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OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF
EDUCATION
! Independent School
District of Virginia, MINI. ;
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

REGULAR MEETING
Wednesday Evening. August "A. 1910
Copy of call: "A special meeting of the
Board of Education will be held at the Of
flee of the Board in the Roosevelt Building
on Wednesday evening August "a. at 500
o'clock. to arrange for the sale of two boilers
and to do any other proper business that
may come before the Board" Virginia.
Minnesota. August q.
J. H. FLEMING. Clerk.
The meeting was called to order at so
o'clock by the Chairman N. A. Holmer Roll
call: Present, N. A. Holmer. r. J. McGhee.
Joseph Roskilly, Lafayette Bliss, and J. H.
Fleming. Absent, Helen E. Coffman and
Guy H. Moore. The minutes of the annual
meeting of the Board held on August g..
were read and approved.
The chairman appointed the following
standing committees for the school year
l9101911.
COMMITTEES ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS:
Guy H. Moore. Chairman
]. H. Fleming
Joseph Roskilly
N. A. Holmer
COMMITTEES ON SUPPLIES:
Joseph Roshilly. Chairman
Lafayette Bliss
Guy HI. Moore
COMMITTEES ON FINANCE. CLAIMS, AND
Insurance.:
r. J. McGhee. Chairman
]. II. Fleming
Helen E. Coffman
COMMITTEE ON TEACHERS. TEXT BOOKS,
AND COURSE OF INSTRUCTION:
Lafayette Bliss, Chairman
Joseph Roskillv
Helen E. Coffman
Moved by r. J. McGhee. supported by J.
H. Fleming that the disposition of the two
boilers recently displaced from the Roose-
welt heating plant be left to the Committee
on Buildings and Grounds, and that said
committee is hereby authorized to Tx
prices and sell one or both of said boilers to
the best advantage of the district. Carried.
On motion the chairman appointed K. J.
McGhee to look up the matter of shades for
the windows of the Virginia High School
Building and report to the Board.
Superintendent Lafayette Bliss submit
ted a reQuisition for supplies and school
desks. On motion duly seconded and car
ried the supplies and desks necessary for
the beginning of school on September H.
were ordered purchased.
Moved and supported that the First Ma
tional Bank. and the American Exchange
Bank both of Virginia, be designated as
repositories of the money of the district
for the ensuing year, and that said banks
be required to furnish bond in the sum of
100000 each, which bonds are to be filed
with the Auditor of St. Louis County. Car
ried.
On motion the chairman appointed J. H.
Fleming. Joseph Roskilly and N. A. Holm
er as committee to look up the matter of
the district acquiring a new site more GEN.
trally located for the North Side School
building: said committee to report at the
next meeting of the Board.
Moved and supported that the Clerk be
instructed to advertise for bids for the
material and labor required to connect the
North Side School and the South Side
School with the city water mains. Carried.
On motion dulv seconded and carried the
Board adjourned.
Adopted September 5. 1910.
III. FLEMING.
Clerk.
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$500 Prize.

The 500 per week cash prize on
the Merchants Advertising Puzzle
is etill unclaimed, for the second
week. II correct answer is received
during the coming week, a check
for $500 will be sent successful one.
Get busy! Think! Get the right
words! Five of them,
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vantages of site for the proposed new
North Side school Building being more

