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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

the policy Of German cities, but it is
a new thing in the United States. The
following results have been obtained
in Dayton:
1. The completion of plans for the
elimination of railroad crossings.
2. Reduction of the current def
cit of $125,000.
8. Securing Of plans for gar
bage disposal plant.
4. The more prompt payment of
contractors for public works.
5. The building of the Valley
street bridge for $4,000 less than ap-
preparation.
6. The development of more effici-
ent methods of cleaning downtown
streets.
z. Reduced coal consumption in the
water supply department.
8. Cutting the infant death rate
for June, 1914, to one-half the rate
for the same month in the three years
previous.
9. The building of storm sewer
for less than two thirds the appropria-
ton therefor, and
10. The discounting of all bids in
the purchasing division at 2 per cent
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
DIR. EMPIE MARRIES MISS
STERNE AT ISHPEMING

ISHPEMING, Mich, Oct. 8.-Miss
Lucy Sterne of this city and DR.. w. M.
Empie Of Virginia, MIMI, were mar
ried Monday afternoon at o'clock in
St. Johns parsonage, Rev. J. A. Keul,
the pastor, performing the ceremony.
Walter Sterne, brother of the bride,
was best man, the bride being unat-
tended. She wore a becoming travel
ing suit of bronze green velvet, with
hat to match.
Following the marriage wedding
dinner was served at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
E. Sterne, on North First street. Only
relatives were present. The out-of-
the-city relatives here were Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Lally of Iron River and
Miss Florence Archambeau of Mar
quette.
DR.. and Mrs. Empie left Monday
night for Chicago, Minneapolis and St.
Paul on two weeks honeymoon trip.
Soon after their arrival in Virginia
they will begin housekeeping in a fiat
now being erected.
The bride was born and brought up
in Ishpeming and is one of the city's
most popular young women. DR..
Empie is a member of the Lenont hos
pital staff in Virginia. He has num-
Der Of friends and acquaintance in
this county, as he relieved DR.. R. A.
Burke at Diorite during the latter's
absence in Europe last year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
CHINESE DEAD
BACK TO ORIENT

DULUTH, Oct. 8.-Hun Toy, agent
of the Chinese Combined Benefit So
ciety, is in the city making arrange
'ments for the removal of the bodies
of Chinese buried in Duluth cemeteries
to China.
They are to be exhumed and sent
to San Francisco, where they will be
held until the number is sufficient to
warrant the chartering of a boat to
carry them across the Pacific. From
Hongkong they will be distributed to
the relatives in various parts of China.
The only reason given by the agent
for this removal is that the relatives
desire that the bodies be buried in
their native land. About a dozen
bodies will be sent from Duluth. The
arrangements for the removal of the
bodies are being made through the
Crawford Undertaking company.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
PEACE CLOTHES AND TOYS.

"HE new women's styles, it ap-
pears, are to be of military cast,
even more than they were after
the Balkan war. And children's toys
have taken martial trend. But from
New York City comes a hint of rebel
lion.
The Women's Peace Parade commit
tee, at the instance of Mrs. Robert Ad-
amson, has protested against "all
fashions based upon the military idea, u
in order that women "may not in
their dress keep the idea of war be-
fore themselves and their children"
"'American fashions for American
women has been a good slogan" says
Mrs. Adamson, "but 1 have a better
one-'Peace fashions for American
women
"You weep over the upturned faces
of your dead, but when there is no war
and your loved ones are not in danger
you rush to the streets to watch the
parades, and you say, oh, the dear
boys; don't you think they look grand
in uniforms?'
81 urge that we all take this vow:
II will not glorify the military
spirit; I will not teach history by the
dates of the battles alone; l will not
give children tin soldiers to play
with."-Fargo Forum.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
SHARE OF
FUND INCREASES

