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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1884
Page
4
Local Dodge opens a new peanut roaster as grass sales and bean bake events draw crowds. Roads and business shifts appear with Miss Minnie Wedl at the post office, a new rink, and various civic notices. City oddly boasts upcoming papers and a tax list ending, while Georges Hurd sells his barber shop to Jack Smith and L. J. Cale ships blueberries.
L F Leopold of Chicago visits Thursday. Jack Smith returns from Ashland with views on hard times. Harriman the pedestrian reputed to dodge bills in Montana. John Brannon moves saloon to Last Turn building. Burns and Hamilton relocate. Closterman’s Fifth Street restaurant busy day and night. Gull Lake club house talked. fishy lake praised as brain food. Pap Thomas Post heads to Minneapolis on the 22d with Brainerd Band and 25 Brainerd young ladies. Fife & Onstine drug store sale to Onstine Brothers confirmed. new firm retains stand. H Harmon charged with timber trespass moved to St Paul. held on settlement promise. Dr Paquin to advertise. P adds goods in East Brainerd. C Cross named special police and deputy Sheriff for Cass County. guarding wagon bridge. Dispatch prints G A R entertainment bills. bean bake eyed as huge event. C B Doherty leaves Tribune for Minneapolis. praised as first class printer.
Report from Hartley block describes burglars trying to pry into A Olsen's tailoring shop last night. They damaged a door panel but fled before completing the break in. Victims include Victor Johnson who suffers lockjaw after amputation and is at the Sanitarium Brainerd. Frank Simmons wed Swan River as Rev Dr Hawley officiated. A L Shonfield departs for Minneapolis, seeking new business. Andy Bennett and Tom Sanborn form a grocery partnership at Sixth and Laurel, set to open next week. Brainerd rents rise slower than Twin Cities amid debate on property revenue.
Creditors shut down the Nelson and Press cigar manufactory at the start of the week after the firm’s Press partner absconded with about $500 in on hand funds. He fled to St Paul to settle debts, but no trace of him has been found.
Aitkin Ace columns criticize Brainerd youth who visited the skating rink, placing a harsh, nearly full-column attack on him with no stated cause. The piece sparks questions about unfair vilification and editorial bias.
A Saturday evening Republican meeting at the Opera House invites ladies and the public to attend free of charge. Speakers include Dr. J. H. Camp Dr. J. R. Howe Col. C. B. Sleeper G. S. Fernald H. C. Stivers A. W. Frater Judge J. B. Douglas W. W. Hartley L. E. Lum J. S. Gardner W. A. Fleming W. W. Ivens Geo. Forsyth Geo. S. Canfield and Hon. C. B. Buckman.
The article notes a controversial plan by the Sauk Center Trisuxe to poison 2000 roaming dogs, contrasting potential action with a Brainerd location. It mentions residents Henry Spaulding and FR Thompson returning from Port Arthur, plus local remarks on a possible Brainerd roller rink venture and impressions of the city. It also covers immigration official H H Young visiting, Minnesota promotional publishing, and blueberry yields versus strawberry decline in local boarding houses with abundant blueberries brought by local Indigenous people.
Blaine and Logan declare Redpaths Lives of Blaine and Legas the most sought after of this campaign year. The work is abundant in matter well written and suited to voters. It narrates the careers of Republican standard bearers with graphic enthusiasm and includes valuable appended statistics and party history notes.
A 13 year old boy, Fred Paine, son of Wm. Paine, was thrown from a wagon on Fifth Street while hauling wood. He sustained a severe compound fracture of the right leg after escaping a runaway team by jumping. Dr. Rosser set the limb and reports the patient is doing as well as could be expected.
At Monday night’s school meeting Prof J A Wilson of Lexington Ohio was elected principal of Brainerd high schools. New teachers include Miss Lizzie Hawley Miss Dobner and Miss Lorane Yonker. Returning teachers are Miss Louise Smith Miss Minnie Merritt Miss Inez Pember and Miss Jennie Partridge. School starts September 1.
C K Hendrickson an agent for several steamship lines based at 114 South Washington avenue Minneapolis has disappeared just before the lines he served moved to collect debts. Several creditors including fellow countrymen seek him and he has left his wife and two children. He lived in the Segelbaum house Oak Lake and owned Brainerd property and Dakota land with partial payments.
