Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-04-01
VERTEBRATE.


The Kentucky w. C. L. U. has forty -four
circulating Libraries going from point to
point.
The Chicago Great Western railroad has
forbidden employees to use liquor even when
off duty.
Secretary Calderwood recently organized
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
Union at Hutchinson.
If any one of our premiums ordered by
you should fail to reach you in good or
der, please advise US.
The legislature of Maine has over
whelmingly defeated a proposition to re-
submit the prohibitory amendment to the
people.
Every Prohibition city OF California made
a handsome gain in population since the
last census. Seven saloon cities suffered
losses.
The New Voice has changed it's Offices
to Hyde Park, Chicago. Increased business
compelled it to seek more commodious
quarters
Sunday school workers free sample copies of
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Quarterly.
The Ohio Inter Collegiate Prohibition As
ISOLATION expects to have fifty college men
in the field this summer. They will 60 out
in couples and triOs.
The Minneapolis Young Peoples Chris
tian Temperance Union has opened read
ing and recreation room at 14th avenue
South and Second street.
The national fund for 1901 now amounts
to $500. The national fund to be reserved
until the national campaign of 1904 has
nearly reached the $4,000 mark.
Miss Louise HOLSTER, vice president of
the Minnesota w. c. T. u, has been at
work in Missouri and filed several appoint
ments in Iowa on her trip homeward.
Methodist Sunday school papers and those
published by D. C. Cook will hereafter pro-
vide special temperance numbers at the
time of the quarterly temperance lesson.
Nine of the ten entertainments In the
next winters course of the st. Paul Y. M.
c. A. are already announced. They are first
class, of course. This is not pun, but
fact.
number of North Dakota w. C. T.
ton lists of varying length. e. s. Preston
is also keeping up a steady stream of sub
scriptions.
Monticello should have appeared in our
last issue in the list of towns which went
against license, instead of in the list of
license towns. Sec. Calderwood helped
achieve the victory.
Mrs. A. Hawley, Prohibition candidate for
mayor of Denver, polled 476 votes. The
Anti-Saloon League sent out circular letters
endorsing the Republican ticket. which as
usual represented license
The editor of Backbone has secured
enough at Cambridge and LIE Sueur to put
more than 200 copies Of our paper at each
of those places for year. They gave Wool
ley less than twenty votes each.
Pres. A. E. Coe. of the Wisconsin State
Epworth League, told the State convention
that church completely with the saloon is
the golden wedge in the camp that must he
taken out to escape the condemnation of
God.
The supreme court of Vermont has de-
clared constitutional the law which pro-
vides that a United States license for the
sale Of liquor is prima facie evidence that
the holder is a common liquor seller.
Glasses in temperance instruction have
been graduated at Madison, Belgrade and
Minneapolis this year under the auspices
Of the Scandinavian Total Abstinence As
sociations. These make seven graduating
classes and nearly 100 graduates to date.
Miss Belle Kearney, widely known in
W. c. T. U. circles, has returned from
tour of South Carolina. She writes the
Union Signal: 1.-THE dispensary has proved
to be an abomination. The people are be-
coming more and more Disguised with
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