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Day in the Life

Jul 5, 1889

Journal Entry

July 05, 1889 ~ Friday

July 5 1889
I went to the Gordo & signed 45 Recommends
I received 21 Letters I wrote to Atkin's & Thompson
[FIGURE] I attended a political Meeting with the Presidents of
Stakes upon our political situation & returned to the farm 6 Mil

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Thompson, William Henry
1 May 1838 - 3 Apr 1922
260 mentions
Missionary

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Letter from Andrew Bodelsson Lofgran, 5 July 1889
Santaquin President W. Woodruff Dear Bro I wrote you a letter about 1 month ago in answer to one sent me about going to Skandanavia on Mission and that I was Expected to be Ready by the 6 of august to start as I have to Despose of my team and some Land to get Ready and I am making all the preparations for the above Object will you be kind Enough to let me know at your Earliest if my propositin was accepted or not so I can so arrange for the same by send^ing^ a few lines in ansure to the above you will greatly Obelillige Your Bro in the Gospel A Lovegreen
Letter to William Atkin, 5 July 1889
Salt Lake City, U.T. . Elder Wm. Atkins, Dear Brother: Your letter of June 22nd is before me. I have read it with interest. I am always pleased to hear from you and your family. I hope you may enjoy health and the blessings of life. Concerning myself, I have had some quite poor turns of late, but I am in the enjoyment of fair health at present, though as busy as ever. Yesterday we kept the 4th of July by going up to Wasatch, in Little Cotton- wood Canyon, the place where we have quarried and are quarrying the rock for our temple. Our brethren have built quite a little village there, composed of tents and small cabins, and planted very nice flower gardens and walks, and brought the water through the village. We had a very interesting day. There were about thhree hundred persons present. We had speeches and various enter- tainments, and a feast. We visited the stone quarry, which I was deeply inter- ested in. Rocks twice the size of your house are being split up into blocsks of the finest granite in the world. I was very much surprised to see their manner of operation. They drill holes in the side of a rock fifty feet high and drive in little wedges which split it straight open, and they then cut it up into blocks. I am glad that you are doing so well in your graein harvest. We are having a very dry time—the dryest ever known in this part of Utah. Many of the crops will not mature. We are approaching our harvest in

Jul 5, 1889