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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20
GO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY

Following the plan of movement recently
started in the eastern cities, having for it's pur~
pose the increasing of interest in church attend
ance, Virginia ministers this week announce that
next Sunday is to be "Go to Church Sunday" in
this city. In Chicago recently concerted effort
by the ministers resulted in increasing the church
attendance on go to Church Sunday" by almost
100 per cent and It is hoped to have the movement
proportionately successful here. -
Every Sunday should be Go to Church. Sur
day wherever the opportunity is afforded, and the
regretable fact is that it is not. The churches.
all Of them, are tie bulwark of our social strrct-
ure They are the influence which keeps us from
going back, back to beginnings from which it has
'akeiis centuries OF slow and painful prograss to-
como. up. Not going to church is just a habit;
with most adults who have had the ordinary OPP.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OATH.

Something over year ago general circulation
was given in the range country to what was pur-
ported to be an oath Of the Knights Of Columbus.
By it's terms one who was a member of that order
was made to say that he would make war on all
protestants, women and children not excepted
and would go to other extremes equally appalling
Here, as elswhere, the circulation Of that oath
caused lot of talk. It caused to some extent
revival of religious prejudice which exists every
where among bigots, is confined to no particular
faith and usually passes from sight as rapidly as
it appears. That was no doubt it's purpose. i It
will be interesting to fair-mnded thinkers every
where to know that that oath has been repudiated,
and that two men who circulated it in an eastern
city have been convicted of libel and conspiracy
to libel It also stands questioned by the Aurora,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

Mr. J. A. 0. Preus, candidate for state auditor
looks like pretty clean cut sort of young man
The worst thing anybody seems to be able to say
against him is that he is the candidate of the
present administration for the position which HI
seeks. The state auditors job is in many re
spects bigger one than is the governors. Any
body can see that almost anybody can be governor
Mr.. Preus looks good from the road. He look;
like big enough man to hold the job we'll and i
isn't fair to blame him too much for Eberhart.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20
RAISING HOGS AROUND VIRGINIA

current news stories announce that virginia
hrm OF meat dealers have just bought a carload of
tat hogs, the third in year from farmers in the
vicinity OF Cook, Leander and Angora This is
a more interesting bit of information than the
mere announcement would Indicate Fat hogs are
fine revenue producer for the farmer. Pork on
foot was worth IL cents pound on the Virginia
market yesterday. Mr.. F. L. Schoening of the
Mesaba Meat market announces that the car of
hogs he purchased brought the farmers who sold
them an average of $21 apiece Most of them
were spring pigs. Evidently it pays to raise hogs
in St. Louis county.
10 the north of the city of Virginia along the
Canadian Northern railway there are developinq
some fine farming communities This develop
ment has been going on very quietly: Five years
ago we use to think of our neighbors in the vcini-
ty OF Cook; Leander and Angora with compassion.
A good many of us thought the man who went in
to that country to develop farm was person
endowed with more fortitude than horse sense
We smiled at the term farmer and we added to it
the prefix of shotgun-shotgun farmer. Now
these people are selling spring pigs at $21 apiece
They are building fine homes, they are clearing
land and they subduing with more rapidity
than most of us imagined one of the richest Sec
tons of st. Louis county and the best thing about
it is that they are finding that it pays
Some of these same farmers who are now qet
ting along so nicely were few years ago day lab
orers about the city of Virginia. On the acres
they have since acquired they are winning an in
dependence they never could have hoped to realize
here. Dairying will ultimately be the feature of
agriculture in that section That means a SUBJ
stantial income the year around Just as fine
clover and grasses Of all kinds can be grown there
as anywhere in the state.
This country is coming into it's own very rapid
ly and it's advancement will be more rapid from
this time In Virginia we ought to begin
cultivatng our friends and neighbors to the north
more than ever before. This is their big town.
They have been singularly loyal to Virginia bust
ness houses too in the past
We have been talking good deal about roads
recently, roads making Virginia more accessible
to it's farmer friends. There ought to be high
way from this city to Cussons that is negotiable
every foot Of the distance by automobile. There
is highway now but it needs repairs in spots
badly, according to information coming to this
newspaper. It is time to take interest in the
roads to the country about Cook, where farmers
are selling pigs for $21 apiece. Better roads will
bring more of that money to Virginia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

