Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-05-01
VERTEBRATE.

When the PHILIPPINE children play Ameri-
cans, they stagger.
The Georgia Populist platform contains
prohibition plank.
The brewers seek a reduction of the tax
alton from $500 to $1OO a barrel.
The Delaware convention nominated R.
M. Cooper for governor and a full ticket
Pennsylvania will doubtless work for the
nomination of Dr.. S. C. Swallow for Pres
ident.
The Rams Horn, new subscription, $1.50,
and Backbone, new or renewal, both for
$3.50.
The Worlds Womans Christian Tempe
rance Union meets in Edinburgh Scotland,
June 1920.
The Minnehaha Club, of Chicago, will
support John G. Woolley for the presiden-
tial nomination.
Capt. W. c.. Dutton, P. G. c. T. of
Texas, is working for Good Templary in
Minnesota this month.
julius Fleischman, the millionaire dis
tiller of Cincinnati, was elected mayor on
the Republican ticket.
Miss Amanda Way, Of Boise, Idaho, was
nominated for representative to Congress
at the state Prohibition convention.
The Ravenswood, Chicago, Y. M. C. A.
will run temperance garden, where TEN
perance drinks will be sold at cost.
Conventions are being held in nineteen Of
Marylands twenty counties, preparatory to
the state convention on the 31st inst.
The Mankato Young Womans Christian
Temperance Union held membership con-
test, which resulted in over 100 members.
intercollegiate Prohibition contests in
oratory will take place in Ohio, Indiana,
Missouri and Michigan this and next
month.
H. w. Bankers Aesculapius will cure that
awful headache 25 cents By dealers, or
write the H. w. Barker Medical Co., Elbow
Lake, Mimi
It is probable that our nomination of
Prof 81. 81. Aaker for Congress from the
Seventh district will be endorsed by the
Peoples party.
DR.. II. A. Russell, Prohibition candidate
for mayor Of West Superior, Wis, re-
ceived 92S votes against $50 cast for the
head of the ticket last year.
The work of organizing Arizona, Idaho,
Wyoming and Utah, begun by Chairman
Stewart on his recent Western trip, is
being carried on successfully.
State Prohibition conventions will be
held in Ohio, May "a, Utah June 6, Colo
RADIO June s, Texas July 10, Pennsylvania
August and Wisconsin August %.
Chas. F. Bough, Prohibition mayor Of
East Liverpool O., was defeated for re-
election by vote of 1,7s1 to 1,1O2. The
Democratic candidate polled 1853 votes.
The Texas delegation to the national
convention will be headed by DR.. J. B.
Cranfill, editor Of the Baptist Standard,
who was our vice presidential candidate
in 1892.
wine and liquor merchants offer as an
inducement to family trade the delivery
of goods in unmarked wagons sign of
progress.
The grand lodge of Good Templars, in
Sweden, Is larger than that in any other
country and embraces about one-ffth of
the total membership of the order through
out the world.
The California convention adopted an
equal suffrage plank and asked the ma
tional convention to do the same. Cali
fornia will propose DR.. L. w. Elliott of
that state for vice president.
The pastors Of the Congregational and
Methodist churches Of Buena Vista, COL,
have been assaulted and knocked down by
saloon keepers because Of their activity in
the enforcement of liquor laws
In response to a petition signed by many
distinguished men, the Equitable Life In
surance Company has agreed to inaugu-
rate the British plan Of classifying abstain
ers separately, and giving them in rebates