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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1894
Page
4
N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland editors and proprietors publish the weekly Brain erd Minnesota paper. Issued every Friday from Sleeper block rooms 7. Terms are 1.50 dollars per year. Finest job printing office in the city.
Local figures such as Max Shapiro and H J Sampson visit Brainerd while J M Elder travels to St Paul and C C Kelley is named postmaster at Ellis Cass County. Dr Niven advertising dental work on December 17 18 and a Y M C A secretary arrives. A Calhoun Opera Co. show entertains at the opera house and a lodge post election meeting is set for Pap Thomas Post No 30.
A brief squib notes a sales pitch inviting readers to bring their partner to buy eight cent outing flannels, attributed to Herry I. Coney. The fragment references a promotional line and a person name.
At the Brainerd city council meeting a petition asked for a committee to confer with C N Parker about granting him a telephone franchise. The Dispatch favors Parker’s proposal as a home growth plan likely to provide lower rates and a locally owned plant, with work to begin when weather permits.
Several weddings are reported including Joseph N Warner and Mary A Campbell married at Rev G E Rowe’s home, and John Swanson with Marian A Gallup marrying at the Lagerquist home on Thanksgiving day. Joel W Billings and Martha A Swartout wed at East Brainerd with dinner to follow. Addie Myers dies at 38. Thanksgiving services at the Baptist church in Brainerd feature a free dinner for 150 and a program in the afternoon. Lost dog alert. community ads for wood, ponies, and local news from Garrison and Sleepy Sleep block notices.
The regular session notes fines for November amounting to 187.95 and bills paid including wages, light, and repairs. The Tribune designated official city paper for two years. prison meals awarded to J A Sanborn at 11 cents per meal. a 25 year telephone franchise is referred to a committee. gambling suppression fund of 50 is approved. a sneak theft reported at C L Spalding’s home.
Our closed school will reopen for the winter term Monday with Miss Lena Mix as teacher. Miss Clauda Wood attends the Brainerd high school this winter. Local river skating remains popular among youths. The N P railroad claim agent has visited to settle fire damages from passing engines this summer. Frank Cook visited on Thanksgiving and returned to Todd county duties. Gull River’s population grows with new families. Benson regards the town as booming. Scripe.
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