Our Annual Meeting

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 4, 1913

Our Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Pacific Press Publishing Association was held January 20, in our new assembly hall on the premises in Mountain View, with a very large attendance of our constituents from all states west of the Mississippi. These were,—the presidents of the union conferences, several conference presidents, various ministerial brethren, the managers of our own branches, state conference and missionary secretaries, and many other brethren and sisters from a distance and locally. The meeting was a most encouraging one, indeed, filled with good things from beginning to end. The amount of business transacted during the past year is $460,000; a gain of more than $33,000 over that of the preceding year; and the net gain for the year, including branch offices, was $37,304.22. All of our branch offices made a good showing this year, and the interest-bearing debt has been reduced $14,000.

We have added two buildings of our own for our branch offices during the past year, at Kansas City, Missouri, and Portland, Oregon; so that our assets,—real estate, plant, equipment, supplies, etc.—at the branch offices and the home office, now amount to $287,401.68; the liabilities to $105,320.63; leaving our present worth at $182,081.05.

Our new building in Kansas City is 32 x 70 feet, one story with basement, on the corner of Euclid Avenue and Thirteenth Street. Total cost, including land, $8,213.64. This was dedicated Wednesday, October 9, 1912. The one in charge of our office there is Mr. S. N. Curtiss, who takes the place of Mr. James Cochran, who is now connected with the home office.

The manager of our Portland Branch is Mr. J. F. Beatty. Our new building in Portland was dedicated July 21, 1912. It is 28 x 45 feet, corner Twenty-first and East Flanders streets.

The manager, in his report, besides these items which we here record, noted the fact of our Pacific Press training school and evening school for the benefit of our employees, and also our neat, new assembly hall, consisting of chapel and schoolroom, which can be thrown into one for larger congregation.

Our foreign business during the last year showed a healthy growth, amounting to $55,555.59.

All these improvements, together with substantial walks, etc., were approved by the constituency. In fact, the whole meeting was very harmonious.

The new board is not organized at this writing, but the directors are as follows: C. H. Jones, H. G. Childs, M. C. Wilcox, H. H. Hall, E. E. Andross, B. M. Shull, James Cochran.

The Advisory Board consists of the presidents of the following Seventh-day Adventist union and local conferences: Central Union Conference, Northern Union Conference, North Pacific Union Conference, West Canadian Union Conference, California Conference, Central California Conference, Northern California-Nevada Conference, Southern California Conference.

A feature of the day was the annual dinner, given in connection with the meeting, in the folding room of the factory. More than 300 sat down to a very substantial meal provided by the sisters of the church, and all enjoyed it immensely. We are glad to record such a meeting, so filled with helpful and interesting incidents.

We were also glad to meet at our annual gathering various officers of the General Conference,—Pastors A. G. Daniells, the president; W. A. Spicer, secretary; W. T. Knox, treasurer, an old resident of Mountain View; George B. Thompson, head of the Sabbath-school Department. The editor-in-chief of the denominational paper, Pastor F. M. Wilcox, was also present. There are many other names that we would be only too glad to mention, but they are so numerous that it would take more space than we can possibly spare in this issue.

Above all things else, we had during the year the gracious presence and blessing of our God. The work is His, and all the glory of all the success be to His name.