DULUTH, Oct. 8.-St. Louis coun-
v will receive SILT, 752.40 as its share
# the October apportionment of the
state current school fund. The money
will be available Oct. %, according to
notice received yesterday afternoon
W County Auditor Halden from c. G.
Schulz, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
Of the amount received by St. Louis
county, $49,651.20 will be divided
among the schools Of Duluth. Some
of the other cities and villages of the
county will receive as follows: Vir-
ginia, $1O,278; Hibbing, $9,021.60;
Eveleth, $6,631.2o; Chisholm, $5,868;
Ely, $5,331.6o; Gilbert, $4,168.80;
Tower, 81, 502; Bull, $2,o59.2o; BIZ
wabik, $2,OO5.2O; Mountain Iron, ST.
564.40. The unorganized school dis
trict, comprising 86 schools and 1,471
pupils, will receive $5,295.60.
The balance of the fund will go to
the other school districts of the coun-
ty. The apportionment is based on the
number of children attending school
in each county. The enrolment in
this county at the present time, as
certified to the state superintendent,
is 32,709 as compared with 3O,687 for
year ago. The various school dis
tricts will receive $3.50 for each pupil.
The apportionment of school funds
is made twice year, April and Octo-
Der A year ago st Louis county's
share of the fund was $110,473.20.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
SHANK'S MURDER
MAY BEAVENCED
Stepfather of Bride-elect Arrest
ed for Shooting Suitor on
Highway.

RAPID CITY, S. D., Oct. 8+George
Hardesty of keystone is under arrest,
charged with the murder of Homer
Shank, whose body was found lying
in the road a mile west of Keystone on
June 10. The arrest Of Hardesty fol-
lows an inquiry that has been con-
Quoted by the states attorney and
sheriff since Shank's body was found.
The morning of June 10, Mrs. H. s.
Davis, rural mail carrier, found the
body of Homer Shank. Near by, in a
creek, was revolver. Shank had been
shot and the theory at first was that
he had committed suicide. But the
wound that killed him was in the back
fof the head, and the revolver in the
creek, it was found, was Of an obso-
lete make. The authorities then COM
menced a search, and their investiga-
ton finally led to the arrest of Har-
desty.
Shank was engaged to be married
to Miss Ollie Wilhelm, stepdaughter
of Hardesty, and their wedding was to
have been celebrated on the day he
was murdered. Shank spent the even
ing of June 18 with Miss Wilhelm, and
left her with the understanding that
they were to 60 to Custer the next day
to be married. Miss Wilhelm was the
last person to see him alive. Mrs.
Davis, who found the body, was to
have accompanied the young couple to
Custer for their marriage. Miss Will
helm at the time staying in Keystone,
where she was employed.
Hardesty objected strongly to Shank
marrying his stepdaughter, and it is
'supposed this fact led to a quarrel
when he met Shank the night of June
10, and the shooting followed. Har-
desty denies his guilt.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
PILSENER
MADE IN HOBOKEN; WAR
CANNOT AFFECT SUPPLY

NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-The war can
now go on indefinitely, at least so far
as the men who drink Pilsener care.
The beer they have been drinking all
along, thinking it was brewed in dear
old Germany, really came from Hobo
ken, St. Louis, or maybe Milwaukee.
At least, so one of the master brewers
attending convention of his organi-
cation said yesterday.
When asked if the war was going
to cut off the supply of Pilsener, he
grinned and said 81 guess not; it's
all made in America anyway"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
DULUTH PASTOR is
SENT TO RANGE

DULUTH, Oct. 8.-Rev. w. Grant
Fritz, pastor Of the Merritt Memorial
Avenue Mission and has been supply
ing pulpits in various mission districts
near Duluth, will have charge Of the
Merritt church and the Harvey Webb
M. E. church for the last year, has
been transferred from the local
church, and next year will have charge
of churches at Gilbert and Biwabik
The change was made at the Northern
Minnesota conference at Montevideo
MINI.
Rev. J. w. Lillico, who for the last
year has had charge Of the Garfield
church at Smithville and the new
Methodist church at the steel plant.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
LASTCHANCE
TO REGISTER
Voters Will Have Opportunity
to Qualify On October
the Z4th.

