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VOL. 14. 4* 4* 3 -V ITO \I & itt to IH HH A Bttsy Hardware Store —-—"p ~z M-P-•' 81 4 A 5Hi" i". «1 iterr^t:- 1 BECAUSE 44 BECAUSE BECAUSE 4* And a Popular Trading Place BECAUSE TUB VIRGINIA Our Stock to select from is the largest, newest and most up-to-date. Our prices are the proven lowest in the city. Buying easy, pleasant and profitable here. We appreciate your trade $ and try hard to merit it. 4 j(i)t44i|u)i{k)uf4u|M)4 »4MM444IH4IH» X. C. OSBORN. W. S. POLLOCK. Virginia Foundry & Machine Co., FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS. Smoke Stacks. Iron and Brass Castings. Heavy Forgings. New Dipper Teeth. Dipper Teeth Re-Steeled. Prompt attention to all repairs. Car Wheels and Axels in Pairs or Setts. TELEPHONE NO. 43. VIRGINIA, MINN. Groceries Staple and Fancy. W.B. PRATT & CO. A WILL REBUILD CHURCH OF BRICK. M. E. Society Will Replace Burned Ed ifice With Modern Structure. At a meeting of the official board and other members of the M. E. So ciety held at the close of the even ing services at the Fay Opera on Sunday last, it was practically de cided to keep pace with the march ot improvement so apparent in Vir ginia and replace the burned church structure with a handsome solid brick edifice, to be erected at an es timated cost of approximately $10, 000. 1 This amount is but about one third higher than the Society had figured for a new frame structure to replace the building destroyed, work on this proposed structure having been commenced some time ago and the basement of which is now complete. The local M. E. Society has been greatly increased in membership during the past year, and under the energetic leadership of the Rev. H. A. Logan, pastor, they will have an edifice which will be the peer ot any house of worship on the iron ranges. In the meantime the Society will hold its services in the Fay Opera House, where all will be made cor dially welcome. Nothin' Doin*. The city fathers enjoyed a respite Tuesday evening from the usual ar duous labors which mark their reg ular meeting nights, but little aside from routine business demanding their attention. Sealed bids for the construction ot a lateral sewer in District No. 3F were called for, to be submitted at the meeting of the council on the 6th of November. This sewer will connect the new Johnson school building and intermediate property to the west along its course with the main sewer. A resolution for this improvement was vetoed by the mayor earlier in the season, but his action was reconsidered in the face of statements made by members of the school board that unless such improvement was provided by the time of the completion of the school that the building would not be oc cupied until sewer connections were furnished. And even a blind man must recognize, if he has hold of the reins, that public opinion is stronger than the pull of a mule. A resolution accepting the spec ial assessment tax-roll for 1906 was accepted, and a copy of same or dered filed with the county auditor. An arc lamp was ordered install ed on Central avenue at the inter section of Hemlock street. The street commissioner was in structed to build a cross-walk at the intersection of Cleveland avenue and Spruce street. A request from the library board for a cross-walk for the accommo dation of patrons of the library was brought up no definite action tak en aside from an understanding that a temporary crossing would be provided when occasion required. The special Assessment for paving and street improvements, etc., will come up for hearing at a meeting to be held on Thursday evening next, October 18th. If you area realty-holder on Chestnut street or in the city you have an interest in this session. County Fair Gets $250 Approuriation. County Commissioner Ryan, of Hibbing, at the meeting of the board of county commissioners on Tuesday, was granted an appropria tion of $250 for the St. Louis County Agricultural Society of Hibbing. The first annual fair just closed at that point was a decided success, but owing to the large initial ex pense the society is-in need of coin. The resolution appropriating the sum provides that the treasurer of the agricultural society shall certi fy receipted bills to the county to prove that $800 was expended by the society in premiums, before the ap propriation becomes available. Buys Duluth Home. P. H.Nelson,a well known mining man of Hibbing, has purchased the dwelling of E. F. Sweeney at 1400 E. Superior street, Duluth. Mr. Sweeney was a former resident of this city, moving to Duluth some four years ago. He has since be come interested in the Arizona copper fields, and moved his family to California. During a recent visit to the range he disposed of his local realty holdings on Wyoming avenue and Magnolia street t6 T. ID. Sullivan. VIRGINIA, ST. LOUIS COUNTY. MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1906. TRYING TO INTRODUCE STEEL TIES. Carhegie Company Interesting Range Roads in This New Departure. An effort is being made by the Carnegie Steel company, with which the Oliver Iron Mining company is assbciated in the United States Steel corboration, as well as other roads, in ftteel ties, and the company will hafe an exhibit of steel rails and Du^uesne rail-joints at the Ameri ca^ Street Railway Convention at Columbus, Ohio, on October 15-19. A considerable amount of steel crdbs-ties is in use in England and EuVope, but this country has been sloW to adopt them. While it is said thd proportion of steel ties used