Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-07-01
Vertebrate.
West Virginia IL being stirred up.


devote July to Wisconsin
Indianapolis is working hard to secure
the National convention Of 1904.
The total number of Prohibition Alli-
ances in the United States has passed the
HOO mark.
Minnehaha on the Fourth. Picnic din
ner and speeches galore.
The age limit has been eliminated from
the rules governing Demorest and w.
c. T. U. contests in defamation.
The Grand lodge Of Good Templars met
at the capitol June 10, 20. N. L. Moen
was reelected grand chief templar.
Gustav Eide 92O 14th Ave. South, Min
neapolis, is the new secretary of the
Minnesota Total Abstinence Association.
National Chairman Stewart has been
nominated for the lower house Of the ILL
nois legislature. He will make a lively
fight.
Virgil C. Hinshaw, national treasurer
Of the intercollegiate Prohibition .Asso-
citation will fll some dates in North Da-
kota this month.
In Kansas last December there were
over $S7. 900, 900 in the banks Of the State
five times as much as when Prohibition
went into effect
The New Voice Washington bureau Sc
cured convictions in both cases against
the keepers Of blind pigs in the National
Capitol building.
The ninth annual convention Of the
South Dakota Scandinavian Total Absti-
nence Association takes place at Airing
ton, July "a.
Theodore E. Ostlund, Hillsboro, has
been elected state chairman Of North Da-
kota. The state convention will take
place at Hillsboro Aug. 5.
In many counties Illinois Prohibitionists
are hopeful of capturing some of the
county offices and some legislative can
didates will put up big fight.
Sheriff Pearson, the Prohibition party
for Portland Me-, blind piggers, was re
nominated for sheriff Of Cumberland
County by reclamation.
Venerable DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler wrote
the Presbyterian General Assembly:
tagonize the devil in decanter or
dramshop as in gambling den or Hin
doc temple of idolaters.'
About fifty county conventions of the
Prohibition party will take place in New
York this month and next: Chairman
Scott of Chenango county is visiting every
town in the county with wagon, speak
ers and musicians.
Henry B. Metcalf, who ought to have
been elected Vice President, accompanied
his contribution to our columns this
will send Backbone to a dozen homes for
year. Go thou and do likewise.
In anticipation Of the coming Of the
Pennsylvania convention the mayor of
New Castle issued a proclamation request
ing all the citizens to decorate thei!
places OF business and on every side flags
were displayed with the word Welcome"
on them.
The Prohibition Assembly at Heiberg
course the debate Between National
Chairman Stewart, representing US, J.
Adam Bede the Republicans and Judge
]. w Willis the Democrats, was walk
over for Mr.. Stewart.
The Order 0P F,e eyIan has IlIst baI6 ifs
national convention at Minneapolis. The
Commercial Club refused to recognize or
aid it in any way; It is stated on ex-
celent authority that the reason given
vas that the trade in intoxieants ia detri-
mental to legitimate business interests.
The. National convention Of the Inter
collegiate Prohibition Association, held at
Lincoln, Neo.,, June 4-6, was the most
successful yet held. Ten states from
New York to Oregon and including Min
nesota were represented in the oratorieal
ray Of talent. Jas. w. Durham, Univ. of
Chicago, won the first prize of SITS. A
further report next month.
DR.. Swallow and Presiding Elder Yocum
have united in public statement with
atatements and pubIiesions derogatory
to the character or reputation" Of each.
The doctor has decided that he will not
the verdict rendered at the Central Penn
sylvanis ID. E. Conference which ordered
him to be openly reproyed by Bishop
Walden
President Roosevelt has been requested
10 submit the anti-canteen law to the
atty. general to ascertain If it does not
prohibit the beer selling eanteens in SOL
diers' homes. Last year the United
States government sold to the old soldiers
at the soldiers homes more than $780, 600
gallons Of beer for which the crippled
boys in blue paid 1852, 900 out Of their
pension money. This is a disgrace to the
people Of q Christian nation who permit
this wholesale robbery Of the old soldiers
and make them drunk by selling them
beer.
Mrs. Nation lectured at Minneapolis, |
Fergus Falls, Crookston and other Min
nesota cities. She gave an interesting
account of her smashing tours and de-
Tended smashing on the ground that God
had commanded believers to smash idols |