North Pacific Union

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 30, 1911

North Pacific Union

Perhaps some such experience as the following, which is related in a recent letter from Brother W. R. Beatty, is responsible for the non-arrival of the report from the North Pacific Union this month:—

“Starting for the canvassers’ institute at the Gravel Ford (Ore.) Academy, Elder T. G. Bunch, Brother Loop, and the writer left Roseburg, Ore., Sunday morning, the nineteenth, about six o’clock. Among other interesting experiences on the Myrtle Point mail-stage, we got stuck in the mud during the night away up in the Coast Range Mountains, and remained there nearly four hours. Unloading fifteen hundred pounds of mail, and prying up wheels, are no joke; but we finally got freed from the mud, and soon went on our way rejoicing. This mishap necessarily delayed our supper till 3 A. M. Being nearly frozen ourselves, we were not very appreciative of the supper, which consisted of cold beans, bread and butter, and cold apple pie. The night was very cold, and after giving our supper an opportunity to thaw a few minutes by the stove, we felt a little better, and started on the last stretch of our journey.”