Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-08-01
Vertebrae.
nominated July

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Mrs. Nation denies that she has be-
come a Dowieite.
North Dakota White Ribboners will
meet at Wahpeton Sept. 26-29.
Arkansas and Mississippi have lately
wheeled into line with new spirit.
Chenango county, Pa, has 81 Prohibi-
ton Alliances, one in each township.
Hennepin county held it's convention on
the 4th and Ramsey nominated on the oth'
The platform of the Peoples party OF
Minnesota declares for county option on
the saloon question.
Ex-state Chairman Britten Of Mich. is
assisting in holding county conventions IN
the Wolverine state.
At the Pennsylvania convention OF the
Prohibition party forty-six subscriptions
Of 500 each were made.
Our California workers have secured
$4,000 signatures to the nomination petit
tons, 5000 more than required by law.
John G. woolley will spend the first
ten days of Sept. in Pennsylvania ana
then visit Neb., South Dakota and Kan
sas.
Mrs. Nation was not the first saloon
smasher. Fifty years ago Mrs. Allie
Wells led her sisters on such raid IN
Illinois.
Auditor Castle Of the government postal
department and formerly Of st. Paul, IA
yors the issuance Of the proposed Post
Check currency.
VIM. Allen Of Leroy has paid $50 to the
State committee this year, making him.
so says Organizer ELAN, the largest CIV
er in the First district.
No bill will follow the receipt OF this
paper unless you ordered 1t. II you re-
ceive it regularly without having ordered
it, a friend has paid for its delivery.
The Iowa convention will take place at
Waterloo, Aug. 20, the California con-
yention at Los Angeles on the 9th, and
the Mass convention at Boston, Sept. 1.
The state w. G. T. U. convention will
take place at Redwood Falls Sept. 1913.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, North
Dakota's popular president, will be the
speaker.
'ePlease excuse stamps this time" So
writes one of Backbone's good friends.
No apology is necessary. One and two
cent stamps are always as good as cash
at this Office.
Rev, Stanley B. Roberts of Minneapolis
is booked to speak at the Silver Lake IN.
" Temperance assembly, at the Buffalo
District Free Methodist camp meeting,
and at other points in New York.
During the Cooperstown, N. D., fair
q =,
kept "open house. in a tent, ''ran" three
ice water barrels and distributed litera-
ture, including 500 copies Of our Patriotic
number.
The State Committee advises that,
when convenient, members Of the County
Committee be chairmen of the townships
or precincts in which they reside and that
township chairmen be members in coun-
ciT' of the County Committee.
Prohibitionists held sway at Henning
on the Glorious Fourth. Chairman Stew
art spoke in the forenoon and in the af-
ternoon gubernatorial nominee Scanlon
represented us in triangular political
debate and of course carried away the
persimmons.
The Republ1can convention OIL VeImonl'
which for many years has been prohi-
bition state, put high license and local
option plank into it's platform this year.
The "only party which ever did anything
for temperance is travelling down hill
at rapid gait.
Saloon anarchists set on fire the resi-
dence of R. E. Ridley, Of Estherville,
Iowa His wife, who is an invalid, was
awake, and aroused the family in time
to save the splendid home Mr.. Ridley
was among those who had sworn out
warrants against blind piggers.
One advantage of getting up a club for
Backbone is that many people will give
a solicitor their name Ito help you OUT