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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
5
A Brainerd Minnesota notice lists a Friday morning event at 7 from the local printing office. The ad mentions terms of 1.50 and claims the Finest job printing office in the city.
Smith Winslow business activities noted in insurance loans real estate rentals and local services. Various visits from officials editors and clergy listed with social events including dances and charitable gatherings. Community announcements cover church services, marriages licenses, and upcoming balls and meetings in Brainerd Crow Wing and surrounding areas.
Extremely cold weather sparked fires in Windsor Hotel and two homes. The Windsor blaze was quickly put out, caused by a stove pipe near a wall. Albert Ott’s Sixth Street residence burned, destroying a three room frame house with $500 value, no insurance, and all belongings. Reinthal’s East Brainerd saloon building suffered attic fire, insured and salvageable, with loss about $1,800. Reinthal reopened nearby while the old site burned.
The Jack Pine Minstrels hold a chorus rehearsal at the second floor rooms of the Columbian block on Saturday evening January 30 at 8 o clock. The full orchestra will be present all evening and every chorus and solo singer should attend promptly at 8.
The Warner Comedy Co a top repertoire troupe plays a week at Sleeper opera house Brainerd. Cold weather kept attendance light start but heating improved. Tonight The Midnight Call. Saturday matinee The Basket Picnic at 2 30 with dolls giveaways. Ten cent tickets and seats. reserved seats at Atwood’s drug store. Fresh salt water fish daily at Benson Gray’s Fifth street market.
The council met Saturday with all aldermen present and approved F J Bsittion’s bill of 2.75. Gillette Herzog Co. proposed bridge repairs for 7500 or new iron bridges for 14000 on current site or 10500 on Kingwood site. The street committee to hire Geo Schoonmaker to inspect the old bridge and report next meeting. Tawyer Murphy and family leave for Brainerd after two years in the community.
The passage extols a vast railroad system forming a continental network. It cites 178054 miles of roads and the Wisconsin Central as a key factor with fast trains from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Milwaukee Chicago and beyond. Tickets and maps available from Jas C Pop, Gen Pass Agt Milwaukee Wis.
Benson and Gray cut prices on Pork Roasts and Pork Steaks from 12 to 10 cents per pound. Choice cuts at the low figure at all times and all kinds of fresh salt water fish received daily.
Mrs. Mary Bacon dies at 11pm at 55 Fifth Street South of pneumonia aged 66 leaving five children. Funeral Sunday at 2 30pm from residence conducted by Rev. Travis. An infant daughter of Henry and Mrs. Litherwood dies at 2 days. Heinricks infant dies of lung fever aged 3 months with Wednesday funeral. John Martin 54 dies of heart and kidney troubles at Walker. buried here. Brainerd Lumber Co. worker. Agnes Erickson 17 dies of quick consumption. remains to Deerwood. Jennis Emelson died of lung fever. services at home this afternoon. E R Bell learns of brother Chas E Bell's death in Denison Texas. Bell was a 1892 resident and sign painter.
A letter thanks E W Peets & Son for a $2000 life insurance claim on Michael Hagberg. The Mankato Review reports Steeper Opera House performances next week by McEwen and company with hypnotism bits, changed nightly programs, and hypnotic feats including a sleeping participant displayed in Lamm & Mearhart's window.
Notice states C A Walker & Co is dissolved by mutual consent with S Walker retiring. The business will be continued by C A Walker who will collect outstanding accounts and pay all debts of the old firm.
F G Paine of Fargo won the gold medal and state title in a fancy skating contest at Fargo. J W Huntoon placed first in movement variety, with thirty three figures, while John McCannell showed promise with thirty eight movements. Paine executed forty seven movements and is expected to defend his title through April 1.
Rustic pearl holders offered with No 2 gold pens priced at $1.75 at Sundberg's.
The item discusses bracing winter weather enjoyed by locals, youth social events, and calls for more diverse pastimes for farm youth. A new saw mill near the old Ghorst Billings site is nearly ready for work. Also noted are visits by Miss Sadie Smith of Iowa and an anticipated marriage of Frank Coon and Carrie Lisle. Mrs. Chas Holbert travels to Willmar after news of Chas Thompson losing a limb in a railroad accident.
The article notes that one of McEwen's subjects is in a cataleptic state in the Grand Central window since noon. Hundreds visited this afternoon as his pulse quickened and breathing slowed. He is to be awakened at Kerr block hall at 8:30 this evening, amid a rising public sensation in St. Cloud. McEwen plans Sleeper opera house shows all next week with 10 20 and 30 cent prices. Hoffman's second store buys furniture and offers installments on outfits.
The partnership of E. F. Atwood and August Johnson is dissolved by mutual consent with Johnson retiring. Atwood to continue the business, all accounts collected and debts paid by Atwood. Dated Brainerd Minnesota January 19 1897. Also a note about an Upholstered Pullman Sleeping Car service from St Paul to San Francisco with weekly departures and a $6 double berth rate.
The case filed in Crow Wing County Court involves W. S. Haynes as plaintiff and Binford as defendant. It seeks $6585 plus costs with a judgment on a one half interest in Lot One and the north half of Section 8 in Crow Wing County Minnesota, recorded March 15, 1897, by E R ICKSON and Sons.
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