Church-wide reformation includes rebaptizing, restructuring and recommitment to principles and covenants. First "home missionaries" introduced (precursor to ministering program).
15th President Young rode up City Creek Canyon in the morning
spent the day in the office reading History. I read an Article in the [working]
Farmer concerning the cultivation of the Black bury [blackberry] esspecially
the Lawton black bury the best in the known world they measure
3 or 4 inches in circumference & more than 600 burries have been
raised on the latarels of a single stem. Can we not get someone
in the states to send us some of the roots or seeds this berry was
named after Mr Lawton by the American Institute of New
York as he was the man who first found it by the rode side or in
his field whare it originated no one knows. we had a vary
hard shower of rain & hail in the afternoon. Presidents Young &
Kimball came in & we red History to them & D. H. Wells Mrs Woodruff
& phebe & Susan spent the night in the harvest field or about it
also Father Woodruff they got thoroughly soaked with rain
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