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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1886
Page
3
A Sauk Center merchant to open a Front street grocery. Postmaster J H Koop confirmed at Brainerd. Dist court term noted. Various local notices include new births, sales, store openings, and street corner chatter.
On Tuesday in Brainerd region news: W B Chrysler, once from Brainerd, now Billings foreman on the Northern Pacific car shop, married Etta Thomas in Sauk Rapids. A Fort Ripley visit found a 12 year old girl's father crime report a hoax, aided by a neighbor woman. P Mertz's mother illness and death prompts a trip to Ohio. Brainerd Water Power and Boom Company meets. new director C F Kindred presides, board vote to condemn land for dam overflow. Day & Meaghers advertise Laird Schober Mitchell shoes.
March 7 1886 at DeGraff James Cullen of East Brainerd and Miss Mary Clark wed after a ball at Michigan house. They returned home Thursday. The Dispatch notes Cullen as respected with many friends. Boots and shoes half price at Day and Meagher's in the northwest.
The ladies of the Episcopal church Guild hosted a Monday evening tea in the store room beside the rink. Attendants wore light green outfits and aprons. supper cost 50 cents per couple. The quartette club provided popular songs and the event was a social and financial success. The notice also touts a large new stock of ladies and gents shoes offered cheaper than in St Paul.
Council proceedings show an informal ballot giving Forsyth five votes, Taylor three, Hemstead one. formal tally then favors Taylor with five votes to three Forsyth and one Percy. Mayor Small requests higher police pay and liquor license adjustments, and council sets treasurer bond at 10 000 before adjourning to March 15.
C H Congdon will headline a March 20 Opera House concert in Brainerd with Mrs T H Ralston of Fargo and young Hetta Ralston. Louis Demules will accompany on piano. Brainerd Glee Club andquartettes like Twilight Bells are featured. program ends with Italia Beloved chorus. Also reports Odd Fellows lodge institutions in Little Falls and Sauk Rapids and notes Rotary, philanthropy, and a Kentucky Liquor Co advertisement.
The school board met on Tuesday March 9 for reorganization and officer elections with John Willis as President A Mablum as Clerk W W Tartley as Treasurer and committees named. The treasurer’s report shows year ending March 6 1886 general and building funds with balances and disbursements totaling 12594 10 and 5753 47 respectively.
One hundred cases of men s boots and working shoes were opened on the second floor, inviting shoppers to browse a new stock.
Bert Webb, arrested on Minnie Johnson’s complaint for seduction, remains in county jail on $500 bail after being bound over to the grand jury at last Saturday’s examination. Webb, recently married to another woman, allegedly seduced Miss Johnson under promise of marriage, leading to a stillborn birth. Letters read in court show familiarities. East Brainerd ladies testified to the girl’s good character. Webb may stay jailed until next September if unable to secure bail.
Local news notes a schoolhouse contract move to Low Everett and a forty acre site issue. W. H. Everest returns with twenty young cattle. A phrenology lecture by Prof J H McKenzie captivates Crow Wing schoolhouse. A cemetery association Oak Land is formed with officers M D Everest president and E M Phelps secretary. A town meeting elects supervisors and officers. A cooperative building and loan association forms with over fifty-five members and 1610 shares. Next meeting and stock applications advised to A G Michie Secretary.
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