in other countries has kept up well within late years, the fact that those countries do not build as much mileage as is built in the United Stdtes may indicate that the use of thd new tie is not greatly on the inr crease. A considerable amount of Mesaba ore is used in making steel ties for us€i in foreign countries, which adds a tinge of local interest to the prop osition. Just A Minnesota Winter. ""the farmer who makes the weath er a study finds that the clouds"are floating high, the geese flying high er tyan usual, and the polecat dis playing a familiarity that he has not betrayed for the past ten years. There isn't the least doubt but that we are in for a regular old buster, and the man who pays his debts this fall may have reason to regret it before the spring sunshine makes him forget that his house ever was covpred with snow." The speaker has counted about as maqy winters in Minnesota as any one and he had an interested audi ence when he commenced his ora tion on the weather. "AH the one-eyed owls," he con tini^ed, "are leaving the country a month earlier than usual and the bob-tailed squirrels are laying in a Store of cabbage as well as nuts for th^ winter. The farmer who haa taken the trouble to notice has found that all toad stools on the old logs have wrinkles in them, and the last time this happened we had winter weather that froze the han-. dies off the plows. Rabbits are sit ting around with a humped up look to th^em, and the field mice have wrinkles in their tails. If this means anything it means 40 below and lots of it. Cows are hunting aro.und to find pieces of flannel to wrap up their tails and corn husks area foot and a half thick. All the geese, ducks and chickens are grow ing fur under their feathers as well as rubbing borax on their feet to harden them. It is simply going to be a hummer, and show me the man that disputes it." And the small crowd of corn-cob pullers that had congregated on the curbstone to watch Paddy McDon nel's automobile make one last des perate effort to escape from the mudidy, mirey depths of Chestnut stre/it to get out of the way of the concrete mixing crew nodded an as sent of approval, poked their hands a few degrees farther into their pockets and attested the fact that they were all Michiganders by let ting loose of a cloud of Peerless smoke that oblitereted the dying rays of the sun and caused Super intendent Kennedy to turn on the electric lights full thirty minutes early. M. E. Church Services, at Opera House ClasB meeting, 9:30. a. m. Preach ing at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sun day school, 11:45. Epworth League, 6:30. EVENING SERVICE. Hymn ... Congregation Prayer Pastor Solo Star of the East Miss Anna L. Cotton. Scripture Reading Antbem "Gently Lead Us" Adams Ohoir. Announcements and Offering Male Quartette Selected Messrs. Sarff, Tretheway, Lien. Dunsmore fiymn Congregation Sermon—ftehemiah-Rebuilding the Walls of Jerusalem Pastor Solo—"A Dream of Paracllse" Hamilton Gray Mr. H. Ti Hare. Hymn Congregation Benediction HENRY A. LOGAN,Pastor. Will Build Big Mill at Ranier. It is given out that the Virginia Lumber Company will shortly com mence work on the construction of a mammoth sawmill and planing mill at Ranier, the new town on the Rainy River where the Rainy Lake railway will cross into Canada. Historical Society STEEL CORPORATION GETS HILL LANDS Minimum Output of Ore to be 750,000 Tons, With Annual Increase* The formal transfer of the Hill ore properties Minnesota, which has been pending for many months, was closed on Friday last, at a confer ence of representatives of the inter ests concerned, held at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. in New York. The terms of the transfer as an nounced are based on a system of royalties, and give no indication of the amonnt of ore to be taken out of the lands except to show that it is expected to be many millions of tons. The price to be paid for the first year of the lease is $1.65 per ton de livered at upper Lake Superior ports, but this price is to be in creased three-fourths of a cent per ton in each succeeding year until the ore bodies shall have been ex hausted. It is provided that the steel corporation must take at the least 750,000 tons inl907and increase the amount mined by 750,000 tons a year for eleven years, until the amount mined annually has reach ed 8,250,000 tons, at which rate the ore must continue to be taken an nually until the mines are exhaust ed. The magnitude ot this transaction and its effect upon the properties concerned as well as upon the iron and steel trade of the country is in dicated by the fact that the Hill ore holdings have been estimated at from 400,000,000 to 700,000,000 tons. The properties included in the deal are said to be second in importance and extent only to the Lake Super ior mines already controlled by the United States steel corporation, and it is said the transaction will fur nish the steel corporation with a supply of ore for the next 50 years, The location of the major portion of the Hill ore deposits is in the district between Nashwauk and the Diamond mine, although the Hill interests own isolated deposits the entire length of the range, as far east as MesataThree such, prop erties are included in the Virginia district, lying to the west and north of the.Sauntry, and while by some the fear is expressed that the acqui sition of these lands will tend to furl her curtail work on the fee prop erties of the steel corporation it is unlikely the deal will affect