Local loggers and mills highlight county notes and setbacks
From Our County Correspondents reports a flurry of logging activity in Royalton and Bay Lake with Wm Waveley, Geo Miller, Bob Clark, and Dean hauling and skidding timber amid strikes, new shops, and plans for a resort. Residents note quaratines, school and store developments, market chatter, and community humor as crews push lumber, builds, and experiments in Emily and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Waveley
Geo. Miller
Royalton
Billy Moore
Bert Filoe
Lake Dahler Landing
Deerwood News Notes and Local Rumors
H J Haye visited the county town Monday night and returned Tuesday. Mrs Torguson shows slight improvement and hopes for full recovery. Katrine explains Bay Lake pupils attend Deerwood private school satisfactorily. Elderly country ladies debate smallpox vs chicken pox near Klondike. Mr and Mrs C H Adams plan Wisconsin visit and Minneapolis sightseing, returning via Duluth. Arena report notes Dr Thabes and a Brainerd visitor at a Deerwood smallpox patient. Deerwood town board denies smallpox cases and asks Arena correction. Local tales recount Aitkin affair rumors with Joe returning home, wolves, calves, and odd sightings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Haye
Torguson
Katrine
Bay Lake
Deerwood
Klondike
C. H. Adams
Mr. Adams
Wisconsin
Minneapolis
Duluth
Thabes
Brainerd
Eldon Etchings and Local Happenings
Miss Mollie Isle visits Chas Isle's family. Mr and Mrs A Swanson welcome a new daughter. Mrs J L Hammett hosts a party for Miss D Paine's birthday. Wm Gergan moves back to the farm as tenants leave. J Walker's cow drowns in an air hole at Moonlake. Miss Della Paine closes her school. An entertainment by teacher and scholars occurs on Jan 26. A neighbor jokes about keeping a horse indoors to avoid moonlit hunting for a remaining horse.
Duluth Visit and Local Building and Harvest Notes
John Brune travels to Duluth to visit family while John Peterson pursues a large log barn replacement after earlier destruction. Oak street residents face rough conditions, and Bixby claims geese breed with a golden egg, having killed one with a gold nugget in its guard. Frank Congdon and Martin Wicklund oversee hay baling as Jonesville shipments reach Duluth. Nelson Jarbo returns from lumber woods noting plentiful work but scarce help to tend stock. A pilferer’s confrontation with a wild animal left hair and wool evidence at a wood pile theft site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bixby
Frank Congdon
Martin Wicklund
Jonesville
Duluth
Dalmore and Wilson in My Aunt's Nephew at the opera house
Delmore and Wilson, the happy comedians, are praised for their new musical farce My Aunt's Nephew. An opportunity to witness their clever work is announced for the opera house on February 20. References to cough remedies and digestive tonics appear in brief notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalmore
Wilson
Dewet Boer Leader Evades Hamilton’s Pursuit Across Front
Telegraphed dispatches from Pretoria and Cape Town describe Dewet’s forces crossing the Bloemfontein line near Israelspoot on Jan 30, French cavalry sweeping east of the Pretoria Johannesburg line, and engagements at Wilge Valley with casualties on both sides. Knox also notes a fight south of Welcome on Jan 29 with Boer losses. A Rokebure mine attack caused £300,000 in damages. Envoy Andries Wessels was shot at Klipfontein Jan 8 by Dewet orders.
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London
Kitchener
Pretoria
Dewet
Bloemfontein-Ladin
Israelspool
Hamilton
Pretoria-Johannesburg
Delagoa Bay
Natal
Ermelo
Wilge Valley
Cape Town
Rokebure
Kroontad
Andries Wessels
Klipfontein
Sewell Lake Jottings and Local Notes
Freddie Sewell is slowly recovering from illness reported last week. Louise and Minnie Weber of Brainerd visited their parents here. One of John Weber’s horses is sick, possibly grip. Sammie Anderson drives his father’s team hauling wood to Brainerd, a ten year old doing well. Readers urged to send a name for Mrs. Oak Lawn to choose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werner Butterfield
John Steel
Royalton
Emily
Dean
Eagle Lake Ranch
Freddie Sewell
Louise
Minnie Weber
Brainerd
John Weber
Sammie Anderson
Rea
Southern Medical and Surgient Institute
Louisville
United States
BTATH
Bright
Wron
REA & OV
Toulsville
Minneapolis
Minn
Land of Sunshine California Excursion Offered
Frank L. Spencer president of the Lemon Home Colony Co announces a Feb 13 excursion from Minneapolis to California. The trip offers low rates, berth, and service to view orange lemon and alfalfa lands near Oyland Glenn County. Send for a free book A Home in California and details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Frank L. Spencer
Lemon Home Colony Co
Orland
Glenn Co
Minneapolis
Oyland
Sushine
Bank of Commerce Bidg
Minn
Statehood urged at Oklahoma convention in Guthrie
An enthusiastic convention in Guthrie presided by Sydney Clark called for immediate statehood for Oklahoma. Delegates from all counties in both territories attended, with a majority backing statehood for Oklahoma alone and a minority seeking union with Indian Territory. The adopted proviso promised to support Congress if it chooses to pursue Indian Territory later.