vanta9es of site for the proposed new
North Side school Building being more
centrally located than is the present site.
On motion duly seconded and carried the
Board took an option for 30 davs on block II
in Rooney's Addition to the City of Virgin
ia for $500. and the Chairman appointed
as an advisory committee in the matter, r.
J. McGhee, J. H. Fleming and G. H. Moore.
The following resolution was introduced
by r. J. McGhee.
Resolved: BY the Board of Education of
Independent School District of Virginia
that the following bills. audited by the
finance com mittse, and the salary schedule
for August 1910, be allowed and the Clerk
be and is hereby instructed to draw orders
on the Treasurer in payment of the same.
BILLS ALLOWED AUGUST 1870
Herbert Burchell. school carpenters 96 GO
Charles Scribners Sons, text books 2O9 7S
Cooper Publishing Co.. library
books s........................ ....... Is 90
John p. Bonner. library books. ..... 2125
HouGhton Mifflin Co.,. text books. 14S 90
CHM & Co., text books. -. 236 40
Standard Oil Co.. school supplies. 954
The Macmillan Co.. text books...... 46 60
D. c. Heath & Co.. text books ...... 1O4 60
The Laurel Book Co.. school sup
plies ..... ........... go. ...... 179 50
Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover school
supplies. :............... :. .... 143 20
Newson & Company, text books. 81 II
Independent Meat Market, school
supplies .................. Is
NJ. L. Matheson. new school houses 21 20
NJ. J. Enders, material and labor on
contract. ................... 600 90
T off irh<
etc. ....... ..................... " 45
Va. Plumbing & Heating Co., new
school houses ................. -. S,06s So
The Virginia Enterprise, printing. 80 Is
Virginia Hardware Co., school sup
plles.. ............ 65 u,
Richardson Electric Co., new school
Houses ...........- ,6O6 81
Norton Hardware Co., school sup
pnes.. .............. G ~
Salaries for August. 1910, aRgregat-
ing ........... $40 70
Total ..$13.13 IS
Moved by Il. J. McGhee. supported bv
Helen E. Coffman. that the above resolu-
ton be adopted.
Ayes: Il. J. McGhee, N. A. Holmer, Guy
H. Moore. Helen E. Coffman. J. H. Fleming.
Nays: None.
Adopted September 3, 1910.
O. A. Poirier reported that the State of
Minnesota. through it's Board of Invest
ment, would take the bonds of this district
to the extent of $4,000 which were voted
March Is. 1910. Mr.. Poirier also read COM
munication from S. r. Kirby. vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank, to the
effect that his bank would honor the vouch-
ers of the Board to the extent of $75 900 at
So interest. which would relieve the Board
from selling any futher bonds The matter
was fully discussed, but definite action
was deferred until the next meeting.
Moved and seconded that the Board ad-
journ.
Carried.
Approved, September 16. 1910.
]. H. FLEMING,
Clerk.
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viii Confer Third Dexr,e.

Virginia Lodge No. 264, A. F. K A.
NJ, will hold regular meeting on
Monday evening next, September
26th. The third degree will be con-
ferred, and refreshments will be
served.
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Terms, ~$2 Per Year. IN Advance

THE primaries are over, and while
all men did not think or work to the
came end it is up to all to forget
any Rrudge, that a combined effort
may be put forth for the common
good.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

JUDGE JAQUEs and Jimmie Gray
appear to be getting a sound hold
on the editorial column of several
eighth district exchanges, which
are republican IN every other par
ticuiar.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

THAT "wallop" that Knocked out
Jeffries was nothing in comparison
to the "wallop" that Billy Bates re-
ceived at the hands of the voters on
Tuesday. The worst beating ever
given a candidate on the republican
ticket in St. Louis county.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

EVERYTHING points to a demo-
cratic house of representatives. at
the next session of congress, aud in
such a case a democrat could likely
get more for the Eighth District of
Minnesota than could a member
not in harmony with the ma jority.
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Down in the FIRST District the vot-
ers showed some sense by turning
down Jim Tawney, even in spite of
the efforts of President Taft in his
Winona speech in which he CON-
mended the congressman for his
vote in the behalf of "the best tariff
ever" 1t is evident the people of
the First District considered the
Presidents Judgment was bad.
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Free! Free! Free!
Get Busy and Nominate Friend in Our
Popular Piano Contest. Prizes Valued
at $4,000 Given to the Most Pop
ular and Ambitious Ladies
in this Vicinity.

Every lady in this vicinity piano
prize, the cutting paper
the ballots published every We going give
liable prizes the ladies having the votes when
Closes therefore busy and nominate
friend and have good start at the beginning Do you
you have chance equal
required to put forth little effort gathering ballots
asking friends to do the for Everyone inter
know who the popular ambitious ladies
in this vicinity and using this method
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

SENATOR VAIL will take defeat
with good grace, but will have the
pleasure of looking back to an envi'
able record during his terms of
service in the state Legislature. Had
"Paddy" been trifle more subserv-
liant to the whip of the interests"
he would doubtless have been again
returned.
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Friday September q, 1910.

