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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1886
Page
5
Local ads note Day and Meagher promote Go to Westfalls for 200 or 300 shoes with seamless cup leather counter. F O Snyder visits, various city residents travel, and Bradbury McGinn supply Royalton Flour. A rifle club cup is won, and several social, legal, and store notices fill the pages.
Parties desiring to rent a store building in the city can learn of favorable terms by calling H. McGinn at the corner of 6th and Laurel. A five cent lemonade is offered at Smith’s. Remember the corner of Fifth and Front streets.
In Brainerd on July 29 1886 the Catholic committee says it will publish facsimiles if needed of Nathalie Turgeon s attempts at imitating Father Vaudry s handwriting highlighting the ongoing probe by the Carnolic Committee.
Brainerd meat market man K B Paine bought fifty hogs from the Live Stock Co. on Monday. Conductor Kilpatrick now runs an extra on the Little Falls and Dakota freight to carry construction supplies for the Minneapolis and Pacific road. Long named as conductor of the Little Falls Dakota line.
Will L Northfoss visited Brainerd on business Tuesday night. Wm Patterson of Brainerd socialized here last week. The Northern Pacific express company ends free delivery at this point. C G Crosby of Brainerd buys No 10 block 7 Peake addition to Wadena and will build a dwelling soon. He is married and will reside here permanently. reportedly a printer by trade.
Joe Bungo a prominent Leech Lake figure dies near Crow Wing river while blueberry picking with family. He had heart disease and was found dead while feeding horses. Remains sent to Leech Lake for burial. he owned a large general store and was considered wealthy. His Negro Indian heritage traced to a southern full blood father.
An exchange declares a circus is a circus including Cole's and says some circuses are worse than others. The crowd behaves. city officials licensing shell games dupe verdant citizens of five to twenty five dollars. The writer condemns more licensing of sharpers and urges no gambling at future circuses.
The saw mill shut down last Wednesday due to a washout at the dam. C A Ruffee lost five cattle to lightning last Friday night. Ben Fisher, former Pillager boss, moved to Detroit. Jonathan Chase greeted Gull River friends Friday. It was 98 degrees there last Saturday. Harvesting starts next week. wheat looks good, oats are blighted. Dan Robinson welcomed his first daughter Monday. all well. Pillager reports tension with Indians over blueberry raiding and fence damage. A local dealer dumps watches and jewelry at actual cost until further notice.
The Brainerd Minnesota County Auditor's Office reports the July 26 1886 board meeting with full attendance. Minutes from June 1 approved and numerous bills listed for constable fees road work jail and pauper services along with surveyor and clerk duties.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes Baltimore relies on a city law to fund government. A man was jailed twenty days and fined ten dollars for profane language in a public square, but such statutes are widely present yet often unenforced in many cities.
The cattle on the Pampas total about 20 million descendants of a bull and eight cows brought by two Portuguese brothers in 1553. In Buenos Aires they are crossed with finer stock. Holyoke postal cards are produced by forty workers, yielding a million daily and cutting writing paper consumption by 12 to 15 million dollars yearly.
Treasury holds more than 10 million dollars in unclaimed money including interest and principal on public debt. Some funds date back to 1837, awaiting rightful owners or heirs.
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