Report notes Julus Schutt of Davenport C F Kindred of Brainerd and several New Yorkers secure a seven million acre grant in Venezuela. The deal promises a monopoly on asphalt coffee sugar and rubber exports with duties waived. Cuban investors back a 40000 acre sugar land sale for 560000 and a 6 per acre yearly payment for 99 years under the syndicate covenants.
J A White completed the property assessment and the city board of equalization met to hear complaints. Valuations showed real estate at 1 427 000 and personal property at 386 000 with firms appeals ranging from 800 to 2000 and one up to 612 000 above owners’ estimates. The County Board of Equalization will sit for one week starting Monday to correct any grievances, urging taxpayers to attend.
Deerwood resident Robert B Coffin vents at alleged fishing restrictions near Serpent Lake, claiming a self-made ditch used to drain his meadow has caused damage and trespass for visitors. He defends courteous guests from Brainerd and argues local civility should prevail. The Dispatch clarifies Coffin’s point and praises well behaved visitors.
Florence Whitford aged 16 dies in Brainerd after a severe cold during a G A R entertainment led to typhoid pneumonia. Born in Amboy Illinois she moved to Brainerd with her parents D W and Rachael Whitford over a year ago. Funeral held Tuesday from Congregational Church with Rev M Dr Terwilligar officiating.
Col C B Sleeper and Lieutenant Governor Barto of Sauk Center were walking to the Villard Hotel when a spent 32 caliber bullet struck the Governor in the neck. He drew the bullet from his shirt collar and noted the shot came from East Brainerd where a careless gunner fired. The incident recalls his three years of army service without injury.
At a Duluth event two married women dressed as men roamed the premises during wedding festivities. Guests pursued the pair as they fled, described with humor by Mr. Jones who praised the scene and warned against repeating the prank.
Omaha road project gains momentum with about 200 men building from its junction with the Northern Pacific near the Nemadji river to South Duluth. A stock company plans to acquire or lease the Vineyard rink building for militia use, described as an ideal space. Attachments target the Duluth Variety Theatre furniture Saturday morning, while Col. Wood reportedly left for Minneapolis days ago. Ehrenhardt & Swanson have leased the theatre and J. J. Riley will manage the venture, aiming for a top quality show amid ongoing operations despite attachments.
We express heartfelt gratitude to neighbors friends the Grand Army Post and the Broom Brigade for services during Florence sickness and death. We take comfort in the belief that she is not dead but sleeping signed D W and RacwayL WuitTroRD.
A lengthy study by Professor John Clark Redpath on the Republican candidates Blaine and Logan is lauded as superior to rival biographies. The work, titled The Lives of Blaine and Logan, is soon to be published by Jones Bros. & Co. Chicago. It is described as thorough, well written, and a lasting library addition.
Frank L. Crocker of Minneapolis and W. H. Leland of Brainerd lease a vacant corner at First Ave S and Sixth St for a new brick two story roller rink. It will cover 196 by 100 feet with a 175 by 80 feet skating floor, two galleries seating 2900, 500 Crocker skate pairs, 100 nickel plate pairs, and a bicycle track around the floor. Target opening by September 15 but no later than October. The rink will be steam heated, well ventilated, and Crocker plans to study top rinks in the East to ensure a first class, high earning venture.
The grass on the north west quarter of section 29 near Crow Wing Station is for sale. Interested buyers may obtain particulars by contacting Oscar Meek at Crow Wing or by writing to Rt E Rower Topeka Kansas 30-4-w aj.
A. E. Losey & Co. dissolves by mutual consent with C. E. Smith retiring. Losey to continue at the Blue Front on Seventh Street handling debts and accounts. A. E. Losey moves to 7th Street next to Theviot's. Dr. E. H. Stanley to visit July 21 for bridge work and crowns. County funds payments urged. Brainerd, Minn., July 1 1884. For rent five rooms on ground floor at corner of 10th and Oak streets.
In Red Wing on Monday morning John T Hastings fired at two burglars who were looting a gun shop. He shot them in the heads as they stood in a line through a broken rear door panel. They surrendered, police were summoned, and Hastings kept them under guard. Both attackers, strangers, had knives and were badly wounded.
A compilation of practical adages and methods for removing stains using alcohol and soap, deodorizing rooms, extending broom life, preserving leather and ink, sewing tips for flannel, plant care guidance for fuchsia and sweet potato vines, wax preparation with cold water, and an eyelash cleaning method for removing specks.
In Augusta Georgia the city imposes a three dollar daily tax on commercial travelers seeking business within its limits. The levy applies to visitors conducting trade or seeking opportunities in the city.
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