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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Deficit in Wake of Municipal Dance

The s|':s cit is more than a deficit
1t is a r1r;blem. 1t is a rock which
threaterr % knock a hol. in the MIL
waukee :!rn of municipal merryma-
king. T',*re is differenc. of opinion
as to whether 1t Is best IS 20 ahead
with the Sn'blic frolics. come point
to the fab that Uncle Sa,: conducts
his posto;A"a business at :, loss. and
that New S~rk runs its fe<'ries at a
loss. Who's Skaters it, they say. that
there Is a .cs, of mere dollars? Look
at the gaiz r merriment. These. in.
stead of iac7stfg backward, would look
further fory.erl and not keep the mu.
nicipal dant<es going but ins ugurat,e
municipal m1"viug picture shows. The
plan is to civ tue first of these shows
in public s. hool building in the con-
gested distrir>, It will either be free
or the price e>1 admission will he held
down to Pc ny or two.
The public e@nce and the public
moving picturc show are only tie be-
cummings of the program mapped out
by Mayor Emil Seidel and his chic!
lieutenant, Congressman Elect Victor
i. Berger, and their associates.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
F ALL the freak legislation intr

I ALL the freak legislation intro
1 duced by legislators throughout
the United States were passed and
became laws what a funny country
this would become! Indiana has fur
n1shed one of the most recent sam
pies. 1t is bill requiring every per-
son wishing to take drink to take
out a license.
From Colorado comes the interest.
ing news that bill is about to be in
troduced in the legislature of that
state providing that any surgeon who
shall perform an operation for ap-
pendicitis and thereafter be unable to
prove that the appendix was in a dis
eased condition, shall be guilty Of
malpractice and punishable under the
penal CODE
That much-abused class, the poor
bachelors, are being abused once
more, this time in New Mexico, where
a bill has been introduced in the
legislature providing for the classified
ton of bachelors and widowers and
the levying of a tax against them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Plans to Carry Gospel in Aeroplane

stlned to carry missionaries over tho
world and enable them to reach spots
hitherto inaccessible he says.
The native of Wahamba. in Africa
pursuing his peaceful occupation IT
cooking his neighbor for MONDAY
meal, will see suddenly a strange an
partition, from which a man-bird viii,
emerge. After he has conquered TIT.
field he will 60 on to new ones unit,
the evangelization of the whole wor,,,
will be accomplished.
But before l tour che world in nv
aeroplanes, will first clean st. Louis y
declares Pearson. 1T is a den of in.
EQUITY, and I cannot so away without
completing my work here"
Pearson is member of the ANN
tcur Aeronaut Association of st.
Louis. His models are constructed
along scientific lines, and Pearson will
soon start building the aeroplaces.
Meanwhile Pearson is preaching or
the streets, every night.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Ct. LOU1S.-The aeroplane as a
- means of spreading the gospel is
the latest idea of Jaraes H. Pearson,
1tinerant preacher.
Released recently from the observa-
ton ward of the city hospital, Pearson
promptly set to work perfecting two
aeroplane models, in which, accom-
panied by his wife and a corps of as
sistants, he intends to fly over the
country.
The aeroplane will be used more
for this purpose than as an tnstru-
ment of war, Pearson says. Instead
of spreading militarism by it's use as
a bomb carrier, the aeroplane is de-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

A florist in New jersey turns his
hennery into summer garden with
all sorts of flowers and is getting
eggs Of delicate flavor and various
tints, violet, rose and carnation flavors
being in the lead. A hen garden Of
this kind might be a handsome and
useful addition to combination club
house for the Ananias members and
the nature takers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Gotham's Great Peril From Dynamite

their plants in desert places inland.
They cannot store their deadly expl0.
sives near any large center Of popula-
city from New York down prohibit the
storage of any quantity of dynamite
or any other powerful explosive with
in their boundaries. Therefore the
considerable amount that is used In
blasting has to be transported each
day from some point of distribution.
These barges on the Jersey flats are
the great distributing depots for dyna-
mite for all the region Of New York
and vicinity.
1t is impossible to say from one day
to another just how much dynamite.
lyddite, black powder or other explo-
sive combinations are carried on these
boats. The stock varies almost from
hour to hour.
Thus far they have escaped disas-
ter Yet they are almost as much a
potential menace to New York as
Vesuvius is to Naples. They are
more, in fact, for Naples is quite a
number of miles away from the fam
ing crater of the volcano, while New
York. with it's mountain ranges of
skyscrapers, is but brief two miles
distant
There are approximately 100000
pounds of high explosives manufac-
tured in the United States every year.
There is continually in transit on the
railroads throughout the country 5000
carloads of this dangerous material. It
takes an average Of 10 days to make
delivery from point Of shipment to
destination. Therefore there is car
load of dynamite or gunpowder for
every so miles Of railroad throughout
America. The traveller passes almost
hourly within few feet of these cars
without knowing it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
War Over National Health Department

