The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-01-18

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Terms. 10 Per Year. IN Advance
VIRGINIA is promised greater
growth the coming season than has
ever fallen to the lot of any range
city. -. :....*.:
THE village of Biwabik is evidenc-
ing signs of returning life. One
resident pulled gun" on another
Saturday.
THE amount of personal property
exempt from taxation in Minnesota
will in all likelihood be Increased
from 500 to $500. This will exempt
the poor mans COW.
EvELETH1rEs are saving some
awtully mean things about the
Mesaba Telephone Co., it's service
and charges. In the latter the COM
pany has always been abreast of
the times.
THE>grand jury at Findley. Ohio,
on Monday returned 939 indictments
against the Standard Oil crowd.
AS result you will find the price
advanced to cover possible de-
ticiences in the company's bank &C.
count.
LADY bar-tenders are not permit
ted in Aurora. This rule, however,
will not, of necessity, prevent the
hiring of a lady to superintend
man who digs village we'll, nor
prevent her salary being placed at
$500 per day.
IN at least one respect party lines
have been obliterated in the pres
ent session of the state Legislature.
When members were given their
supply of stationery and incidentals
each member, republican and pro.
hibit.onist az well as democrat,
found corkscrew in his outfit.
AN enterprising business firm
down at Anoka advertised it's First
Annual January Fire Sale" in the
Anoka Herald. That style of an
ad. is apt to make the insurance
companies consider their risk a
dangerous one before the time for
their Second Annual January Fire
Sale" arrives.
THE southern Minnesota granger
continues his efforts to divert the
iron ore tax from it's riyhtful
Channel, and reap the benefits of
northern Minnesota's progressive
ness. And the granger is destined
to book winning some of these
days, if the old adage about per-
severance holds good.
THE city council of Eveleth m axes
a decided raise in water rates. But
when it is considered that the CITY
will ask but Sc 90 per year for pri.
vate residences the rates will &C
casion no hardship and will coin
pare very favora bly, with rates in
some towns where the franchise is
owned by private octopus.
LIGHTING BOB LAFOLLETTEth thinks
the White House would be about
his fit for residence for tour years.
Lighting Bob is reformer of the
radical type, and if The trusts don't
like the present administration
they know now who to support if
looking for something worse from
their viewpoint.
NOTICES of personal property
taxes have been received by Vir-
ginia residents during the week
which causes the owners of the
fiftyfour cows found in the city by
the local assessor to wonder how
it came that their cows were found
while 80 many dozens OF the bovine
despoilers of lawns we're lost in the
search for taxa bic property.
THE VIRGINIA STAR, the Eyeleth
publication which was going to
revolutionize the newspaper bust.
ness of Virginia, has presumab bly,
died. AT least, the load of printers
junk which was placed in the Vir-
ginia building on which a sign of
the Virginia Star was tackled, was
moved out today. Don't know where
it went: Fact is, it don't make much
odds.
| J. J.. HILL, in a recent letter to
Gov. John A. Johnson, asserts that
the railroads of the county today
face an enforced annual expendi-
ture of 81, 1OO,O0O,OOO for the next five
years to provide means for handling
the business in sight, not allowing
for future growth. Doesn't sound
n tho Is 1: /