Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-01-01
Vertebrate.

Indiana Prohibs meet April Is, 16.
Philadelphia Prohibtionists have full
city ticket in the field.
Oregon Prohibtionists have nominated a
full state ticket. Election occurs in June
The National Temperance Society has re-
ceived a gift of $4,000 from Mr.. Carnegie.
Deacon H. w. Fuller the first settler at
Wadena, and a long time Prohibtionist is
dead.
Ex~State Chairman Britten of Michigan
has been engaged for two months work in
Wisconsin.
second Prohibition paper is about to be
issued in Iowa. We fear Il blunder is being
committed.
The next Worlds W. C. T. L. convention
will take place at Ottawa. The president,
Lady Henry Somerset, will attend.
The State committee now has ten people
engaged for work throughout the state and
expects to make additions to that number
this month.
Saloon anarchists shattered the plate
glass windows of Marcy & Andrews, Winnie
bago City Prohibitionists, who have aided
in prosecuting jointists
Sunday. Feb. 9, is the Day of Prayer for
students. Don't forget to pray that they
may both prove and develop their Christian
character by valiant service on the firing
line of opposition to the saloon.
DR.. S. c. Swallow has been unanimously
reelected, for the tenth time, superinten-
dent of the Methodist book rooms at Harris
burg. His new term begins in April, at
about the time of his church trial.
The new constitution of the NJ E. church
has been adopted and women are now eligi-
BILE to election to the General Conference.
Of the 20 conferences which voted against
adoption all but four were German, Swiss
or Danish.
DR.. w. H. Boles, of Illinois, has been
at work in Indiana nine weeks. Splendid re-
suits followed. He says he never saw a
better time to make votes. He goes next
to Kansas and May begins a series of tent
meetings in Minnesota.
Every state in the Union now has law
providing for scientific temperance instruc-
ton in the public schools. Georgia, the
into line These great truths are now
taught to about 100000 children
During the National w C. T. T. con-
vention at Fort WORTH Tex, the school
board made request for speakers to address
the children in all the school buildings of
. the city upon the use of the cigarette and
other subjects included in W. C. T. u
work.
Encouraged by the vote in November,
Chairman Atwood, of Virginia, plans a
larger work this year. o. C. Rucker late
candidate for governor, says: Il would
rather be the defeated candidate of the
PrOhibi ion party than be the Republican
or Democratic governor
Gustave Eide, working for the Scan
dnavian Total Abstinence Association,
thinks the extreme northwestern counties
a most fruitful field for effort. THE peo
pie want to hear the truth The State
Committee is also pushing into the ter
ritory where too little work has been done
heretofore.
Gov and Mrs. Shaw, of Iowa, have not
served intoXicants at their official dinners.
Washington wonders whether they will
continue their teetotal practices when they
remove to the Capital city, since the Presi-
dent serves wines at state dinners and his
cabinet follows suit, with the possible ex-
ception of Secretary Long.
Mrs. Ella Boole, Pres. n. Y. w. C. I. u,
observes that of so taking luncheons at
Demonicos forty five ordered liquors; that
of 100 taking luncheons at the Waldorf
Astoria, ninety-five drank liquors; Of eighty
five who lunched at O'Neil's, seventy-two
drank. Of sixty at Manhattan, forty drank
These are society ladies'
The Woolley Year Book for 1902 will
delight the many admirers of the great