The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-10-15
Retail Liquor dealers Of Virginia
Fear It Is Eortrunner of Coun-
ty Option Campaign.
THINK WEST RANGE
WOULD VOTE 'DRY''
Brewers Given Credit for Quiet
Effort to Reduce Number
of Saloons.

the neWs f1asn j ashing gton Yesterday
that the .loons bbing, Chisholm
and Keewatin wlll probably be closed
within short time under the provi-
sions of the Indian treaty of 1855
They regard it merely as the fore.
runner of a county option fight in St.
Louis county which might result, they
declare, in wiping out licensed saloons,
and in any event would mean a Bit
ter and costly fight
$50 far as the closing of the saloons
at Hibbing is concerned" said h well
known liquor dealer last night, lit
would in no way affect business in
Virginia. It might result in county
option being made an issue. The paid
representatives Of the Anti-Saloon
league are facing dull times. They
must do something to earn their sal
ary and / would not be surprised if
they made St. Louis county their next
battle ground, especially if the Hib-
bing and Chisholm saloons are closed,
when they will naturally reason that
the tendency in those towns will be
to vote the saloons in Virginia and
other Range towns out, if they are
not permitted to run there"
Receipts Falling Off.
Many local Liquor dealers do not
hesitate to acknowledge that their re-
ceipts have been steadily falling off
for some time past. They attribute
this to the fact that the element which
patronizes licensed drinking places
here is not as numerous as it once
was and to the further fact that there
are at least twice too many saloons
in Virginia for the volume of busi-
ness available for them, despite the
fact that six bars have been volun-
tarily closed in the city within the last
year. One Chestnut street liquor
dealer, running one of the less fire.
quentel bars recently confessed that
his entire receipts for a days busi-
ness from o'clock in the morning to
6 o'clock, at night We're s1.35. "Afte1
that he said, . live one came in from
Cusson and left .s22 with MS before
time to close up. )" . Z=.s. =ss2
4ee;;s~ss.. Complain Of "Blind pf4S,
Among the local licensed liquor
dealers there is general complaint
against the "Blind Pigs" II have
about made up my mind," he said last
night, "that I will never take out an.
other license. There are many ad.
vantages in running an unlicensed
drinking place. The first is that
you don't have to pay license anc
the second is that you are never closec
either nights or days or Sundays"
The lax condition of business in thu
retail bars is said to have resulted
recently in the refusal of certain o1
the brewing companies to advance
license money, with the result that .
number of bars have been put out o.
business.
Several local liquor dealers are in
clined to give the brewing concerns
credit for having voluntarily decide,
to reduce the number of saloons j,
the city. The most pronounced fall
ing off Of the local liquor trade is evi
IDENTIFY in that section of the cit,
familiarly referred to as the bowery
the first block on Chestnut stree
north Of the Duluth, Missabe & North
ern tracks. Four places on the bow
cry have recently gone out Of bust
ness.
Think Hibbing Will Fight. -
Those familiar with the situation a
Hibbing declare the saloons in tha
village and at Chisholm will not b
closed until after long fight in tn
courts. It is declared the liquor in
terests have retained Mayor Power, Q
Hibbing, to fight the treaty for ther
and that an injunction will be serve
on the Indian department preventin
lit from closing Hibbmg and Chisholl
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