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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1888
Page
5
N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland publish every Friday morning from Sleeper block Brain erd Crow Wing county Minnesota in rooms 5 and 7. Terms 1.50 dollars per year. Finest job printing office in the city.
Brainerd reports include a cider mill at The Clair Patee company opening next Tuesday, local court business, football preparations, and a graduation season at the opera house. Notables like Sawyer Farnham and Mrs. Foley visit, Y M C A excavation advances, and various residents engage in travel, work, and family news amid city improvements.
The Duluth Herald reports Rev E J Brownson will preach at the Congregational church on Sunday. Various locals visit and attend events including Hank Spalding as Crow Wing sheriff, John Knapp artist summer plans, and a large post office safe move. Circus posters flood town as Sells Brothers and Barnum tours are announced. An excursion train to St Louis for the National Democratic convention is promoted. A birthday party for Miss Addie Bennett closes the item.
The Duluth Herald reports fire commissioners ordered demolition of large billboards within fire limits and barred new ones. Condon the manager is furious as Barnum and Sells circuses prepare to display posters while others must come down. Capt McNaghan says the board may ban such attractions and snack stands, urging duty and restraint. Brainerd might learn from this.
Plasterers will commence work soon on the Hartley house on Beach Street. The structure is one of the handsomest in the city and architect O. G. Traphagen deserves credit for the plans which were perfect in every detail.
Proceeds fund furnishing the Y M C A building. Admission 25 cents. Program includes piano duett Mrs McLean and Mr Coutu, select reading Miss Carrie Martin, vocal duets and solos by multiple performers, flute solo Mr Bruce, recitation Herbert Maughn, and a trio.
Last Saturday a five year old boy named Johnnie Mahr from Brainerd was found aboard a train by a passenger conductor. After inquiry he said he was headed west to grow up with the country. He was placed in charge of Agent Tull and will be returned to his parents on the earliest train. The boy, with five cents and marbles, was fed and sent home on a freight train.
Joe Bordelean, 28, unmarried, died after slipping into Gull River drive on Stony Brook. He could not swim and remained underwater about twenty five minutes as crew searched with pike poles. He lived on the Noka Sebie river and owned a farm. burial followed in Noka Sebie. His brother E. Bordelean accompanied the remains.
Debated issue centers on whether the Water Power Company must maintain 35 psi at hydrants and if the city must keep telephone communications to pump houses for fire protection. The controversy ties to fire safety obligations and the proper notice protocol during high pressure needs.
Brainerd high school will hold its second commencement exercises Friday evening June 1 at Sleeper opera house. Seven graduates include six who will start fall term positions in city schools. Program features music, essays, orations, duets, and the presentation of diplomas by Prof. Wilson. Also notes a Catholic city marriage: John McGuire and Mary Jane Atkinson wed May 24, 1888.
Norman Phillips aged 19, son of C C Phillips, died May 22 1888 of consumption. Funeral held Wednesday with Company K in full uniform marching from the Armory to Second Congregational church and Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers were Corporals Bain Simons Privates Conant Closterman Dunlap Mayne. Community sympathy extended.
The piece notes homesteaders return from a drive and John Lease rejoices over a new baby at his house. It records C O Glidden selling a farm near Ft. Ripley to M Fehren and Dr Guiett going to Ft. Ripley for spring work. It includes thanks to Mrs. J M Knevitt for sympathy after a long illness, plus local notices about sales, overstocked jewelry discounts, and insurance and real estate offers.
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