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

CALIFORNIA T. AND M. SOCIETY.

By John Norton Loughborough; Mrs. A. M. Loughborough

The State quarterly meeting of this society was held in Oakland, the evening of Jan. 19, 1878. Four directors were present. Dists. 7 and 8 were well represented. The report of labor for the quarter just closed is as follows:—


Membership,	380
No. of reports,	207
“ families visited,	478
“ letters written,	232
“ pages tracts, etc., given away,	127,567
“ “ “ loaned,	55,174
“ new subscribers for SIGNS,	117
“ “ “ other periodicals,	124
“ SIGNS distributed,	4,681
“ other periodicals distributed,	1,607
“ ships visited,	70
Received on memberships,	$19.00
“ “ donations,	177.48
“ “ book sales,	125.05
“ widow and orphan fund,	22.00
Total,	$343.53

The society has taken 10,200 copies of the Health Annual, and 1,800 copies still remain in the Signs Office unsold. It was voted that these copies be placed in the hands of the Oakland V. M. Society, and that Eld. Loughborough be empowered to raise the means to meet the expense.

Voted, That we as a society take 1,500 copies of a quarterly supplement devoted to the interests of the T. and M. work, to be published at Battle Creek, Mich., and that we forward to its managers any items of progress that would tend to increase the interest of the paper.

J. N. Loughborough, Pres.

Mrs. A. M. Loughborough, Sec.