the sta bility of any range point. To Telephone Users. Following is a list of new sub scribers and changes in the Direc tory Dist of the Mesaba Telephone Co. since July 15th. Kindly cut out and paste in your Directories. It will greatly assist the.service if you will call by number: Mrs. R. Bodoh, residence 243 C. A. Cameron, residence .242 H. B. .Chase, residence 225 Cole & McDonald, machine shop 232 L. L. Fiandt, residence _._244 City of Virginia, fire hall 240 Franklin School 114 Fred Jenkins, residence 205 J. K. Tonolli, residence 150 2 R. J. McGhee Co 23 Ransome Metcalfe, residence..247 Minnesota Dry Goods Co. 245 Wm. Moore, residence 124 Norman McDonald, residence 53 Dr. R. P. Pearsall, residence 210 S. Oberg, grocer ...108 Primary School _____142 W. L. Smith, residence 229 A. Tiesse, residence 212 Terrell & Stevens 235 Virginia Light & Water Co. office 241 Virginia Star 1 255 H, G. Waters, residence 139 K1 W. W. Woodward, residence...206 F. C. Whiting, residence 206 Mesaba Meat Market 34 L. Olson & Co. meat market 223 Central School. 69 Rev. J. I. Fadum, residence __.__82 Pitt Iron Mining Co. C. E. Moore, residence 76 L2 Carl Nelson, residence 204 Minnesota Land & Construction Co. Round House 100 1 ring Minnesota Land & Construction Co. Dispatcher's Office 100 2 rings James Sullivan, residence 329 Dr. S. D. Sour, residence ..132 4 Puts in Hot Water Plant. J. F. Mitchell, the genial proprie tor of the Hotel Mitchell, improves that popular hostelry by putting in a commodious basement and a hot water heating plant. Since opening his house in. May last Mr. Mitchell has enjoyed a pleasing patronage, and all have a word of deserved praise for his hospitality and ac commodations. ^INNSZSOTa MSTORICAL SOCIETY. NO. 35. WILL TOUR RANGES NEXT WEEK. Hon. A. L. Cole and Other Prominent Republicans to Address Voters. Hon. A. L. Cole, of Walker, Repub lican nominee for governor, accom panied by U. S. Senator Mose E. Clapp and Congressman J. Adam Bede, and other prominent Repub lican leaders, will make a tour of the iron ranges the coming week, being scheduled for addresses in this city, Hibbing, Chishoim, Eve leth, Ely and Winton, as well as sev eral of the smaller towns. The party will leave Duluth on on the morning of the 17th, stop ping first at Eveleth. From there they come to this city for the even ing, at the Fay Opera. The follow ing afternoon and evening address es will be delivered at Chishoim and Hibbing. Friday will be spent by the party at Vermilion range points, and on Saturday the candi date will make two speeches in Du luth. Senator Clapp and Congress man Bede will also address these meetings. It had been expected that Senator Nelson would come to St. Louis county, but it was given out Tues day that the program hnd been bo altered as to permit Senator Clapp to be heard here instead of Senator Nelson. Johnson's Pigeons Got the Money. Alfred Johnson, the local pigeon fancier who had an exhibit at the Hibbing fair, copped out a nice bunch of prize money and received many compliments for his birds. Mr. Johnson was awarded blue and red ribbons on his Fantails 1st prize on Pouters 1st prize on Car riers 1st prize on Trumpeters 1st prize on Homers let prize on Black Turbits 2nd prize on Red Turbits 1st prize on Black Magpies 2nd prize on Red Magpies 2nd prize on Jacobins 2nd prize on Barbs and 3rd prize on Owls. Mr. Johnson has many varieties and several hundred birds, and can fill any orders received. Looking for Bigger Game. The Victor football team of Super ior is anxious to arrange a game with the Virginia High School team to be played at Virginia next Satur day, the manager, C. Smith, having sent a communication to that effect to the sporting editor of the News Tribune. Having defeated the fast Cloquet team last Saturday by the decisive score of 18 to 0, it feels nerved to tackle bigger game in the hope of evening things up.—Duluth News Tribune. Lath Mill Reopened. The big lath mill of the Virginia Lumber Company which has been closed for several weeks owing to a shortage in the visible supply of lath timber, was reopened Monday. During the enforced idleness of the plant a considerable amount of lath timber has been banked, and it is expected the supply can njow equal the demand throughout the winter. Athletic Association Ball. Invitations will issue today for a dance under the auspices of the Roosevelt High School Athletic As sociation on Friday evening next, October 19th. Flaaten's Orchestra has been en gaged for the occasion, and the young men will endeavor to 'see that each and every guest of the evening has an enjoyable time. Attends Meeting of the Synod. Rev. H. E. Neff, of the Cleveland Avenue Presbyterian Church left the fore part of the week for Minne apolis, where he attends the annual meeting of the synod of the state. On his way to Minneapolis Rev. Neff was the guest, for a day, of Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Jamieson, at Duluth. Episcopal Church. Next Sunday, the eighteenth Sun day after Trinity, there will be di vine services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 9:30 p. m. The service will be a special Harvest Festival, and all are cordially invited to be present. Sunday School will meet at 12:00 o'clock, noon. Presbyterian Church. Sunday School at noon. Christian Endeavor at 6:45 Mr. O. Infelt, lead er. Sermons by the pastor at 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. All are cordially invited. Read the ads. in the Enterprise, and get wise on where to do your trading. 1