The public weal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1906-1908, 1907-01-01
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the state banquet chartered car ant
filled it.
The national committee raised and ex
pended $4,000 in 1906 and asks for $780,
600 this year.
Blanchard Prohibition candidate fo
governor of California, is given 1855 vote:
by the official canvass.
A Father Mathew rally of the Catholi,
Total Abstinence Association took place
at the old Capitol on the 18th.
Backed by leading business men, the
mayor of Bismarck. N. D., has closed the
saloons and gambling joints of that city
The Minnesota Educational Association
adopted a memorial to the Minnesota
delega ton in Congress, urging their sup
port of a national child-labor law.
A postal cards a little thing
So much of loving wish to bring;
But still my souvenir you'll take
In kindness, for the giver's sake.
The New Voice and the Rams Horn
have been combined under the name of
The Home Herald, The New Voice of The
Rams Horn Mr.: Woolley will be lead
Ing editorial writer on the new paper
The columns Of the Prohibition papers
continue to be crowded with announce
ments OF banquets. conferences and
gatherings for the reorganization of our
forces for the fight of 1908.
The Indiana state committee has de-
canvassers for the Patriot PRalanx. the
double the circulation this year.
Write to your U. S.. senators and con-
gresham in favor Of Senate bill 5469 and
House bill 1852 which provide for the
investigate the conditions of woman and
child workers.
Grant county, Ind, within six weeks
held a grand diamond diamond, four
medal cont Contests in e prohibition w" orato H
We wish contest zeal would sweep over
our state like tornado.
A Canton boot-legger is serving 100
result Of some slick work done for the
city council by S. B. Jacobs the detective
whose advertisement has appeared in our
columns during the past few months.
ernor of Idaho, received 1887 votes,
slight increase over the number given
Swallow for president, although the state
hand WYNN
Our Post Cards are offered to SELF
PAYING subscribers only. Some may
think ait doesn't make any difference as
But It does WI" # 4 didn't, We we ~o Hek
friends.
The first series of National Chairman
civic righteousness commences the middle
OF this month with six-city circuit in
central New York and goes thence to
New England. New Jersey and Penn
sylvania.
The Brown county grand jury has been
getting after. the saloon-keepers guilty of
selling to minors, and running Slot ma
sent them to JAIL Such ' drastic action a l as
this is a new thing in Brown county.
BY vote of 70 to one the U, S: Senate
has passed Senator La FolletteS bill pro-
viding that railway employees engaged in
the handling of interstate trains shall not
work more than 16 consecutive hours,
hours off duty.
The double column description of our
Premium Seed Package on the third page
is the work Of the seedsman--not ours.
over eloquent, all will agree that at any
rate our offers, both to subscribers and
ssu5Irasers III are remnrksbIe ones. Our
N. B. Eldredge of Parker College won |
first honors at the intercollegiate Prohi- |
bition oratorical contest at Augsburg
Seminary on the 18th. He will represent
ond place was awarded to Arthur w. |
Knock kIoek, Of Gustavus AdolRhus St: olafs,
Seminary also competed.
The Minnesota Total Abstinence Asso-
citation (Scandinavian) has issued a post |
card, intended to be signed by voter
his efforts and vote for county local
option law. Secretary Gustav Eide, 3437
LOngfellow Ave-, Minneapolis, will furnish
the cards for sufficient postage stamps
to carry them, say Is or 20 cents for 100.
One of our Red Wing subscribers
pledged $500 to our Free Circulation
Fund year or so ago. Among the 35
addresses. he sent in was the name of
Rev. Father ]. H. Gaughan, rector of
st. Joseph's parish. AS soon as notified
of the expiration of the year, Father
Gaughan RENTED $1.00 to us to carry
his date four years ahead. This is the
way it works.
Governor Hoch told the Kansas legis-
lature in his message that Kansas must
take no backward step regarding the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law of the
state. He declared that the law had been