Ex-Presdent Taft is still bordering over the
returns of the last presidential election and adapt
ing them to suit his fancy. He believes thu
Republican party is greater than ever and thai
some day it will come back stronger than ever
How like him. The wish is sincere with Mr.. Tai,
and it is father no doubt to the thought. MOI
until ii again becomes the party Of the people viii
the republican or any other party come back
This is the day when people are taking the party
business without any considerable measure OF
seriousness.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The entire east, according to the newspapers
is winter bound. Storms, extreme sub-zero TEN
perature and that kind of thing. Up here il
Virginia II hens laid 200 eggs in the month OF
January and their batting average for February
is steadily climbing. Who would want to live
back east where the snow banks are fence raj
high, even though hen?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The federal probe Of the copper country strike
is IN full sway. The investigation is not popular
with many Michigan people, but already it's Civ
ing evidence Of getting at the bottom Of things
in reassuring fashion. There is fault no doubt on
both sides Of Michigan's labor trouble If the
governments committee can get at the real equi-
table basis Of it's adjustment and is able to secure
the administration of unbiased justice to all it
will have accomplished much for the Michigan
copper country.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The sentiment expressed by the go republicans
from nine congressional districts that the vast
majority of the voters Of the state are opposed
to the reelection of Governor Eberhart is no
doubt correct and when w. I. Nolan said that the
anti-machine republicans were not fighting Eber-
hart, that he was only symptom, mere rubber
stamp used by machine headed by Ed. Smith, he
uttered, no doubt great truth. It is not yet too
late for the progressive republicans of Minnesota
to unite upon one good strong, clean candidate
but the denomination Of Eberhart will mean simp-
ly the election Of democrat, especially if one of
the calibre Of John Lind is put up.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The school board at Gilbert and the village
council at Mountain Iron have banned the tango.
The school board at Gilbert says it is not only
vulgar but indecent. This may be true but per-
haps after all it is merely of those things that
depends on the view point" Maybe, however,
the Gilbert school board had "a good look"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

A meeting of the Northern Minnesota Develop
ment association would be great thing for Vir
ginia The next meeting of the association is te
be held at Grand Rapids. If Virginia would gel
busy now it has enough friends in northern Min
nesota to bring the meeting of the developers tc
this city next winter. 1t would be a fine bit of
advertising and it would give us an opportunity
to show northern Minnesota a lot of things about
the iron ranges and their chief city that they
don't know and can never appreciate until they
look us over. 81 $50
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

If the will of the people is thwarted in thu
nomination Of a man for governor who is trul.
representative of the great state of Minnesota a
the June primaries there still remains the No
vember election and John Lind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

How rarely standpat republican newspaper
is encountered in this year of our lord 1914. And
how like voice from the dead forgotten past
they sound when they put over the party of ACHE
vement, and the grand old party, the party of
Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley stuff The republican
party of today is about as much like the party Of
Lincoln as is sow's ear like unto silk purse.
The prosperity" saw too was a good old vote get
ter, but the people nowadays know that no party
has a monopoly on the prosperity business The
people were never more independent Of party af
flations than they are today. That is one of the
hopeful signs of the times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

Minnesotas non-partisian primary election Law
was one of the best bits Of legislation Of it's kline
that ever went on the statute books. It would
be too bad, indeed, if the supreme court were te
knock it out on a technically consisting of ar
admitted defect in title. Non-partisan primaries
are vast improvement over the old plan and if
the supreme court should hold the technicalties
urged sufficient to nvalidate the present statute
there is such public sentiment aroused that the
next legislature must certainly enact anothe:
measure substantially the same as that now unde:
fire.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

They have given John Lind body guard of
United States blue Jackets. Even that however,
wont keep lot of people from breaking through
and urging him to become the peoples candidate
for governor in Minnesota if the June primaries
should make a noise like Adolph O. Eberhart.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

Propagandists of that industrial Malta, the In
dustrial Workers Of the World are in Duluth
plan to come to the iron range. Short shrift 70:
such traducers of American institutions in thi;
section.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20
They are voting on the question of license OF

They are voting on the question of license or
mo license at Bemidji. How this old world do
move. It: isn't ten years since Be1nidji didn't
least a single prohibition vote, when the guided
palaces of gaudy sin stood over against the Great
Northern depot and the saloons were open night
and day while the gambler was king in the midst
of his kind At the election this week the license
issue won by majority OF little more than a hun
dred votes. This is a straw, butt shows CON
clusively which way the wind blows.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

