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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

New York.
New York is the most wonderful
city in the western hemisphere. 1t
has the tallest Office buildings in the
world; 1t has the greatest bridges on
the North American continent; 1t has
more hotels than any other city in the
world; its stock exchange is the great
est In existence; It is the worlds
greatest seaport; 1t has the most
magnificent railway stations In Amer
lea; 1t is the greatest banking cen
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
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So Glad.

SO Glad.
A story is going the rounds to the
effect that at performance of Ber-
nard Shaw's delightful play Of An
tony and Cleopatra" by Forbes-Rob-
ertson. the Following tisG vas as
heard between a sprightly damsel and
her friend:
DO you know, this is the very first
Of Shakespeare's plays l have ever
scent" The friend: "No. really? I'm
SO glad we came"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

flnknafn 3 tegeC4-
BILE Compound the
praise it deserves,
for / have taken it
at different times
and it always re-
lieved m e W h e a
other m edicin es
failed, and when I
hear q woman COM
plain / always rec
ommend it Lastwin-
ter / was attacked
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07

The pownbroker acts as timekeeper
for many a man who fights hard luck
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-05-07
FEELS like
A new WOMAN
AS Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound Dispelled
Backache, Headaches
and Dizziness.

Pioua, Ohio. would be very un-
grateful if / failed to give Lydia E.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
BUTLER BROS. MADE DEFENDANTS
MTW0HEAVY SUITS FOR DAMAGES
Accident at Silver Mine Near Virginia Oct. e. 913 Which
Cost the Lives of Two Men and Left Third Manned for
Life Results In Actions.

The hearing on the points of law
in both matters is set before Judge
Martin Hughes in chambers at Hib-
bing at special term of the district
court on December 5. Hollister &
Bonham of Duluth are attorneys for
the plaintiffs in both cases.
The complaint on file in the Baxen-
dale case at the Virginia office of the
clerk of the court declares that the
accident was due to the incompetence
Of locomotive engineer in the employ
of the company, who was sent to fill
the locomotive tank with water to be
transferred to the steamshovel and
that in backing to the pit he did not
exercise due care and precaution with
the result that the engine collided with
the shovel, where three men were
working with the result that two were
killed outright and the third seriously
injured. The action is one of the
largest in personal injury damages
that has ever been filed on the Mesaba
range. In it there are involved some
fine points of law involving the con-
stitutionality of the workmen's COM
pensation act and the trial and out
come is matter of considerable inter-
est to mine operators and employees
over the Mesaba range.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
TITLE CLOUD
IS CLEARED
UP FOR CITY
Joseph Ahern Relinquishes His
Claim to Ground Occupied by
the Market Place.

Joseph Ahern, pioneer resident of
Virginia, this morning for a considera-
tion of $7OO surrendered his claim of
interest in land owned by the city of
Virginia on the water front of Vir-
ginia lake, known as the market place
and a cloud to the title of valuable
bit of city property which has existed
for some time is thereby removed.
Ahern claimed squatter's rights on
the piece of ground in question where
he settled in 1895. 1t is said that in
times past he has refused offers from
the city as high as $4,000 to re-
linquish his interest in the property.
When the city recently gave the
Virginia Curling club the right to
build a curling rink at the market
place it was with the understanding
that the cloud on the title through
Ahern's interest must be removed by
the club. President Mcneil, Treasurer
Stebbins and others succeeded in clos
ing deal with Mr.. Ahern this morn
ing by which the city acquires an un-
encumbered deed to all the market
place property.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06

