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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1897
Page
1
Public notice from Brainerd Minnesota detailing second class matter status at Sleeper block rooms 5 and 7. Weekly issues issued every Friday morning. Subscription rate set at 31.50 per year. Promotes finest job printing office in the city and official mailing details.
Smith and Winslow operate in insurance loans real estate and rental services. Several residents travel to St Paul Minneapolis Fargo and Brainerd for business and visiting relatives. Rentals and furnishings offered near the depot. Local vendors advertise dog food, coffee, oysters and livestock for sale. Professional services include dentistry and jewelry, with community events like Lenten services announced.
Miss Grace Johnson returns to LaCrosse after visiting sister Mrs Hemstead in the city. Attending court were John Jetswold Jr Duluth Charles Fowler St Paul and J H Rhodes. Ladies Aid meets March 10 at Mrs Wm Lawrence Eight Street South from 2 30 to 4 30 pm. Hoffmans store offers furniture sales and installments. Foreman Swartz receives a congratulatory chair from Parker Topping Foundry. Mrs Sarah Sleeper returns from Minneapolis after visiting daughter Mrs Smith and attending a reception by Mrs G S Fernald. Rev T M Edmands leaves Brainerd for Mankato to lead Congregational church. Mrs Edmonds travels to Wadena before joining her husband. Dad Gardner of Crow Wing granted a pension about 3000 back pay. Rev M J Bird and bride return from Danville Pa. Supt and Mrs E C Blanchard of Duluth visit with children Chester and Callie. W C T U meets March 9 at 3 pm in Y M C A parlor with a mother’s meeting and paper by Mrs W H Travis on child training. Pap Thomas Post No 30 G A R holds semi monthly meeting Feb 27. Delegates report a satisfactory encampment and W R C banquet afterward. Minneapolis Lumberman notes Brainerd & Northern Minnesota Railway hauling about 60 log cars daily for Brainerd Lumber Co into Rice Lake. passenger traffic improving. new temp depot and potential use of Northern Pacific track. A E Church Dramatic Company shows Rip Van Winkle at the opera house, with The Prisoner of Algiers following. two matinees today and tomorrow for schoolchildren, courtesy of Amrose Tighe of St Paul.
County Supt J A Wilson schedules a teachers examination on Tuesday and Wednesday February 23 and 24 and on Friday and Saturday March 12 and 13. The notice urges eligible teachers to prepare and attend. details to be announced by the county schools office.
Regular council session with all members present reports show February fines totaling 263 dollars and January electric lights revenue of 59334 dollars. Purchases and bills listed. licenses granted. bids accepted for pine wood. street and highway matters referred. County commissioners discuss Mississippi wagon bridge funds, possible bonds, toll bridge option debated. no decision reached after lengthy talks.
The Brainerd board accepted T. M. Edmonds resignation from the examining board and elected Rev. Pentreath to fill the seat on a formal ballot. They referred purchases for micro scopes, shears, and legal paper, plus hiring seats and janitor kitchen papering. A death resolution honored Michael Hagberg, and court actions covered numerous district cases with indictments for forgery, grand larceny, and multiple murders.
The Jack Pine Minstrels, led by veteran manager A. J. Halsted, drew packed houses Friday and Saturday evenings. Performances were highly praised, described as superior to many professional companies, and Halsted was credited with drawing crowds and guiding the show successfully.
The city again lacks electric lights as an armature burns out on Monday. Without a spare, lights will be off for about two weeks while the worn part is rewound. This repeat failure costs the city at least five hundred dollars in rent and lost rentals. The council must investigate and remedy the fault promptly.
The Brainerd board of county commissioners ratified numerous bills from January and February 1890 including goods, repairs, and services for the poor and farm. Dr J J Camp was elected county physician at $40 monthly and 50 cents per mile, with duties including medicines and surgeries. board adjourned to April first.
Hon Leon E Lum forms a law partnership with Heber Hartley and Porter J Neff to take effect April 1 and will move to Duluth. He may keep aBrainerd office and visit weekly, though plans are undecided. Friends regret the move and hope for a possible permanent return, noting his strong city improvements ties.
Co partnership under M. Mablum & Co. dissolved. Arthur Hagberg continues the business, pays existing bills and collects all outstanding accounts. Dated March 4, 1897. Signed: M. Manrom, AntHur Haaepera.
All members are requested to attend the next regular meeting on Saturday March 13 1897 for important business. Commanding officer and committee notes.
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