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iH ili tt its ib ib O ft E il# it it ili *1/ it O it \t it it it O it it ii/ it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it it Manufacturers and dealers in Suits Admitted to the Supreme Court of the U. ST. Supreme Oourt of District of Oolnmbla and Supreme Court of Minnesota. Practices In United States Land Office There is nothing more con ducive to pleasure in the home than neat, tasty FURNITURE —and— FURNISHINGS and the line being shown this season by J. MESBERG the old, reliable dealer, can not fail to please the pros pective purchaser, as every article in his stock is modern, artistic and durable, and his prices are always found as inviting as his stock. J. MESBERG, Furniture and Hardware, VIRGINIA. EVELETH. Uirginia Boiler ttlorks, A CONCERN BY ITSELF. J. 01. Brooks, ltianafltr. Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Canks, etc. Now is the time to get these garments VIRGINIA, MINN QTTO A. POIRIER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ASSISTANT COUNTY ATTORNEY U. S. Commissioner. Homestead and and stone entries and proofs received. Admitted to Practice in All Courts. Telephone No. 12. VIRGINIA. MINN". First National Bank Building- Locomotive and Stationary Repairing a Specialty. All Orders Promptly Attended to. Local and Long Distance phone No 177. Stacks for Diamond Drill Boilers generally on hand. Works al East End Cedar St., Near D. M. & N. Tracks. VIRGINIA, MINN. GOLDEN STAR, {gffiK Fine Workmanship and Satisfaction Guaranteed. tv Latest Styles and a Fine Assortment of Patterns from which to select. J. FMIOHAN, JOHN M. MARTIN, Attorney and Counsellor at Law *v *y jn & & Overcoats MANAGER. DR J. W. DEERING DENTIST Porcelain and Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty. Phone 194. Office over Postoffice James Sampson, I General Contractor S and Builder. J* 9 Estimates Furnished on all $ classes of work. 8 VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA. I THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE. IF. £. HANNAJPORD. SUITOR. Friday, March 15, 1907. Entered at the Post-Office at Virginia, Minn., as second class mail matter. Terms. $2 Per Year, in Advance Madden to Retire. The boys of the press seem to have few regrets over the coming retirement of Assistant Postmaster General Madden. He has not en deared himself to them during his tenure of office. By his arbitrary rulings in numerous cases he has made himself one of the most cordially hated men in postal ser vice. He was of too small calibre for his place. WhiJe we are on the subject it might be well to give our readers an inkling of some of the, proposed revisions of the postal laws regard ing the mailing of newspapers, magazines and periodicals. The postal department, burdened with seed, congressional reports and reports of legislative oratory, is laboring under a deficit from year to year. To correct this and show up a profit in the department the press of the country is to be levied upon for an unjust tribute. The following is an epitome of the proposed legislation: "No newspaper or magazine could be admitted to the mails at second class postage rates if the amount of advertising published therein ex ceeded 50 per cent of its whole bulk or area. "No publication could be given the second-class facilities if it published a supplement printed on paper other than that ot the main body of the publication or printed in size differing from the general size and shape thereof. "No newspaper entitled to second class rates could publish as a sup plement any sheet containing ad vertisements of any character what ever. "No publication could receive such priyileges if its advertising sheets contained any paper differ ent in weight or quality from that used in its literary or news pages. "As a final climax of paternalism, no publication could be given the right to second-class entry in which fiction fills more than half the space or volume thereof. "There is substituted for the pres ent simple method of weighing periodical mail matter in bulk and charging a uniform price, a com plex schedule of rates for each copy mailed, based on th^-weight thereof, the net result of which, besides vastly increasing the work both of publishers and postoffice employes, would be to advance newspaper and any periodical postage from 75 to 100 per cent." The ridiculousness of it all is ap parent to any reader at all familiar with the conditions. The results of such legislation will be disastrous. A large number of country news papers doing business on a very small profit, if any at all, would go out of business. Weekly and monthly magazines would raise in price and decrease in number and volume. The cheaper grade of magazines would discontinue. The entire measure is a blow at the publishing interests of the country which will be staggering. The results would be felt in every home in America and the benefits. Where are they? You tell, if you can. Political and Social Questions of Swe den and America. David Holmgren, a member of the Swedish "Riksdag" who is making a tour of the United States deliver ing temperance lectures and politi cal addresses, spoke to a good au dience at Hawkinson's Hall Satur day evening on "The Political and Social Questions of Sweden and America Viewed from the Laborer's Side." He cited many existing condi tions in the old country as very ab surd, especially the oppression of the young men who are forced to serve in the army from the age of twenty-one to forty—a system which impoverishes the country by taking the healthy young men from work in the fields and factories, and by such compulsion driving the young men away and depriving the coun try of its vitality. Mr. Holmgren touched the labor question very skillfully, stating the vast difference existing between la bor and capital in the present age as compared with one thousand five hundred years ago, when the great majority of laborers were slaves and were compelled to' obey their tyrannic masters. He considered capital the greatest evil of our country, yet many are bending their knees before the "golden calf" and exerting themselves to the ut termost to serve and obtain the fa vor of capital. He also expressed satisfaction at the victories gained by labor in the past few decades and the general industrial advance of this country in the past hundred and fifty years, in which America has grown from a dependent coun try to one of the foremost industrial nations of the world, and concluded his address with the prophesy that the day is fast approaching when all struggles between labor and capital shall