Day in the Life

Mar 16, 1898

Journal Entry

March 16, 1898 ~ Wednesday

Wed Mar 16th At the office very busy so that I could not eat my lunch till
3 pm. ^went home at 420 pm^ B[isho]p Morris is very low, 2 ribs broken & concussion of the brain. Phumonia
is feared.

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Morris, Elias
1825-1898
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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah

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Letter from Lewis Olson Dorius, 16 March 1898

To The First Presidence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Dear brothern. Yours of March the 9 have been received I am willing to c respond to the call and leive Salt Lake the 7 of May, 1898, for my Mission to Scandinavia if all is well. Your brother in Gospel, Louis O Dorius C R Dorius Bp.

Letter to Francis Asbury Hammond, 16 March 1898

P.O. Box B. Salt Lake City, Utah, . Prest. F. A. Hammond and Counselors, San Juan Stake of Zion. Dear Brethren: The financial condition of the church has rendered it absolutely necessary that a more rigid system of disbursing its funds be adopted in the future than has obtained in the past, and in order to meet this necessity we have formed an estimate of the present year's income of the church, based on the receipts of re- cent years, and apportioned an equitable percentage of the same to the various departments claiming its support or assistance. This policy we regard as altogether better from a business standpoint, and more likely to give better general satisfaction than the practice heretofore followed of appropriating means for various purposes without knowledge on our part of the ability of the church to meet such appropriations. This practice has been one of the causes which renders it necessary to adopt this new method of disbursing the funds at our disposal. We also find it necessary, besides having to resort to a more business like way of disbursing church funds, to curtail expenses, revise fixed expenditures, and make provision for our obligations. This has required a reduction in the number of employes, and a general reduction of wages and retrenchment in every direction. We hope by strictly adhereining to this way of doing our business, and continuing to encourage and insist upon retrenchment

Letter from James A. Duke, 16 March 1898

Thatcher. Pres. Wilford Woodruff In reply to your letter of the 26 ult. I will say that with the help of my Heavenly father I will accept the call and do the best I can. If nothing happens I will be there at October conference. I remain Your Brother in the Gospel James A. Duke. Bp. I. E. D. Zundel

Letter from James Moses Larson, 16 March 1898

Matthews . Pres Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Utah. Dear Brother I recived Your Letter in due time I accept the mission with pleasure and I am thankful to our Fother in He^a^ven, that I have been called worthey to be called as a missionary to promulgate the Everlasting gospel, to the nations. My fealings are to go and do all the good I can. Your Brother in the gospel James M Larsen. C B Boren Bishop

Business/Financial - Account Book, 1889-1898

5 girl $5 (12) $5 $2 12

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April 10, 1898
Wilford's Conference address on his 1877 vision of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Mar 16, 1898