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Day in the Life

Mar 24, 1897

Journal Entry

March 24, 1897 ~ Wednesday

24 I spent the day in the office Met with Pioneer Committee
signed $2000 as Trustee in trust

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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah

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Letter from B. B. Wallace, 24 March 1897
March 24th 1897 Beachville Ky (Metcalfe Co) President Wilford Woodruff Dear bro and beloved President I take this liberty of addressing You for the following reasons We hav a nice Church House in process of erection. We began it last fall and we hav the out side work done windows and doors in and means to put on one or 2 coats of Paint which will be done soon, but we hav't mense [means] to finish it on the inside We hav been advised by the Elders to ask for a contribution from our pple in the west The first reason ^is^ We are not able to finish it is the pevailing hard times and modirate circumstances of Saints. We hav had some
Letter from Daniel Duncan McArthur, 24 March 1897
First Presidency Presidents Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith. Dear Brethren: I am in receipt of letter of the 20th inst. from Secretary George Reynolds containing Bro. Andrew Poulsen's letter to you. I did receive a letter fro[m] Bro. Poulsen as h[e] [page cut off] states, but supposed Bishop Bringhurst woul[d] [page cut off] attend to all necessary in the matter. I enclose a letter on this subject setting fort[h] [page cut off] the result of enquiries made by Bro. David H Cannon in response to Bro. Poulsen's letter to him I have also learned that previous to Bro Poulsen's letter to me, or his to Brother David H. Cannon, he, brother Poulsen, put the matter int[o] [page cut off] the hands of a lawyer who has approached Bp. Bringhurst in the effort to collect the debt, but who failed to do so, and then, as the Bishop feels finding the law of the land did not justify the claim ^made^ upon him, Brother Poulsen applied to Church Authorities. I learn also that Bp. Bringhurst said to our
Letter from Warren Marshall Johnson, 24 March 1897
Kanab Utah President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother Perhaps you will remember that in Dec 1895 I met with an accident which dislocated my backbone in one place, and broke it square off in another, and that you gave me a tithing order on the Kanab office for $10000 for which I wish to again thank you, as I feel very grateful for the favors At the suggestion of Pres. E D Woolley of the Kanab stake, I write you for counsel in reference to my case. For 15 months I have been laying on my bed, without any use of my lower limbs, and have to be lifted on and off the same whenever I sit up in a chair for a short time. There is a jog in my backbone of nearly half an inch where the dislocation was and some think it was not properly set, and that it may be the cause of the nerves not working properly in my legs. The lower break caused a sore about eight inches long by seven inches wide which has not yet healed up, and some

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April 1897
Publication of Conference Report begins (replaced by Ensign Conference issue starting in 1965).

Mar 24, 1897