cease, when equality shall exist between all people, and when the nations of the earth shall know of no war, when universal peace shall prevail. THE Commercial Club of Eveleth has recommended that the city council live and act according to law in the granting of the street railway franchise, by advertising such franchise for sale to the high est bidder. The same point was brought up relative to the granting of the franchise here, but was not taken into consideration when the council got ready to act. It now remains to be seen whether or not the Eveleth council will have something handed them—a lemon, for instance—or whether they will proceed to get a price for the priv ilege asked. DULUTH will doubtless be a won derful city after that steel plant be comes a reality, but Virginia's new mill will help our people to buy the luxuries of life many months soon er than the steel plant will assist in furnishing bread and butter for Du luthians. RAILROAD men are holding up the "bogy" of poorer service if the 2-cent fare bill becomes law. The passenger who comes into Virginia on the Missabe & Northern evening train would have hard work figur ing out how it could be done. IF Mayor Densmore of Ely is con victed of the crime for which he has been indicted by the grand jury even Virginians may beexcusedfor concluding that they have a mayor worthy of some degree of compara tive respect. THK land notice page of the Ely Miner continues to be an interest ing section, and bids fair to land 'Brother Schaefer in the list of news paper men who have made their "pile" and who can spend their winters in the south. WERE the nickels, quarters and half dollars that are fed into Vir ginia slot machines put into a pile the amount would be sufficient to pay for the new $10,000 church edi fice being erected in the city in a fortnight. Two HUNDRED new homes in Virginia would find occupants within thirty days. Not any bob'tfrj but the substantial growth of the city is bringing people here faster than they can be housed. NEW homes in course of construc tion in every part of the city is an infallible sign ot the faith of our citizens in Virginia. Card off Thanks. To the many friends who by their acts of sympathetic kindness so ably assisted me during the late illness and death of my beloved wife, I desire to express my heart felt gratitude. Especially to the members of Virginia Camp No. 2955, M. W. A., do I express thanks for the kind ly remembrances and floral me mentos received. MATT PELMAS. Order Limiting Time to File Claims, And for Hearing Thereon. Estate of John B. James, Deceased State of Minnesota, County of St. Louis, in Probate Oourt. In the matter of the estate of John E. James, decedent. Letters of administration having been granted to Mary H. James. It is ordered, That the time within which all creditors of the above named decedent may present claims against his estate in this court, be, and the same hereby is. limited to three months from and after the date hereof, and that Monday the 17th day of June, 1907, at ten o'clock, A. M., in the Probate Court Booms at the Court Rouse at Duluth in said county, be, and the same hereby is, fixed and appointed as the time and place for hearing: upon the examtnation, adjustment and allowance of such claims as shall be present ed within the time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by the publica tion of this order in The Virginia Enterprise a weekly newspaper printed and published in Virginia, in said county, as provided by law. Dated at Duluth, Minn., March 11th, 1907. [SBAT.] J. B. MlDDLECOFF, Judge of Probate Mar.15-29 I I 4 I I I I I 1 Mesaba 'Phone In your place of business will in crease your business wonderfully in your reidence will be a great con venience. Three hundred and thirty telephone in Virginia and you can reach them all besides being able, without cost, to talk to friends or bussiness acquaintances in MT. IRON, EVELETH, SPARTA, ELBA, MCKINLEY, BIWABIJC AND AURORA. NO CHABGE MADE FOB WIBING Call or write. C. M. GODFBEY, Local Manager. Office 'Phone 803. Bes. 'Phone 250. 4 Read the Enterprise. & & THE LEADER NEW SPRING GOODS Of every description now on display at this popular Dry Goods establishment. No old stock—everything fresh, direct from factory, and embracing the latest styles in fashionable dress goods and ready-to-wear garments. We want your trade, and have the goods to please you, at prices which are strictly right. THE LEADER Fay Block SUSMAN COHEN Virginia $ Rossom Insurance Agency f. B. Rossom, Agent Recreants the gery Best in fire, Jktideat, Glass and Burglar Insurance J. P. CHALMERS. Manaqcr EMIL E. PANKONIN, TRMA8URKR JOHN H. CUOMORE, DQOKKMUMt I The liberal form of Accident Policies furnished by the London Acoident and Guarantee Co. will be fully explained ta you upon application. Ask us about it. We can furnish Surety Bonds of all description upon short notice and at a price to your advantage. We represent the Metropolita Surety Company of New York. Their bonds are accepted by the most particular people. Stumpage, Tarn, mineral and timber Lands We have a good deal of stumpage for sale within 2 and 4 miles of Virginia that we are selling at bargains. Let us show you what we have to offer in this line. Lands are in creasing in value every year and should you want to invest or buy yourself a home you cannot do better than to buy lands. We have a number of Lake Fronts that would make excellent summer homes and only mile from railroad. gity Real Estate We can .offer you several improved and unimproved erties on CentraUavienue that should be interesting an a large number of houses and lots for sale. Ask to F_. B. ROSSOM Rossom Building Virginia. Minn. FAY Two Performances Nightly PLANTS SMOKERSI if rout choice of Smoke is a Rich Mild and Pleasant Cigar try that CELEBRATED AND ORIGINAL JAEDECKE BROS.' HAVANA PLANTATION.. Cigar Has stood the test for fifteen, year• and is pronounced by judges as tine as ever. IS BTRICTLY A UNION HADE OIQAR. Beware of Imitations. Piatt also or a list. OPERA HOUSE ANDREW 8. QRENON. 8MSI WiMOH ELMER LIND9AY, Gmap U9Hmm On and after March 19th a Moving Picture Show will hold the boards each night in the week not otherwise taken. A new 1907 model machine will be used and a first-class weekly servrce of films will be furnished patrons. At 7:30 and 8:30 o'clock. Admission 10c. Reserved Seats 15 A fine list of attractions are billed for the near fnture at this popular play-house. Dr. Fred Stewart Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist OTreat*£ Bones Catiu AH calk promptly attended to, Day or Night Office at crnquist's Livery 'Phone 52