Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1901-03-01

Nation. Rams Horn.
Manila has w. c. T.. q.
Chicago Prohibitionists have full city
ticket in the field.
'Things whoopingn writes ]. NJ. ELAN,
First District Organizer.
Ohio reports 1O,34S saloons in 1900 as
compared with 9,872 In 1899.
Denver Prohibitionists have nominated
city ticket composed entirely Of women.
An electric tower 391 feet high will be
the centerpiece of the Pan-American Ex-
position
Visiting $4,000 families, Backbone Is an
excellent advertising medium. Adyertis-
ing rates on application.
OF SO eases Of wife beating, before the
one was due to the husbands drinking.
land, Me-. jail, under the Prohibition party
Sheriff Pearson, decreased from 149 to
President Scovell of the State w. c. T.
q. has organized six new unions and taken
In over 100 new members in the past six
weeks.
About 1000 woolley inaugurals were
one and two thousand dollars to the ma
tional fund.
Florida gave Woolley 1924 votes for
President This Is ST per cent Of the
total vote of the state. Florida already
leads the nation and promises still better
things
A correspondent writes that Of flour
ishing Good Templar lodge in a certain
Minnesota village only one member voted
II true. $50 M ~ ply
The Dawson and Kimball W. C. T.
Unions have materially increased their
numbers by membership contests, the los
ing side providing the program for public
meeting.
1t now appears that the saloon fight
keepers wife was killed was not Of the
Mrs Nation order, but grew out Of a
feud between the saloonkeeper's family and
another family.
the SUPPLEMENTARY department Of the
National Educational Association present
ed It's report at the Chicago convention
ity has been found to maintain that alcohol
was food" The report was adopted.
The burning Of the Window block, Min
neapolis, brought out the fact that this
building which shelters the Q. s. Wine
Fletcher and others This Is the precious
gentleman whom several thousands of the
Christian citizens Of Minneapolis love to
vote for to send to Congress.
int fhSL W udyS COICSG HFOulUlClOu
clubs have been organized at the State Ag-
ricultural School, Mankato Normal School,
Carleton Manchester, Parker Gustayus
Adolphus and St. Olaf colleges and at
Hamline University. Pilsbury Academy
was already In line Several Of these
clubs will compete for oratorieai honors at
Minneapolis May a. half days con-
ference will be held in connection with the
contest. The winner in the contest will
represent Minnesota in the national con-
test at Buffalo, N. z, early In August.
At the same date will occur the National
Prohibition Conference. Advantage may
be taken Of the low rates to the Pan
American Exposition .fl.
Backed by the national committee the
state committees Of Idaho, South Dakota
and other Western states and territories
are putting organizers into the field Vol
ney B. Cushing Is putting Connecticut
into. better shape. Texas Is doing some
National Chairman Stewart is hard at
work In the far west.-s,Iowa is working
the Indiana plan. Michigan expects a
rousing convention. Over 200 attended
the State Conference at Baltimore last
month. The state convention will meet
August 6. Our work Is moving finely In
Kentucky. Indiana's fund now amounts
to $500. Ohio Prohibitionists will hold
their convention May IL and 16. Iowa
Prohibitionists will convene at Des Mofnes
May 30 and 81.