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IOWA AND NEBRASKA T. AND M. SOCIETY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 6.

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IOWA AND NEBRASKA T. AND M. SOCIETY.

By H. Nicola; C. G. Johnston

The State quarterly meeting of this society was held at Knoxville, Ia., Jan. 20, 1878, at 10 o’clock A. M. President in the chair.
The directors from Dists. 4, 5, 6, and 10 were present. Report of labor for the past quarter was read, as follows:—
Report Total
Families Visited 368
Letters Written 247
Money Received $2,839.97
New Subscribers with Premium 66
New Subscribers on Trial 83
Periodicals Distributed 1,450
Annuals Distributed 809
Pages of Tracts and Pamphlets Distributed 164,119
No. of Members 291
Reports Sent out 147
Reports Returned 98
Adjourned.

SECOND SESSION.

Met at 3 o’clock P. M. It was voted that the president be requested to invite Bro. Haskell to come to Iowa in March, and hold at least two meetings; also that the president appoint the places where said meetings shall be held; whereupon he announced State Center and Sigourney as the places chosen; and Osceola, if a third meeting can be held. In accordance with a motion made by the president, the next quarterly meeting is to be held in conjunction with the above specified Sigourney meeting.
Bro. L. McCoy was, at his own request, relieved from the duties of treasurer, and O. G. Johnston, of Sigourney, Iowa, was appointed to fill his place.
On motion, adjourned.
H. Nicola, Pres. C. G. Johnston, Sec.
The secretary was instructed to urge upon the directors, and through them upon the librarians, the urgent necessity of raising, by donation, a fund to purchase at least two or three forty-foot tents for use in Iowa next summer, pledges on this fund to be paid by the next quarterly meeting. C. G. J.