Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-08-01
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state conference sept. D.
North Dakota White Ribboners meet
at Grand Forks, Sept. 29-Oct. 2.
Oliver w. Stewards meeting at Waba-
sha was held in the hall of the Catholic
parochial school.
]. A. Van Fleet, for many years the
other Prohibition papers, has been added
to the editorial force of the Patriot
Phalanx
In graphic language, ex-United sena-
that the state was ashamed to continue
in the saloon business as the liquor dis
pensary bill compels it to do.
The Womans Prohibition Club. of
America has opened national headquar-
the home of Mrs Anna Sloan Walker,
the national president of the club.
George Hitz, who poled between 5000
Indianapolis at the last election, has been
renominated for that office. Hitz is the
German for hot. He'll give it to 'em
that way.
c. T. U. and other papers to keep the
temperance literature pockets in depotss
them are empty and shabby and give one
that lonesome feeling
The Tenth International Congress
against Alcoholism will be held at Buda.
be read in English, German, French,
ETC., by eminent scientists and temper
ance leaders on many phases OF the
movement.
In July 2O2 contributors added pledges
to the National Fund to the amount Of
$780,. The total is now $5753 from, SO1
5ones $50 The e Ghpgma chea
needs $4,000 at once.
Since Jan: /. seventy-sx Indiana
counties have been organized in the in
five of the ninety counties, of the state
organization twenty-five Of them have
complete precinct organization.
Prohibition Congress, Sept. 1913, gives
one day each to the Good Templars, the
Woman's Prohibition Club of America,
legiate Oratorical Association, The Ma
T. 8. ~ e'i'0' (''-' '''' w. "
National Chairman Jones attended the
this month and is booked for the Penn
sylvania convention on the 22nd inst.
AH,eomPaniedn by Cnton n RGWard he
gress in Sept and speak at several Coast
points.
Sec'y Hurry, of the Indiana State Board
op the Of the pee
pie in hot weather. He declares it is
rare to find person suffering from
SunStrOke whose stomach is not over
full or who has not been INDUCING in al
coholic drinks.
Wisconsin liquor men are alarmed over
the large number of bills aimed at their
saloon within 300 feet of school-house
and the anti-cigarette bill were the only
ones passed which would particularly
displease them.
Clinton N. Howard will hereafter de-
vote twenty days in the month to plat
form work, reserving. ten days for bust
ness. He will begin by reinforcing Coy
ernOr Folk at great meetings in St Louis.
Kansas City and St. Joseph on the first
three Sundays q! s, of Sept and in week-night
From 1865 to 1905 there were twenty
two minor parties organized in national
politics: The Prohibition party, the first
sss Of the twentytG tp na in
of these twenty-five parties now alive
and it is more thoroughly organized and
carrying on a more aggressive agitation
than ever before.
,Volney B. Gushing, Maine, has COM
pleted a remarkable tour of South Dako-
ia occupying forty-five days He stirred
flood and an extraordinary brand of mos
quitoes, which swarmed at open air rail-
lies. South Dakota Prohibitionists are
already working for great results at the
polls next year.
Five thousand people shouted them
selves hoarse when the Indiana represen-
tative was awarded first prize in the
cal Contest at Ocean Grove, N. J., July
%. Pennsylvania won second place and
N. Y. third. The Western Interstate
Contest will take place at the Portland
Exposition, Sept. 81.
DR.. Swallow will speak at the Rockford,
large audience at Glyndon Park Chau-
tauqua, Md, July 90. Volney- B. Cush-
ing is at work this month in Kansas and
Oklahoma. DR.. c. H. Mead goes to
Connecticut for Sept. Prof. H.. D. Pat
ton. accompanied by the Mezicks, the
well-known singers, will spend some
months in the South, beginning Sept. 1.
President Earring of the G. M. & ST.
P. Railway has forbidden Sunday excur-
sions on that road. His decision was the
result of his personal observation and
discovery of the fact that such excur-
sions frequently give rise to drunken or
gies. This announcement will give spe-
cial pleasure to Minnesota Prohibition