Entered at the PootO@ce At Virginia. Minn.,
% second class mail matter.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

THE trading of Paddy Vail for
anything in the shape OF vote by
almost every other candidate in the
field is accountable for the size OF
the majority against him. OF course
this allegation of a "swap" will be
denied, but it is true, nevertheless.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

KNOWING the interests behind
James p. Boyle the course and vote
of the prospective state senator from
the forty.ninth will be closely watch
ed when any measure effecting the
temperance question or the work.
ing class comes up for considera-
ton.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

TAwNEY was the only Minnesota
congressman who had the nerve to
stay with his convictions on the
tariff bill. and the people of the
First District showed their appreci-
alton of his position in a commend
able manner, defeating him by a
majority of some $500. AT the Nov.
ember election it is freely predicted
that Judge Buck, democrat, will be
elected as TaWneY's successor.
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issue sQuarely before the people OF
the Eighth District to either cup
port Miller, a stand.patter who at
tempts to travel under the guise of
an iusurgent, or vote for Judge ia.
ques, the democratic candidate. And
in consideration of the fact that
Judge Taques has reputation as
an honest, honorable man, there are
many who will vote the straight re.
publican ticket on all but this point.
THE defeat of S. E. Helps, for the
republican nomination for coroner
and the majority of some 1900 ac-
corded his opponent in Duluth is
conclusive evidence that Duluth
wants the county Offices to go range
candidates. Eddie Helps has al.
ways been a consistent, working re-
publican, and every candidate on
the ticket for the past fifteen years
has much for which to thank him,
but it is evident that thanks is the
most he has given at time when
they had an opportunity to give
him something more substantial
and which would have been more
appreciated.
The Virginia enterprise., 1910-09-23

