Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Saloon Men Ruled Out From Catholic Foresters. [ARTICLE]

Saloon Men Ruled Out From Catholic Foresters.

A press dispatch from St Paul, Minn., says: “Liquor dealers, wholesale aud retailand bartenders in saloons or other places where liquor is sold will hereafter be prohibited from becoming members of the Catholic Order • of Foresters. The international convention of that body now in session at the old capitol here, today adopted an amendment to the constiturio 1 by a large vote to tuat effect. The re port of the high secretary showed the pre-eut membership of the,, order to be 91,220 iu the United States and 26,847'iu Canada.” E. P. Houan. of bur city, who is attendiug this convention, is a memberof the committee ~whTcßr prepares a d reports eha nges aud amendments to the constitution arid very probably had much to do with the suggestion aud adoption of this important amendment, which will mean much for the advancement of the temperance cause.