The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

will abide by the majority-unles
the decision is palpably unjust an,
unrighteous. If this is to be tn
program in future, we'll and good
But if not, then this Club may a.
we'll be dissolved'and go out of bus
iness. for it will be of no benefi
either to it's members or to the citi
zens generally. Icousider that tn,
Club has had good and capable Off
cials in the pact, but officials alone
cannot make successful CONNER
ciaI Club. 1t must have the moral
az we'll as the financial, support Of
the community.
In considering what measures
might .be:used and what steps might
be taken to bring about a greater
success for the organization, have
outlined plan that l. consider de.
sirable. You may not entirely agree
with me, but trust that you will
lend the general plan your enthusi-
astic support. Nothing good can
be accomplished without hard work,
persistent work, and no Club of this
kind can be entirely successful un.
less it's members, and especially the
business element Of the community,
are willing to make considerable
sacrifices of time, money and labor,
for the common benefit. Members
appointed on committees should
not accept these appointments un-
less willing to carry out the instruc-
tions given them, and once such an
appointment is accepted the duty
imposed should be considered in
the nature of trust to be faithfully
performed.
ADVERTISING.
Some systematic effort should be
made at once to inform the outside
world of the advantages of this city
as desirable point for many lines
of manufacture. Already the new
town of Rainier, at the international
border, has secured sash and door
factory. Such an institution ought
to be located here. There art un-
doubtedly many other lines of wood
en- manufacture that could tie sue
cessfully operated in this city. If
nothing else is done in the way OF
advertising, the Club at least could
get up something attractive to be
printed on the back of it's letter
heads and envelopes and induce the
business men to use this matter on
all their stationery.
Another good advertising scheme
aud one that always brings large
returns in the way of membership
is an annual banquet with a good
dinner and some entertaining ad-
dresses, and 1 would strongly ad.
wise that a banquet be held within
the coming month or two. would
also earnestly urge that all the bus.
mess men living along the line and
at the northern terminus of the Du
luth, Rainy Lake 4 Winnipeg rail
way be invited to attend that ban
quet as guests of this Club, and that
be made to furnish
them free transportation, if posi-.
BILE. Acquaintance does more than
else to bring business,
next to newspaper advertising. and
if the business men along the line
can be brought here and made ac-
quainted with our merchants, what
more natural than that they should
send, or come, here to buy when
they desire something that we have
tor sale aud that they may need. An
acquaintance thus formed will be
far reaching in it's effects. Being
located at the southern terminus of
this new line of railway, which is
opening up a vast empire rich in
natural resources, Virginia stands
in an enviable position, one fraught
with great possibilities for its fu-
ture growth and prosperity. We
should be alive and awake to these
possibilities and take advantage of
every avenue that is opened to us,
as development of this rich region
proceeds.
would suggest that outside of
especially invited guests, such ban
quet be open only to members of
the Club or those who desire to be-
come members. In this way we
ought to be able to greatly increase
our membership. Instead of 80 or
100 members in city of this size
we ought to have at least $50.
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT.
Another splendid way to encour-
age the establishment of other in
dustries here is to patronize those
we now have. When local MAJ
featuring concern reports that it
sells nine times as much of it's pro-
ducts in Hibbing as it does in Vir-
ginia, it doesn't sound good to me,
1t doesn't sound good to the out
side world. It doesn't sound good
to men who are looking for a loca-
ton for manufacturing enterprises.
What Virginia needs is Boosters
Cuba boosters league that will
include every man, woman and
child in the city, a league that will
boost for Virginia and it's products
first, last and all the time. This