The contest is open for
both old and young. BY start
ing out now you will have your
name published among the first
list of candidates.
Try and have your name at
the top with the largest num-
Der of votes, and the way to
get it there is by starting out
right now and gathering bal
lots.
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nized his-young acquaintance of the after
noon.
Harold. my son." Mrs. Penfield called,
Il want you to meet an old friend,
very old friend of mothers.
Harold and / have already met" Car
den said, with smile. He is not per-
mitted to accept money from strangers.
He is not permitted to accept money
from any one she answered simply
He is fine boy her visitor COM
mented. will you shake hands, sir?"
Harold extended a not overclean hand
Mr.. Garden wishes to buy your spring
horse, DEAR" the mother said. will you
sell it to him."
Harold turned to the visitor in question
ing surprise.
What do you want It for?" he asked.
For remembrance the man replied.
Il guess you can have it, he said. after
a pause.
The sun had gone out of the street and
dusk was falling. and presently bell
sounded in the hall below.
Garden rose hastily.
II beg your pardon" he began.
Not another word.'' she interrupted II
will not hear any apology. You shall stay
and dine with us"
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All the while, as he chatted with his
hostess. his eyes dwelt upon her winsome
face, without sign of wrinkle.
1t was nearly midnight when at last he
and she stood together in the narrow hall
way. preparatory TO parting. He held her
hand again, this time in earnest Of
goodbye.
What day" he murmured. ecstatical-
ly. Il came over here from New York
this morning merely to look at this dear
old house from the sidewalk opposite. and
what richness of fulfllment has been
mine. I could not have dared even TO
hope that l should find within II one who
is really part and parcel of my youth.
T. too" she said. almost in a whisper.
Il have enjoyed your coming. You must
come again.
''Oh. 1 intend to- he replied, seriously
enough II fully intend to. You must
not forget you have given me The refusal
on this property.
And the spring horse goes with il. Rob-
bic she promised. smiling.
He pressed the hand he held
Il have been thinking" he said, quietly,
that 1 shall require something more with
it now, Sadie
Copyright, 1909
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he insisted; land the little girls shall
have a cent for each year, too"
But still the boy seemed reluctant.
I'm not allowed, he explained.
Car'en laughed, lightly. gooc humored-
ly. and ceased insisting. To the elder
girl he said:
And you. miss? How old may you
be-
She cast down her small bead-like eyes
which were set too close together.
I'm most ten" she answered, and
took the proffered dime before the siver
had time to make his proffering speech
And baby" asked Garden, bending
down to the pretty child with golden
curls.
The little one stuck her thumb into her
mouth and said nothing.
She's five" volunteered the other girl.
Shes my little sister,
Garden pressed a nickel into the little
ones chubby fingers.
There now" he said, graciously, run
along, all of you. I'm sorry, my little
man. he added, that YOU aren't al
lowed. But l congratulate you on your
obedience"
And as the trio, with heads together.
went slowly off up the street, turning at
intervals to look back at their generous
chance acquaintance. Garden resumed his
contemplation of the little old brick
house across the way, and continued his
interrupted reverie.
II must have been much lie the lad
yonder when / last came through that
door, he unused, his gaze dwelt low
ingy on the narrow portal; and TO think
of all the things that | wasn't allowed.
And then he fell to wondering how the
house might look on the inside. There
must have been a world of changes, OF
course. But he should like to see the
rooms once more: that big second-story
front room, especially, wherein his eyes
had first met the worlds light, his voice
had uttered its primal infant cry.
AS he gazed, thus thinking, his eye de-
tected what it had not hitherto noticed !;
small white placard, pasted upon the
wall between the two lower windows.
The legend that it bore was not distiI-
gushable to his near-sighted eyes at the
distance, so he crossed the street and, on
nearer approach. found that it read:
This House For Sale or To Let
Inquire Within.
An unaccustomed emotion very like to
reverence pervaded him as he mounted
the three little blocks of snowy marble
which served as doorsteps, and with I'M
certain fingers grasped the nickeled bell
pull. 1t was as though he stood at the
entrance to shrine, and across his
thoughts flashed remembrance of the Mo-
hammedan custom of removing shoes be-
fore entering a mosque He smiled at
the inconsruity of the fleeting notion, and
glanced up to face an Irish housema Id
OF freckled visage and ruddy wealth OF
hair.
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ing Perhaps l shall stop to take some
measurements
Don't hurry, sor,' she told him. Take
yer time. I'll be hopin Mrs. Penfield is
home before yez gets trough. She can
till yez about the rint, sor.'
The man thanked her. She reminded
him of a servant who was there when the
house was his home. and whose name,
even, REQUIRED to him now after all these
years She had been called Mary Doyle;
and She too. had been freckled, and her
hair had been wildly ruddy.
Then the woman lifted portierc of
maroon damask and. bending his head,
Garden entered what in his day, at least,
had been called the paror He halted
a moment on the threshold, while the
curtain dropped behind him, and he tried
in the dim light-for the inside blinds
We're ciosed-to find something familiar.
The white marble mantelpiece, which con-
fronted him, was doubtless as old as the
house, but he did not remember it. On
the wall TO its right, he recalled, there
had been a portrait of his fathers first
wife, a somber-looking woman with hair
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The largest of the three was a boy.
palid checked. but with big, bright, in
teligent brown eyes; the other two were
girls, in all-envelOping blue and white
check aprons.
Garden smiled as he looked at them,
and his smile dispersed their alarm. For
a little minute, however. he did not speak
and the children were likewise silent
Then he took some small change from
his trousers pocket and held out a dime
to the lad. who shyly retreated a step
with head on side, but with eyes fixed
upon the lure.
How old are YOU, my boy" Garden
asked. His voice was pleasantly soft and
his manner most kindly.
I'm ten, going on eleven" answered
the child.