MO- newspaper The Menace, published in the in
terests Of an anti Catholic propaganda The
publishers sent the following letter to the attor
neys Of two Philadelphia men charged with libel
in circulating the oath
I'VE wish to state that we are not ii
possession Of the ritual and secret work
OF the knights of Columbus The alleq
ed oath which your clients in Philadel
phia were arrested for distributing and
circulating, in practically every state dur
ing the last campaign, and the demand
upon us for this document was some
thing great. We have received copies of
them from so many sources we simply
printed and handled them as we would
any other job printing to supply the de- H.
mand, and while we have no apologies to
make for doing so, we do not have any
evidence that the oath is one which is
taken by the Knights of Columbus We
feel sure it would be folly foryou to under
take to base your defense on the authen-
ITCHY of this document"
Few people of average intelligence gave the So
called Knights of Columbus oath more than a
passing smile. In another day and another age.
as in the Elizabethan period, when men were hang
ed and guilotined because of their religious con-
victions it might have had place and served a
purpose not different from that it was intended
to serve when recently circulated here It is
worthy of notice solely as indicating the extremes
that bigotry will attain. The fact that it has
been repudiated ought to have salutary influence
wherever it has had the slightest serious consid-
GRAFTON and ought to lead those who accept this
sort of buncombe to ponder more carefully be-
fore they are led astray by similar evidently pre-
JUDGED utterances in the future.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The papers are beginning to talk about thu
spring millinery openings. That's the time whe1
the average married man soliloquizes, "To-whit
to-who! And not dollar"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

Bustles and hoop-skirts may come back il
style for mlady correctly dressed Of cours
they would be extreme, but we need something O.!
the kind to correct the tendencies Of the presen
Zig leaf age.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

John D. Rockefeller must pay personal pro
perty taxes on a trife over $900000,000 valuation
from 1911, with penalty of so per cent added
since that time. Poor old john
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The Biwabik Times suggests the name Of
Lafayette Bliss of Virginia as candidate for thu
legislature. Say, wouldn't he be a dandy? AM
what nice little campaign we would have.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The prospect that the so-called elimination
convention to be held at St. Paul March 10 will
unite on one candidate appears to be growing
brighter VIM E. Lee and Samuel Iverson have
agreed to the elimination plan and James A. Pet
erson is believed also to favor it. Either one of
the three candidates named can defeat Governor
Eberhart for denomination. The time is ripe for
a cleanup of the old machine crowd in Minnesota
and if the coming convention is successful i'm it's
elimination program it hadn't ought to be difficult
for the man Of it's choice to defeat the present
governor who got less than 40per cent of the So
called republican vote at the last primaries. The
elimination plan is the sensible pan too and it is
gratifying to know that it's present chances of
being successful are better than when it was
formally preached several weeks ago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The postal department. has decided that babies
are not mailable by parcel post. Old Doc Stork will
continue to deliver them as BEFORE however,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

The man who can .take the worst of it" and
can make the best of it, is the greatest optiist
Of them all.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20


lportunities Of these times. We all respect the
churches, We believe they are necessary, we I'M
hestltatngly admit that they do "a lot Of good
but too many Of us take too little personal interest
IN their. activities. s5z
Any church is a good church to 60 to Sunday.
The church or its creed isn't the thing It is the
tuplift that is to be gained from worship. It is
the pause the hallowed hour gives for retrospect
and introspect, it is the mental attitude it gives
that helps so wonderfully. The preacher may not
be an orator. He may not have what the good
Scotch elder called perfect delivery" but if we
listen carefully he has message for us all and
Il orit we shall be vastly better.
| Virginia churches should be filled next Sunday
If you haven't attended church for decade you
will enjoy the experience. There is something in
the Sabbath church atmosphere that is good for
us, every one .4."-
/ Go to church next Sunday. Listen, learn, know
the joy that comes from worship, know the uplift
that comes from true religion. It is more than
worth while and if it causes you to resolve that
you will not be the stranger to the churches OF
this city that you have been in the past It will be
an investment of time and effort that will bring
benefits many times worth that time and effort.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-02-20

Forever silenced be those base calumniators
who say that Congressman Clarence B. Miller has
never done anything" He is going single handed
and alone to keep them from raising the level Of
Lake Superior. He saw the army engineers anc
they assured him this little matter, which has con-
siderab]y perturbed them at Duluth, is thing I'm
fit to be dignifed by worry. Paens of praise which
begin and end with the congressman's name are
going up from the Zenith city. Great is the
press agent, considerable is his craft and not to
be despised his cunning The reelection of Mr.
Miller will require it all and several of his kind,
however. Personalities are unfair to Mr.. Miller
or any other candidate. They will help rather
than harm him. His record is the thing-hs
ecord congressman. Of course, like that of every
other candidate lit is an open book" However
the turning of few pages either to the right OF
the left may result in knowledge Of things worth
while. And a lot Of people have it indexed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-16

