Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1898-07-01
PROGRESS OFTHE MOVEMENT.

PROGRESS OF THE MOYErlENT.
.C.F Dyksmaa has been elected g. W. c. T. of
Minnesota.
Mrs. Edison, wife of the great inventor, is pro-
minent in the w. C. T. U.
The North and West, Presbyterian, has opened
q temperance department.
June % was w. C. T. U. day at the Red Rock
State Camp Meeting
The legality of the British House of Commons
bar is being tested in the courts.
Secretary w. G.. Calderwood's address is 5l5
Northwe stern Building. Minneapolis.
The circulation of B c k b 0 is coming
right along. r. U. doing anything to help 1T
The Polk county grand jury brought in fifteen
indictments against Crookston saloon keepers
Marshall Field has extended the limit OF his con-
ditional pledge to the Temperance Temple to Jan.
The new law will increase the revenue from the
liquor traffic some $3O,OOo,O0O. til the price OF
blood.
The National Temperance Hospital is to be call
ed the Frances E. Willard National Temperance
Hospital.
Cadet VIM. s. Pye, grandson of Dr.. w. W. Sat
terlee is home from Annapolis on leave OF ab-
sencs until Oct 1.
we prohibit the landing of psupers on our
shores, but legalize 100000 pauper manufactures
right here at home.
Samuel H. Bloom, president of the Chicago
Young Peoples Baptist Union, has come out for
the Prohibition party.
The public schools of St. John, Kans., under the
direction of the principal, are holding temperance
and prohibition oratorical contests
HIM. Clinton, the Prohibition candidate for
Governor of Oregon, received 2l13 votes. Lever
ing received 919 votes for President
More than fifty Pennsylvania weekly papers
have agreed to publish campaign news furnlsneo
them by the Prohibition state committee
The Hamline Prohibition Club will hold Had
dock mem orial meeting Aug. 8, the anniversary Of
tbeprobibition martyrs death. A good idea
The National W. C. T. U. Convention will take
Mace at the Peoples Church, St. Paul, Nov. II te
16 The local committees are pushing the ar
rangements.
The Epworth Herald, which is the best piece o.
newspaper property in the M. E. church, Is tn
most radical of the Methodist official papers OF
the liquor question.
In the early fall the Canadian government VII
take a Plebiscte of the voters of the Dominion OF
the prohibition question. The riders proposed D.
the liquorites were rejected.
The Kentucky W. c. T. U. presented Christin
Bradley, daughter of the Governor, with magnl
fcent silver service in appreciation OF her chris
tening the battleship Kentucky with water.
Army medical examiners say that outslde OF Gig
arctic smokers, there are fewer reflections than
the War of the Rebellion. Yet they are rejsctin
three times as great proportion of the applicant
as then.
Mary H. Hunt, Superintendent of Scientific Ten
perance instruction of the Worlds and Nations
w. 1T u, warns school boards against ove
tons Advanced Physiology as legally and moral
defective.
The state executive committee of the Nebrask
Christian Endeavor Union has voted to withdra
their exhibit from the Exposition grounds, basin
this action on the liquor selling and Sunday opel
ing features.
convention of Massachusetts, ministers vote
to make the temperance cause special feature
their work this year. The resoluti ms declare thu
'the pulpit is especially responsible for the kin
of moral sentiment that prevails
The Chicago Young Peoples Christian Tempe
ance Union held patriotic concert in the gre
auditorium for the benefit of the Temperance Ter
ple A chorus of 800 young men and women, q
total abstainers, was an attractive feature.