way: About year ago IL bills were
introduced in congress. all seeking tt
legalize the establishment of a ma
tional bureau 6f health. Eleven OF
these bills were strangled in the com,
mittees, and but two remained. These
two were the subject of bitter acrt
manious debate on numerous occasions,
but congress finally adjourned without
doing anything. The fight was mere
ly postponed until the present sesr
sion.
The fight for a national health bu:
reau is part of the general conserva
ton movement that is going on all
over the country. The National Con-
servation commission has taken note
Of human life" as being one Of the
resources of the nation that is worth
saving. Originally this commission
was formed to conserve lands, waters.
mill sites, forests, minerals and wild
game, but it speedily came to the con-
clusion that human life was worth
more than all the rest of our resources
put together.
I'VE need men," said the conserva-
tionists, Ito plow these lands. dig in
these mines and cut down these for.
est trees. Therefore, let us conserve
human life, stamp out disease and give
the doomed babies a chance. Let us
establish national bureau of health
that can at least do as much for the
farmers babies as it is now doing for
his horses and cattle"
In support of the establishment OF
the new department are ranged thou
sand of life insurance companies, la
Dor organizations. farmers associa
lions and other civic and social bodies
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
HANDLES BIG EDITORIAL JOB

Hugh Chisholm gave a dinner re-
Gently to the American contributors
to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
There are 1900 contributors to this
stupendous work in England and
America. They have written 10000 ar.
ticles, comprising 50,000,000 words.
Editing all this is an enormous under
taking and even the proof reading is
stupendous job.
The issuing of the encyclopedia is
the greatest undertaking in modern
literature. Even the binding of it may
create panic in the market for fine
leather. The binding of 1000 copies
requires $4,000 skins. What makes
the task of producing the work more
serious Is the fact that it is brought
out in % volumes simultaneously
whereas the last previous edition was
published one volume at a time and
took II years to complete.
Mr.. Chisholm has "a editors work
ing under him and the cost of prepar
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

We have it from German eco
nomist that American women will
men. Here we have an outlet for
the surplus energy Of those fair dam
sells who seek careers" in preference
to husbands.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

a post-mortem examination of
Missouri lady who had mania for
heavy diet resulted in the discovery
of LAS separate articles of hardware
in her little inside If there is any
truth in theosophy the lady was either
a goat or an ostrich in her previous
existence
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

A Chicago youth who admits that he
Is tall, chesty, very handsome and
matrimonially Inclined" advertises
that he is open to we'd any pretty
young blonde who IS wealthy, can
cook, play the piano and is willing to
stay home nights and behave herself.
And then they tell US that the women
of today are without opportunities.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Mean Of Him.

so the girl who turned you down
Is to be married tomorrow? Who is
the happy man."
Il am"
"Oh, then you have made up?"
NO, We have not. Didn't l say I
was the happy man."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS EXPERT

There is now movement in New
York for the building and operation
CT new subway to relieve the con-
gested traffic conditions, and one of
the prominent bidders for the work is
Frank J. Sprague, whose portrait is
shown. Mr.. Sprague is one Of the
best known and most highly success
full electrical engineers in the coun-
try. At one time he was an assistant
to Thomas A. Edison and is known
as the pioneer of the modern electric
railway. He founded an electric rail-
way and electric companies and has
been engaged in electrical work in
navy yards. torpedo stations and bat
tleships.
The other bidders are William Nc
Adoo, who constructed the Hudson
river tubes; John Bradley, large con-
tractor, and the management of the
present subway.
One Of the greatest problems con-
fronting New York today is that OF
Tha Po1l14<fao f1p
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

II that Buffalo man who would not
give up a counterfeit bill to an agent
of the government were to get the
full penalty of 500 and years i'm
prisonment he might think he had
committed some real crime.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
GOVERNOR-ELECT Of GEORGIA

