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Day in the Life

Jul 3, 1893

Journal Entry

July 03, 1893 ~ Monday

3. I had conversation with Sister Cluff
about her affairs with her Husband I spent
the day in the office

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Historian's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from John Johansen, 3 July 1893
Elsinore, Utah. Pres. Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Dear Brother: Your unexpected letter, dated June 26th, was received this morning, announcing my call to fill a mission to New Zeland. Believing that every young man who performs an honorable mission to the nations of the earth, will be greatly blest, I do not feel that it would be proper nor even desirable, through any refusal on my part to deny myself of any blessing that can thus be obtained. Although I am pushed very closely financially, through the assistance of God, I hope to be able, to meet all require- ments. I cheerfully accept the call, and my heart is filled with gratitude, that I am counted worthy to assist in preaching the Gospel, to the world. Any information, relative to the time when I should be in Salt Lake City, and when I will be apt to find company, and what will be my needs will be very thankfully received. Your brother in the Gospel, John Johnson. I endorse the above J I Jensen Bp
Letter from Thomas Edwin Ricks, 3 July 1893
Rexburg, Idaho, Pres. Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother; We write you at this time to lay before you the condition of our Stake Academy and ask your counsel and advice in the matter. Our school is at present some $40000 in debt and at a meeting of the Stake Board of Education, held June 16th the executive com- mittee were instructed to address a letter to the Gen. Board asking for an increased appropriation to help us to better maintain our institution. Since the resolution referred to above was passed we haave noted an article in the Juvenale Instructor under "Topics of the Times" that seems to intimate the advisability of doing away with the primary and intermediate grades in our church schools, and also that the church will not be able to give further support to these grades. If this is the case, the prospects are pretty gloomy for the future of our institution. The primary and intermediate grades are
Letter from Thomas Edwin Ricks and William Frederick Rigby, 3 July 1893
Rexburg, Idaho, Prest. W. Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother, At the Priesthood meeting Saturday in the matter of eight missionaries to go to B. Y. Academy Provo in the interest of the Sunday School we selected the following names to be presented fir your approval: Wm. J. Young, Lyman. Wm. Carbine, Parkir, Egui. Willard Johnson Rexburg Frank Jardine, Louisville The names of the remaining four we have not got yet but will send them to you soon. We purpose making our arrangements to send our contingent the first term Your Brethren with Gospel T E. Ricks Wm F Rigby

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Jul 3, 1893