The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-05
PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY.

Mrs. r. W. Hamilton and little
daughter Lillian spent Sunday
and Monday at the home of MIR.
and Mrs. E. Deau.
M. Shanedling, of The Bell
Shoe and Clothing House, reno.
Yates and makes a number of
convenient improvements in his
store, preparatory for the spring
rush.
Robert McGruer left Monday
for Rossland and Trail. B. G. J.
H. Sibbald went with him from
Duluth, with the intention of
making a permanent residence in
the new gold fields,
Mrs. M. Delfeld. the fashion,
able milliner, left yesterday for
a short trip to the St. Paul and
Chicago markets for the purpose
of purchasing stock of spring
and summer goods.
D. E. Cuppernull and John
Costin, Jr., entertained select
party of friends at duplicate
whist Tuesday evening, at their
pleasant bachelor apartments on
Central avenue.
Mesaba Range Tent No. IA, K.
O. IT. NJ, will tender a grand
ball at Crockett's Opera House
Easter Monday. No pains will
be spared to make it an enjoya~
ole and successful affair.
Misses Lena Dreger and Marie
Dahl left on Monday for St.
Paul, where the former accepts
a position in a millinery estab.
lishment and the slatter goes to
learn the millinery art.
Mrs. Emil c.. Deau left Tues
day noon for Marinette, Wis,
responsive to telegram bearing
the sad Intelligence that her
father was dying. She was &C
companied by her little daughter
Caroline.
The wave of prosperity or the
lack thereof precluded many
Vlrginians from being in attend
ance at the inaugural ceremonies
at Washington yesterday, but
we all hope to be able to go -four
years from now.
H. L. Laughlin, deputy county
surveyor, informs US that he has
leased the Lang cottage, corner
Maple street and Cleveland ave.
nue., and with his family will be-
come a resident of this city in
the near future.
The Oliver boys continue to
drop in, one by one, preparatory
to the resumption of operations
at that mine. Mike Curran, en-
gineer, and Bert Gabriel, cranes.
man, returned on Saturday from
Toledo, Ohio. where they spent
the winter.
G.. J. Skamser, formerly of
this city but now a resident of
Amery, Wis.,, came up Tuesday
to look after his property inter
ests here. On Wednesday he
sold his pleasant residence prop.
erty on Maple street to Carl Es-
terberg.
Conductor j. G. McGrevey left
Monday for a southern trip. He
will go to Galveston first and for
a few days reconnoitre along the
gulf towns. Mack has suffered
from i'll health for the past
month, and bis trip is purely re
cuperative. Star.
Fine Russian Pebble specta-
cles, frame made of gold alloy,
the same as jewellers sell for
$500, are being sold at the Peo.
pies Store at 80 cents a pair.
We fit the eye perfectly--young
and old and near sighted. Re.
member the place, the Peoples
Store.
postmaster Burke was the
winner in the bicycle rattle o1
Burt Pratt's wheel, on Tuesday
Along with the opening of spring
and the return of prosperity, Ed
will ship his trotter back to St
Paul and transfer his affections
from buying oats to the purchase
of bicycle repairs.
A citizens caucus at Sparta or
Tuesday evening placed in nomi
nation the following ticket: 70,
president, A. V. Fuller: for vii,
lage trustees, Ed McHale, Ere,
M. Powell and William Harvey
for justice of the peace, JOSEPH
Miller; tor constable, Otto G
Pfeltfer. .