The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-12-19

toned the heating and the plumbing
in the court house, in the postofhce
and in the new First National Bank
building. These jobs were not given
to him because he was good fellow,
but because the people who let them
had confidence in the firm of M.
Boylan & Co., because they knew that
the work would be done quickly and
we'll.
Mr.. Boylan also superintendent and
installed the water and sanitary and
storm sewer systems in Mountain
Iron, which place though the place is
small, was quite job, and it was done,
as all others, to the entire satisfac-
ton of all concerned.
mayor or no mayor" says Mike,
Il am in the plumbing and heating
business; it's on that l depend for my
living, and I don't expect to ever make
a cent in politics."
But will he run? Yea, my friends,
and yea once more; he will run like
a scared rabbit. It's about the only
time that he will run, when he is put
on ticket for some place to help the
city along.
Oh no, he won't run because he's
afraid, nor will he run because he
thinks he's the only pebble on the
beach; he will make the run because
he feels that if elected he can and will
fill the job acceptably and because he
knows that his friends will make him
run whether he will or not. It's about
the only thing in which Mike can be
bull-dozed, and his friends enjoy the
novelty immensely.
The writer knows that while he is
busy on this sketch Mike is on his way
to Detroit, Michigan, to visit his rela-
ives, and it will be put in type before
he returns. Of course, there will be
Erin go bragh, or words to that effect
when he returns, but it will be time
enough to meet the trouble when it
ONES. Come what will he shall have
a write-up, and it will not be in the
milk and water style either.
Mike Boylan was born in log
cabin in the state of Wisconsin, and
from what the writer has learned from
his friends, there were no silver
spoons lying about the cabin at the
time of his birth. In fact, after he
grew old enough to wear pants, it was
often a serious question of whether
the unmentionables could be supplied.
His parents afterwards moved to Kali
amazoo, Mich, where Mike learned
his A B C; the manly art of self de-
Tense, and several other things that
come to the boy Of poor parents. There
is ageneral impression thata man who
springs from the common people will,
if successful in life, become arrogant
and overbearing, but that is an ex-
ception and not a rule, and Mike
Boylan does not belong to the excep-
| ton.
He became a newsboy as soon as
he was old enough to stand up, and
passed through the various stages in
that line, known only to the boys
themselves. Eleven years ago he
came up on the range and worked
in Hibbing, Chisholm and Eveleth,
as plumber. Afterwards he came
to Virginia and worked in the same
capacity for Harry George, and four
years ago started the bushes now
Known as M. Boylan & Co., located at
Q03 Cleveland avenue, next to fire
hall.
Mr.. Boylan has been member of
the Virginia common council seven
years, and has been the president Of
that body the last two years. He
must have made good, because when
in the heat of passion he, with Others,
was recalled, he was reelected by q