must bend every energy to hasten the
fizishing of the work while conditions
ae as favorable as they are.
[t iz very encouraging to note that
the mission funds have kept up com-
paved with the receipts last year,
much better than the tithe, for this is
certainly an indication t-at our people
are willing, The conference in which
the camp-meeting is held in the
spring, will have somewhat of an ad-
vantage in ising its mission
quota this month, so let us all do our
best during the month and in the
Thiiteerth Sabbath offering on June
25, in order to keep up cur record as
weil as to furnish the means so much
reeded by the Aiszion Doard to sup-
ply the necezsities of life for our
faithful missionaries in foreign lands,
A. R. Sm-use, Treasurer.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS
Summer June
14,
school, 27 —August
Elder €. J. Metzger wus at Nevada
on business Wednesday of last week.
Eider W. H. Clark attended the
Minnesota camp-mecting at St. Cloud
several days.
We are glad to see Brother Hawley
able to be out again after his opera-
tien at the Sanitarium.
Miss Ada Terwilliger has accepted
the position stenographer in the
conference office. She began her work
the first of the week.
Brother Steen Jensen came to the
Sanitarium with a patient June
seventh, He spent several days at
the ofitee and Sanitarium.
ls
A well attended chureh =chool
picnic held Sunday of last
week in the beautiful grove just east
of the Sanitarium of Nevada.
Wis On
Elder Clark went to Battle Creek on
Wednesday of last week to assist
Elder Beams and Brother Schwindt in
the tent effort being held there.
The county  superintendant of
Audubon eounty attended our graduu-
tion exercizes at Exira and in a very
kindly way expressed her apprecia-
tinn of our school work and of the
voung people developed by it. She
e.pecially favored our ideas of mis-
sionary endeavor, and presented our
oraduates with the county diploma
NORTHERN
without examination.
the “Audubon
present
The editor of
Democrat” was alzo
and responded to an invita-
tion to speak with very appropriate
words.
Elder V. W. Robb has been suifer-
ig for several weeks with a very per-
sistant attack of bronchitis. We
trust, however, that he will soon re-
cover from it.
Mixx Florence Shelburg, of the
Sanitarium, has been rendering valu-
able stenographic assistance at the
conference office, pending the arrival
of Miss Terwilliger.
A tent outfit tus been shipped to
Battle Creek where Elder J. W. Beams
and Brother I. Fo. Schwindt expect to
hold o series of meetings to follow
up the interest there.
Mi-< Bertha Beuson, w..o has bean
erpared in Bible work at Cedar
Rapids, =topped off at Nevada, June
15 and 16, on her way to take up
similar work in Council Bluffs,
Mizz Verna Burdick, stenographer
and assistant in the tract society de-
partment, iz away from the office on
a twa weeks vacation, at home aud
viziting relatives in 1llinois.
Brother and Sister O. L. Atkin, or
Towa Feliz, drove down to Nevada on
Sunday, June 2, accompanied hy their
daughter, Edna, who =taved a few
days to take treatments at the Sani-
tarium,
Brother Charles Lee, of Danbury,
came to the Saitarium last week with
his wife who has since had an opera-
tion for gall stonez. We were glad
to have him cail at the office a num-
ber of times.
All the Towa =chools are now closed.
Several churches have already
raged teachers for next vear.
The examination papers are heing
looked over at the office. Some ex-
cellent work haz heen «done by many
of the students.
en-
Sister EK. A. Warner accompanied
by her mother, Sister Daw=on anil
the three daughters, Lela, Bernice,
and Ruth, left on Tuesday af last
week for their new home at Blue
Springs, Nebraska, to which place Dr.
Warner has preceded them by =everal
weeks. Elder T. H. Jevs and family
are temporarily occupying the house
acated by Sister Warner and family,
They have been joined by Miss Hazel
Jevs who has heen attending Union
College.
Generally speaking the colporteurs
are fnding the work a little more
difficult this year than last on aec-
count of the low prices of farm proa-
ucts, but these who are sticking at
it are with the Lord's help meeting
with good success.
Brother Beuben Zima and Sister
Violet Pingeno, both of Mason City,
were united in marriage at the cou-
ference office in Nevada on June 14,
Elder Clark officiating. Their many
friends will wish them well as they
lauueh out on life's journey together.
Brother GrandPre was at the ofiice
the 156th looking after his covre-
spondence. Both he and Brother M.
FF. Wiedemann, who is assisting him
for a few weeks during the summer,
then left to give as much assistance
ax possible to the colporteurs in the
field.
It ix not too #00 to plan definitely
on coming to camp-meeting, nor i= it
too soon to hepin to pray that it wiil
be the most spiritual meeting ever
held in Towa. It is surely the Lords
will that it should be, and if we all
work and pray earnestly for it, we
will not be disappointed. Remember,
it is to be held at Nevada, August 18
to 2%,
Either our grammar teaching is de-
fective or the bumps of grammatical
knowledge are caves on our eighth
grade pupils heads, for the average
of the graduating class in grammar
i= only 79 per cent. Arithmetic faves
a little better, the average being S1
per cent. History the same, while
Bible approaches the 90 per cent.
mark.
Vacation finds Miss Ida Christen-
sen at her home in Michigan, Misses
Olive and Myrtle Cox at home at Rus-
sell, Towa, Miss Adams in the ecan-
vassing work, Elder Starr at home at
Pleacanton. We have not learned of
the vacaticn-pluns of all the teachers,
hut we do know that there will be a
woolly delegation at
=chool at Hutchinson,
the summer
Professor W. H. Teesdale and wife
accompanied by Professor G. W.
Habenicht and wife arrived at Nevada
recently having driven through in