Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-02-01


A recent prohibition issue Of the Ep-
worth Herald was bugle blast.
Saloon anarchists of Winslow, Ind, have
resorted to dynamite and murder.
submission on the 9th by a vote of sc to
The state w. C. T.. U. has secured and
presented $50 volumes to the Soldiers
Home.
Wine will not appear upon the table at
the dinners Of the Chicago Business Wo-
mans Club hereafter
The w. c. T. Unions of the country
celebrate Feb. II as Frances e. Willard s
heavenly birthday"
Prof. Scanlon will take the field for the
National Committee March list. He will
continue to reside in Minnesota.
The North Dakota supreme court has
affirmed Judge Pollock as against drink
ing club. The bands are Tightening.
Prohibition friends gave We editor and
his wife reception which greatly cheered
their hearts and literally lined their pock-
cts.
The World Almanac places the Prohibi--
ton vote in the states which held general
elections in 1902 at 192512 The same
states gave Woolley 1sS,S51.
Rev. J. M. ELAN, for some time organ,
izer of the First district, has been placed
in charge Of the Second. He reports good
meetings and success.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has arranged for
the purchase of a large residence IN Kan
sas City, Kan, for home. for drunk
ards wives.
Ohio's new chairman. F. M McCart-
ney, has struck for $4,000 votes next fall:
The state convention will assemble at
Springfield May rs.
Mrs F.. A. Bidwell has kindly sent us
two copies of Backbone which we lacked.
plete our file to date. Can you send it?
Missouri is advancing. The State Com
mittee has five men afeld. The largest
Prohibition League in the state is In the
Normal School at Springfield.
The prohibition majority in Ontario ex-
ceeded SO, 900, but it did not reach the
figure which the political tricksters re-
quired in order to secure the law.
American Medicine, leading organ OF
the medical profession of America, states
that of 5000 suicides in Germany last
year fully 1000 were due to drink.
IJp-to-date Prohibitionists will want the
International Reform Bureaus "Proh1bl-
ton Cartridge 1t costs only a dime.
Address the Bureau at washington, u. =.
The resubmission of the .prohibitory
amendment in North Dakota is not con-
sidered probable. Law abiding citizens
will rather give their effort to the petter
enforcement of the law.
The Kansas State Teachers Associa--
tion has declared that 1.-THE interests of
the school, the home and OF society IN
general demand that the saloon shoulo
be entirely suppressed
Miss Alice Roosevelt served punch at
a recent White House reception. IL is
greatly to be regretted that a., CUSTODY si,1as
h1oc fo6
should receive encouragement at sucn
hands. ..-~
IT received a copy Of Backbone to-day
and am well pleased with it. wish to
join your Hustlers League, l R nenege
can get some SUBSCRIBERS 'Iheouore
Hagberg, Barnum.
If you will send temperance and pro-
hibition literature to J. B. Rayner,. Cal
vert Tex, he will put it into the hands
of negro voters throughout that state,
while lecturing for our cause.
If your community is to vote on the Ii
cense question this spring, you ought to
plaster it with the new posters. Nos.
and are wholly on that issue. Lots OF
ten or more at a cent each. w. G.
Calderwood, 702 Sykes Block, Minneapo-
lis.
Soon after an interview of Margaret
DYE Ellis, National W. G. T. U. supt. of
Legislation, with President Roosevelt, the
immigration Department decided to ap-
point five women inspectors at New York
harbor for the protection of immigrant
girls. -....
You really ought to have the Woolley
Year Book for 1903 1t is fine, an orna-
ment to the wall and daily inspiration
to useful living and especially to service
in the war against the saloon. Price SO
cents. New Voice Co., Hyde Park, Chi
cago.
The National w. G. T. U. Superintend-
ent Of Work Among Foreign Speaking
People will give ], 1000 pages of either Ger
man or Norwegian tracts to any one buy
ing 81 worth Of other languages Of which
there are sixteen. Catalogues free The
postage is reduced to 10 cents per 1000
pages. Address Mrs. Annie G. barley,
413 w. 18th St., Pueblo, Colo.
What would you think Of person who