The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-11

About 225 Lake Linden men,
mostiy' heads of familiespr have
signed an agreement to settle on
Canadian lands, on the Canadian
Pacific railroad, from 100 to 200
niles from .Sault Ste. Marie.
sIhey will take up homesteads,
build 9 cabins. logging camps.
erect mills, etc. It is probable
that, including families, some
AO0 or 500 people will leave Lake
Linden and vicinity.
Here are some remarkable
cases: The other day q wagon
maker, who had been dumb for
years, picked up a hub and
spoke; and = blind carpenter
reached out for his plane and
se,sE; and deaf sheep ranchman
went out with his dog and herd;
and . noseless fisherman caught
g barrel of herring and smelt;
.pnd . forty ton elephant insert.
edshis trunk into . CRATE and
flue. =; ',:,-. >...>
b. ~.
Many suits have been ordered
for the masquerade Monday
evening and a good attendance
is already assured. The suits
Will be here and on exhibition at
the store of the Virginia Drug
Co, Opera House Block, on
Monday noon, and any who
kave not selected their costumes
will find good assortment from
which to select
Jay Cook has written an ar.
ticle on currency. A great
ma: y other jays have done the
same thing.
The Ladies Benevolent So.
c,ety of the Presbyterian church
VIII hold "a dime social at the
residence of Mrs. w. J. Crockett
on Friday evening, Jan. 18th, to
which all are cordially invited.
As per a "Notice for Bids"
published elsewhere in this is.
sue, a committee. appointed by
the eVirglnia. Cemetery Associa.
'tion will receive bids for the
clearing of the ten acre plat Of
the new Virginia cemetery until
9 o'clock. on Friday afternoon
next. The Association has been
donated the land for cemetery
purposes, has been guaranteed
1925 from the village and has
cause to believe that q like
alpount will be donated by the
- - akhin heard. Such. being
the case, 4 start will soon be
made to reclaim Virginia from
her seeming @harbarity in the
provision of a proper resting
place for her dead.
E. W. Coons attended to bus.
ines matters in Duluth on Thurs.
day.
E.. G. Burke and Geo. L
Stroup attended to matters of
joint interest, at Duluth, on
Wednesday.
The Duluth Paper Co., one of
the most prominent wholesale
houses of the Zenith City, will
erect a large warehouse on the
dock front to accommodate tie
large and increasing business.
The company does a good bit
of business with Virginia mer.
chants.
DR.. Stuart Bates was over to
B:wabik yesterday morning.
A free masquerade at Anderson
& Burk's hall, Eveleth, will
take some people from our city
this evening. Free bus trans:
portation will be furnished and a
big time is booked.
The Duluth Herald still wants
"a man from Duluth" for sena.
tor. Don't blame the Herald for
wanting q man from: Duluth, so
long as they want a man who
will represent the entire state:
Such a mar is o. D. Kinney,
whom the Herald has so strenu-
:ously supported.
The message of the governor
of Pennsylvania gives some in.
teresting figures on the charac-
ter of strikes. In the fifty-t three
strikes which occurred in that
state in 1898, the loss of wages
to the strikers was 81, 395, 1876.
while the loss to the employers
was estimated at $131, $50.
The citizens of Virginia have
ap parently lost. and certainly 50