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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 11-LADDER CLIMBERS CONTEST

no. BLADDER CLIMBERS CONTEST.
l. Team shall consist Of four men,
one climber, two footers and two
raisers. The ladder shall be q feet
long, and lay flat on the ground.
The footers shall stand at the foot
and raisers at the head Of the ladder
erect until the signal to go is given.
g The climber will stand 80 feet
from the foot Of the ladder, and at a
signal will run to climb the ladder.
which is to have an angle Of at least
Ks degrees. Time to be taken when
he touches top rung.
First prize, SIS; second prize, $40;
third prize, IS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1878
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.


Duluth, niiEn., July g. 1902
Noi:"r is hereby given that in compliance
with tine provisions OF the act Of Congress of
June s. i:,S. entitled AN act for the sale of
timber lands in the Stutes Of California, Ore
gon, Nevada. and Washington Territory"
as OK r,:':",, to all the Public Land Stutss by
act of August + 1852.
THOMAS PHILLIPS.
OF Duluth, Corn1y of st. Louis. State Of
Minnesota, has this day fled in this Office his
sworn Statement No. Gl2>, for the purchase
OF the Ni:'4 OF SN'1t Of SEC No, 81 IN To. No.
% y K !! Ncs1, and will offer proof to show
TIE Iai!'i ,>''i:tit is mere valuable for it's tim
Do ';of Stone than for agricultural purposes
ana to ST.; dish his claim TO s. iii land before
the iteS >t"r"nd Receiver Of this office at Du-
iuth: Mirn., OF Tuesday, the 18th day Of Oct.
l9U2
lie names as witnesses:
Wn.- Quinn, of Duluth, Mimi.
Peter McAlpin.
r.. ). Mclaughlin. /"
Abner Brotherton,
Any and all persons claiming adversely
the sthove-described lands are requested to
ME their claims in this office on or before
said 18th day Of October 1902.
VIM. E. Cullxin.
Register.
July l1-Sept-9
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 6-NOVELTY HOSE RACE.

l. Run 100 yards to plug, attach
and lay 800 feet of hose, take out Sec
ond section and take out sixth Sec
ton, put second section where sixth
section came from, and put on pipe.
All couplings to show three full
threads.
2. Carts to carry $50 feet of hose.
3. Time to be called when all
couplings are made.
i. Team to consist of twelve men
and foreman. Other rules same
as Regulation Hose Race.
First prize, $50; second prize, $40;
third prize, $40.
Also $35 silver trumpet, Ass ocia-
ton prize, to be absolute property
Of company winning same at two
consecutive Tournaments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 3-COUPLER'S RACE.

1. Team of two men run fifty feet
break coupling of three full turns;
time to be taken when pipe touches
the ground.
2. Hose to be two lengths of or
binary service hose, with ordinary
service coupling and ordinary pipe
as approved by the executive COM
mittee.
3. Hose and coupling to lie flat
on the ground.
4. Pipe to be carried from the
start.
First prize SIS; second prize, $40;
third prize, S..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 7-FLAG RACE.

1. Teams to consist of six men
each, and distance to be run 100
yards, three men to run from each
end. The flag to be furnished by
the local committee and to be car
ried by the contestants the entire
distance.
First prize, 500; second prize, s1:,
third prize, $40.
Also silver trumpet to winner of
first prize. This trumpet was given
the committee by the Kelly-How-
Thomson Co., of Duluth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 5 CONSOLATION HUB AND HUB

NO. 5-CONSOLATION HUB AND HUB
RACE.
Two teams making the slowest
time in Regulation Hose Race.
l. Run 100 yards to line, lay 100
feet of hose, break coupling and put
on pipe; time to be taken when pipe
touches the ground.
2. Hose not to be pulled until
within 20 feet of line, and end of
hose to be back of line when time is
called. Other rules same as in Reg
ulation Hose Race.
Prize, $40.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08

NO. 1O-REGULATION HUB AND HUB
RACE.
Two teams making best time in
Regulation Hose Race.
Same rules as in Consolation Hub
and Hub Race.
Prize, $15.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 12-CHIEFS RACE.

