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Day in the Life

Apr 25, 1889

Journal Entry

April 25, 1889 ~ Thursday

Thursday April 25th 1889
We took breakfast at Reno, dinner at Humbolt
Wells, and ate supper in the car. Spent the day in
conversation and reading.

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Humboldt Wells, Elko County, Nevada
Reno, Washoe County, Nevada

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Letter from Wilford Woodruff Clark, 25 April 1889
Georgetown Idaho . Pres. Wilford Woodruff: Dear Brother, Your communication of the 18th inst. is at hand, in- forming me of my appointment to labor as a missionary in the Southern States, leaving Salt Lake City on the 22nd of May 1889. In accepting this call, I real- ize it to be one of great responsi bility as well as one of honor, And trust that I may prove myself worthy of so great a call by performing this mission in honor, which is my humble desire. Your brother in the Gospel Wilford Woodruff Clark. H A Lewis Bp OK L J n
Letter from Christian Frederick Bernhard Lybbert, 25 April 1889
President W. Woodruff Dear Brother In the seliction and apointment, of one of my Boys to take a mission to the southren States, it wass iqually unexpected, and aperingly damaging to my temporal calculations, but I am greatfull to God, and Tankfull to you, and they Brethren of the Preisthood, that he has bin considiret worthy to be a Maesingor of glad Tidings to the Nations of the Earth; Notwithstanding: I am his Father I can impartially recomend him to be a praisworthy Boy, of good morals, Habits and Intecgrity, devoted to serve the Lord. Having sead that moush of one of my Boys, I wish to refere to a older Brother of his, there is not far behind in the good qualleties ascribet to the first one
Telegram to John Daniel Thompson McAllister, 25 April 1889
"Salt Lake City . "President D. D. McArthur, St George, Utah. "In response to the proclamation of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, and of Caleb W. West, Governor of Territory of Utah, we deem it proper that Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1889, be observed by the Latter-day Saints as a day of Thanksgiving to the Almighty for the establishment of the Republic, and of prayer for the perpetuation and extension of civil and religious liberty. "We, Therefore, request the Presidents of Stakes to co-operate in making arrange- ments for the holding of Public Services in their various Stakes and Wards, as will be most convenient, that the Centennial of the Inauguration of the First President of the United States may be appropriately com- memorated throughout this Territory, and in all the Stakes of Zion. -[Signed:]- "Wilford Woodruff.

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Apr 25, 1889