Butler Bros, mining and stripping
contractors Of the Mesaba range, who
opened and developed the Silver mine
near Virginia for the M. A. Hanna
company, are made the defendants in
two suits for personal injury dam
ages aggregating total Of $47,50O in
actions recently filed in the district
court by William Baxendale, as admin
istrator of the estate of Thomas
Baxendale, who was killed at the
Silver mine on the morning of Oct. 2,
1918, when a locomotive backing
crashed into a steamshovel upon which
he was employed as cranesman, and
by F. Webb Stevens who in the same
accident was pinioned under broken
timbers and wreckage from the steam
shovel, terribly scalded by escaping
steam and injured in such manner
that the amputation of his right foot
was necessitated.
Stevens hovered between life and
death at the Lenont hospital for sew
eral months, but finally rallied and re-
covered. He is at present municipal
clerk Of court of the city of Virginia.
The suit of Baxendale is for $500
and that of Stevens for $4,000. Un-
der the terms Of the workmens COM
pensation act the latter would be COM
PEELED to settle for $1,750.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06

in practically all of the range towns
have for some time been quietly lay
ing plans to have it revived. Tenta-
tive arrangements have already been
made from the Sixtieth and Sixty first
districts with a view to talking the
matter over, presenting united front
on it and requesting the aid of the
legislature delegation from Duluth in
securing the passage of county divi-
sion bill. If the Duluth delegation
will cooperate with the senators and
representatives from the range it is
believed bill can be passed which
will permit of the matter Of county
division going to a vote Of the people.
St. Louis county today is the largest
and most unweildly in the state. 1t
is larger than the state of Rhode Is
land and the rapid development of it's
northern section is making more ap-
parent the fact that it is too large to
admit of the most businesslike ad-
ministration of it's affairs.
1t is claimed too by those who are
in a position to know that there is less
opposition at the Head of the Lakes
to county division now than there eve>
has been before and that if a county
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
ADVOCATES OF COUNTY DIVISION ON RANGE
PURPOSE OF GETTING movement STARTED

County division, as measure af-
fecting the range country and large
section of northern St. Louis county,
is to be revived as an issue at once
with the idea in view of pledging the
legislative delegations elected Tuesday
from the Sixtieth and Sixty first dis
tricts to work for a county division
bill at the next session of the state leg
islature which will permit of the mat
ter being submitted to the vote of
the people as an independent measure
from the designation of the county
seat and other matters which now
render practically imperative, so far
as this section is concerned, the pres
ent law affecting county division.
County division is an old question
on the ranges and in northern St.
Louis county. County division bills
have twice failed of passage in the
state legislature which would have
made Iron county possible, and over
the whole matter there has been en-
gendered in the past a good deal OF
| feeling which has resulted in the is.
sue lying dormant for several years
past.
Friends of county division, however
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06

division bill is not passed at the next
session Of the legislature the issue
is dead for a good many years to
come
Upon good authority it is declared
that influences at Duluth which have
heretofore been actively opposed to
the county division measure will not
be opposed ito it hereafter and that
they have reached the point where
they have decided that it will be use
less to further block the organiza-
tion of Iron county.
The new state law cannot become
operative until late in 1915, if it is
adopted, and it's adoption will not
mean that county division is assured.
1t will mean simply that the whole
question is up to the people and that
they will have a right to vote upon
it on it's merits.
Steps will be taken soon to arouse
interest in county division in all the
range towns and in the towns to the
north of Virginia on the line of the
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific. Every
effort will be made to have the range
towns work together as a unit for the
passage of a county division bill and
the county seat fight will come after
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
SCOTCH PEOPLE
LIVING IN FEAR

Anxiety of a depth that keeps the
people Of Scotland in constant fear
is finely expressed in letter received
in Virginia by Donald Young of the
Alexander Reid company from his
mother, who resides in Cromarty,
Scotland. In her epistle, which has
just been received, Mrs. Young says
that the residents of her town are
living in constant fear of a German in
vasion and that every precaution is
being taken by the authorities to
guard against it. All lights in the
city must be turned off at sun down.
While Cromarty is fortified city,
Mrs. Young states that it would be
impossible for it to successfully ward
off an attack made with big guns. She
says that there are still plenty of men
in Scotland available for war service,
between the age Of 10 and 80 years.
| Officers, she states, are being taken in
at As years.
The price Of foodstuffs in Scotland,
says Mrs. Young, have gone up as a
result Of the war, the most appreci-
able advance being in bread.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
:CURLlNCCLUBTO TO
HAVE new $4,000
HOME THISFALL
Work of Contraction Will Be Be-
gun at Once-Ice Will Be
Ready Dec. Is.

