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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1909

Scholarships Earned by Periodical Sales

By R. C. Spohr

Indiana Students Enjoy Success in Summer’s Work

MEMBERS OF INDIANA SCHOLARSHIP PERIODICAL COMPANY

THE Indiana scholarship periodical company assembled in Cincinnati, Ohio, the evening of June 21, beginning its sales the next morning. For eleven weeks the workers toiled steadily, with a brief respite at the Bluffton, Ind., camp-meeting, concluding the summer’s labors in Toronto, Canada, September 6. The blessing of the Lord attended the company in every movement, and abundant success in making sales was enjoyed throughout the season. It is no small task to dispose of 24,420 of our ten-cent magazines, as this company did, receiving therefor upward of $2,500. Only through the hard work of all, attended by God’s blessing of health and strength, was this result obtained.

These workers placed the pages of truth in the hands of people scattered through fifty different cities in five different States and one province of Canada. The principal cities visited were Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Detroit, Buffalo, and Toronto. The hard work was not uninterrupted by pleasant trips.

In addition to paying all their traveling expenses, board, and incidental expenses, the company paid $121.91 tithe from its receipts, having left a sufficient sum to equal seven scholarships. Of the eight young ladies who worked the eleven weeks, six of them earned full scholarships, three of the six more than enough for their scholarships, and the remaining two earned a large proportion of the amount they needed. Four of the eight had had practically no experience in periodical selling previous to their joining the scholarship company. Only two of the four did not earn complete scholarships.

The best single record for one day was 155 sales, on Thursday, August 26, in Detroit, Mich., by Miss Orra Bush.

The total for the company of eight that day was 772. The company’s best record was made the last evening of the season. Arriving at Toronto, Canada, a few minutes before 6 P. M., the workers at once entered upon their duties, and in about four and one-half hours sold 723 magazines, an average of 90 apiece, in spite of the fact that two did not work the full time on account of illness. More than fifty copies were sold by two of the young ladies in a large hotel, to the guests in the lobbies and corridors. Thus a most successful summer’s campaign ended most auspiciously, all being of most excellent courage when they retired for the night, feeling that they had accomplished great good besides earning a substantial sum of money to pay their way through school during the winter.

These young people have entered upon their studies in the following schools: Misses Ada E. Achor, Orra Bush, Alta M. Clapper, Blanche E. Hicks, Fay Korn, and Ona Marshall in Beechwood Academy, Fairland, Ind.; Miss Elizabeth L. Kern in Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich.; and Miss Frieda Huber (on account of the recent removal of her home to Nebraska) in Union College, College View, Neb.

R. C. SPOHR, Missionary Secretary, Indiana Conference.