The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-28

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BY square deal" some folks
mean four-sided bayonet.
Will the twin Stars support Mr..
Vail now that he defeated P. Ellard,
or will they go after him as they
did before the primaries?-Brook.
ston Herald.
MISTER DOWL1NG's editorial in
the last issue of the Eveleth Star, in
which the "love one another" spirit
is ma pifest, has been the subject of
much comment. Served to attract
attention, the same as the cries of a
whipped cur.
THUS far this week we have failed
to see copy of the Virginia paper
which for time was printed and
published in Eveleth. But we have
not heard any Virginian say he was
| lonesome because an issue of the
rag had been missed.
IT is said that Sweden scored
signal victory over Norway in
Darkest Africa when Harry Olson
took Stensland, the defaulting
bank president, in charge. But the
| minions of the law were exceeding
ly lenient with the Norman, giving
him an indeterminate sentence
with ten-year maximum.
IF any of our subscribers are sup
erstitious about the number 10 we
would state that Notwithstanding
the fact that each American quarter
has 13 stars, 13 letters in the scroll
of the eagles beak, 10 leaves on the
olive branch, Is arrow heads and 13
letters in the words "quarter dollar"
we are still taking eight of them
for years subscription.
IT has been suggested that the
Republican county committee take
up the question of legality of the
nomination of Billy Bates for sher-
if, but if the Republican county
committee knows it's business it
will let his nomination stand, de-
spite the free pointers dished up by
one John T. Armstead as to the
proper course to pursue. The people
voted at the primaries with a full
knowledge of the technicalities of
Mr.. Bates position, and their deci-
sion was clearly defined. If the
committee wants Democratic
sheriff they should put Bates out of
the running; but if they want Re-
publican sheriff he is the only man
that can win the day on that ticket.
THE rapidity with which Nor
them Minnesota is being settled by
honest homesteaders, and the pro-
gress of development work in the
section is nowhere better exempli-
fled than in the district to the north
of Virginia, where within the past
five years thousands of acres of pro-
ductive soil have been turned from
a wilderness of stumps into a thriv-
ing farm section, peopled by an in
dustrious, prosperous and happy
people. But there is room for more,
and the section offers inducements
which are substantial-not the in
ducements offered by the Canadian
northwest where you get a crop
one year and starve and despair
while waiting for another produc-
tive year; not the inducements of
Kansas, where you can buy farm
today and wake up in the morning
to find it blown over into the next
county during the night; not the
inducements of Colorado or Utah,
where one slushes around in the
mud irrigating a strip of bottom
land so narrow that a cow couldn't
jump into the field because she
jumps over it; not the inducements
of Texas, where one scratches sand
burrs out of his flesh in the day
time and is, awakened in the night
by the pleasant sensation of a tar
antula nibbling at his toes or cen
tipede crawling over his face. But
for the man who would carve his
fortune from agricultural pursuits.
Northern Minnesota offers land IF
unequalled fertility, obtainable
either under the rights of the home
stead law or purchaseable at prices
which insure a pleasing increase in
values. Lots of it to be had in
either way.
APPLY THE LID OR VACATE.
YOun0 Saws State