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This was Brainerd January 6
20 years ago (1988)
It's cold enough to crack trees in the Brainerd area. At 8 a.m. today the thermometer in Brainerd recorded a temperature of minus 35 degrees. Last summer's dry weather and the current cold spell can cause weakened trees to break.
30 years ago (1978)
Les Sellnow, editor of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, will be flying to Washington, D.C., for a briefing session with President Carter. Sellnow is one of 30 news editors and directors from around the country who have been invited to the session.
40 years ago (1968)
The new J.C. Penney Company store, which will open its doors to customers for the first time Thursday, is three times larger than the old store in downtown Brainerd and features new and expanded departments.
60 years ago (1948)
Purchase of Akre's Cafe, 219 South Sixth Street, by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Cave from Earl Akre, who has owned the Cafe the past two years, was announced today.
80 years ago (1928)
Brainerd High School certainly has a basketball team and a coach this year working wonders. The writer saw them play the tall, chesty, post-graduate Tech High fellows of St. Cloud and the way the Brainerd crowd ran circles around the big boys was a caution.
100 years ago (1908)
¥ Neil O'Brien expects to leave tomorrow for Notre Dame, to resume his school work.
¥ Walter Wieland and Howard Ingersol left today for Minneapolis to resume their studies in the University of Minnesota.
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