Members Of the Virginia Curling
club, at meeting held last evening,
subscribed the first unit of $1,000
toward the $4,000 which will be in
vested by that organization in the
construction Of the rink which will
be built late this fall on the City
Market site at the foot of Cleveland
avenue.
Work of The erection of the build
ing will be begun in the very near
future and it is expected that two
sheets of ice will be ready for use by
December Is.
This new rink will be one of the
best in the entire northwest and will
place Virginia firmly on the curling
map of the United States. The en-
thusiasm which has been injected into
the club by reason of the proposed
construction of a real home here, is
far reaching and it is expected that the
membership of the organization will
be increased by at least one third this
fall
Aside from being used as curling
rink, this new building will also serve
the city as an auditorium where large
public gatherings, such as conventions
can be held.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
TALE0F ALLEGED
PLOT TO BE TOLD
Woman Charges Lover and Com
panion Conspired and Later
Robbed Her of $400.

SPARTA, Nov. 5.-John Hakko
nen and William Salmila, charged
with robbing Mrs. Niemi, wife of
Hjalmar Niemi, Sparta miner, will
be tried before Judge Martin Hughes
in the district court at Hibbing Fri
day. Hakkonen took advantage of
the woman's infatuation for him to
entice her to a lonely spot on the
Iron Range railroad tracks on a
promise that he would elope with her,
she alleges. She brought $400 of
her husbands savings with her to
spend on their honeymoon. Just at
that moment Salmila appeared in the
guise Of a highwayman and took the
money away from the pair at the
point of a pistol, according to the
woman's story. Hakkonen couldn't
think of running away with woman
who had no money, she asserted he
said. His sudden change of heart
aroused Mrs. Niemi's suspicious and
she caused his arrest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
VlRCINlA'S WATER SUPPLY IS
GIVEN %. K:"BY WHITAKER
Chemist Reports Samples Taken
from City Wells and Mains and Finds Water is of Ex-
celent Sanitary Quality.

at the pumping station and having
capacity Of 225,0O0 gallons. A second
underground concrete reservoir and
settling tank is now under course of
construction, which when completed
will have capacity Of 100000. An
elevated steel tank with capacity of
100000 gallons is also located near
the pumping station. Three high
pressure pumps located at the pump
ing station discharge into an elevated
tank or distribution system. Two of
them have capacity of 1000 gallons
minute and the third has capacity
of 500 gallons a minute. The average
daily consumption of water in Virginia
is estimated at 100000 gallons. The
water is distributed to about 1000
taps over the city.
Three samples of the water show
that colon baccili were not found pres
ent IN any amounts of consequence, the
count being less than / per cubic cent
imeter.
The most recent samples compared
with samples taken some time ago
show a very slight variation in the
nitrogen composition Of the city water,
the present sample showing a tend
ency toward the more complete oxid-
alton of this material.
Mr.. Whitaker concludes his report
with the statement:
"As has been found at the time of
previous Investigations on record, this
water supply is of most excellent san
itary quality"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
new FIRE TRUCK
SOME MACHINE

Making an average speed of 81
miles an hour the new motor driven
chemical and hose truck which the city
recently purchased, was given it's Of
icial tryout this morning on run to
Eveleth and return. The big machine
just ate up the Eveleth hill, climbing
the entire distance on high speed.
Otto A. Poirier and John Hansen,
police and fire commissioners; James
Stickney, chief of the fire depart
ment; Thomas R. Johnson, represent
ing the manufacturers, two firemen
and Alderman A. D. Heritage, made
the trip.
When the truck reached Eveleth the
Virginians were greeted by ex-Mayor
j. j. Gleason who said that he had
intended to buy a pair of the machines
for that city but that recall election
interfered.
Alderman Heritage, speed merchant
is raving about the truck and says
that he never believed that machine
Of its size could maintain such speed
Commissioner Poirier is much pleased
with the showing which the car made
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
BAILEY MILL TO
SHUTDOWN SOON.

