Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1902-02-01
Vertebrate.


chairman.
The Kansas supreme court has dismissed
all the cases against Mrs. Nation.
The state w. C. T. U. convention will
take place at Redwood Falls in September.
Rev. W. n. Boles will attend Indiana
county conventions Feb. "a, to April IA.
The National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton meets in Washington, D. c., Feb. r.
10.
A bill has been introduced in the House
providing for the restoration Of the can
teen.
The International Supreme Lodge, I. o.
G. T., meets at Stockholm, Sweden, in
July.
The postage bill of the National Commit
tee amounted to several thousand dollars
last year.
Over LOCO Kansas City voters have sign
ed an agreement to vote the Prohibition
county ticket
Statistics show that in Germany $1,000
persons annually receive treatment for de-
lrium tremens.
John Turnbull, one Of "our men," was the
founder and first president Of the Southern
Minnesota Beekeepers' Association.
Bishop Coleman, Episcopal, says that
drunkenness is on the decrease among
men, but on the increase among women.
Maryland has established a state paper,
1.-THE Issue" A conference and banquet
at Baltimore, Feb Is, will start the years
. work in that state.
Illinois raised $4,000 last year. Chair
man Hale johnson asks 1000 this year to
keep II men in the field and one-third to
go for literature.
The Medical Times mentions 127 can
GERS cut from the lips, nearly all from the
lips of smokers. 1t is said that King Ed
ward has cancer.
The fifth annual convention of the Young
Peoples Prohibition Leagues Of New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania will meet in
New York City, April 5.
At the end of Fred. E. Britten's first
week in Wisconsin, he sent the state COM
mittee $40 above his salary and expenses
Ohio Convention in April
There are 81 900 Christian EndeavOr So
cieties with a membership Of 1890, 900.
Suppose that every member were up and at
it against the saloon! That day is coming.
Presbyterian pastors in Chicago are form
ing league to take a hand in politics this
winter, with a view to nominating legisla-
tive candidates who will vote for temper
ance laws.
And now it is the Iowa Commonwealth
which says that $4,000 are due it on back
subscriptions and renewals. To change
that condition is the first duty of Iowa
Prohibitionists.
Subscriptions to Backbone are payable in
advance. A marked notice in a subscriber
paper may therefore mean-not necessarily
that he is in. arrears-but only that his
renewal is due.
Abraham Lincoln's old home in Ken
lucky, the farm on which he was born
and where his earliest years were spent,
Is to be turned into a resort for the cure
of the incorporate.
Much of the prohibition work done in
Brooklyn, N. Y, is carried one by the
Young Peoples Prohibition League. Par
lor conferences and public debates are
among it's features.
Three Illinois cites are competing for the
next State Prohibition convention. All
have offered free halls and headquarters
and one a cash bonus. Fifteen hundred
delegates attended last year.
The w. c. T. U. observes Feb. II as Miss
Wizards Heavenly Birthday" Every
union is expected to hold a meeting on or
about that day, and is asked to contribute
So to the Willard Memorial Organizing
Fund.
The object Of medal contests Is to edu-