The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-03-15
LOCAL. NEWS AND NOTES.

~. ID. MltCnell returned 10 the
city on Saturday last, after an
absence of several mouths, Z
portion of which time he spent
ia travelling through the south.
Election matters continue to
grow hotter from day to day aud
give promise of being at a white
heat about caucus time. With
three candidates -or mayor, an
equal number for recorder. and
enough aldermauic aspiran S in
each ward to fill the entire field,
thero is fun galore, prospective.
Mrs. Fl. Strehlau returned on
Monday evening from St. Paul,
wliere she had been for her new
spring and summer stock Of mil
)inery and notions.
The roads could not be better
for lumber operations than for
tho past few weeks, and our 10.
cal lumbermen have not missed
a moments time in hauling. The
D. q. Moon Lumber company
has now upwards of 5000, 600
feet of logs on tho lakes, while
W. T. Bailey must have about
1900 600 feet.
M. Fl. Martin returned Tues
day evening from q business trip
to the Gogebic range.
The*Entcrprise was amused to
hear = local divine, a few day 8
since, enter = kick" on the ex-
ample set by the 53rd Congress
by working on the Sabbath pre-.
vious TO adjournment. We felt
constrained to call to his mind
the fact that the kind of work
indulged in by tho recent Con-
gress counted naught-not even
as q sin.
w. A. Russell, General Passen-
ger and Freight Agent, and r.
B. Ross, Duluth agent, of the
St. Paul l. Duluth railroad, in.
terYiewed the business men of
Virginia on Friday last in behalf
of the freight department of
their road. This would serve as
a practical indication that the
freight business of Virginia was
looked upon a. a not nnimport-
ant factor by the railroads.
Loc&l capitalists of Grand
Rapids, our Itasca county neigh
Dor, will form q stock company
for the erection of a sash and
door factory at that point. Such
al enterprise would furnish en-
ployment to a score of men and
open the way for other man ufac-
turing enterprises.
Cody and Dewar. arrested in
this city for passing forged
checks and convicted At the last
term of the district court, were
on. Tuesday sentenced to five
years aad one month each at
Saltwater. The way of tho
transgressor continueth to be
hard. 49,.
The New Bargain Store moved
into its conomod;ous new location
IN the Burke building on Tues
day: An elegant line of spring
and Skinner goods have been
put in By this firm, and they now
present to the public ono OF the
largest and best assorted stocks
on the entire range.
Adolph 6kud. of ronwood,
came up Tuesday evening for a
short>visit with Virginia friends.
c. J. Erickson. the merchant
tailor, has moved his shop to tie
Korby building.
Oscar Korby has remodeled
the east compartment of his store
building, putting in q front and
otherwise improving same, and
has moved the balance of his
unsold stock thereto.
Chas. Farm has this week
moved his family into their new
quarters in the Star Bakery
building:
A. ]. Ross. of the Virginia
Lumber & Supply company, has
been attending to business mat.
ters in Duluth during the week.
Miss Mamie MARITIME will 60 to
Milwaukee to first of the week,
where she will study the spring
styles in dressmaking.
Miss Jessie Gtierson, who has
heen a guest at tho home of Mr.
and Mrs. S. A: Grierson fo,
some weeks past. left yesterday
for Tower, where she will visi'
fvinndS for a co,,nlo <,f. xvo.,lx<,