Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-07-01
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Sykes Block, Minneapolis.
A Kansas jointist has been fined $1,000
and sentenced to 300 days in the county
Many county conventions are being held
in Pennsylvania and county tickets are
being put in the field
The annual convention of the American
Anti-saloo9n League League will " take place at
DR.. Swallow will be the chief speaker
at a Prohibition rally at Glyndon, near
Baltimore, Sunday! July %
teachings in North Carolina under the
auspices of the National COMMITTEES.
During the last six months, Secy Nor
row and Rev. Geo. Reid have been con-
Stantly in the field in South Dakota.
J. o. Johnson, the Swedish prohibition
field-Worker has lately E, addressed la Tya sue sue
Clifton P. Pledger of Boston is about
to undertake tour Of the southern states
under the auspices of the National Proh1-
bitiOn Committee.
Chairman J, E. Clayton. Of Wis. has
TENDER and October Write him at Mil
Waukee for a date.
The National Fund approaches $4,000
Chairman Jones needs $4,000 at once to
carry out his plans for summer organizing
work and literature agitation.
During. July and August, the Inter Col
legiate Concert Company will carry on
the fight in South Dakota under the direc..
ton of Secy Quincy Lee Morrow OF
National Chairman Jones attended an
important State Prohibition convention
at Denver June FL. State Sec,y Hopkins
reported that the official party enroll
81 cannot do without Backbone" So
writes DR.. Maude. M. Sanders, National
". C. T. U superintsendent Of franchise fla.e;
VIM. A. Rice, formerly assistant secre-
gagged in the practice of law in Fergus
Falls, has been elected president of the
CrooRston district .Epworth League.
ture re- were red distributed in the he Los Angeles
campaign. Hundreds of meetings were
held: -Four stereopticons were in con
upon the walls of great business block.
The Methodist ministers of Baltimore
are moving for, national convention OF
Christian churches which shall memorial
ize congress to submit an amendment
to the constitution prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of all intoxicating
Archbishop Keene has been advised by
the Pope that this high official in the
Catholic Church believes that American
people ought to abstain from Intoxicating
liquors. The Pope sent His blessing to
the temperance workers of the United
Under the leadership of State Chair
man Clayton of Wis, rallies and picnics
are now the order of the day. The state
fund is growing encouraginglgy; ,,os Some M
Stewart has been at work in the state
and returns during July
of America will convene at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, Aug. 10. President Roosevelt is eX-
pected to send a greeting to the gather
ing Cardinal Gibbons and John Mitchell
will speak. The managers hope. to have
1900 total abstainers in the street parade.
A dozen young college men are making
a hand to- hand canvass of Ohio Prohibi-
tionists under the supervision of the State
Committee. They are to find every Pro-
hibitionist in, each county, solicit funds
for state and county work, select town
ship committeeman and report hopeful
The Ewing College Quartette, Ill, is
Gaumer is on the stump. p. w; Chafin
starts July IA to cover western Ill. with
county and raj STATE of
20 to 80 Prohibitionists to the legislature
next year.
j. M o. Gudal writes that had it not
been for the rain, there would have been
Chafin at Wanamingo. But" he adds.
she certainly made great hit. The two
rode twelve miles to Kenyon to hear him
in the evening"
State Chairman J. E. Clayton, Wis,
declares his earnest conviction that each
votes can, support competent organizer
and keep him in the field the year around.
Some counties which could not do this
alone could do it in combination with one
or two other counties, he says
Ex-gambler and saloonkeeper Boss Cox
Of the Ohio Republican party is not much
of society man but, to patch up party
factions, he was invited to an elaborate
dinner party given in honor of Miss Alice
Roosevelt, during her recent visit to Gin
cinati. The function took place at the
home of Mr.. Chas. p. Taft, brother of the
Sec'y of War.
Sec Calderwood, after his work at the
Prohibition Training school, attended the
International Epworth League conyen-
ton at Denver and did some platform
raska state committees. He will be in
his chair again when our readers see
this Office affairs have been efficiently
conducted, in his absence, by Geo. l..
Briggs, his right hand man.
Portland and Oregon Prohibitionists are
planning to take advantage of current
events in that section during the next