Open to the Chiefs of all the de-
partments contesting.
1. Run 100 yards to line.
First prize, SIS; second prize, So
third prize, 81; fourth prize, S..
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of members who have belonged to their re.
spective parties at least sixty 60) days and
been residents Of the town or city at least
three months previous to the tournament.
RULE 3.-Only members Of the Vermilion
and Mesaba Firemen's Association to COM
pete for prizes. except free-t0r all races.
RULE 4.-All work to be done by hands on
"; snap-spring and 'unproportional coupling
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is promised and the music will be
the best the range affords. The To-
cal Fire Department will be there in
a body, to act on. the Floor and Re-
ception Committees. You will be
made acquainted with everybody
shortly after you reach the hall.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08

NO. 14EFREE-FOR ALL 100 YD. DASH.
This race will be run Friday FORE
noon, August Is, and will be- open
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08

NO. 8-NOVELTY HOOK AND LADDER
RACE
l. Run with truck 100 yards to
line, draw and raise against build
ing 20-foot ladder, climber to draw
and carry up a 14-foot ladder and
place same on roof with hooks over
the edge of roof.
2. Ladders not to be drawn until
rear axle of truck passes the line.
Other rules same as in Regulation
Hook and Ladder race.
First prize, $40; second prize, $40,
third prize, S..
Winner of first prize also wins a
beautiful silver trumpet, presented
by Vim. J. Moore, insurance agent,
Virginia.
NO. 9-FIREMEN's FOOT RACE.
l. Open to one contestant from
each department.
2. Run 100 yards to line.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-08
NO. 4-HOSE RACE NO. 2.

Open to all teams not winning a
prize in the Regulation Hose Race.
Same rules as in the Regulation
Hose Race.
Prize, SIS.
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Duluth & Iron Range Railway.
PASSENGER TINE TABLE.

uaily. Except Sunday.
NED K. FARRAND. Agent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22

They were imprudent words, and,
had l stopped to think, I should not
have uttered them; but she did not
take them amiss. I saw faint motion
of her hands, as though she would fain
wiring them, and then she turned away.
Lady GILMORE l said to her pres
emily, eff you have a few minutes to
spare, should like to know what my
duties are. Up to the present time I
have not done anything for you
Your duties" she repeated, vaguely
your duties as companion to me?
1t was Sir Rudolph who insisted that
l should have companion l do not
know. He thought 1 wanted some one
to be with me"
What shall be able to do to help
your" | asked.
Il hardly know" she replied. "Can
you comfort me when | am most
miserable?"
Il will do my best answered; and
she turned from me with low moan.
Il want comfort" she said-"com-
fort always"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
Dogs for AmbuIances.

An experiment made in the great
ambulance maneuvers at Karlsruhe, in
Baden, by the general commanding
the Fourteenth Army Corps ambulance
was decisive of the great ability of the
dogs IN that service. In the first trial
by daylight, two dogs were used, cross
bred shepherd dogs. The judge of the
trials ordered the edge of a close for.
est to be searched by these animals
for distance of half mile in length
by a quarter of a mile in width; and
after twenty minutes the dogs had
discovered eleven men representing
the wounded. In the night trial, the
ground to be searched was a forest
land with thick underground of black.
berry bushes. The night was pitch
dark, and the three dogs which were
sent out could be followed by their
keepers only with the greatest diff.
Guilty, though every dog carried a bell
on his neck to enable the keepers to
follow them more surely. Ten casual.
ties" had been put out for the dogs to
retrieve, and in half an hour every
one of these ten had been discovered
by the dogs and rescued by the Keep.
ers.-Our Animal Friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
HNS. 20