The T. w. Bailey Lumber company,
which has been operating day and
night since early last spring, will
close for the season just as soon as
the first ice coats Virginia lake. Over
100 men will be laid off when this
plant blows it's final whistle of the
1914 season.
The season has been one Of the best
that the Bailey people have expert
enced and R. R. Bailey, manager of
the concern, is much gratified with the
years showing. A number of i'm
provements have been made to the
plant during the past several months
and considerable repair work will be
done before the mill opens next year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
NIGHT SCHOOL
STUDENTSLEAVE

The closing down of mining oper-
ations in the Virginia district for the
winter season is having the effect of
considerably decreasing the enroll4
ment in the English section Of the
Virginia night schools, where large
number of students of foreign birth
have been attending. Many of the
men are leaving the range, but a few
are attempting to secure positions that
will enable them to attend day school.
The prospects are that the enrolment
will not reach the thousand mark an
ticipated owing to the falling off in at
tendance occasioned by local industrial
inactivity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
GRAHAM mine IS
CL0SEDF0R YEAR:
100000 TONS
New Property Has Excellent
Season and Will Show Strong
er Next Year.

After shipping 100000 tons of ore
this season, Graham mine No. / at
Old Mesaba closed last evening, so
men being thrown out of employment.
The Graham is one of the more re-
cent shippers on the Mesaba range
and is owned by the Oliver Iron Min
ing company. 1t has been operating
two shovels since last spring. 1t is
expected that the Graham will have a
big season next year.
Vivian mine No. / also at Old Me-
saba; now has a shovel busy leveling
ground for the starting Of a stock
pile.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
WAS DESERTED
BY HER HUSBAND

How the man who wooed and won
her in Finland far away, where their
marriage vows were said in 1905. and
deserted and left her to support her
self an dtheir 2-year-old daughter in
1898 is related in an application for
divorce filed in the district court to-
day by Hilda Selma Toivene, who
seeks the marriage relation existing
between herself and Isaac Erlant
Toivenen severed. The couple came
to the range and settled at Kinney
several years ago. The case will be
on the calendar at the next term of the
district court in Virginia. Judge Free.
man of Chisholm, is attorney for Mrs
Toivenen. Toivenen's present where
abouts are unknown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
HlBBINC WANTS
NEXT MEETING
OF N. Ida.
Virginia Asked to Cooperate
With Sister City in Bring
ing It to the Range.

Virginia's very good friend and
neighbor, Hibbing, is anxious to Sc
cure the summer meeting of the Nor
thern Minnesota Development associa-
tion and Secretary ]. L. Lewis of the
Hibbing Commercial club, in a letter
addressed to the officers of the Vir-
ginia Commercial club this morning,
asks their cooperation in sending a
delegation to the next meeting at
Brainerd on Dec. /, 2, 3, and 4, to
work with Hibbing in having that
village designated the next meeting
place Of the association.
That Hibbing will have the cooper
alton of Virginia goes without saying
and it is believed that every town on
the Mesaba range will join with the
people of Hibbing in an effort to Sc
cure this important meeting for their
town.
The meetings of the Northern Min
nesota Development association usual
~ draw large attendance. They are
a prize much sought by all the live
towns in the northern section Of the
state. So far the Mesaba range has
never been honored with a meeting
of the association and it is held that
the chances of Hibbing should be good
to secure the summer rally.
At that time the great iron mines
will be in full swing, the electric rail-
way will make easily assessible every
section of the Mesaba and the meeting
at Hibbing will be a fine ADVERTISE
ment for all the range country.
Hibbing already has strong claim
to the next meeting Of the association,
having sent a delegation to Crookston
last summer to work for the meet
which it was decided to hold at Brain
erd. At that time Hibbing made a
good many friends among the dele
gates and it is felt that town has an
excellent chance Of landing the sum-
mer gathering.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06

