The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-05

Denny Levin, or The Model
visited with Tower friends the
first of the week.
D. M. Mouser contemplates
going to British Columbia in the
early spring.
Rev. @ H. Stevenson spent
Sunday in Biwabik, conducting
divine services there.
! We stand ready at all times to
issue receipts.for specie payment
OF subscription accounts.
G. e. Bailey attended to bust.
ness matters in Hibbing and vi
cinity the first of the week.
Frank Robinson: manager OF
:. Sax & Co.'S Eveleth house.
was in the city Wednesday.
! A bill has been introduced in
the Michigan legislature pro vid
ing for specific tax on the out
put of iron mines in that state in
lieu of other taxes.
! An infant son of Mr.. and Mrs
Axel Pakka]a died on Friday
the remains being inferred in the
Virginia cemetery on Sunday
forenoon.
| A bran new. boy filed an ap-
pearance at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. [. McGregor on Tues.
day, and AL is already figuring
on making a frst.clas blacksmith
of him.
J. P. Rossman, proprietor of
the Virginia Cash Market. came
up from Duluth Monday. Mr.
Rossman reports a very satisfaca
tory business since the reopen
ing of the market.
| Messrs. G. E. Bailey, D. H.
Moon and W. T. Bailey went to
Duluth this morning for the pur.
pose of being in attendance at
the meeting of the board of
county commissioners.
]. M. Gardner, the irrepressi-
bic collector for Collier & Co.,
has been chasing the almighty
dollar in Virginia the past week.
Well bet even that he found
them almighty scarce, as we'll:
These are hard times; people
live closer, spend less, work
harder and hope more: There
is an end to all things, and those
who live long enough will see
the end of the present panlc-if<
they don't die beforehand.
Ed Callahan; a former employe
of the Oliver but who is this
winter stopping on a homestead
near Highland, had the misfor-
tune to severely cut his left hand
while splitting wood on Tuesday,
the axe striking a rafter in the
shanty and glancing: He came
to this city to have the wound
dressed.
The second of the series of
parties under the auspices of the
Virginia Assembly, on Friday
evening last. was we'll attended
and is generally accredited as
being another of those social
events where everybody had "an
enjoyable time.' A number of
Eveleth's society people were in
attendance.
The firm of M. H: Martin & Co.
was formally dissolved on Tues
day, John Hoveland and Miss
Elizabeth Martin selling their
interests to M. H. Martin. who
will continue the business and
collect and pay all accounts due
or owing by said partnership, as
noted by the notice of dissolu.
ton published elsewhere in this
issue.
Bert Barber, formerly of Du-
luth but who for three years past
has been in charge of Liverpool
house of Swift Bros. & Co., re-
turning to this country some two
weeks since, was in the city on
Wednesday. Mr.. Barber will
remain with the company but
does not return to England, nav
Ing Deen assigned territory
south of Chicago.
Walter G. Fuller, village re-
corder of Sparta, was in the city
Monday, making The Enterprise
a pleasant call. Mr.. Fuller says
Sparta is enjoying fairly pros
porous times this winter, about
500 men being employed in the
mines and woods about the town
and great amount of building
and municipal improvements fur,
nishing employment to many
MEN in the village proper.
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