many battles subsequently fought tor
its possession the English generalig
had the better of it, but france in til =
end always secured the advantage
when the claims of the two nations
were adjusted by treaty.
During the French revolution Ger
eral Ricord, who was made governor
of ST. Lucia, abolished negro slavery
| throughout the French Antilles. Then,
| in 1894, through the capture of Mar
! Unique by Sir John Jervis, st. Lucie
again became English, Prince Edward,
Duke Of Kent, the father of Queen Vic
toria, raising the British flag on Morne
! Fortune.
Admiral Villaret under the terms CT
the treaty of Amiens, took over the ISL
and in the name of the First Consul
| Bonaparte, in18O2. The peace was
broken before the end of fifteen months
and the war was begun again, the
West Indies again becoming the battle
: ground and st. Lucia the first object OF
attack.
Commodore Samuel Hood sailej
from Barbados to st. Lucia in June
1903. The French, under General No
| ques, shut themselves up in Morne
Fortune but the English stormed the
works and carried them. 1t was ther
that ST. Lucia became permanently t;
British colony.
Between the headlands of Tapiol
and the Vigie is the entrance to the
port of Castries, the seat of govern
ment
Beyond Castries are the Pitons de:
Canaries, towering aloft three thou
sand feet, a short distance from TIE
coast. The still more wonderful sugar
loaf Pitons are to be seen to the south
overlooking the southwestern part O.
the island, and visible, in clear wealth
er, miles and miles at sea. Soufriert
is the town second in Importance anC
size in st. Lucia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
AT WASHINGTON'S HOME.
Ladies Association Holds Annual Ses-
sion at Mount Vernon.

Washington, May 1.-THE ladies
association devoted to the preserva
ton of the home of Washington met
at Mt Vernon. Mrs. Justine Van
Rensselaer, Townsend of New York
the regent, and about 20 vice regents
were present.
AS a result of this years session
the names of the several states will
be taken from over the doors of the
different rooms of the mansion and
their original designation restored
such as Nellie Custis' Room" Gen.
eral Washington's Room" "The West
Parlor," and so on.
A beautiful set of candelabra hold
ing Is candles now adorns the dining
table. This was presented to the
council by Mrs. Ball, vice regent from
Virginia.
The presentation of historic relics
to the council is always an interesting
feature of this annual gathering.
Among those of this year is a repro
famous etching of the head o. Wash
ington. The original etching was
made by Sharpless. the famous Eng
fish artist, and the needlework copy
was made by his daughter, Miss Ro-
lima Sharpless. 1t was handed down
from family to family until now,
through the secretary, Mrs. Ball, it
has been given to the association by
Mrs. John Tomlin Of Virginia.
The presentation of a picture of La
fayette just at this time is of special
interest. The children of the public
schools Of Richmond, We, were the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
IN THE DENTAL CHAIR.
Women Show Greater Ability to En-.
dure Pain Without FIirchinu.

Chicago Tribune:-Dentists have an
excellent opportunity for observing the
varying distinctive actions of men
and women while enduring pain US
ually accompanying dental surgery
and that they are authority for the
statement that men are natural born
towards when it comes to facing an
operation which they know will set
their nerves to jumping and cause
them much physical suffering.
A woman will sit for hours and
allow dentist to gouge and prod her
gums with any number of sharp steel
instruments that he chooses to use,
without whimpering, and if the opera
ton is not completed she will come
back the next day and have the pain
full ordeal repeated. But a man! Not
so with him. He may show up for the
first days treatment but the chances
are that on the second day his ap-
polntment will remain unkept. He
hasn't the necessary nerve and in
clination to subject himself to another
siege OF torture, and SO he gives the
dentists Office a wide berth.
1t is not fact, howe. that all
men are CO.. ar9e whom fH~ino : ''ontal
chair; nor is it true fhat 81! r--r?--~e>-o
are brave under similar cieor~,-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
CHINA AND BR1C-A-ERAC.

The latest pottery umbrella stand
has a top curved over not unlike an
Easter lily bud. This catches the
umbrella or cane and prevents its
rubbing against the wall.
Cypress is the name given a new
lridescent glass that is quite effective
developed in vases of attractive
shapes.
Cameo ware in blue and white after
Wedgewood appears to be quite a fad
just now for bric-a-brac among the
lower-priced pieces.
What is claimed to be the richest
and most brilliant glass-cutting ever
exhibited is called the "Sunburst.'
This is new process that fairly
covers the pieces with a mass of rich
detail Of fine prisms.
Sc many cheap limitations Of ole
blue colonial plates are to be seer
they have almost become tiresome.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
Poke Fun at Senator Penrose.

