The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-09

1897
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Chas. Farm and family left on
Monday for their new home at
Ishpeming, Mich. Many friends
in this city wish them q continu-
ed success. ...=.
The Biwabik Bessemer com.
pany is said to have received a
reduction in royalty and may
|yet operate this summer. Some
testpitting work is already being
done on the property.
The Metropolitan Iron & Land
Co., owners of the big Norrie
group at Ironwood. has raised
wages ten per cent. A good ex-
ample, and one worthy of exem-
plitication by other companies
throughout the district.
P. H. McGarry, of Walker,
was in the city Wednesday and
Thursday: Pat is looking after
a wide-awake newspaper man
for the Cass county metropolis
and naturally enough gave The
Enterprise editor first call, but
we have not yet any reason to
give up the Virginia field.
Mrs. M. Delfeld's millinery
opening the first of the week at
tracted many purchasers. and
she reports a most excellent
business. The display of pat
tern hats. flowers and trimmings
of every description, was hand
some. showing the tasty touch of
an artist in their arrangement.
1t is stated that an editor re-
Gently received a proposition
from a Chicago firm that they
would furnish him a new patent
fire escape, for one dollar and
some advertising to be done la
ter. He borrowed the dollar and
sent it along and in a few DAYS
received copy of the New Tes-
lament.
The New York girl who trav-
eled 18, 600 miles to Africa to
wed, only to be disappointed,
got her just deserts. Any girl
who isn't satisfied with a COM
mon American or an English
lord, and who must have an AT
rican prince or nothing deserves
to be Tilted.
| A schoolteacner says the pu-
pills who read newspapers at
home are better readers, better
spoilers. better in punctuation.
better grammarians aad read
more understandingly and Oh
tain a practical knowledge of ge
ography in half the time it re-
qoires others. All of which
speaks well' for the educational
powers Of the newspapers.
S. A. Reid returned on Friday
last from Rat Portage and the
Rainy Lake gold fields, fully
satisfied to cast his lot with Vir :
ginia for a time longer. He says
the boom is on in the Canadian
country, that property cannot be
touched with a rod pole, but that
wages are as low as on the iron
ranges and that no miner, labor
er or business man with small
capital has any show at present.
There are some things in
which there is more truth than
poetry, and this is one of them:
"A boy can sit Still on sled six
inches wide, tied to a sleigh CO.
ing eight miles per hour; who
couldn't sit still at home for a
dollar. A man will sit on an
inch edge of a board fence and
talk politics for three hours, put
him in a church pew forty minu.
cts and he gets nervous. twists.
turns. and goes to sleep. A man
can fill his mouth with tobacco
until the juice of it runs down
his chin, but hair in the butter
kills him off quick"
G. H Webster on Saturday
purchased the entire stock of
Jackson & Co., IN this city, TAX.
ing immediate possession. Mr..
Jackson, who has ever been the
genial manager of the affairs of
the firm, on Monday morning
departed for the city of Mexico,
where he is said to have been of
fered a lucrative position. 1t is
also rumored that he is to stop
at Chicago, enroute to his new
southern home, to accept a com
mission as power of attorney
for Miss e, Hobhouse, formerly
of this city, who has been in the
southern republic for some