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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1889
Page
5
A neat Northfield directory issued by the News is distributed by the editor. Northfield earns gratitude toward Bro Heatwole for the publication.
In 1886 Thomas Hefferen then 16, working at Northern Pacific shops in Brainerd, lost sight in one eye from a steel fragment and later the other eye, went insane, and spent months at St Peter asylum. Now sane, his lawyers Adams Quinn seek 100000 in U.S. circuit court, while his father Patrick sues for 3762.50. The case was moved to the St Paul court.
The Minnesota state fair opens Friday and runs to Saturday September 14. President Bushnell and Secretary Denny lead a large team to attract farmers with twenty thousand dollars in premiums and ten thousand in race purses. The event promises cattle, horses, farm products, and Northwest art treasures, with special rail fare incentives starting September 6. A grand opportunity to view the official program and enjoy the exhibits.
The Lumberman reports the Russian sheet iron trade as an immense state monopoly kept secret for ages. The works form a fortified city where workers vanish from all contact, with several traitors killed and guards punished for breaches, illustrating the iron’s famed, unquestioned properties.
Brainerd area county records list bills allowed for poor farm maintenance including overseer wages and work on roads. Requisitions and tax warrants noted. a road layout petition for the Southern Mille Lacs road was read with a $100 appropriation for Mille Lacs to Brainerd and Morrison county corduroy repair. surveyor to obtain releases. Board adjourned to October.
Cass County Board, Hallet and Burrell present with Hallett as chair. Petition to organize a school district for Towns 133 and 134 rejected. Committee report on sections in townships 133 and 133 29 not favorable. Claims listed include Pioneer Press Co 850 dollars and Hallett per diem mileage. Board adjourned to October first Monday.
The probate code taking effect Oct 1 hikes estate settlement costs with fees for many services. It may burden judges with compliance duties and raise expenses in probate proceedings per the Red Wing Republican.
A 30-year-old impostor tested gullible dealers in Gull River lumber trade by selling oxen for a pineries venture. He borrowed a farmer’s horse and buggy, went to a bank in St Cloud, failed to pay, and vanished. Traders delivered the cattle and later returned them after being duped. horse and buggy were later recovered at Conrad's.
The West Shore will be Portland Oregon based and richly illustrated with coast scenery and western life topics. It will include engravings fiction poetry and humor with many pages devoted to Northwest enterprises and progress and a four dollar yearly subscription or ten cent single copies.
Northern Pacific Railway offers round trip fares for EX version to Minneapolis and St Paul for the Exposition and State Fair. Tickets sold on specific dates with return by set deadlines. Admission coupons of 25 cents for the exposition and 50 cents for the State Fair are added to rates. Inquiries to ticket agents N P R R.
In Arkansen Traveler prose, Watson Haney a ferryman known as Sharon is arraigned for assault on Harvey Peters. He claims their exchanges are jokes, recounting past fights and an attempted river throw, insisting the other man does not understand what fun is.
The LIMEKILN CLUB discusses watchwords with Brother Gardner humorously recalling lost slogans and personal mottos. He cites Liberty or Death and Never Despair as examples and proposes humorous personal watchwords for members as a cautionary moral lecture on character and self control.
In a New York street scene Colonel Sumpter McBride of Austin Texas seeks a horoscope from a female fortune teller who claims to know his past present and future. He pays a dollar for the reading and leaves amused by the improbable claims and the odd encounter.
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