The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-21
Friday, April 81, 1905.

THE CLoQUET PINE KNOT issued
a hobby Easter number. Bro.
Vibert enjoys an excellent patron
age, and appreciates the fact.
THIS country has turned out
some great men-and there are
lot of others who, for the good of
the country, should be turned out
FROM the published reports of the
presidents western tour it would
appear that he is finding wild game
more plentiful than Republicans
are in Texas.
A MISSOURI publisher has. found
the proper side line for the news
paper business and has added un-
dertaking to his regular calling.
Friends of the deceased who desire
a good word spoken for their dead
know where to order their collins.
THE trout fishing season opened
on Saturday, but Mesaba anglers
who bask for day or two in the
smiles of Dame Nature each spring
while beguiling the speckled beau
ties from their haunts have wisely
postponed their annual outing un-
til it is safer wager that their
sport will not be spoiled by belat-
ed snow storm.
THE H1BB1NG METHODIST is the
name of new journal to be issued
at Hibbing, under the editorial
management of Rev. c. H. Blake.
The new journal occupies unique
field in country journalism, but
opens with an advertising patron
age which is good, whether de-
served or not. The journal is pub
lished from the office of G. F. Peter
son.
THE press of the state makes
much of the murder of Mayor Matt
Cannon of Beaudette by "a gang of
thugs and tinhorn gamblers. But
the perpetrators of this crime are
gentlemen when compared to the
despicable reprobates who attempt
ed the lives of all occupants of
| Mayor Fay's home in the well-re-
membered dynamite outrage few
months ago.
|
The city of Cloquet considers the
question of constructing a system
Of municipal water-works. A
sewerage system for the city may
also be installed at the same time.
Municipal ownership of the water
plant will not be found an operous
burden, if one be permitted to
judge from the records of other
small cities owning their public
improvements of this nature:
WHEN petition is handed to you
to sign, it is mighty good thing
to stop and read before putting
your name down. Besides, men as
a rule are too busy nowadays to stop
for little thing like that. The
other day man went through a
big office building in Chicago, on a
wager, and secured twenty names
to petition asking the public exc
cutioner to hang every one of the
signers.
THE Eveleth Business Meh's AS
ISOLATION, in it's progressive march
toward the upbuilding of our SIS
ter city, has taken the paving ques-
ton under consideration. A COM
mittee of three, Messrs. c. +. Bailey,
Neil McInnis and P. McClory, are in
the cities at the head of the
lakes this week examing the SAL
lent points of different paving ma
terials, and the work will be COM
menced this year.
THE report submitted by Chair
man Bowling, of the committee on
public accounts and expenditures,
censuring former Public Examiner
johnson, was tabled by a decisive
vote when submitted to a vote for
its adoption in the house on Mon
day. We can fully understand that
this action was distasteful to the
chairman of the committee, but the
action of the house may be taken
to show the actual weight of some
members.
p. ELLERD BOWLING, the Eveleth
statesman, alleges that one Sam T.
Johnson, former public examiner
of the state of Minnesota under a
Republican regime, rode on passes
furnished by the railroad corpora
tons of the state at various and