Copies Of the foregoing letter re-
ceived by County Auditor Odin Halden
and forwarded to City Clerk Bickford
today announcing that the taxes
of every property owner in the
Mesaba range cities Of Virginia, Eve
ieth, Chisholm and Hibbing have been
raised a third, promptly set in motion
the machinery which will result in all
four cities in arranging for vigor-
GUS protest against the increase in
valuation at meeting of the state tax
commission in the capitol building in
St. Paul on November 10. The inter-
probation placed upon the letter in Of
fcial sources in Virginia today is that
it means substantially an increase of
one-third in taxes, despite the fact that
under the new state tax law those in
formed declare that a raise in valua-
ton automatically means a reduction
in the rate of taxation.
The only construction placed upon
it by any authority is that it will have
the immediate effect in this city at
least if not of increasing taxes on
houses, business blocks and structures
of all kinds third, at least of raising
them substantially.
At a special meeting of the city
council called at 8 o'clock this after
noon the letter was considered and
while some Of it's terms the council
considered ambiguous, it was finally
decided to call meeting of taxpayers
at the city hall for o'clock tomorrow
night when the effect Of the increase
will be considered and the situation
gone over with the idea of sending a
delegation of council members, citi-
zens and business men to St. Paul tC
protest against the action of the state
tax commission indicated in its letter
The council also got in communica.
ton with the aldermanic boards OF
Eveleth, Chisholm and Hibbing anc
urged them to take immediate action
It is known also that the state ta>
commission is planning to raise the
tax on iron ore. 1t has already sum
moned number of operators from
the Mesaba before it at hearing tt
be held today to show why iron ore IL
stockpile should not be taxed on ;
basis of the cost of production adde'
to the present valuation.
The clause in the letter referring t.
unmined iron ore is also regarded a
significant Of intent to change the plal
Of taxation on the iron mines of thi
section.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
A. O. u. w. WILL HOLD
MEETING THIS EVENING

Virginia Ladge No. 224, Ancient Or
der of United Workmen, will hold
their regular meeting tonight in the
Knights Pythias hall in the Lyric
building. Several applications for
membership will be acted upon and u
class of several candidates will be on
hand for initiation. Since it's organiz-
alton a short time ago the local lodge
A. O. U. w. has increased rapidly in
membership and has work enough for
the rest of the winter. At tonight s
meeting election of recorder will
take place to fill the vacancy of Peter
Rasmussen, resigned.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06
20 BUSINESS GIRLS
OF HIBBING FORM A
NEW ORGANIZATION

HIBBING, Nov. 5.-The Business
Girls club was formerly organized in
the clubroom of the public library
here tonight. The charter membership
numbers 20. Officers elected were:
President, Miss Mamie Macarthur; vice
president, Miss Magma Brown; secre-
tary-treasurer, Miss Bjorklund. The
committee on entertainment is Mrs.
Cole. chairman, and the Misses Benson
and Buckley; constitutional committee,
Miss Buckley, chairman, Mrs. Cole and
Miss Benson.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-11-06

Water is the best thing to drink in
Virginia. Drink lots of it, drink MOTH
ing else and you will live long and
prosper. The city's water supply is
one Of the best in the state and is of
excellent sanitary quality.
This is the substance of the report
of H. W. Whitaker, chemist and en-
gineer connected with the state board
of health submitted to the local board
of health today. 1t follows an analysis
Of samples taken at random some time
ago from the city wells and water
=mains. Its endorsement is positive
and without qualification.
The investigation just concluded by
the state board of health extends over
a considerable period. Samples have
been taken from time to time and
accurate comparative data kept on file
in the records Of the state board of
health at St. Paul.
Virginia's water supply at present
is obtained from three of four drilled
wells. The No. l we'll has a depth of
AS feet, No. is 741 feet deep and No.
3 400 feet while No. has been sunk
to a distance of 721 feet. The No. 3
we'll has for some time been aban-
doned.
The No. l we'll is capable Of dis
charging 385 gallons of water a
minute, and No. 4, 695 gallons. No
test has been made on we'll No. 2. All
of the three wells in use are operated
by air lifts and discharge into an un-
ierground concrete reservoir located