The man extended his arm trif1e, the
dime further outheld.
Here is a cent for each of your years.
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memories of his early childhood. The
street was quite bare of trees. In thel:
places were grim iron trolley poles, up
holding stretched wires, which in turn
supported the long i've, FURNISHED copper
wire supplying the electric power to the
great juggerna ut-like cars which, at in
tervals. Numbered past. with hoarse me-
tallc rumble of wheels, sharp. nerve-rack-
ing rattle of windows and discordant
clang OF gong.
Midway of the block he halted and stood
close TO the curb. his gaze fixed on the
house opposite, which his searching eyes
lad picked out from the corner as the
third beyond the alley. There was little
otherwise to distinguish this dwelling
from its neghbors. 1t was of dingy brick.
three stories in height, and, in the
meager width of its door and windows
and the low three white marble steps
which afforded approach TO its entrance,
It gave evidence OF an architectural
vogue once popular, no doubt, but long
ago discarded.
II there was something of disappoint-
ment in Gardens expression as he made
optical survey of the modest, old-time
structure. there was also SOHuctIiS VI
veneration. He noted, with a pang. that
il was not altogether as he had remem-
bered il, yet it undoubtedly was, struc-
turally. IL not in all its embellishments,
the house in which he had been born. The
old white-painted door had given place TO
one OF dark hardwood, in the upper panel
of which was a pane of beveled plate
glass. suar ded by a grill of wrought iron.
In his infancy the windows of the grounf
floor had been protected by white painted
board shutters. and the upper windows
by outside green blinds: but now all these
had disappeared. The ground floor showed
inside shutters of walnut, and he pre-
sumed there were the same on the Other
floors. though only dainty white curta ms
were visible.
This effort to adorn the old dwelling
with modern novelties distressed Carder
and he resented it. He was thankful
nevertheless. that they had not painted
the old bricks a purple red and initiated
the mortar lines with geometrically accu-
rate rulings of white paint. The bricks
at least, were the same honest bricks
weather-worn and squalid though they
were.
He must nave peen Stanuihg thert
longer than he knew, watching the house;
across the way. for suddenly he observed
that he had become an object of interes
to three urchins, who. encouraged prob
ably by his passive pose and rapt, distant
gaze. had drawn closer and closer, watch
ing with keen, eager, childish interes
this tall, elderly. we'll dressed gentleman
who seemed for all the world like wa,
figure. so still and quiet he stood AS III
turned upon them. it was with such dis
concerning abruptness that for the mo
ment they were undecided whether TO flet
ar to offer excuse for their rudeness.
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II should like to look over the house.
he said, simply.
The woman having wiped her hands on
her apron, proceeded with the same article
to wipe the dOorknob, hesitating mean
while to give reply.
The lady beez out, sor.' she returned,
at length; AN sure I'm that busy mesiif
! can't be afther lawn the kitchen"
Then. having looked her caller over with
searching scrutiny and being apparently
satisfied. she added: If yez don't mind
yez might be afther lookin' roun' be yer
silf''
Garden nodded his approval of the sug-
gestion. Nothing could have suited him
better.
All right. my good woman,' he &C
guessed. Pray, don't let me interfere
with your duties. l may take some little
while. /" he paused, cropping for plaus-
ible explanation for his proposed daily
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more tiny than lie had fancied. though he
had never imagined them very grand or
imposing. But low and diminutive as
they were. they seemed to crowd, one row
on the other, across this narrow ribbon
OF a highway, with its disproportionate'E
broad track In vain he looked for the
maple trees. protected by Slated green
painted boxes, which were among the
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parted and worn low over her ears. In
it's place, now. he deserted an old line
engraving, which even in the dim light
he recognized as Raphael Morghen, and
on the rear wall, where his fathers por-
trait had hung-a portrait by Rembrandt
Peel, painted when Garden, pere, was IN
the prime of his young manhood-was
black framed mezzotint
With these memories uppermost, ne
stepped back into the cramped hall, and
stood for little while at the foot of the
narrow, straight stairs, and, as he paused
there, his hand invol1intarily sought his
chin, and, while his fingers traced out the
line of scar, still palpably present, his
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HE narrownesS OF
the street was an
unpleasant surprise
to Garden. In his
mental pictures Vt
had not been wide.
but for this COR
act e d +. almos.
lane-like thorough
fare he was UMPIRE
D are d The re 1
brick houses were
o W er, too, AMI
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the horse he had ridden with waving
sword on the morning the news had come
that Richmond had fallen to the federal
army, when his father and all the house
hold had rejoiced, and he had not known
exactly why.
He paused and counted back forty-two
years. 1t did not seem possible such
space could have interviewed. Standing
here in the same room, with the likeness
of the toy horse before him, he had come
very close to rolling time backward. and
then. in mental flight, he spun the years
through, realizing, alas. that much. very
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that I should no longer see you every
day.
And you never married." she asked.
Yes" he answered. grayely. when a
very young man.
For fifteen years he had been a widower
and childless Mrs. Penf1eld looked rather
tnan spoke her sympathy.
God has been very good TO me- she
said II have my boy, Harold"
AS she uttered the words there was
clatter of footsteps on the stairs.
Mother
Then the door was flung wide open and
Garden. glancing across the room, recog-
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PRY BHAT did the American people
y eat in the year 1910? What
NM kind Of food was cooked in
w the big open fireplaces under
oronoc L
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Eggs were ten or twelve cents per
dozen and they were used inS combina-
ton with all foods. AS individual dishes,
however. there is but one receipt for
cooking eggs, az follows:
To broil eggs-frst put your salamander
into the fire, then cut slice round a