Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1899-11-01
VERTEBRATE.


The manager took eighty subscriptions at
the Northern MINI. M. e. conference.
We will send copies OF any Issue at $1.OO
per hundred, to the same or different ad-
dresses.
Miss Hattie F. Garvin, author Of the Min
nesota w. c. T. U. hymn, has removed to
Helena, Montana.
Please don't consider a bill Tor your sub
scription as a mere statement of account"
We need the money.
The Merriam Park Presbyterian church
burned it's mortgage. Our D. w. Doty Is
president of the Board Of trustees.
Fergus Falls mas ordered all saloon blinds
down during closed hours This is to ia
cilitate the detection Of law violation.
A Baptist church is under way at Che
new. L. Buck writes that its friends hope
to dedicate it to Prohibition as well as to
Gospel work.
Those willing to aid the million vote
movement should address the Supt. Million
Vote Dept, Y. P. C. T. u, 515 N. w. Bldg,
Minneapolis.
The Lady Somerset w. c. T. U. will try
to secure in the new charter OF st. Paul a
provision giving women the franchise In
school affairs.
All amounts due US on subscription are
small If therefore our subscribers should
delay to send us the small amounts due
US, nothing would come
At the recent session of the Illinois Grand
Lodge Knights of Pythias the resolution to
debar saloon keepers from membership was
yotod down nv large majority.
A preacher at Lester Prairie attempted
to call down our ]. w. Leedy on his view
Of Brother McKinley's canteen. He didn't
have an overwhelming success.
More than two dozen blind piggers, boot
leegers and gamblers were informed against
during the past month by men engaged by
the North Dakota Enforcement League.
One and two cent postage stamps are as
good as cash at this Office. We use large
quantities of them and can easily sell hun
dreds of dollars worth at par. Sendem-
along.
The C. M. & ST. P. railway has decided
not to remove Mr.. Peck, their agent at
Dodgeville, Wis, whose removal was called
for by the friends of the saloonites whom
he had prosecuted.
Rev. and Capt. ]. G.. Morrison, of the
18th MINI. Volunteers, is delivering his
popular lecture, "What Can Lick the Unit
ed states?'' Apply to sec Calderwood, 322
Hennepin ave-, Minneapolis.
Joseph B. Greenhut, of Peoria, the boss
distiller and ex-President Of the whisky
trust, whose guest Mr.. Mckinley was on
his recent Western tour, was also on the
proc;dont,s camnaipn committee in 1896.
From the governmental treasury report 1T
appears that of the total merchandise
shipped to Manila by us in a single month,
nearly one-fourth of it, measured by money
value. consisted of alcoholic liquors.
There are all sorts of postmasters- good
and ignorant-just as there are all kinds Of
other people. If you want to stop your
paper do not depend on your postmaster to
return copy to us. Please drop us pos
tai card.
A recent number of the liquor dealers
Minnesota organ contains an attempted
roast for O. M. Levang, editor Of the Lanes
boro Leader, for refusing saloon advertise
ments. We hope our brother Of the gn'!l
appreciates the compliment.
The next convention of the National
Equal Suffrage Association will be held
Feb 9Th to 14th, inclusive, in Washington,
d. C. The day Immediately following con-
vention, Feb 18th, is Miss Anthony's, the
national presidents SOth birthday, and will
be cele brated in manner worthy the &C.
casion.
The St. Paul Central Prohibition Club
rerently expressed it's appreciation OF the
resolutions on the liquor issue adopted by
the Minnesota Baptist and Methodist con-
ferences. 1t also sent words. Of cheer to
Rev. Messrs. Riley, Leach, Clevenger and
Jones for their incorporating stand at