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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1891
Page
4
Miss Katie Smeltz visits Brainerd while the St. Cloud Gun Club plans a July 4 tournament. Brainerd proclaims preparations for a quiet Fourth with surrounding towns hosting events, rail and N P changes, local arrests, property fires, and community notices across Brainerd, Rice Lake, Detroit Lake.
The King Fun Makers entertainment group, Rentfrow's Jolly Path Finders, performed to crowded houses at the opera house with a strong vaudeville lineup. Three more shows are set with prizes for youngsters and door prices 10 to 20 cents. A separate crime note reports Claude Crowley attacking Fannie Grant with a stove poker, skull fracture risk, and a $30 fine or 40 days in jail after a courtroom verdict.
Obituary notice for William Plinney Spalding junior warden of St. Pauls Church Brainerd Minnesota aged 67 years 7 months 9 days identified with the parish since 1872 and remembered as a loyal church officer and family man with memorials to be spread on vestry records signed by Gro H Davis rector and committee members Lyman P Waite and James C Smarr.
Rev. J. W. Frizzell of the First Congregational church resigns as pastor, to take effect in three months during his 30 day Pacific Coast vacation. Rev. Knudson fills the pulpit temporarily as a church meeting accepts the resignation. Frizzell, blunt yet beloved by many, has not yet accepted another church.
Excursion tickets go on sale in Brainerd July 3 and 4 with return valid July 5 at one and one third fare for round trip to N P stations within 300 miles in Wisconsin Minnesota and North Dakota. Numerous notices advertise harness goods furniture wall paper carpets sale and stock closeout by D M Clark Co Wa Hack and J L Surrs promote land sale and cheap furniture with grand bargains and stock clearouts.
The record shows 20 birds hit with fourteen singles and three pairs. Names such as Werle Smith Prins Mantor Paine and Ferris appear with coded scores and shorthand marks across line after line.
Wm. Paine Jr acting for A. F. Ferris arrested Fred Cool and Sherman Chambers for seining bass and pickerel at Cullen Lake. They were found guilty, fined 25 dollars and 30 days in jail. Ferris vows enforcement and warns more arrests to come. Joshua Small died of Brights disease at 50. funeral at Second Congregational Church. Brainerd merchants advertise boots and shoes with custom work.
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