The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

Friday January 20: 1911.
Entered at the Post-Oface at Virginia, Mimi.
as second class mail matter.
Terms. 80 Per Year. IN Advance
DON'T know as Bob LaFollette
will be presidentin 1912, but if he gets
into the game it will take a bigger
man than Bill Taft is in the eyes of
the people to defeat him.
IF the wicked stand in the slip.
perry places there must be an awful
lot of good people in Virginia, be
cause many of them go down on
the slippery cement walks which
grace our principal thoroughfare.
PRESIDENT TAFT is trying to get
the post-offce out of politics. Mos,
OF the congressman have got their
politics out OF the post-office, or out
OF their prediction promises in
which the post-office was the prize.
FIVE blind-piggers are serving
ninety day Jail sentences each at
Grand Forks. If similar sentences
were melted out by Mesaba range
)urlsts we opine there would be a
decided clearing OF the blind Mo
atmosphere which infests this sec.
ton.
The "trying out" of the postal
savings bank system at Brainerd
smacks of the postal authorities
being told by the bankers where ~
TRY out" the plan where il would
have about as little effect as
possible. Why not give the system
trial in some live, progressive
city, IT results are actually sought.
THE evident interests of Eveleth-
lans in the proposed county div
ision problem, as evinced at the
meeting of the Eveleth city council
Tuesday evening, is pleasing to
Virginians. Eveleth has large
number of citizens who wear no
yoke; and who will be found in the
fight to finish.
HE decision of Judge Willard in
the Minnesota desert case common
ly referred to as the Indian lid, will
be subjected to attack by the anti
saloon league and the national re-
form bureau, and will be taken to
the U. S. Supreme Court. In the
meantime the liquor interests will
remain in charge of the situation.
Lyman II. Howe, a moving pic
ture magnet, is going to put the
Duluth ski slide and jumpers in
the moving picture arena. Why
not wait a week or 80 until the Vir-
ginia slide is in operation, and get
view of something actually
! worth showing. T h e Virginia
slide will be the finest in the coun-
try, and the Virginia Jumpers" in
Guiding the barrel-stave boy will
be an attraction we'll worthy of be-
ing shown.
AND the Virginia Commercial
Club might find something to en-
ploy their attention by recommend.
ing to the Fitger Brewing Company
tina, they improve, properly, the
three lots owned by them at the
corner of Chestnut and Cleveland,
the only three "vacants" left on the
main stem. Do not know of any
law compelling one to improve
property unless they 80 desire, but
these lots are too valuable to lie
idle longer.
VIRGINIA has a perfect right to
feel some proud when she looks
over the Minnesota census statis-
tics. From an unbroken wilderness
in 1892 to a burg of some 1900 souls
in 1900, and from that to a pop
ulation close to 1000 in 1910, plac-
ing her fifth in size of all Minnesota
cities, is some record. But it is
merely beginning, for before the
1920 census files it's appearance Vir-
ginia will be ready to greet the
enumerator with population of
full 10000 souls.
CAPT. ROBERT f. PEARY, who
"found" the north pole and who took
such special delight in clubbing
one DR.. Cook a "liar" because he
claimed to have reached the myth
ical spot, admits before a congress-
ional committee that the "pole" is
just as much lost as ever. Like DR..
Cook, Capt. Peary has made his
"wad" out of the culpabll1ty of the
American public-a roll so large
that he cares not what may be the
ultimate concensus of opinion
regarding him.
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