A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.
A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.
He was a ladies’ man who owned a tavern. He kept gators in a pool behind the place, into which he liked to toss small animals. He hired women to wait tables, and some of them disappeared. What happened? With Joe Ball, it was easy to believe the worst.
The thin blue line got a little thinner last week with the assassination of two young Edmonton police officers ambushed by a 16-year-old armed with a rifle as they responded to one of those so-called routine domestic calls.
Ball, remembered as a family man, a loyal friend, an adventurous spirit, quick-minded and generous and a dedicated professional, died Dec. 9 surrounded by his family.