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Day in the Life

Dec 1, 1897

Journal Entry

December 01, 1897 ~ Wednesday

Wed Dec 1st 1897 I am feeling much better & sleep fairly well, drove to
to the office. attended a meeting of the Directors of Z S. B & Trust Co. at 1 pm
& transacted the wcurrant business. Went home at 330 pm

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

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Letter from J. M. Cahoon, 1 December 1897

Temple, Texas, Pres. Willford Woodruff. Salt Lake City. Utah. My Dear Uncle and Bro' in the Church of Latter Day Saints. Sir: Hoping you will excuse this liberty I write to inform you, I have privileged myself the use of your name which I have given to Capt Willcox. of Temple Texas. He, not having known me longer than two weeks, naturaly wishes to know who and what I am as I have asked him for the hand of his Daughter Cora in marriage. Hopeing, Sir, that you will give him, in answer to his inquiry, the best account of myself you can

Letter from John E. Johnson, 1 December 1897

Salt Lake City, Prest. Woodruff and Counsellors. Dear Brethren: In answer to yours of February 5th, 1896, instructing me to report to you in one year my condition and prospects for filling a mission to Scandinavia, I beg, respectfully, to report as follows: My condition now is no better than it was then, if, indeed, it is not worse. I have been barely able to make a living for myself and wife and about all I own is my horse and wagon, which I use in my business of hauling coal, etc. My health is not good, being subject to painful attacks of rheumatism. My wife's health is also bad and I fear she could not earn her living in my absence. Nevertheless, my heart is in the work, and if you still see fit to send me forth to the missionary field, I will make every effort that lies within my power

Letter from Andrew Jenson, 1 December 1897

L. D. S. Historian's Office P. O. BOX 1678. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 1, 1897 President Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother: Yesterday morning Prest. Angus M. Cannon called on me and brought a special and direct message from you to the effect that you desired me to give to S. P. Neve a deed to some property which I own in Mill Creek, and which said Neve has been suing me for in court. Immediately upon receiving your message, I went to my attorney, Bro. Franklin D. Richards, and instructed him to hand over the deed which had already been executed. And S. P. Neve will be notified by me personally to-day that Bro. Richards will give him the deed on his payment of some tax money and a portion of the court expenses. The property in question is worth about $5000 (it cost me more than that), and is the same property to which I executed a deed to the Trustee-in-trust, about 2 1/2 years ago, which deed could not then be

Community - Missionary Certificate for John Taylor Roberts Jr., 1 December 1897

in behalf of said Church. Wilford Woodruff Geo. Q. Cannon Jos. F. Smith. First Presidency.

Dec 1, 1897