The Virginia enterprise., 1907-03-01

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THE !. VIRGINIA. vi G, ENTERP'lR { ri ]
". &. HANxAFoRD. EDITOR; r:
Friday, March l, 1907. -.
Entered at the Post Office at Virginia. Mimi.
as second class mail matter. g.
Terms: $2Per Year. in Advance
VIRGINIA was city of 5000 at the
time of the last census but is easily
5000 today. And another 1900 addi-
tion' to her population during the
coming season is assured. :s.~:+ .
| CLoQuhr will soon have free mail
delivery. A lively burg and, like
our western. neighbor Hibbing, a
place where all the people pull to-
gether for local advancement.
The H1BB1NG TRIBUNE is .respon-
sible for this one: "The difference
between tonnage tax and bushel
tax is that there are more farmers
than miners, and they all vote"
DON'T know the derivation. or ex-
act meaning of the term 'rinhorn," :"
but we do know that the range is
this year harboring an unusually
large number of that class which
made Hurley famous. ....
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"THE BIG FIVE" is still in the min.
ing business in Colorado, and "the
big five" is still in the slot machine
business in Virginia. The latter
concern doubtless pays the larger
dividends of the two corporations, :.
SOME of the boys of the range
press seem to know of the existence
OF numerous "blind pigs" at range
points, but there is no evidence that
such knowledge has reached the
business end of the county attor-
ney's Office.
THERE are nineteen different
natlonalities represented in our
local schools, and The Enterprise
has record of having done print.
ing in each of the native langua ges
represented, and then some; in fact
in the twenty years we have been in
business on the iron ranges: we
have printed everything - from
Chinese to Choctaw.
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| AFTER reading many comments
on President Roosevelt's plea for a
suppression of the disgusting evid-
ence in the Thaw trial we took a
half hour off to peruse a couple of
columns of the proceedings. And
we must say that if the people of
this nation demand such reading
the dePravity of their intellectual
and moral>taste is to be deplored.
A MEMBER of the Missouri legis-
lature was taken down with small
pox while occupying his seat in the
house, and the body was forced to
temporary adj djournment while
the building was fumigated. That
fellow must be more regular
attendant upon his duties than
some of the Minnesota legislators
or there would be no danger of his
being taken ill in his seat after the
organization roll-call.
BOB DUNN, the man who loves
St. Louis county for what it did to
him in his reaching after the high.
est office within the gift of the peo.
pie of the state, is a ranting ad.
vocate of the Bjorge tonnage tax
bill. If we were both dishonest and
lived in section of the state where
they raise potatoes and rutabagas
instead of being honest and living
in section where they raise Cain
and iron: ore, we might also ad
vocate such a measure.
SMALL men with small purposes
do not help to make town lively
and progressive. The man who has
been honored' by: election: at the
hands of the voters whose nam il
not to be found on the list of con:
: tributors to public enterprise is
an example of misplaced confidence
ISuch men are useless in any town
and should they decide to move nc
sorrow is due to be expressed: 1t is
units and not mere ciphers tina,
count for something. ~ 4
THE "big headR is popular way
of expressing a common and ver5
frequent ail1nent.::: It. arises from
various sources, but'the real founnda
ton is a lack Of sense, A littll
money developes it in some people
a fewgood c1othesgives it to others
a little Office; where "a: chance il
given to exercise a little authority
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