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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1890
Page
4
Brainerd notes show residents traveling to Ottawa Chicago and the Pacific coast for business and real estate, with local events including a child’s death, church programs, a band inspection, new Sunday school orchestra, a lumberman’s funeral, and a prize for listing dues. Also ads for life insurance agents and a government employee arrival from San Francisco.
Frank Eividge visits the city on a Valentine’s Day note as a Danish Lutheran church basket festival nears on Feb 22 with music and a festive crowd. The Germania Maennerchor masquerade ball at the Armory tonight promises a top event. tickets urged. Dr J R Howes and J H Koop depart for Mille Lacs to study tribe suffering with the grip. a possible follow up trip is planned. The school board funds issue closes with Treasurer Lagerquist and bondsmen settling, sparking efforts to aid him from friends in the city.
Wm Long of Stillwater for Weyerhaeuser Lumber Syndicate revisits Brainerd to assess possibly using Gilbert Lake for log storage. Ahrens Bros dispute lake-flow arrangements and the impact on river mills with a plan that may affect local industry and development near the old ferry.
A church fair tale follows heiress Flora Lee and Walter Medway as he courts her for money. Jack Harkaway exposes Medway's motive with a ruse, forcing a breakup. Flora learns the truth, marries for love, while Medway ends up tied to a rich but cruel wife. Also notes loans, overalls, and pine wood sales in Brainerd area.
The Smith Costume Co. of Minneapolis sends an elegant line of costumes to Brainerd for the Chenquatana masquerade. They arrive Saturday and will be shown at Mrs Grandelmyer's. Invitations required, cloak rooms arranged, and music from the orchestra will accompany promenades before unmasking at 9 15 PM.
A Dispatch scribe notes rear store renovations at D. M. Clark & Co with new shelving trunks valises and harness stock of oil cloths and door mats. Also reports Ash Wednesday services at St Paul s church with Lenten schedule and a mortuary record including deaths of Mrs Belle Bubar Enoch Johnson and Augusta Peterson. Knights of P meet Feb 16 memorials for Justus Rathbone and a card of thanks from Joan Peterson.
The reduction of one half hour in time gives earlier arrival in Chicago on the Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha line. It ensures connections with all morning fast trains to Pittsburgh New York Washington Cincinnati Louisville and the East and South. Twenty tyers buy a first class carving set at Clark and Co.
Public notices recount a mortgage foreclosure sale set for March 24 1890 involving Sara E Kindred and Charles F Kindred later assigned to J J Howe with land in Brainerd Minnesota. Also probate orders in the Chauncey B Sleeper and J O Phillips estates, with final accounts and creditor claims scheduled for 1890 in Brainerd court.
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