Oklahoma, Notice! by Andrew Nelson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 8, 1907

Oklahoma, Notice!

By Andrew Nelson

WE have just received a reply from the Southwestern Excursion Bureau to our application for reduced rates to our annual camp-meeting, which will be held at El Reno, and are now able to announce the following rates and arrangements for that occasion:—

“Rate of one fare and one third for the round trip on the certificate plan, from all points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory to El Reno, Okla., and return, provided there is a minimum attendance of one hundred persons holding properly signed certificates showing the payment of fifty cents or more for the going trip; certificates to be signed by William Voth, El Reno, Okla., and validated by the ticket agent of the C. R. I. & P. R. R. as joint agent. Certificates which show the purchase of going tickets on August 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, and 27, 1907, to be honored for return tickets up to and including Sept. 4, 1907.”

“Under the method usually observed in certificate-plan business, the passenger pays the full fare for the going trip, and if all conditions are complied with, a reduced rate of one third fare is granted on return trip (by route traversed on going trip) to original starting-point within authorized territory. Where the journey is made over more than one line, it is usually necessary for the passenger to purchase a separate local ticket of each road’s issue, between points traveled thereon, and procure certificates thereof for each of the lines in this territory over which he travels in going to the meeting, as through tickets are not always sold, and it is not always practicable for various lines to honor each other’s certificates. Passengers should therefore ascertain from the ticket agent what portion of their journey can be covered by certificate obtainable from him, and procure certificate filled out to correspond with the tickets purchased. Failure to procure or present certificate invalidates claim for reduction in return fare.”

Remember, then, in order to get the advantage of the reduced rate, you must buy your ticket on one of the above-stated dates (you pay full fare going); when you buy your ticket, you must ask the ticket agent to give you a certificate to correspond with your ticket, that is, it must state the amount you paid, and from and to what point you paid your fare, and must have his signature. You must call for a certificate every time you buy a ticket. Bring the certificate to El Reno, and keep it until you are asked to hand it over to the conference secretary.

We hope that you are all planning to come to this annual feast. The Lord will certainly have some blessings in store for us at this gathering that will fit us better for his service. We should not only come to receive a blessing, but to be a blessing to others. Come prepared to take some of our good books and Bibles home with you. We shall have a good supply there, both in English and in German.

ANDREW NELSON.