The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-01-02


o. on business Saturday. Mr.. Maras
believes the Range Bowling league
will have a very successful season.
He. owns the Ryan alleys at Hibbing
which are among the best on the
range. Ii as . 5.=.#s &.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Heritage spent
Sunday the guest Of friends at Gus
sons. t. =- r.. l. .s4%S@s# i ss<= g. Is
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Van Evera
are the parents of a son. born Christ
mas eve. 5.s%:<<,, 4ls-5E i s..:.fss Z 7 Il
Editor r.. A. Koen Of the Biwabik
Times was Virginia visitor on bust
ness Saturday. - =: = pr VI: + s* L. !
Miss Lou Sturgeon Of the Office
force Of the Mesaba Railway COM
pany, visited her home at Duluth the
latter part of last week. = 80. :
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Bachman and
daughter, Ruth, Of Eau Claire, Wis.,,
were visitors at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolph Keller and Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Baer last week.
The body of an unknown man,
killed while walking in an intoxicated
condition on the tracks of the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern railway near
Rainy Junction, was buried in the
Virginia cemetery as a county charge
Saturday. Deputy Coroner Grove
made every effort to secure identif-
cation but was uncessful.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Nash,. an &C
count Of whose marriage at Hurley,
Wis.,, was printed in the Enterprise
last week, returned Monday even
ing to Virginia from a short we'd
ding trip. They will go to house.
keeping at once in new home at
Fairview addition and begin their:
welded life with the best wishes of
many Virginia friends.
C. H. Dickinson, connected with
the store of the Itasca Mercantile
company at Grand Rapids, was
visitor in the city Monday to at
tend the chicken show. Mr.. Dickin-
son had on exhibition Black and
White orpingtons and some Silver
Campines. He considered the show
a fine success and said he enjoyed
his stay in Virginia.
The Alumni association of the
High School gave a very enjoyable
dancing party at the Technical high
school gymnasium last evening. There
was large attendance of the alumni,
who are at home from schools and
colleges for the holiday vacation. The
gymnasium was prettily decorated
for the occasion and a large gather
ing of young people spent a very
pleasant evening.
Superintendent Ennis of the Great
Northern was Virginia visitor on
official business Wednesday,. The
Great Northern now has but few
train crews in service on the range,
but is preparing to give it's range
patrons new through freight service
from Chicago which will be announc-
ed shortly and will be an improvement
over the service the road is now CIV
ing from Chicago to its Virginia pat
rons.
H. w. Peterson, who for the past
four years or more, has made his
home in Virginia, and who has for
the last two years been director of
the Royal theatre orchestra, has re-
signed his position and left the first
Of the week for Lacrosse, Wis.,,
where he has accepted similar
position. Mr.. Peterson is an excel
lent musician and has many friends
in Virginia who will regret to learn
that he is to leave the city. His
family will follow him to La Crosse
later.
The Mesaba Railway company last
week completed a temporary struc-
ture on the site of the burned car
barns which is now in use. It is Of
frame construction, sheathed with
corrugated iron and is heated by
steam. It will house four cars and
will be-. used until spring, when the
company will erect a brick office
building and car barn. New equip
ment to take the place Of that de-
stroyed in the fire is expected to ar
rive here in a short time.
Miss Winnie LARSON, who spent
Christmas with her sister, Mrs. H. j.
Darling, returned Monday to Nopen-
ing sanitarium, where she has been
a patient for the past six months.
Her Virginia friends will be glad to
learn that she is regainng health and
strength and that her condition is
vastly improved over what it was
when she was sent to the sanitarium.
j. S. Cherne returned the first Of
the week from a business trip to
Warroad, Mimi, where he went to
bid on the plumbing and heating con-