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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1895
Page
8
Brainerd notices trumpet sales and events. R F Waters markets children shoes with a scholar’s companion offer. D M Clark & Co advertise carpets and hearse. Wyckoff’s polish, Losey & Dean agents, and several locals visit or travel for business. The page blends auctions, entertainment, and community happenings.
Work on the new telephone system is nearly finished this week and will be operational on Monday. Instruments are not all installed yet but will be placed in use as soon as possible. central office will be Parker & Topping building on Front Street under C. H. Zarbock. Horace Walker resigns as baggageman at Detroit station and will move with family to Milwaukee next week to work in a large foundry. friends regret the departure.
T McMaster plans to move his grocery operation into the Lagerquist building on Sixth Street by November. He will start erecting a brick store room in early spring beside the mill track, on lots purchased years ago for that purpose.
Daniel Sully a pleasing actor with a fine brogue and natural manner will present at the Sleeper opera house next Tuesday evening October 22. The entire show promises continuous fun from start to finish and the audience departs contented.
Brainerd and Northern Minnesota railroad employees and others presented Mr and Mrs Clifford W Holmes with a handsome silver tea set at their 10th street north home on Saturday evening. Alderman Adair made the presentation speech and the couple responded. A banquet followed and guests enjoyed a pleasant evening.
The state convention of the Christian Endeavor will be held in Duluth today and tomorrow and Sunday. Duluth delegates from our city include Misses Lizzie Atkinson Ella Robinson and Maggie Atherton and Mr Will Bean. Atkinson Robinson and Bean left for Duluth this morning. Atherton will join them on her return from Grand Rapids where she has been visiting. Bane & Cus. Try them.
Miss Rebecca McKenzie headlined a Brainerd opera house concert under St Andrew's Society with an ovation for her Der Freischutz aria. Violinist Miss Fellows impressed the crowd while pianist Miss O'Reilly received praise for refinement and feeling.
A freight conductor recounts a cruel act toward a ten year old boy named Dunn found crippled on the rear platform of a caboose between this place and Staples. The boy, sent by a sick mother to live with his uncle Lynch in Little Falls, was abandoned with no money or food and left to endure the cold. The crew aided him and paid his fare to Little Falls.
The remains arrived in the city Monday from Minneapolis where Miss Caron died Sunday. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at the Catholic church with Rev. Fr. Lynch officiating. She was a sister of O Caron, the Laurel Street barber.
County Superintendent J A Wilson announces exams for public school teachers will be held in the grand jury room at the courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday October 22 and 23.
The Catholic fair opens at Gardner Hall Thursday evening October 24 and runs for three days. Suppers will be served each night from 6 to 9 at 25 cents. Fancy work and contests feature a dressed doll, a ladies coat, a meerschaum pipe, an easy chair, and a suit of clothes donated by local residents and groups.
E. T. Davidson came back Monday night from Brainerd. On Saturday he hunted with two friends and bagged 51 ducks in what St. Cloud Journal Press calls a notable shoot.
Frost damaged potato piles in the hill and light coverings. Dave Colwat returns from Staples seeking railroad yard work, finding more men than jobs. Cy Farrand heads to Billing’s mill to lead a four horse team. Ed Garlinghouse trades horses for mules after Dakota harvest. Rev. Spears preaches. 70 cents collected for charts. Brainerd visitors serenade docks. Sympathy sent to Louie and Beck on their mother's death in Three Oaks. City Band plans annual ball at Gardner Hall next Tuesday. tickets 50 cents. Northern Pacific overland service advertises tourist cars via the Shasta route. D. M. Clark & Co. advertised for hardware, furniture, carpets, crockery, glassware and storage.
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