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Nov 28, 1895

Journal Entry

November 28, 1895 ~ Thursday

28 This is Thanksgiving Day I spent the day at home Asahel
& Ovando C Beebe Joined with the 100 Men who went to
Camp Floid to shoot Rabbits for the poor. Asahel got 26
Ovando 35 the whole company got 1800 Rabbits Asahel
Lost his $10 gold spectacles and one Man Lost a gold watch
There was 2 or 3 inches of Snow on the Ground I received
^[FIGURE]^ another Letter from Owen to Father Mother Blanche & Alice

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Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
654 mentions
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Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
877 mentions
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Woodruff, Mary Alice McEwan
2 Jan 1879 - 14 Jan 1916
181 mentions
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Beebe, Ovando Collins
14 May 1867 - 27 Dec 1928
163 mentions
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Woodruff, Winnifred Blanche Daynes
9 Apr 1876 - 2 Apr 1954
238 mentions
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Letter from Glines Co., 28 November 1895

Winnipeg, 189 The President Mormon Community Salt Lake City, U T A H D^S^ir: We are authorized to sell a tract of valuable land comprising 552,000 acres, extending from Fort Boise to the Dalles of the Columbia, as shewn by red ilines on the accompanying map and described in the encllsed statem^e^nts, and thinking it possible that the tract of land^,^ from its exceptional good quality and its accessibility to your territory might suit your people for coloni- zation purposes. We shall be glad to know whether this being the case, you should desir^e^ to purcj^h^ase. If so we shall be happy to submit prices and terms ofpayment, both of which you will find to be very reasonable. We shall be glad to hear from you at your earliest conven^-^ ience, and remain, Yours very tuly Glines & Co

Letter from Francis Cato Sells, 28 November 1895

Nephi . President Wilford Woodruff. Dear Brother; I have recieved a notice that my name ^h^as been accepted as a missionary, and I feel gratefull that I have been counted worthy. In answer to me being ready to start on January 11th, for the Northern States. As my father is not an able- bodied man being minus a leg, having an artificial one, and we have quite a bunch of stock which I want to sell, and if I can- not sell I will have to feed them this winter, but I

Letter from John William Grace, 28 November 1895

Nephi City, Utah, Wilford Woodruff. Dear Brother Your call of Nov 25th to a mission to Great Britain has been received and accepted, and unless something very unlooked for transpires before that time, I shall be there on the date mentioned to be set apart. Yours Very Respt J W Grace I Cheerfully Reccomend Brother Grace as a Worthy Young Man for this Mission. Wm H. Warner Bishop Nephi First Ward. Is this the bro. Grace recently returned from the Sandwich Islands? It is very good any way. J. F. S.

Letter from Asa Solomon Kienke, 28 November 1895

Nephi, Utah. . President Wilford Woodruff. P. O. Box, B. Salt Lake City. Dear Brother, In answer to the call I received a few days go to take a mission to the Northern States, I am but a mear boy and feel very very weak and incapable of performing such a responsible labor, but I am willing to go and perform it to the very best of my ability. If nothing further, I will be in Salt Lake City at the appointed time. Your Brother in the Gospel, Asa Kienke I take pleasure in saying that brother Kienke is a worthy young man. T H G Parkes. Bp. Nephi 2nd Ward. I like this. J. F. S.

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Nov 28, 1895