The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-20

Der; say at s. for each person
per month for six months until
another harvest, would require
. $8OOOjO0O. It should be under
sto,d that throughout the en-
= tire Scandinavian peninsula as
we'll as in Finland the past crop
year was an exceedingly unfav-
orable one. Agencies have been
established and facilities for ).
forwarding and distributing
supplies have been provided by
which donations of food or the
supplies which money will buy
will he carried to the famine
stricken districts with all possi--
bic speed. If your county com
mittee,nan or the local solicitor
should miss you, forward your
contributions to N. O. Werner.
treasurer, Minneapolis, and he
will properly account for same.
Every cent donated goes to
the starving men, women and
children. The newspapers pub
lish information and appeals
free, printing establishments
print our circulars and envel-
opes and furnish paper without
charge, the postage is paid BY @
private parties besides their do
nations, so there is no waste, no
loss, no expense. We need not
say any more. Remember: "Do
unto others as you would have
them do unto YOU"
L. O. THORPE,
N. o. WERNER,
CHAs. WALLBLOM.
Central Com.
DR.. Eklund, as county chairman
has appointed the county commit
tee, selecting prominent Scandinav,
ians in various communities, An.
drew Hawkinson being selected as
the Virginia member. The others
comprising the personnel of the
committee are as follows: Erickson
Bros. & Co. at Biwa blk, n. F. Marion
at Chisholm; Louis Sletten at Ely
J. w. Falk at Eveleth; B. J. Carlson
at Hibbing; Ed Olson at Mckinley
Alex Renlund at Mountain Iron
Charles Gustafson at Sparta; Nele
J. Benson at Tower: Gust Cronbera
aud john johnson 1t Hi and "a
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In this city the Scandinavian and
Finnish churches and societies had
previously taken up the work, and
have already collected and forward
ed considerable amount, but with
systematic work and the publish
ing of existing conditions it is an
ticipated that Virginia collections
will pour in at a rapid rate for se
deserving a cause, a better concep
ton of the suffering of the benefic
iaries being obtained from recen
kilograms from Stockholm, which
announce that in numerous parish
es the starving people are COMPEL
ed to subsist on a daily diet of thu
coarsest rye meal, along with lit
tie sour milk from the starving
kline; that at the same time thei,
cattle, horses and reindeer munct
scanty allowances of hay, straw OF
fodder; that sickness is spreading
especially among children, in con
sequence of improper food and ex
posure; that many families are eat
ing the carcasses of their dumb an
imals that have died of starvation
and that, Notwithstanding the fac
that in midwinter daylight lasts fo,
only four short hours in that north
.ern cline, many homes are withou
matches or candles.
But as the American people, a.
also those sturdy sons of other ma
tions who have come to be number
ed of US, in their open-hear}ed ger
erosity realize the true condition.
of their suffering brethren, the,
will be quick to act and quick to re
spond in a substantial manner tc
ward relieving the dire distress g
depictingly pictured in press Il
ports.
UNDER A LOAD UR LO0A.
Chas. Hill, a teamster in the en-
ploy of the w. T. Bailey Lumbe
Co., was terribly bruised and man