The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-07-19
Official Paper, City Of Virginia.
General Notes and Comments

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If it happens in Virginia you
will find it in The Enterprise.
At Bessemer, Mich, the annu-
al eruption among the school,
ma'ams is again on. The board
of education of Bessemer might
do worse things than engage a
new principal-for the sake of
peace in the family, if for no
other reason.
An accident occurred on the
Duluth, Mississippi & Northern
railroad about a mile and half
west of the Mahoning, on Thurs,
day last, some 200 feet of track
going down in muskeg or sub.
te-ranean lake, the water cover
ing $50 feet of the sunken por.
ton to a depth of about thirty
feet. Shortly before the acct.
dent a special train with Assist.
ant Superintendent Ketchum and
Mr.. Meehan, of the South Shore
road, and several of the D. M.
r. & N. officials, had passed over
the road.
The city council of Bessemer,
Mich, has passed an ordinance
making it unlawful for any per-
son under Is years of age to be
upon the streets after nine
o'clock in the evening.
Eugene V. Debs refuses to be
considered as a presidential
possibility. Now. where is Cox.
ey?
Thos. Crepar. of Grand Rap.
ids, has invented direct pres
sure treadle for bicycles, fol-
which patent he has been offered
$4,000 cash.
Kate Field glories in knicker
bockers and hundreds of women
are now arrayed in boomers.
When the advanced woman gets
so far advanced as to wear over.
alls, fire the hired and do all the
work, the sterner sex will take a
half holiday and go fishing.
A Denver divine asserts that
"ten thousand people are going
to hell on bicycles" He does
not particularize rs to whether
or not there are any preachers
in the procession.
It is now over two years since
Virginia went up in smoke, still
we have but one board insurance
company carrying any risks in
the c; ~, and that one confines
its risks to property within two
blocks of water mains and charge
enough to rebuild the city every
five years. Is it not time for
the Business Mems Union to re-
vive and among otker things
take hold of the Insurance ques.
ton?
Virginia continues to steadily
improve IN appearance, both on
the business streets and in the
residence localities. =.
We have no idea that it will
make much difference in Virginia
but just long as ''bikes" are in
vogue we are of the opinion that
it would be useless for anyone to
re-install the hustle or hoop
skirt fad.
One Dave Leak undertook to
play pool at David Forte's place
with a beer glass, damaging the
table to such an extent that he
takes a thirty days respite at the
expense of the county. being &C.
companied ON his trip to Duluth
on Wednesday by Marshal Brown
AS a living picture of the pur.
ity of politics GAS conducted by
pulpit jumpers, Rev. Stark
weather, West Super ior's minis
terial mayor, is a bowling sue.
cess. The elder is just now un-
der the ban of public criticism,
charged with almost everything
in the category of crime. The
good people of West Superior
may conclude, ere the investiga.
ton ends, that in order to secure
purity in politics, politics and re-
ligion should be forever divorced.
A Marinette woman is afflicted
with leprosy~