Saturday, October "a will be the
voters last opportunity to register for
the general state and county elections
to be held November 3.
Those who entered their names on
the registration days proceeding the
primaries or at the primary election
last spring are now qualified to cast
their ballots at the fall elections but
the others will have to register Oct
"a if they wish to exercise their fran
chise. Voters may not register on elec-
ton day, as at the primaries, by
securing affidavits attesting that they
are entitled to vote. Saturday, Oct
"a, is positively the last chance to reg
:ster.
The general requirements are that
the voter must be citizen of the
United States, have lived in the state
six months and in the precinct thirty
lays. Naturalized citizens must have
lad their papers three months proceed
ng election day. If they have their
papers and the three months will have
'xpired on Nov. 3 they can register
even though they have not had their
papers three months on registration
,ay. The same applies to the youth
With the fuzzy down cropping out or
his face who will be 81 years of age
'oy Nov. 3 or between registration day
and election day. They may register
if they will be qualified upon election
day, provided, Of course, that the 9TH
er requirements are fulfilled.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
THE EFFECT OF THE WAR.

"A T a meeting of numerous in
~ fuential business men, re-
d Gently held in the East, the
European war and its effect on bust
ness throughout the United States
was discussed. The conclusions ar
rived at by the meeting were express
ed in part in the following paragraphs
and are worthy study and considera-
ton:
'First-Nations representing half
the total population Of the earth have
withdrawn many of their people from
the activities Of commerce and pro-
duction, and those men are now en-
gagged in war. War or conflict de-
stroys what has been produced-it
produces nothing useful.
"Second-Such nation or nations as
are not engaged in war will, therefore,
be called upon to produce not only
their quota of the worlds needs but
take upon themselves the burden of
producing what the other nations have
through necessity neglected.
"Third-Not only have some of
these nations now at war interfered
with their present commerce, but
some of them have permanently lost
their trade. The vast millions of
people engaged in this conflict have
now and will have still more an in
tense feeling Of hatred toward each
other, and will, therefore, not pur-
chase any goods from opponents who
are actually and literally seeking to
take their lives. 1t will be for genera
tons that the feeling of ill-will will
no doubt exist between them.
"Fourth-The only large neutral ma
ton, large in a geographical, CONNER
cial and manufacturing sense, is the
United States. It, therefore, will de-
volve upon the United States to take
care to considerable degree of the
worlds needs; which will give this
country more to do than it has ever
had before in all Of it's history. The
people of foreign nations will be com
PEELED to buy Of US or starve. While
they are engaged in wrecking lives, il
is our opportunity, privilege and duty
to preserve life. We must not lool
upon this opportunity merely fol
money-making, but recognize the large
service we are called upon to render
humanity at large. This means in
tense activity in business.
"Fifth-Just at the present time the
mind of the average man is obsessec
with the idea of an enormous war. A
soon as the American public begin t
think, they will discover that they
have much to do. Uncertainty will be
changed to certainty, money will be
released, manufacturing go ahead az
never before. Every dollar, every
square foot of ground, every grain
every hand, every wheel, every ship
and every railroad will find that it has
not only all it can do, but more thar
it can do to take care of what is ir
reality right now knocking at ou]
door,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
ABOUT MINNESOTA FARMS.

Minnesota has 156,137 farms; of
this number 123,326 are operated by
owners and managers and 1881 by
tenants.
Seventy-nine per cent of the farms
OF this state are operated by owners
and managers and 81 per cent by ten
ants.
The farm home owners and man.
ayers OF Minnesota cultivate 14.439.-
OOO acres of land and the tenants till
5,2O5,000 acres in this state.
The value Of the land and buildings
Of the tenant farms of this state is
1921 ,173, 900; that of the home own
era and managers IS $941, 269. 600.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

This will not be approved by the
corset manufacturers. DR.. Brady,
who gives health talks in the Pioneer
Press, answers the question: From
the medical standpoint, at what age
is it advisable for girls to begin wear
ing corsets. His reply: At So, as
iby that time it won't matter so much
how the girl Injuries her efficiency.
The longer a girl postpones adopting
the abdominal splint the healthier
and stronger she will be.-Stillwater
Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
MINNESOTA'S OLDEST
COUPLE CELEBRATES
UNION OF rs YEARS

