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

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

News and Notes

By A. J. S. B.

Miss Bertha D. Shaw has been appointed missionary secretary of the Western Canadian Union Conference. Her present address is Box 244, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Brother E. S. Horsman, until recently the field missionary agent of the Southern California Conference, has responded to a call to act in the same capacity for the Northern California Conference. His address hereafter will be care California Tract Society, 601 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Cal.

Brother Wm. V. Sample, manager of the Canadian branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, has consented to act also as field missionary agent of the Western Canadian Union Conference. It is planned to provide sufficient help in the office to enable him to do considerable field work in behalf of our canvassers in that splendid territory of “magnificent distances.”

On account of failing health, Miss Stella B. Lowry, secretary of the Alberta Tract Society, has been obliged to resign. In addition to her duties as tract society secretary, she was also carrying on the work of conference secretary and bookkeeper. We trust that she will soon recuperate sufficiently again to connect with our organized work. Brother Frank Hommel was appointed to take the place of Sister Lowry.

Brother J. R. Ferren, formerly of the periodical department of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, has consented to serve as missionary secretary of the Pacific Union Conference. Although very reluctant to have Brother Ferren leave their employ, the managers of our Western publishing house cheerfully released him to this wider sphere of activity in the upbuilding of home missionary work. He is now holding a missionary institute with the students at Fernando Academy, in the Southern California Conference.

Brother Paul Curtis is now acting as missionary secretary of the Central Union Conference, having been appointed to that office during the last session of the conference, held at St. Joseph, Mo., January 15-23. His entire time and energy are to be devoted to this particular phase of our work. His headquarters are at the branch office of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1109 East Twelfth St., Kansas City, Mo. The detailed periodical statistics recently sent out by Brother Curtis to the missionary secretaries in that union conference show careful study and much hard work on his part. Such information will prove of great benefit in laying the proper foundation for intelligent missionary effort.

Brother Ernest Lloyd, who was for a time engaged as a Y. M. C. A. secretary, has been appointed missionary and tract society secretary of the Southern California Conference. Miss Rena Stevenson, at one time connected with the California Tract Society, is now acting as his office assistant.

Brother Charles M. Cottrell, formerly manager of the Canadian branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, has accepted a call to the field missionary agency of the Southern California Conference. The prospects for a successful year for our canvassers in that pleasant field are most encouraging.

By vote of the Northern California Conference, held at Lodi, Cal., February 2-7, the office of the California Tract Society was transferred from Mountain View to 601 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Cal. This new location (at the Twenty-second Street and Telegraph Avenue Station of the Key Route Ferry Line, connecting the cities of Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco by a twenty-minute electric service), makes it very convenient for our church-members in these cities to visit the tract society office frequently. The city location is also very advantageous to our magazine agents, who can now secure their supplies on short notice. In speaking of the transfer, Brother S. G. White, the secretary, says: “Everything is running smoothly in our new home, and I believe it was a wise move to bring the tract society to this city.”

At his own request, Brother W. H. Covell, for years the field missionary agent of the California Conference, was recently released from that work to become field periodical agent in the same conference. In thus appointing a man of experience to take charge of the periodical work alone, the Northern California Conference has taken a step in advance of all our other local conferences, the large majority of which are appointing field missionary secretaries to promote the distribution of all literature, excepting the subscription books. The retail value of the periodical business in the California Conference during the past two years has amounted to over forty thousand dollars. During 1909, for instance, seventy-five thousand copies of our ten-cent magazines were sold in the city of San Francisco alone. Is there any reason why an equal number of our valuable magazines should not be placed in many of our other large cities in the United States and in Canada?

A. J. S. B.