Governor-elect Hoke Smith of Geor-
g1a, who exposed a plot of New York
cotton spectators to infect the cot
ton fields with the boil weevil for the
purpose of cutting future crops short
and enabling the spectators to win
a fortune by going "long" of the cot
ton market, was a member of Presi-
dent Cleveland's cabinet. He was last
fall elected governor of Georgia.
The first information of the plot
came in letter to Mr.. Smith from a
man whose name he refuses to give,
but In whom he places entire conf
dence. At Mr.. Smiths request the
writer came from New York for a per-
sonal visit with the governor-elect.
Convinced Ivy the evidence offered
by this informant, Governor-elect
Smith gave prompt warning to the
farmers and the planters of the south
that two plotters have in their posses
sion at least 100000 live boil Vice.
wills, and are waiting their opportunity
to scatter these disastrous insects
over Georgia and South Carolina
The exposure created the liveliest
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Many readers Of newspapers have
wondered at the meaning of those Oft
repeated words found at the end Of
mysterious disappearance stories:
Detectives have been assigned to the
case"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

At any rate the Chicago woman who
said she rode all night on street cars
to cure a headache has invented a
good excuse for persons who are
prone to stay out until the wee sma'
hours
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Aiah Einance

Briggs-1s it true that you have
broken off your engagement to that
girl who lives In the suburbs?
Griggs-Yes: they raised the com.
mission rates on me and have trans
ferred to a town girl.-Lfe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

A New York woman says she lost
her respect for her husband when she
caught him with five aces in his hand.
She is perfectly right. A man who
allows himself to be caught that way
deserves no respect.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Wonderfully Minute Works.
A dynamo, perfect in every detail,
but weighing only a quarter Of an
ounce, has been made by q French
electrician.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Harvard astronomers have discov-
cred a new star, but as said star Is
not one Of the football variety, the
discovery is not making much OF
hit with the students.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
More Of a Sinecure.

AN easy job will suit me, senator. I"
How about winding the clocks ev.
cry week."
Il might make that do. But what's
the matter with tearing the leaves OF
the calendars every month";"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Europe has now definitely decided
that Tolstoi was insane This may
be true, but it seems as though it,
tie more of that sort Of insanity
wouldn't hurt Europe any
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

If the fashion of wearing tight
trousers and padless coats comes into
general use we know great many
supposedly brawny men who will
dwindle woefully in appearance.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

There is a powerful movement IN
favor of grand opera in English, de-
spite the fact that such productions
tend to discourage the elegant art OF
conversation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

A Boston spinster wants tlve-dol'
lar tax on bachelors. But surely she
would not have any man value her so
cheaply that he would marry her to
save a paltry five.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

"CE;cago is a burglars paradise"
says a jurist who is in position to
know. Aside from that and few
other defects it is good place to live
in if one isn't particular.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

That Jersey architect who failed to
provide a stairway for new school,
house must have realized that this Is
the age of aviation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Most of those who tell about rearing
family and saving money on $1,000 a
year do not have to and hence are bet.
ter able to theorize in the abstract.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Chicago is to have grand opera IN
English next season. If Chief Stew
ard has his way it will clso have 1t In
clothing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Russia affords a big market for
American typewriters. To judge from
the cartoons we see, Russia Is not
big market for American safety
raZOrS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
An Agreeable Innovation.

He-So Kate believes in women vot.
ing and being elected to political office
the same as men?
Shelves, and she says she would
have the Misunderstanding by constitu.
en:s changed to kissing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

A Denver surgeon was stricken with
appendicitis while operating on a pa
tient for that disease. Maybe 1t Is
catching, after all.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Three and half :illions was the
value of the foreign trade OF the
United States last year. Pretty big
country this, isn't it?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

In the Boston high schools 5000
girls are taking the commercial
course. The boys will have to go west
or south.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
CHOSEN SENATOR FROM MAINE

No climate in the country has been
regarded as less encouraging to tho
growth Of Democratic timber than
that Of the Pine Tree state, but since
the thaw of last September the mete-
geological conditions have been al
tered.
It was admitted by some political
Jeremiahs that Democratic COVER
nor might slip through the breach in
the Republican lines and intrench
himself at Augusta, but the most en-
thusiastic visionary hardly dreamed
of Democratic legislature or Dem
ocratic senator. Not since 1856, when
Hannibal Hamlin crossed the Kenne-
bee, had Democratic senator been
sent to the national capital from
Maine, and not for thirty years had
any New England state elected Dem
ocratic senator.
So, as Democratic senator from
Maine, Charles F. Johnson will natu
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03


n public
The elected
inslow the Kennebec He
soes MS rather maker
auen Young Johnson
due time to Bowdoin college, of
After his
tinued to in the town of Waterv
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

