The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-31

annually for the past eight or ten
years.
IN this age of trusts the printing
office has not been overlooked, and
80 we have the type founders trust.
There can be no doubt as to it's ex-
istence, but new material we must
have even at the advanced prices
and poorer quality furnished. We
have therefore added several hun
dred dollars worth of type and
machinery since the opening of the
year, placing us in position to give
our patrons the best on short no.
tice.
A MANKATO dispatch under date
of the Goth announces that the
mayor, acting upon request of a
committee representing the local
retail grocers of the city, has is
sued proclamation closing these
places of business on Sunday COM
mencing with June 9th. Nothing
is said in the dispatch as to whether
or not the grog-shops and the slot
machines will be permitted to con-
tinue to run On the Sabbath day, as
they do in Virginia under the pres
ent administration.
The murder in a Mckinley
saloon a week ago Sunday leads a
range exchange to moralize on the
granting of saloon licenses to ire
sponsible parties. But the afore-
said exchange has naught to say of
the open violation of the state law
relative to Sunday closing. Had
the saloon-keeper been living to
the permit as granted by his license
his place would not have become
the scene of murder on Sabbath
morning and he would not, in the
eye of public opinion, have been
branded as an accessory to the
crime.
AN American Flag Association
has designated June 18th as flag
day, and desire all patriotic citizens
to display flags from their homes
and places of business. This asso-
citation is composed of individual
members as we'll as members of
flag committees of various patriotic
societies. The object of the observ.
ance of national flag day is to
foster public sentiment in favor OF
honoring the flag of our country
and preserving it from dissertation.
A circular signed by Col. Ralp +.
Prime, of Yonkers, N. Y, president
of the association, has been sent to
mayors of cities, patriotic societies
and superintendent of schools
calling attention to the date and
asking the observance of it, espec.
tally in the public schools.
SOME weeks ago the city attorney
brought up a proposition for the
consideration of the council which
demanded the unqualified re.
spect of every member of the
body aud of every citizen in
the council chamber-it being the
necessity of providing proper fire
escapes and means of exit in case
OF necessity from the Fay Opera
House. The attorney was instruct.
ed to draft an ordinance covering
the point, for submission at the
next meeting. But despite the fact
that that was nine weeks ago,
naught has since been heard of the
matter. And while the poor mans
COW has been protected in her
rlghts-or in her wrongs, while the
street car capitalists have had their
every wish consulted, while the
houses of i'll tame, the saloons and
the slot machines are still covered
by the mantle of official CHARITY,
while the oil house of the Standard
O1l Company which throughout
the term of Mayor Eaton's connec.
ton with the corporation as local
agent stood as menace to adjacent
property has become the object OF
official wrath since his removal
from the company pay roll, this
important piece of legislation-de.
manded for the protection of the
lives of our people-has been pas.
sed up, lost in the shuttle, or con.
sldered of minor importance az
compared with the great questions
which have engrossed official at.
tention. OF course nine weeks is
not long time as compared to a
century; neither is century long
time compared to eternity. But we