Bygones: 100 years ago, a $10,000 pipe organ dedicated in Virginia

Information Tribune, March 24, 1983

• Duluth may obtain as much as $8.4 million for airport and freeway building work underneath the federal public works jobs invoice nonetheless awaiting Home approval. Underneath the invoice, Northeastern Minnesota would obtain at the very least $10 million for tasks, together with $1 million for Hibbing’s airport.
• This summer season, a Duluth engineering agency will conduct exams on 5 potential landfill websites to search out one to interchange the Rice Lake landfill north of Duluth. A citizen’s advisory committee has advisable potential websites to the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District’s board.

Information Tribune, March 24, 1923

• The Western Sugar Home Inc., the primary unique sugar wholesaler on the Head of the Lakes, has been established by a bunch of Duluth males. The corporate can be positioned within the new McDougall Terminal constructing at Eighth Avenue West and the waterfront.
• A full week of actions will mark the dedication of the brand new Virginia Presbyterian Church in Virginia, starting with preliminary companies tomorrow morning. Dedication of the $10,000 pipe organ, a present of the A.B. Coates household, will happen tomorrow night.

Bygones is researched and written by David Ouse, retired reference librarian from the Duluth Public Library. He may be contacted at djouse49@gmail.com.