P1PEsT0NE, Oct. 8.-Mr: and
Mrs. John Shequen, the oldest-married
couple in Minnesota, have just cele-
brated their seventy sixth wedding an
niversary at Balaton. Mr.. Shequen
will be 106 years old this month, while
his wife is ten years his junior. Mr..
Shequen is hearty for one so old, and
Mrs Shequen does not appear to be
more than Sc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

For the third successive year
Roseau county was awarded first
Prize on her county exhibit at the
state fair, from the northern zone
and thereby winning permanent pos
passion of the $3.50 trophy, a silver
loving cup, offered by the fair asso-
citation Renville county led In the
southern section. There were nine
counties in the competitions Wells
Mirror.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
THE CITY MANAGER.

~ AYTON, Ohio,has had one year
of the administration Of the
city manager, engaged at a
suitable salary in order to get COM
petent man, and the office taken out of
politics altogether. There is nothing
startling new about the proposition
in the abstract, for this is practically
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
Advertising
Hell ps the Reader!

Of course, the merchant buys advertising prf-
mary for the purpose of increasing his business He
spends his good hardearned dollars in order to bring
YOU into his store
On the other hand by watching his advertising news you
enabled to cut down the high living the ex
helping you, at his expense.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

if we can keep out Of trouble, with
level heads, good common sense and
untiring industry, why should we not
prosper and be happy?-Red Wing
Republican.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

The present war has caused prohi-
bition to be inaugurated in Europe.
In France the sale of absinthe is pro-
hibited. In Germany drinking places
are closed and in Russia the sale of
vodka, the Intoxicating drink of the
peasants, is prohibited. The cause
given for these precautions is that the
people need to keep their heads in
time Of war. Had they done this
along with their armament they might
have been able to keep their heads in
time of peace.-Slayton Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
OIL USED AS FINDER DEADLY.

V1L UOED Nd 11INOCN OCAOA :
DEVILS LAKE, N: D., Oct. 8-Mrs.
Hattie Strong, SO years old, was fatal
ly burned today when she threw kero-
sene on a fire to hasten it, pouring
the oil out of five-gallon can, which
exploded. She was rescued from the
room in which she was working by
Gordon Nummo. >,,~....-,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

Experts tell US that the potato
yield in Minnesota is less than one
hundred bushels to the acre. They
say that the yield could be two hun
dred bushels to the acre if farmers
were more careful in the selection of
their seed potatoes. The same thing
applies to corn, wheat and other
grains,-Mankato Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09

The United States has in actual
gold metal almost as much as any
other two nations put togther. Now
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
EXCHANGE COMMENT

To conform with a new state law,
farmers must cut the weeds on the
highways adjacent to their property.
If the weeds are not cut, the superin-
tendent of roads is authorized to do
the work, the expense to be charged
against the property.-Adams Review.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-10-09
Advertising
Hell pS the Merchant!

Idle clerks cut the profits of every
mercantile establishment. The days
when trade is slow, the mornings when
customers are few, eat up the profits
made on busy days.
ADVERTISING, the great force for the creation
Of business, is the merchants panacea for dull
business. Shrewd merchants the power of adver-
Using to distribute their volume of business over the
six business days.
Price Inducements special displays adequately advertised
turn the trend of trade to the days and hours when aes
empty
But this desirable result achieved without use
of strong advertising mediumone in which the
pose confidence.
So Virginia merchants place their advertising
PRISE the that carried into practically every
in Virginia.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-01-13
Beecher's Farm Creed.

