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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1894
Page
4
A long list of community notes from Brainerd includes visits by locals to Marston Wis Little Falls and Staples, new hires and appointments, and forthcoming events. Details cover rail and road work, church and Y M C A activities, weddings, and a major baseball benefit match at Gull Lake with admission prices.
The fragment lists RN and H Ingersoll along with F W Wieland as editors and proprietors indicating the newspaper leadership or masthead.
500 good breeding ewes and spring lambs offered in lots of five or more at 2.50 each. Terms include part cash and balance on time with secured paper at 6 percent interest. Apply to Fred S. Parker at Northern Pacific Bank Brainerd Minnesota.
The Paris Figaro reports July 1 that the eighth auditors of Emile Ambre Bonichere's singing school praised Miss Campbell of Brainerd Minnesota after her aria Oh Beautiful Country from the opera The Huguenots. The audience rose to a thunderous round of applause.
Morrison county provides an expensive beer garden for its convivial officials. They deserve entertainment suited to their dispositions. Holding a court house job is as easy as working in a brewery when refreshments are plentiful and regular.
A Minnesota nonpartisan judicial convention for the 15th district will meet August 8 1894 at 11 a.m. at the Court House Aitkin to nominate a candidate for District Judge. Delegates apportioned by county include Aitkin 3 Cass 3 Crow Wing 5 Itasca 4 Hubbard 3 Wadena 4.
A mass convention of Crow Wing county voters will be held at the Court House in Brainerd on Saturday July 28 1894 at 3 oclock p m to elect five delegates to the Non-partisan Judicial convention to be held at Aitkin on Wednesday Aug 8 1894. By order of committee. Also notice of low price fresh beef at C A Walker and Co.
The summer training school opened Monday morning in this city with 75 members enrolled. Prof. J A Vandyke of Wabasha and Miss Laura Knott of the St Cloud Normal School assist, joined by Prof J A Wilson. A lecture series begins Friday July 27 at the Methodist Church with Rev T M Edmonds, and weekly lectures follow at various churches.
A satirical vignette from the Saturday Evening Gazette depicts a husband bearing a wife’s caresses and gifts with quiet fortitude. He endures ribbons, dresses, neckties and daily papers, finally cursing when her bonnet covers his reading, all presented in a mock heroic tone.
Resolutions mourn the death of W. H. Jones at a Brainerd lodge meeting. The North Star Lodge No. 197 IA and M extends sympathy to his family and thanks the Brainerd City Band. Christian Endeavor and Presbyterian YPSC E committees endorse the tribute. News notes mention George Washington’s birthday and local ads.
The late Professor Wilson visited Castleton manse with Rev. Angus Barton. While fishing he encountered three border gypsies who demanded money. A skilled boxer, Wilson knocked them down and forced each to empty pockets, yielding ten pounds. He then gave the loot to the minister for the poor remarking he had been doing a bit of border freebooting that morning.
The piece notes modeling in clay was a popular school fad two or three years ago but has largely been abandoned. It cites skin disease transmission when many children handled shared clay and argues there is little instructional value. It suggests children amuse themselves with mud pies instead.
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