News and Notes by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 28, 1910

News and Notes

By A. J. S. B.

BROTHER G. C. HOSKINS, secretary of the Iowa Tract Society, reports the sale of 14,183 of our various magazines and periodicals in that conference during the month of June. The next largest report comes from the Northern Illinois Tract Society. It shows a sale of 9,127 periodicals in that conference the past month. Both of these reports include, of course, all the weekly and other periodicals as well as the ten-cent magazines.

BROTHER PAUL CURTIS, missionary secretary of the Central Union Conference, reports the recent election of Brother Leslie Curtis as field missionary secretary of the Wyoming Conference. Speaking of the periodical work, Brother Curtis says: “We recently sent three young women to St. Louis, Mo., to sell magazines during the summer. I understand that Brother R. C. Spohr is there at present, with a company of magazine agents. Two young women plan to go next week to Kansas City to earn a scholarship by selling Life and Health.”

THE resourcefulness of one of our Canadian magazine agents is illustrated by the following incident: Having ordered 1,000 copies of the Temperance Instructor, one of our agents had sold only 200 copies in the large city where she was planning to dispose of the 1,000 copies, when the authorities demanded a license. Not being financially able to pay for the license, our sister called on the officers of the W. C. T. U., and secured their recommendation for the magazine, and their promise to distribute as many copies as she could furnish them free of charge. Taking with her the recommendation of the W. C. T. U. ladies, in a short time she solicited, from the business men of the city, sufficient money to pay for the magazines. Such skill in meeting existing conditions, and such perseverance under unfavorable circumstances, are highly commendatory.

A. J. S. B.