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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1887
Page
4
Local briefs report council session Monday evening and details from Brainerd about public notices. The town s activities include street work and a possible Fourth of July celebration while river logs and dam operations affect area industries.
Supt Fleming visits Ft Ripley schools. Various locals travel for business and leisure including Mrs Demeules returning from Sauk Rapids and Miss Riggs to St Paul. The employee excursion to Perham with Brainerd band features races games boat events and a bowery dance under marshal Win Meekins and judges DeLambert Watts and Martin.
Jennie Sawyer an old offender faced charges of incident and breaking the peace after trouble at the Last Turn saloon. Cole Younger, described as a one eyed siren, testified as victim. Sawyer paid $8 into the city treasury. Mable Smith faced separate arrest for improper language and dancing the can can on the street. The court considered dismissing the case but kept open for further trials amid ongoing street disturbances on Third street.
Patrick Murphy named County Delegate while Dan M Clark serves as President John McGivern is Vice President James Meagher holds the Secretary post John O Toole is Financial Secretary and James Cullen serves as Treasurer all elected to lead the new organization.
Miss Francis Willard will give a lecture Friday evening at the Congregational church. The event is expected to draw a large audience as attendees will receive a literary treat from a noted eloquent lady orator whose subject will reveal deep feeling.
John Willis president of the board of education urges disclosure from opponents of Prof. Wilson in city schools. He says if rivals have information damaging to Wilson they should publish it to inform the public. The Dispatch urges transparency and accountability from board members and asks for any facts to be shared.
A Crookston dispatch reports a brisk start to work on the Brainerd and North Western route toward Crookston with 50 or 60 scrapers and similar dump carts in use. The effort aims to have the line ready for the fall trade and the Manitoba railway seems determined to complete the Crookston corridor before snow arrives.
In an injunction case Buckman vs McLaren, the court debates title to about 3,000,000 feet of logs claimed by Hall Lumber. Buckman holds some 700,000 feet sold earlier, while McLaren contends the sale was loan collateral and that Hall allowed forfeiture. Buckman seeks to stop McLaren from driving logs past his Sauk Rapids boom and McLaren asks to lift the injunction and restrain Buckman from selling logs already caught.
The Sleeper Opera House announces the first Brainerd appearance of Miss Clara Louise Thompson and her New York company in Romeo and Juliet. The highlight includes Juliet by Miss Thompson praised by New York and St Paul press. reserved seats available at Webb's News Stand with gallery 25 cents and reserved seating from 75 cents to 1.00.
The Brainerd excursionists will arrive Saturday at 9 am in Perham. Preparations include a 1500 seat bowery 40 by 60 and expanded club house, new boats, swings, and extensive cleaning. Volunteers with teams are urged to meet at the depot by 8 30. Mr Daly to deliver welcome address, described as masterful. Local ads note crockery, collars and cuffs, wallpaper updates and furniture store promotions.
Waxter-600 invites ladies and children to learn cutting and fitting in a few hours at Norwood House corner Seventh and Norwood streets. Veon promotes genuine Brazillian Crystal spectacles at 19th Fifth street. Smiths offers soda water and cream at five cents a glass. M. L. Swartz displays Turkish rugs and oil cloth while Day and Meagher announce infant shoes in kid and goat stock.
A mixed crowd gathered in Marshal Campbell’s office as Ke wab e bin ace, famed Chippewa chief known for brutal wars and scalp collection, was arrested in Cass County for allegedly distributing twenty gallons of whiskey to Indians in the Leech Lake region. He vows to kill Agent Sheehan if encountered. he is jailed to await trial next September.
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