Senator Foraker and Senator Pen.
rose had short wordy tilt during a
speech OF the former which gave the
Ohio man chance to poke fun at
Pennsylvania. Senator Foraker had
asserted that the courts have decided
that no Chinese except laborers may
be excluded under the present law
and he had alluded to a decision OF
the supreme court.
Senator Penrose suggested that the
f1ifty-seventh federal reports contain a
different decision.
YES" said Mr.. Foraker, "but Iona
subsequent to the fifty-seventh federal
report the supreme court decided as |
have said. That old report is not
modern law
Then he told his story.
'The senator from Pennsylvania
reminds me of tne man who was going
around gathering up last year 5
almanacs and calendars.
What can you do with those?'
someone asked him.
"'Why, I intend to sell them in
Philadelphia he said "-Washingt
Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
ST. LUCIA.

In view of the seismic disturbance
IN Martinique and ST. Vincent it is not
improbable that the Island of St.
Lucia, which lies between them, NAV
become the scene of volcanic erup-
tons. This island also has its
'soufriere," or sulphur pitted noun
tain, whose crater is situated several
miles from the town of Castries, which
bears it's name. Clouds of steam and
exhalations issue continually from the
craters.
st. Lucia was for century and a
half the scene of continuous warfare
between the French and English until
it finally became a British colony.
1t was discovered by Columbus in
1902. 1t is twenty-four miles southeast
OF Martinique. The island is forty-two
miles in length, and it's greatest
breadth is twenty-one. 1t is waterei
by numerous streams flowing to the
sea from the Mornes, as the high peaks
are called. The total population was
1882 in 1888, of whom 1000 were
white, mostly French. There is good
harbor on the west coast, below Cast
rles, which is the capital and which
has a population of about 5000. The
island is considered good coaling sta
ton for mail steamers and warships.
st. Lucia forms part of the general
government of the Windward Islands
1t has legislative council composed of
officials and crown nominees. The an
nuai revenue and expenditures were
543,O26 AMI G36,652. respectively. in
IN 1888. The debt. which was princi-
paily for sugar factory was e32.4OO.
Captain Catalina. OF the English shin
Oilve Blossom, sailing to the Spanish
Main in the year 1905, took possession
OF the Island Of st. Lucia in the name
OF King James |. of England. Sixty
seven colonists were set on shore. but
the CARDS massacred or drove all from
the island
Other British colonists settled on the
island in 1889, but met with the same
fate as their predecessors. The king
OF France in 1912 ceded the island IN
the French West India company. In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22

stances; but taken as a class and
viewed under the inspecting glass of
the D. D. S., women show more
courage than men when called upon
TO endure treatment which at the best
IS anything but pleasant.
A Chicago dentist has observed the
distinctive characteristics OF men and
women who occupy his chair from
day to day and has gathered some in
teresting facts. ''The actions of a
man in my chair are as different from
those of woman as day is from
night" he said. In the first place a
woman will present herself ct the ap-
pointed time, trembling perhaps, but
determined to see it through no matter
how great the pain may be. She gets
into the chair, settles back against
the head-rest, and though she may
finch when the nerves are aggravated
she will not utter one word of COM
/ plant.
"A man comes in maintaining a
/ clustering bravado attitude and gets
| into the chair with so much apparent
resignation and determination that if
| you had never seen man in den
| lists Office before you would declare
| he was a woman's superior in point
| Of bravery at every point. But just
wait. The minute you begin to hurt
him you hear something, and this
something depends on the religious
| tendencies Of the particular man! II
he is profane he swears, and if he is
not given to prof nifty he uses Ian
guage so cfose to a violation of moral
law that it is rather hard to draw a
distinguishing line.
"The woman will go through the
first operation and when told to come
back the following day will agree tc
do so. What is more, she will keer
her word. But man will go away
crashing his teeth and the chances
are you won't see him again for a
week. You have to use all sorts oil
means to get him >ack. The fact oil
the matter is he hasn't the courage tc
undergo REPETITION of the pain to
which he has been subjected
There is another great difference
between men and women which in
wolves personal pride. If a woman
has bad teeth she wants them treated
in the best possible way no matter
how much physical suffering is in
volved. She will sit for whole day
and subject herself to any sort OF
treatment in order to have a crooked
tooth Strengthened, or some natura
defect remedied. This, of course, is
largely matter of pride, but a man
won't do it. He wants good work
certainly, but he wants it done in the
least painful manner, and isn't so par
ticular about his personal appearance
that he is willing to endure torture
to bring about the result. In Justice
to the men it must be said that in
cases Of sudden shock they have moro
nerve than women. This is eviden'
in the pulling of tooth. A mar
stands this ordeal better than E
woman, but where endurance enters
into the operation he is not her equaI
in point of nerve in any respect"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
PELEE SCORCHED HIS FEET
Tourist Found the Great Cone Hot
When He Was There.

