The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-10


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The sawmill proposition is not as
yet dead issue in Virginia.
The office of the Fay Exploration
Co. is being improved by the laying
of a hardwood floor.
VIM. G. Smith, of Minneapolis, ed
itor of the Minnesota School Jour.
nal, visits the Virginia and Eveleth
tschools of District No. % today.
The NJ. E. Ladies' Aid met We'd
nesday with Mrs. w. f. Hannaford'
Their next. meeting will be with
Mrs. Whiting, Central avenue.
w. G. Shane, the Chisholm optic
ian, was in the city Tuesday, at the
store of the Virginia Jewelry Co.
Mr.. Shane enjoys pleasing patron
age at this point.
The Ladies S. H. & E. F. of A. will
hold a basket social at Hawkinson
Hall tomorrow evening. A cordial
invitation is extended, and pleas
ant evening assured attendants.
Frank Shipley came over from,
Hibbing Saturday, and in company
with City Recorder Bickford enjoys
a pleasant outing, up the line of the
Duluth, Virginia & Rainy Lake
Railway.
Mrs. G. G. Butler pleasantly enter.
tanned at Finch at her home at the
Franklin Thursday evening, in hon
or of Miss Anna Parmelee, who re-
turned on Monday to her home al
Iron Mountain, Mich.
Rev. J. NJ. Todd left Tuesday fol-
Sandstone, where he is in attend
ance at the annual meeting of the
Duluth Presbytery this week. A
: the conclusion of the session hi
will go to Minneapolis to attend thu
meeting of the Synod, returning tt
Virginia the coming week.
A warm game of football wa:
played on the home grounds Satur
day between the Virginia and Eve
leth Jack Rabbits, the visitors being
defeated by score of 10 to @. Al
bert Eddy is captain of the home
team, Tom Dolan holding like dis
tinction in the Eveleth squad.
Nessrs. T.. D. Parmclee, y. "
Maitland, j. O. Shadbolt and jacob
Stein Will leave about the 15tl
inst. for a huntring trip to th<
CrookSton and Thief River Fall:
district. They will be absent abou
ten days, and the chickens, ducks
and geese will receive warm re
ception.
H. H. Chapman, manager of thu
State Experimental Farm at Crane
; Rapids, is in the city today, dispos
-, ing of a carload of potatoes grown
on the state farm. Mr.. Chapman
! is an agricultural enthusiast, an<
I sees great farming future for tn
J north. eastern portion of the state.
! The old office buildings at tn,
Ohio mine we're destroyed by fire a
! an early hour yesterday morning
: Many people, as they saw the reflec
ton, thought it was the Eaton ware
house, in which is stored a plente
! Gus coal supply. The burned struc
: lures were deserted buildings, o
} but tritling value.
Sl is. Morris, of the Morris Carrlag
Factory at Waupun, Wis, was Wiz
ginia visitor on Tuesday, interview
ing our liverya and local trace in tn
: interest of his manufactures. Dur
ing his stop in the city he foun'
time for pleasant visit with Tn
Enterprise scribe, whose boyhoo'
days were spent in the Prison City
The Duluth, Virginia & Rain
Lake company are getting in shap
for a telling stroke of construction
work. Sixty cars of steel, enough
to lay twenty five miles of track, am
one thousand kegs of spikes, whic1
came up the lake by boat, were 70,
wa~ded from Duluth Wednesday
The third engine for the new line i