General Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1902

THE message is gaining a foothold in Birnamwood, Wis., where two persons have recently begun to observe the Sabbath.

SEVEN additions to the church at Johnson, Vt., are reported by the president of the Vermont Conference, Elder J. W. Watt.

THE church at Bluffton, Minn., has been strengthened by the recent addition of five converts, who received baptism at that place, May 10.

THE church at Merced, Cal., received four additions by baptism, May 24. A report from Armona, Cal., dated May 31, states that the Grangeville church has had eleven accessions as the result of meetings which have been recently held at that place.

BROTHER L. A. SPRING reports that ten persons have recently accepted the truth at Grand Junction, Colo., all of whom expected to unite with the Grand Junction church. Several have recently joined the church by letter, and the membership has been materially strengthened.

ELDER R. C. PORTER reports that a good work is being accomplished in the city of St. Louis, Mo., where meetings are being held among both the colored and the white population. Two persons were received into the church, June 7, and seven others announced a decision to walk in the light of the third angel’s message.

AT the camp meeting at Portland, Ore., it was voted to divide the North Pacific Conference, and form two new conferences, one to be known as the Western Oregon Conference, and the other as the Western Washington Conference. The officers selected for the Western Oregon Conference are: President, F. M. Burg; Secretary and Treasurer, H. E. Hoyt; Missionary Secretary, G. W. Pettit. Executive Committee: F. M. Burg, H. J. Schamper, C. J. Cole, W. R. Simmons, and L. I. Stiles. The following officers were chosen for the Western Washington Conference: President, S. W. Nellis; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Daisy Cuddy; Missionary Secretary, W. H. Coffin. Executive Committee: S. W. Nellis, E. L. Stewart, A. Q. Shryock, W. C. F. Ward, and E. T. Cornell.

The officers selected at the Pendleton (Ore.) camp meeting for the Upper Columbia Conference are as follows: President, A. J. Breed; Secretary and Treasurer, J. L. Kay. Executive Committee: A. I. Breed, J. A. Holbrook, J. W. Posey, J. M. Willoughby, and W. H. Saxby. The office of missionary secretary is to be supplied by the executive committee.