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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1889
Page
4
The notice announces a weekly publication issued every Friday morning in Brainerd Crow Wing County Minnesota from Sleeper Block rooms 5 and 7. It lists subscription terms at 1.50 dollars per year and promotes the printing office as the finest in the city.
Local briefs report Mrs J J Howe visiting Minneapolis Brainerd plans event of note C Slade and Geo Bane appointed Oak Lawn meat inspectors The board of equalization meets Saturday at the hose house Several residents travel out of town for visits and business The Knights Templar meet in Brainerd next year and Spaulding attends Minnesota conclave at Austin with nearly 1000 delegates.
J J Kennedy and W A Kennedy announce a new clothing and gents furnishings store on Sixth street opposite Snyder's shoe store opening Monday. They promise unmatched prices and top quality goods and are well known to local readers. Dr D P Bigger died in Kansas City after leading the Northern Pacific Sanitarium here and later practicing in St Paul before his health failed.
The third annual convention of the 15th District Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet in Brainerd July 9 and 10, 1889. Itasca Aitkin Hubbard Cass Crow Wing counties comprise the district and delegates from all unions are invited. Entertainment and attendance by ministers and supporters are planned with C. J. Veor as president and Alice D. Wure as secretary.
Henry J. Cohen offers a selection of lawns challis organ dies and India linens in a local advertisement. The notice promotes fabric stock and fabric types available for purchase.
The Gun Club committee hustled over ten days to ready the grounds for the tournament next Thursday. Five traps are set, with two new ones added, bringing the total to five. Herman Wolff of Brainerd Brewing Co won the shoot-off for the chump badge, beating Demeules.
Henry I Conen advertises parasols in a range of prices with weathered selling tone. The notice highlights availability and pricing across options.
A special city council meeting debated Mayor Hemstead's veto of Ordinance 82 on police staffing. Aldermen challenged the veto, noting the city’s size and police coverage, while supporters argued the mayor should direct policy. The measure passed 6 to 1 over the mayor’s veto amid tensions. A separate notice reports the death of Cecelia Kennedy, with funeral services held at the Catholic church and burial at Evergreen cemetery. W. P. Spalding attended the G A R encampment in Detroit, and a Patriarch's Militant lodge was organized with a banquet at the Arlington afterwards.
Brainerd schedules a Fourth of July with a gun club tournament at Driving Park Grounds at 9 AM and a $200 baseball game at 3 PM between Lyndales of Minneapolis and Brainerd Club, plus foot and horse races and fireworks. Rice Lake hosts a Brainerd Boat Club event with a picnic, bowery dance, river excursions on the Loita Lee, boat and tub races, a greased pole, and evening fireworks. Transportation leaves at 8 AM from the bank corner.
An employee excursion from Brainerd to Glenwood on Saturday drew packed trains under Conductor Daley and Conductor Rhodes. The 91 mile trip took under four hours each way with a lake view and farmers aiding the return trip. The day featured boating dancing and sports and ended safely at Brainerd by 10 p.m.
Brainerd mourns E N Donaldson longtime attorney and judge who died suddenly in his Sleeper block office after a day of business and a stomach ache. Postmortem showed carotid ossification and brain softening. Funeral held Monday at 3 with bar association pallbearers. he was 50, born Ovid New York. A memorial committee from Crow Wing County Bar was formed for August 3, 1889.
Southeast central notes recount Mr and Mrs Jerry Root visiting Little Falls. G G Kimball returns from Litchfield encampment. Miss Jessie Neil and Miss Lottie Tedford visit locals. Clara Volks' school closes. she goes to Minneapolis. Village excitement from a fight between a retired merchant and a hardware dealer ends with a black eye.
Brainerd may gain water power via H C Davis and Northern Pacific officials while a Weyerhauser Lumber company reputedly plans a 50 million sawmill. however local skepticism says Weyerhauser’s involvement is uncertain and Minneapolis hints at possible counterclaims.
Round trip tickets from Brainerd to St Paul priced at 5 dollars and 50 cents. Tickets on sale July 9 through July 11 with return validity until July 13.
Notice from Saint Paul to offer at public auction August 30 1889 at 1 pm Pine Stumpage on State Lands cappees to waste or damage under General Statutes 1878 section 47 chapter 38 W W Braden realises state lands pine stumpage auction notice in Minnesota Lane Office June 26 1889 signed by Sate of Minnesota Lane Office Sart Paul
Travel offers include Brainerd to Nashville for 30 dollars round trip with return by September 10. July 2 3 4 and 5 offer limited 300 mile range round trips at one fare. tickets valid for multiple legs within period ending July 5.
Mrs J H Hamilton of Minneapolis arrives with a fine stock of millinery goods on exhibition at Mrs Pennell’s dressmaking parlor upstairs in Hartley block Room 6. Rare bargains in latest styles offered. Ladies urged to call at once as stay limited to a few days.
A. L. Hoffman real estate and loan broker in Brainerd Minnesota says he has arrangements with eastern capitalists and is prepared to loan money in any amount on chattle mortgagees. Cor 5th and Front Streets Brainerd Minn. 1m.
A collage of ads notes store closeouts at cost, cheap carpets and lace curtains, and a June 24 deadline at M L Swartz and D M Clark Co. It items Emigrant tenders, furniture and baby carriages, plus a liquor license request by F H Tittey and a Brainerd laundry opening by Wing Lee in Little Falls.
The Royal Baking Powder uses refined Cream of Tartar and patented processes to remove Tartrate of Lime and other impurities. Substantial investment and strict materials ensure chemical purity and absence of lime and alum, making Royal a premium, exclusively pure baking powder.
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