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Guthrie
O. T
Congress
Sydney Clark
Oklahoma City
Statehood
Committee On
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Cubans Oppose U S Protectorate Emphases
A Havana dispatch reports Cuban public opinion currently rejects a United States protectorate though sentiment could swing toward a protectorate if business leaders and rural citizens favor it. Officials are accused of hindering the Havana convention’s progress toward a constitutions readiness for congressional action. The anti American mood is strongest in towns, while business and country people are less hostile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herald
Havana
United States
Congress
Independent miners back 10 cent wage increase plan
In Louisville Colorado on February 1 independent operators in the Northern district voted to meet with mine operators in Denver to adopt a wage scale granting a 10 cent per ton raise. The Northern Coal and Carfield companies refused to concede the increase, but independents will reopen mines at once. Forty Japanese soldiers killed in Shanghai explosion during gunpowder destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Colo
Northern Colorado Coal Miners
Northern District
Smith
Denver
Northern Coal Company
Carfield Company
Northern Field
Countywide closure ends Montgomery County gaming
Coffeyville Kansas February 1 A county attorney served notices to keepers that no gaming operations could continue. Every joint in Montgomery county is now closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coffeyville
Kan
Bevery Joint
Montgomery County
Dana
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W H. Mantor
Attorney At Law
First National Bank
Brainerd, Minn
T. C. Blewitt
First Nat. Bank Block
Minnesota
Suifton
A. Allbright
First National Bank Block
Blainerd
Bscame & Thabes
Physicians and Surgeons
Mffice
P. S. C. Reimestad
Hartley Block
Front St. Brainerd
L. Frederick, D. M. D
Rouume
First National Bank Bank
A. F. Groves
Fadden Drug Co
Readence, Cor
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N C. Baudette
R. D. King’s
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Civil Prgineer and Burvetyor
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Over Beach’s
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W H. Crowell
ECOND
J. ¥. McGinnis
Fok Sale
Alro Lumber
M. Jd
Holder
R. J. Houpen
Chuas Ekkmayv
Leak’s Station
W.R. Clark
Israiverd
Wood
Chris Hansen
Dale St
St Paul
P. M. Watson
W. H. Johnston
10Th Street North
W H. Glazier
Columbian Block
W. J. Smith
Eight Street North
Florence Crittenton Circle
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Tower City
Cage
OUR County
North End
Bob Clark
Steel
Mr. Oldenberg
Emily Saw Mill
H. G. Butterfield
Jack Doty
Crooked Lake
Jack
Ethel Archibald
Mr. Young
Oscar
Hugo
Clarence Wheeler
Miler
Dispatch
Dr. Thomas
Jacob
Joe
Aitkin
Eldon Etchings
J. Walker
Moonlake
OAK Lawn Gems
John Brune
John Peterson
Oak Street
Nelson Jarbo
Delmore and Wilson
Foley
A P. Dunn & Co
McFadden Drug Co
Hamlton
Israelspoot
Toa
Kruger
Cork
Edward
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
India
Dewit
Sewell Lake
Mrs. Oak Lawn
The
Land OF
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District Court of the
Arthur W. Hogadone
Crow Wing
Arthur W. Hogsdone
Ciy
Lime Falls
Crawford Sheldon
Little Paris
Shanghai
North China Daily News
Shan Hai Kwan
Northwest
Arlington Hotel
Gardner Hall
OND Nigiet
Happy Comediens
Hielmore & Wilson
Brainerd & Northern Minnesotar
Northern Pacific
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W. H. Gemmell, Gn. Mam
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