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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1887
Page
9
Local notes report the rifie club delaying weekly shoots until after the holiday season. The column also mentions social events, engagements, and community notices from Fergus Falls to Brainerd, including a doll bazaar, Christmas plans, and local business ads.
L J Cale and wife head to California for winter. A E Yeon considers cast iron windows. Lee Sawin, ex resident and city pane member, married in Salina Kansas. Christmas shopping urged. M L Swartz offers useful and ornamental presents. Royal Adelphia Conclave No 34 officers elected and meetings moved to Sleeper block. Arthur Lloyed dies at Sanitarium after long illness. Burial in Zumbrota by Geo LeBar. Late row at Kelleher’s saloon. Dave Delaney injures a man and flees. $25 reward offered for the fugitive at Moorhead.
Mrs Wilmar Holmes died at her Sixth Street South residence Saturday afternoon from brights disease following months of illness. Once believed cured by faith she left bed briefly and traveled to Gull River before relapsing. Funeral services were held Sunday at the Methodist church conducted by Rev Wood. She leaves a husband and infant daughter.
Henry Riftenrath died from blood poisoning at Sanitarium Sun-Gay two months after a Northern Pacific accident in Jonesville where he worked plastering the section house. A hand-car ride to the job led to a fogbound collision with a freight train, leaving him with multiple leg fractures. He leaves a wife and three children. Germania Verein plans a December 31 benefit ball to aid the family.
John Rogan, 53, longtime Boone Iowa native and former railroad boiler works foreman, died at his East Brainerd residence on Monday night December 12 1887 after a brief illness from heart disease. He moved to this city in 1882, later regained sight after two years of blindness, and leaves a wife two daughters and four sons.
Cordwood for sale at Day and Meaghers and at Day and Meaduens is noted. J P McGaughey explains Knights of Labor co operative board’s stance on a land association and a separate colony project. Other items include travel notes, a temperance meeting, a birthday gathering for Wm Davis, and log delivery by Jacob Showers to Moores on Little Anoka Creek.
Owing to recent union services the As sociation Sunday meeting is omitted but will resume next Sunday at 3 30 PM with a Bible reading. A special business meeting is called for next Wednesday evening December 21 at 8 o'clock.
A. E. Veon and C. J. Yeo invite public shopping for holiday stock at Fifth Street stores. Veon advertises world class jewelry with a $5 stem-winding watch and writ ten warranty. ChurcH & NUTTING sell Empire creamery butter, and Day & Meaghers carry Crown collars and kid shoes. Cattle sale note lists Holstein bulls for sale at a Brainerd area farm.
C D Herbert was arrested on a grand larceny charge by his wife over a watch chain and other items. The couple had separated, he was released after charges were withdrawn and the wife recovered custody of their boy following a jail visit.
Advertisements from D. M. Clark & Co., Day & Meagher, Church & Nutting, Hoffman's Bazaar, and White & White highlight storm doors sleds undergarments butter syrup flour and rifles. Promotions tout bob sleds tote sleds belligerent prices and new stove offerings plus confections and apparel including the monarch shirt.
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