The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-01-17
!. NeigbboriDg Notes.

The Sparta Band tenders grand
masque ball tonight.
The village of Biwabik has a case
of smallpox on hand.
Duluth mills are receiving about
$40 cars of logs per day, from range
and intermediate points.
The senate committee has passed
favorably upon an appropriation
of 100000 for a public building at
superior.
The Franklin mine is receiving a
large amount of mining timber cut
from lands near the Roberts at Nc
Kinley.
Martin Bros. are forwarding about
forty cords of pulp wood per day
from their camps near Thomas to
Eau Claire, Wis.
W. A. Gouth, employed on the
Fay drills at Biwab blk, lost toe last
week by getting his foot caught in
the machinery.
The Duluth & Iron Range road
hauls about 100 cars of logs from
range points and 100 cars from the
Knife river camps daily.
The Hibbing business men have
organized a Commercial Club. A
very proper move, destined to inure
to the benefit of the community.
Con Sullivan,a switchman in the
Duluth & Iron Range yards at Ely,
had the misfortune to slip and SER
iously sprain an ankle while work
in@S' in the yards week ago.
The Chaplin mine will make all
rail winter shipments of 10000 tons
of ore to the Joliet furnaces. The
Aragon, at Norway, also makes win
ter shipments to the same furnaces.
Because of failure to return to
return to work within d reasonable
time after the Holidays a large
number Of employees of tine Aragon
mine at Norwa,', Aic.4. were laid
off.
The new Miners anu Merchants
Bank at Hibbing formally opened
for business Monday. W. J. Power
is president and manager, A. N ST.
card vice-presidenl and Lester G.
Sicard cashier
A saloon-keeper at Iron Mountain,
Mich, was arrested anu fined rs for
keeping his saloon open on sunday.
1t must be that til@ liquor laws are
not dead lette. on TIE statute
books of Michigan.
The Biwa blk Iron Ore states that
the rumor of the Duluth mine clos
ing for the winter is incorrect, and
that the property will continue work
cleaning up several stray "patches"
of ore before opening the main
body. The mine is expected to ship
about 10000 tons next season.
: George Harden, Of Ely, under in
dictment for kee ping a house OF ill.,
fame, forfeited a $50 Cash bail by
non-appearance III district court on
Saturday last, and Il bench warrant
was issued Tor him. If found he
will not only lose his five hundred
plunks, but will hav: ~ stand trial
on the charge as we'll.
Matt STRICKEN, young man EN-.
ployed at the Slbley, was killed
week ago by falling out of the buck
ct. dropping a distance of about lOU
feet. Deceased was a member of
the S]avonic Society at Soudan, un-
der the auspices o. which order the
funeral ceremonies were conducted.
Deceased had no known relatives in
this country.
We note in the Duluth Herald
notice of mortgage foreclosure
against Joseph Sellwood and Ophel
ia Sellwood, his wife, by the Rut-
land County National Bank of Rut-
land, VT, offering for sale to satisfy
a claim of $12,36O an undivided
three-ffths interest in the souti,
half of northeast quarter of north
east quarter of section IA, 5O-14. The
Rutland Bank will in all likelihood
have sheriffs title to an interest in
a piece of St. Louis county realty
after the date of sale.