Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-08-01
VERTEBRATE.

"A great paper!' Frank McAully, Ray
mond, Ill.
Sam Small is speaking for the party in
Pennsylvania.
New Jersey has five Prohibition party
organizers at work.
An organizer is at work in each of five
of Iowas seven districts.
Colorado women may vote, but are not
allowed to drink in barrOoms.
Duluth will be the first city in the state
to try the primary election law as 1T now
stands
The 2sth annual convention of the Ma
tonal w. c. L. u, Fort Worth, Texas,
November 1920.
OF the sixty members composing the
board of aldermen of N. Y. city, thirteen
are liquor dealers.
The Sacred Thirst Total Abstinence
Society (Catholic) of st. Paul. is fighting
the sale of liquor to children
The Dominion Temperance Alliance of
Canada refused to commend either the
&othenburg or dispensary system.
Father Zurcher, Buffalo, N Y, Roman
Catholic priest, has been driven from his
parish for opposing saloon influence:
The Fargo Forum says there is little hope
for resubmission of the prohibitory consti-
tutional amendment in North Dakota.
The Free Baptist, of Minneapolis, is a
red-hot foe of the saloons Its editor, Rev.
r. X. KEENAN,, is voting Prohibitionist.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that
nearly every person taken to the city hos
pital, prostfated by the heat, was a steady
drinker.
Virginia Prohibitionists have nominated
state ticket since our last issue. The
Prohibition party will reunite the North
and South.
The anti-canteen law did not abolish the
post exchange, but only the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors there and on other military
reservations
Rev. Stanley B. Roberts, while on his
Pan. trip, made several speeches in New
York state, his old battle-ground, where he
is in high repute.
In Illinois 2,4OO people have contributed
$500 for state and district Prohibition
party work this year. One-ffth of the con-
tributors are women.
More than 800 of the boys at the naval
training station at Newport, Va, have
signed the temperance pledge and wear the
naval temperance button.
A movement is on foot in the Wesleyan
Methodist church, England, to refuse office
to anyone directly engaged in the liquor
trade. Rather slow, those people over
there.
The Southern Pacific railroad, which some
time since closed the saloons at it's sta
tions has now closed the bars upon it's
ferry boats in San Francisco and San Pablo
bays.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union OF
America now numbers 85,441 members in
past year has been 4,19O members and 90
new unions
New South Wales has agreed to have
Temperance wall sheets hung up in the ele-
mentary schools, which give uncompromis-
ing testimony against the use of any in
toxicating drinks
Not less than $4,000 are due the New
Voice in small sums from people scattered
throughout the country. This is what
drives Prohibition papers, one after an
other, to the wall.
C. NJ Way, a we'll known Prohibitionist
has been appointed one Of the two receivers
of the T. M. Roberts Supply House, Mime
apolis, assigned. The business is going on
under direction Of the receivers.
Archbishop Ireland told the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America, in
session at Hartford, that it was no longer
true that their church contained larger
proportion of drinkers than do Others
The Knights Of Columbus, one Of the
strongest Of the fraternal societies of the
Catholic church, has begun movement to
expel all liquor men from it's ranks, while
the Catholic Foresters have voted to ad-
NIT them.
The N. D. w. c. T. U. this year had a
commodious tent at the DEVILS Lake Chau-
tauqua. Ten thousand pages Of literature
were distributed. Miss Belle Kearney,
Mississippis charming orator, will soon
visit the state.