! Gaseous fmbecility" has taken Its
place in the hall of fam7 beside IN
nOcuOus desuetude."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Higher education, too, has Its dan
gers. An Illinois girl started for col
lege, but got married on the way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

A federal Judge tells US that hens
are not birds. Too true! Various
hens we have tried to eat bore a close
resemblance to fossils of the stone
age.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

Some people can find a typograph-
1cal error who never find an idea OF
their own.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
The Cleverest Thino-

Don't you think my daughter very
clever? She can do just what she likes
with the piano."
HIN; can she shut it, do You
think "--Pele Mele.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

that for the first time its history the to be printed
(2s entire %
He
and he to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03

We have yet to discover an egg that
has been improved by the cold stor'
age treatment
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03


Georgia and admitted the Atlanta his
the Cleveland
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Good Rait for FiSI1.

Natives of number of South Pa
cif1c islands make fish hooks Of moth
or of pearl. SO bright that NO bait or
other lure is necessary.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Getting Back at Her.

Maiden Aunt-Do you know, Dolly.
it's a very solemn thing to get mar.
ried?
Dolly-Yes, auntie; but l should
think it was much more solemn not
to get married.-M A. p.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03


crowded
the
ared metropolis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Proper Wav to Die.

George-Missus, the little pigs be
all dead!
Misses Cargo! How did
they die?
George-1 think they died 'appy.
missus.- The Sketch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
NOTHING Much,

MadgeAThen you really believe In
nothing?
Softhead-1 believe In anything l
can understand.
Madge-What q frightful skeptio
you must be.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-03-03
Next June we all may long for the
balmy days of January.

Possibly the pet in the cat show
would enjoy more keenly life in the
alley.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-01-16
RAILROAD TINE CARDS
500

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Great Northern
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Freight West Bound Leaves at 900 a. m
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Minnesota 4 International
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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-01-16

Dryrut .ssd fnrstI per scods 4
Falls & Cameron. Phone 374.
E. 0. Glidden has rented the
Rruse hotel, in Nynore. and will
run the same in the future.
Miss Inis Burnstile Of Nymore,
has returned from Pillager. where
she spent her Christmas vacation.
Emma. John and Oscar Johnson,
of Brainerd, are visiting their
brother Gus, in Nymore for ! few
days.
Methodist PRAYER meeting Thurs.
day evening At 8 O'Clock in the resi-
deuce ofsDr. E. H. Smith. III Bel.
trami avenue.
On Tuesday evening the St.
Philiph's Ladies Aid will give card
party in the City Hall. & All are in.
vited to attend.
Mrs. May E Murray of Kellihe,
spent Saturday in Bemidji, as the
guest Of her son, ]. w. Murray 9l5
Minnesota avenue.
The Eastern Star thimble Bee will
meet 1T the Masonic Hall Tuesday
afternoon. Lunch will be served
for which SC will be charged.
Mrs. Albert Synes who has beer
in the haspital for several weeks, i!
improved to the extent that she viii
be allowed to leave in a few days
Roses and carnations always or
hand. Flowers, ferns and pottec
plants for table decoration, delivered
ou short notice. Phone 166. A. E
Webs :eY.
The Ladies Aid of the Methods,
church will meet at the home OF
Mrs. E. F. Stevens, 1924 Beltrami
Avenue, Wednesday 6. afternoon.
Every one invited. -
Dick Bertram, the new musical
director and vocalist at the Gem
theatre arrived here Sunday aud
from the many comments heard he
made good the first night. Posses
sed of a full, rich, round baritone
voice, he pleased his hearers and
his playing for the motion pictures
certainly made a hit. Nothing that
would add to the effect of a picture
was missed by him and it is safe to
assert be will continue to grow in
favor with the patrons of the Gem.
Manager Conner is to be coneratula-
ted on his acquisition.-Grand Rap.
ids Review.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-01-16

How to avoid it. Listen to your
pains. Try our way. Read the
booklets, General Health Discovers
Himself" furnished free by Tubbs
Medicine Co., River Falls, Wis.
Worth money to the man who has
time to set up and take notice. Have
you?