The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-01
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THE CITY's GENERAL NEWS


i s. TIE S1sSxENPkxSE REPORTEH.
Seen. Heard aud Htliered.
AS the editor was vending his
| way homeward last evening and
had reached q point near the
Hospital We glanced into the
hollow near the north end of
1 Wyoming avenue, and were sur
prised to note what Vas at first
taken as a voluntary grant OF an
electric light by the city council,
but which later more resembled
the familiar features of OUR
professor. AS we came closer,
however, we observed that It was
but a sign of the night, a COM
mon Halloween jack o'-lantera.
1t marked the ineeting place of
the Hobgoblins, some twenty of
whom gathered at tie pleasant
home of the Misses Scott for an
evening of merriment.
The Merchants Hotel has un-
dergone repairs and enlarge
ments until it is now a modern
hostelry. The Mcssrs. Duns-
more know how to cater to the
wants of the public, and their
immense and. increasing patron.
age attests ths fact that their
efforts are appreciated.
The fire company responded
to a call of fire as we were going
to. press this afternoon, It
proved to be chimney burnlhg
out Oh an east Maple street
building:
A friendly set,t to between d
Virginia and an Eveleth sport,
for 500 aside. on Sunday evening,
in a convenient Virginia room, is
said to have resulted in the Vir:
ginia man buying the drinks while
| the E. S. was endeavoring to re-
gain consciousness.
Monday was pay day at the
! Franklin and Drake & Stratton
! offices, and some 1923, 900 in gold
! was distributed among the en-
ployes. This tended to liven
business in the city, and the
tclothing and furnishing goods
stores have had u good trade
this week.
D. B.Yezner 4 Co., the new
''1clothiers and furnishers, con.
template a removal from the
city at an early date. The firm
claim to be doing their share of
the business, but consider the
line overdone in this city.
+, A laboring man with two or
, three county road orders in his
pocket, the result of a hard sum-
mer's work, on which he can
realize naught, is sight which
the gentlemen Who Compose
"'Taxpayer's League" of Duluth,
should see.
:. The. Duluth Business Mems
Association, a new organization
+ in the Zenith City, will open its
work with a banquet. Copying
! after Virginia, somewhat.
Biwabik wishes to become a
city. In speaking of this the
Duluth Commonwealth says:
'How these children do grow.
Day before yesterday they were
all in long dresses" But Du-
luth has all along been cogniz-
! ant of the existence of the range
towns, as a great proportion of
the Duluth wholesale trade is
with Mesaba merchants.
=a While Sam Fullerton is spend
ing his time in idle tWaddle rel
alive to a, prospective libel suit
with Bro. Kiley, of the Grand
Rapids Herald, he might be do
ing greater justice to his official
position by endeavoriug to catch
game law violaters in this sec.
ton On Tuesday, venison was
being peddled from house to
house throughout the city.
The Ft. Francis News and the
Hibbing News agitate the open.
ing of a road from Hibbing to
Koochiching, that the winter
trade Of the gold region may be
secured to our western neighbor.
The Hibbihg News is author
;txy IN, tn q ;ntatnmont that the d.
M. & N. will extend their line to
the Longyear property in secs
ton 10, five or six miles north OF
Hibbing.
y Solomon Sax returned from
short business trip to Hlbblng
, on w ednesday and yesterday
I left for Chicago to purchase
stock and fixtures for his new
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