. 39
Noble Grand
Iver Benson
Fred Fogle
R. N. Paine
Ed Mahan
N. Heller
White Cross Lodge No
K. of P
C. C
Totton
Vy. C
D. M. Gunn
James Towers
K. R
H. C
D. Withrow
M.F
A. F. Ferris
M. E
George Mahood
M. A
J. B. Johnson
Evergreen Lodge No. 90
1.C.C. F
R. F. Waltera
I. E. Fox
W. L. Harrison
I. T. Dean
J. E. Ireland
Ft. Ripley
Geo. Carlile
Emma Brett
Martin King
Lawrence Towle
Minnie Troxel
Owen R. Jenks
Wright Co
Minn
May Gorst
Day & Meaghers
Cordwood
H. J. Spencer & Co
W. A. Flemine, Co. Spo't. of Schools
Crow Wing
Millispauch & Forp
Monarch
Day & Meagher
A. E. Veon
Fifth St
White & White's
Empire Creamery
New Orleans
Cramnon & NoTtine
D. M Clark & Co
Church & Nutting’s
Smith's
Cuuren & Nurrise’s
Sth and
Cruwneu & Nurrise’s
Hoffman's Bazaar
5Th and
Hoffman’s Bazaar
Rochester
Smith’s
J.D. Cheney
Abbie J. Cheney
Minnesota Loan and Trust Company
Mae
A. D
Register of Deeds
State of
W. W. Braden
Braden
Roger of Deeds
Minnesota Leasx Axd Tarust Company
Keith, Thompson & Fairchild
C.m.patek
R . Whitely
Axp SuBvEryor
Hrainerd
MIMN
M. McFadden
Court House
Fernald
Frater & Fernald
Attorney At Law
W A. Fleming
Jersey City
N. J
United States
U. S. Treasury
Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall Street
N. Y
J.W Koop
Srainerd
Notary Panic
Grand Outfit Free
Taux & Co
Augusta
Maine
Johnson & Bain
Acker
Tatah Central
Northwest
Chicago
Clark Depot
Palmer House
Grant Pacific
Tremont House
Milwaukee
Broadway
Staton
Chiaro
E. Herbert Stanley
Sixth Street
KK. F. Walters
Froxut Streets
C. E. Smith
Smith’s Empire Hotel
White & White, Contractors ‘Builders
T. L. Blood & CO
Dan
Brainerd Loan Agency
Brainerd Furniture Co
Fifth
A. L. Hoffman
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