We believe that soil loves to eat, al
we'll as its owner, and ought, therefore
to be literally fed.
We believe in large crops which leave
the land better than they found it
making the farmer and the farm both
glad at once.
We believe In going to the bottom ol
things, and, therefore, In deep plowine
and enough of it. All the better with Q
subsOil plow.
We believe that every farm should
own a good farmer.
We believe that the best fertilizer fol
any soil is spirit of industry, enter
prise and intelligence. Without this
lime and gypsum, bones and green ma
nure, mari and guano will be of little
use.
We believe in good fences, good barns
good farm houses, good stock, good or
chards and children enough to gather
the fruit.
We believe In clean kitchen, a nea
wife in it, a spinning wheel, a clean cup
board, clean dairy and q clean con
science.
We firmly disbelieve in farmers tha
will not improve; in farms that grow
poorer every year; in starving cattle; In
farmers boys turning into clerks anr
merchants; in farmers daughters unwil
ling to work, and In all farmers ashamed
of their vocation or who drink whiskey
until honest people are ashamed o.
them.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-01-13
Does Humus Unlock Soil Fertility

Hoard's Dairyman:-I was especially
interested in an article in the Nov. 7th
issue, "Is humus more important thar
it is generally thought to be?" My owr
ex perience and studies of the soil have
convinced me that tbs. For instance, al
chemists agree that most soils contain
enough of all the elements that are nee
essary to plant growth, though not al
ways in an available form. My own ex
perience has convinced me that humus
is produced by permitting any kind o1
vegeta BILE to decay in the soil, thereby
dissolving parts Of the soil itself and
putting 1t in shape to be Tapped up BY
the roots of plants.
Camden, Ind. M. NJ. N.
Science has not as yet been able to
fully determine just what relation hum
us bears to soil fertility and plant
growth. 1t was formerly held that II
possessed little or no value, but 1t is now
considered as one of the important sol
elements. Kings Physics of Agricul.
ture says:
"Humus is the product in the sol
which gives to it usually it's dark color,
but 80 far as its chemical composition Il
concerned its nature is not yet we'll un
derstood. 1t is a very important ingre.
dient of fertile soils and is the product
of decaying organic matter.
"Ths great importance of humus iu
agricultural soils is found in the fact
that 1t is relatively insoluble under good
field conditions and does not leach away
and in this form becomes the food Oi
inter forming germs which convert 1t BY
degrees into nitric acid as one Of theil
waste products, but which is the essen
tial form of nitrogen for the foods Of
most plants. A soil entirely devoid oi
humus must necessarily be manured OF
given nitrogen in some other form In
order to make 1t fertile.-Hoard's Dairy
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-01-13
Cards For Juliet.

A charming custom among tourists
at Verona Is that Of leaving their vis-
lting cards at the reputed tomb OF
Juliet This act. however. must be
taken as a pretty compliment to the
immortal love story rather than as an
Offering in memoriam. for It is unlike
ly that travellers have not learned that
the tomb Is in reality one OF those
pious fictions so dear to the senti
mental and that even Shakespeare's
tragedy itself Is generally held to have
no historical basis writer In the
Graphic of London says. ''The so call
ed tomb, Of red veronese marble. In
the gardens Of the Orphanage. was for.
merly a washing trough" Another
writer Is no less severe. There Is
plenty to see in Verona" he says, "the
cities Of northern Italy, without vast
Ing time, money and emotion in look
Ing at frauds" But the custom re-
mains and will remain as long as there
are tourists.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-01-13
Ei{Au Ynrds On The Had.

The curious inter shaped headdress
worn by women Of quality In Spain
during the middle ages is described II
1.-THE Queens Of Aragon." by E. L.
Miron. It consisted Of nm underc0ii
with plated edges. covered by Sec
ond resembling a Phrygian or Cata-
Ian cap. the fiat point falling over like
that Of nightcap. These miters, sup
posed to be Of oriental origin. were IN
troduced into Spain by Beatrice OF
suabia, queen Of Ferdinand, the saint
Of CASTLE. Very hot and heavy the!
must have been. considering tha'
sometimes as much as fifty yards OF
material were used to make them
They were fastened under the chin by
a ribbon or band. The same writer
refers to the silver bed ladders usec
for climbing Into the high medieval
hoda