The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-14
NeigbboriDg Notes.

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Miss Harriet Morcom has been
re-appointed postmistress at Tower
The new Jutin & Carlson building
at Sparta is now complete and
ready for occupancy.
A short financial statement made
by Treasurer Marion, of Tower
would indicate that that city was
$l1 ,532.O6 "short" at the present time
DR.. J. V. Johnson has purchased
the interest of John Gronholm in
tho Eveleth Pharmacy. Mr.. Gron.
holm continues as manager of the
establishment.
Marshal O'Hara, of Biwabik, was
put up against it on Monday, on a
charge returned by the grand jury
of having presented fraudulent
bills to the county.
Bull is to be provided with a
needed improvement in matter of
mail service, bids having been ask
ed for the carrying of mail between
that point and Hibbing.
F. S. Smith, of Washington, D. c.,
received the contract for carrying
the mail between Tower and Koo-
chiching, thrice weekly, his bid be-
ing $3.50 for the ensuing fifteen
months.
The public schools at Cloquet
have been closed and all public as
se1nblages decreed against, owing
to the prevalence of scarlet fever.
Several deaths have occurred from
the disease.
The city of Negaunee'. Mich, has
been hit by reform wave, a Civic
Federation League having been or
ganized to see that saloons and can
dy stores comply with the provis
ions of the Sunday law.
C-E. Stein, the defaulting CHS
holm recorder, plead guilty to petit
larceny, and was sentenced to fine
of $135, or four months in the coun-
ty Jail. Being unable to raise the
requisite cash, he will board for a
time at county expense.
The Elizabeth Iron company has
fled articles of incoration with the
register of deeds. The incorporat-
ors are VIM. Elder, Arthur Howell
and E. Frankentield, of Duluth. The
object of the corporation is given
as the mining and reduction of ore.
John Collins, II years old, fell
from the first level to the bottom of
the Ashland mine Sunday night
and was instantly killed. Collins
and several small boys were play
ing about the mine and had started
to go down the shaft, when the ac-
cident occurred.
We note by the Chisholm Herald
that diphtheria is raging at that
point to such an extent that the
public schools have been closed.
The first case was that of Lillian
Belanger, formerly OF this city, who
is reported to be getting along
nicely.
R. B. Green, a former Virginian
who for several years past has been
in charge of the Minnesota. Iron
company laboratory at Two Har-
bors, has been transferred to Fayal,
at which point the bulk of all work
for the u. S. Steel Corporation will
hereafter be done.
The Clerks Union of Dulaath are
after the scalp of Moses Cook, a
clothier. because he refuses to close
his store at 6 p. M, and have sta
toned line of pickets along the
street warning would,be customers
against trading at his, store. Moses
should buy shotgun.
Joseph Kubitski, a laborer EN-
ployed by the North Western road
at Lacrosse, has shown that he is
made of the stuff that makes mil
lionaires and has acted upon thu
dictates of that stuff. He has pat
ented the shovel used to clean tn,
rails at crossings. This shovel has
been in use for years, but no on
thought to take out patent on i
until he applied and received tn
papers. He has notified all com
pa MES that the use of the shovel i
q violation of his rights and has OF
tered to sell his patents for $4,000