When He Was There.
Atlantic City, May 17.-Prof. J.
Stoddard Bellew, principal of the high
school of Salt Lake City, Utah, is at
hotel here having just returned from
st. Pierre. Speaking of the volcanic
eruptions there, he said.
Il can harry believe it possible that
st. Pierre was destroyed. I arrived in
sight of the island of Martinique a
few days before Christmas. At that
time the flowers were blooming in
all their beauty, for the island is stu
ated almost at the equator.
I'VE reached ST. Pierre about Z
O'Clock in the morning, and the thing
that at once struck me was the activi-
ty | saw as I passed along the little
narrow streets to my hotel. | learned
from one of the natives that it was
customary for people, from the lowest
to the highest, to be out of their beds
by $50 o'clock
Il climbed Mount Pelee before I
came away. Ny observations at the
time caused me to think that an erup-
ton of the volcano would not be the
last thing in the world one might ex-
pect, as the ground around the crater.
which has mud-like appearance. was
hot enough to penetrate the soles OF
my shoes and scorch my feet"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22
CHAPTER III.

I could not describe the misery of
Sir Rudolph's household. What the
shadow was that lay over it l was I'M
able to guess. Husband and wife were
both young and handsome; they had
almost every gift that heaven could
bestow; nothing was wanting, so far
as l could see, to complete their nappi-
ness; yet they were further apart, it
seemed to me, than if a grave had
lain between them-a thousand times
further apart.
That first Christmas Day that l spent
in England will never die from my
memory. We did not see Sir Rudolph
until dinner-seven o'clock; and then
it appeared to me that my remon-
STRANGE respecting Christmas Day had
reached the kitchen, for the dinner
comprised something in the shape of
Christmas fare-a turkey and a plum
pudding. Some one, in a moment of
ill-advised enthusiasm, had placed a
pretty little sprig of holly-a few
glossy leaves, with fair sprinkling of
red berries-on the top of the latter
Sir Rudolph looked at it, and. then
turned to the butler.
What is this ?" he asked.
Holly, Sir Rudolph" he replied
"And why has it been put there?" he
continued.
Il thought = perhaps - Christmas
Day. he said, stammering.
"Take it away" commanded Sir
Rudolph sternly.
And the butler, with great perturba-
ton of manner and a crimson face, re-
moved the unfortunate sprig of holly.
I read the expression of Sir Ru-
dolph's face, and it said, as plainly as
words could speak, 81 will have no re-
joicing, no outward sign of rejoicing,
in this house."
And in such fashion Christmas was
celebrated at Ullamere. l watched
husband and wife, and l was never so
completely puzzled. 1 could not make
out the cause of disagreement at all
1t was no petty feeling that actuated
him, that had caused those lines on
Sir Roberts face; one could see that
Some great deep emotion was at work
within him. and at times it almost
overpowered him.
Lady Culmore was beautiful enough
to charm any man, yet she evidently
had no charm for him. Whatever the
mystery might be, felt sure that it
was not that he cared for any one else.
There was something so true, so noble
about him, that no one living could
suspect him of anything wrong. He
was polite to his wife, with a cold icy
politeness that was enough to madden
woman who loved him.
To be continued.