Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-04-01
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shalltown May q, %.
The national w. C. T. U. convention
will occur at Cincinnati Nov 1918.
There will be w. C. T. u Institute
at Chatauqua, Devils Lake, N. D., July
10-17.
The general Total Abstinence Society
100, 900. 'eiDei siip = i'lA y oVei
Medal Contests in prohibition oratory
are scoring great successes throughout
Canada.
The International Anti-Alcohol Con-
gress convened Easter week in Bremen,
Germany.
Wisconsin Prohibition Alliances will con-
vene at Camp Cleghorn Assembly, Wau
paca, in August.
With the single exception of Bangor,
the blind pigs of Maine are closed as
tight as a drum.
The Illinois state committee has secured
10000 new subscriptions for the New
Voice since Jan. l.
Winnipeg Prohibitionists have noon
day prayer meeting every Thursday at
Prohibition headquarters.
The Kentucky Prohibition convention
will be held May s, 6. There is great pro-
hibition activity in that state.
Midland Christian Advocate, represent
ing Minnesota Methodism, is giving con-
F. w. Emerson, late candidate for gov
ernor of Kansas, is being doomed for the
presidential nomination. He is very able.
Boles Is in Ohio, Emerson in Kansas,
Gushing and the Meneleys on the Pacific
Coast, Scanlon in Iowa, Tate and sizer in
Wisconsin.
Light on the South Carolina Dispen-
sary'' is a valuable document published
by the New Voice Co., Hyde Park, Chi
cago, at five cents.
Twenty eight prominent business houses
in Detroit, Mich, forbid employees under
the age Of twenty-one to smoke cigarets,
under penalty of dismissal.
A Chicago boy confessed that out Of ten
places to which he had applied for work
the head of not one had neglected to ask
him If he smoked cigarets.
Pledges not to buy or subscribe for any
magazines or newspapers which contain
liquor advertisements are being circulated
in some parts Of the country.
BY a unanimous vote of 300 Athens,
Tenn, voted no-license. 1t is the seat OF
Christian college and was the scene
Of DR.. Satterlee's labors in the south.
F. W. Emerson, late Prohibition candi-
date for Governor of Kansas, has been do
ing some good platform work in South
western Minnesota and in South Dakota.
Canon Farrar and VIM. S. Game, M. P,
warm friends of our cause, are dead. Sir
Wilfred Lawson, a lifelong temperance
leader, has been elected to succeed Mr.
Caine.
The Indiana legislature has enacted a
soldiers homes and the new army post
This is a body blow to the canteen adj
vocates.
Rev. E. S. Preston, Tower City, N. D.,
father of the State President of the w. G.
forced better than that against stealing
or Sabbath breaking.
A Sunday school convention held at
Portland, Ore, wants the government to
forbid the circulation through the mails
of any liquor advertisements or of news
papers containing them.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
Temperance Committee wants every mis-
sionary society, every Christian Endeavor
and every Sunday school to add Tenn
perance secretary to it's list Of officers.
Carl o. Rollefson, student at the
State School of Agriculture, secured a
club of 80 new subscribers among the
professors and students. Have you done
as well in proportion to your opportunity?
"a candidate in every constituency who
can be relied upon to support temper
ance legislation is the slogan in the
Manitoba campaign now waging: Where
neither of the parties names SUCH an one,
an independent candidate Is nominated.
The Kansas supreme court annulled for
cause the injunction clause of the state
prol1ibitory law-its strongest feature. In
less than an hour on the following gay
both branches Of the Legisiature 1y ~
defect pointed out by the supreme court.
Investigations by the Bishop Of London
show that fully one-haf of the female
inmates Of East London warehouses are
there because Of lives ruined by the use
Of alcohol There are $500 women in
london who have been convicted OF
drunkenness over ten times.
The North Dakota liquor element has
received another black eye.- Under a law
kA1 ont Nf H.
ers and 70 per cent Of the women of a town
or ward must sign petition before a
liquor permit can be obtained by a drug
the drug stores Of the state.
More than half the population Of Mas
sachusetts is in license towns and cities
and they produce 80 per cent Of all the
crime. Drunkenness has increased the
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