The Monitor notices that A. A. Dun
klee of South Vernon at meeting of
the farmers in Brattleboro to deter
mine if possible what it costs to pro-
duce a quart of milk ssaid that it cost
him So cents per quart to produce
milk from his 100 Jersey cows. G. F.
Gregory of Dummerston, another farm
er, said he could not produce milk at five
cents per quart. Mr.. Gregory said
that the only way to make money with
cows was to breed for high quality and
milk COWS that produced 10000 pounds
or more of milk per year. 1t was the
testimony of the farmers there that
they fed one pound of grain to three
quarts of milk produced. It was the
consensus of opinion that the selling of
milk to city concerns was not profit
able business. This same question is
to be discussed in a meeting of milk
producers at St. Johnsbury Dec.3. The
Monitor urges shippers of milk and
others from Orleans county to attend
this meeting.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-16
Says Armed Peace Is a Fatal Policy.

In the January Woman's Home Com
panion Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of
the Broadway Tabernacle, New York
city. writes an interesting war article
in the course of which he expresses as
follows his strong opposition to arma-
ments: Elm the light of the awful
confagration we can see the fallacy of
sundry statements which have in GER
tain circles been passing as axioms ::
In time of peace prepare for war, ,
'Armaments are the surest guarantees
of peace These are maxims which
have been thousand times repeated.
and multitudes have been beguiled into
thinking them words of wisdom. How
false and dangerous they are is now
made clear. If we want peace, then
we must prepare for it. Armaments
are constant menace to the peace of
the world Whatsoever a nation sows
that shall it also reap. If it sows bay
onets. it reaps battles. Armed peace,
therefore. is fatal policy. Nations
that adopt it are doomed Incessant
preparations for war invite the very
catastrophe they are expected to ware
off. The great war in Europe is the
outgrowth of the policy of armed
peace"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-16
SAFETY FIRST.

IF a dollar is worth the great effort
required to earn it, it ought to be
worth the less effort required to save
it. If Safety First" is good motto
to follow while you are pursuing the
elusive dollar, it ought to be good
motto when that dollar becomes your
own. Mankind in general does many
perilous things for a dollar. some of
which perhaps may be justified by the
needs of mankind. There is not justi-
ficatlon for mankind in general to take
perllOus chances with the dollar that
has been accumulated.
The Central Savings Bank & Trust
company at Orleans, Vermont, is a
bank that realizes to the greatest
extent its responsibilities to the laws
of Vermont and to the people whom it
serves. 1t is differed by men who
have made their own dollars and there
fore know what dollar means to the
man who has armed it.
Along with the safety feature this
bank pays its depositors four per cent
interest. compounded semi-annually.
and also pays all taxes on deposits of
any amount.
The bank has special facilities for
banking by mail, and this service is
being used by the public more and
more. both with safety and satisfac-
ton TO the depositor. Deposits may
be safely sent by registered letter,
check. postal order, express or money
order, and will be acknowledged on the
same day received by the bank. Ad-
dress all communications to Central
Savings Bank & Trust Co.. Orleans,
Vermont. Adv
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-16
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the Seat OF the disease Ca
tarrh is blood or constitutional disease,
and in order to cure IT you must take in.
ternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Re is
taken internally, and acts " ! upon
the blood and mucous ices Halls
Catarrh Cure is not 8 quick medicine. 1t
wss prescribed by one of the best physi-
clans in the country for years and is a
regular prescri ption. II is com posed Of
the best tonics Known, combined with the
best blood purifie F., acting directly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect combi-
nation OF the two ingredients is what
proc uces such wo' derful results in
curing catarrh. Send sor testimonials
free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props
Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, TIC.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-16
The Tower of Famine.

The Tore della Fame, or Tower of
Famine. was noted for it's grewsome
history. 1t once stood in Pisa, Italy.
but there are now no traces of it.
CG0taAA: Ugolino della Gherardesca
whom Dante immortalized, was the
head Of the Guelphs. and because of
his tyranny and accredited attempts to
place his country in bondage he was
antagonized and finally conquered by
the chief of the Ghibellines, who i'm
prisoned him, with his two sons and
two grandSOns. in this tower, the slow
method Of starvation being employed
as the manner Of their death. The
door of the tower was locked and the
keys thrown into the Arno