The sale of the Hotel Remore property to Geo. McTaggert and Earl Geil has been practically agreed upon, though not yet closed up by transfer of papers. The purchasers have deposited a forfeit to conclude the transfer by July 1st. This is the largest real estate deal ever made in Bemidji, and includes the hotel and furniture and the two lots at the corner of Third and Beltrami, the consideration being $3,000, or $1,500 for the lots and $1500 for the structure and contents. The price is a very reasonable one, as the location is one of the best in town.
The elder Remore came to Bemidji in the winter of 1895, and built the first building in present Bemidji — the two lower stories of the present structure. It was quite a venture in those days, and required a good deal of nerve. But the judge had it, and the Remore has been a Bemidji institution ever since.
The Remores will still be identified with Bemidji, the younger people intending to reside in town in the winter, and at Guy’s homestead on Lake Plantagenet in the summer, where they will erect a sportsman’s paradise, and keep fishers and hunters and other invalids for a little matter of $7 a week and expenses.
Geo. McTaggert has been landlord of the Great Northern hotel for a year past, and will be in charge of the new Remore, with Earl Geil and his wife bossing him around six days in a week and running it themselves on Sunday. (Bemidji Weekly Pioneer, June 23, 1898)