March 8, 1884 ~ Saturday

March 8, 1884 {shorthand}

Cars rode to Woods Cross Attended
Meeting at East Bountiful Meeting
House at 10 c
{shorthand} Peter Barton

Statistical report read
2 Patriarch H[igh] P[riests] 136 70 [Seventies] 220
Elders 326, Priests 75 Teachers 70
Deacons 108 Officers & Members 3810
Children under 8, 1586
Total Souls, 5396.

Bishops verbally reported
W Woodruff spoke 50 M[inutes]

we Dined with Br Call and Attended
Meeting in the Afternoon {shorthand} J B Nobles

Bishops reported the condition of the wards
all said there was an improvement in the [ward]

J F. Smith spoke 60 M[inutes] M 3

March 9, 1884 ~ Sunday

9 {shorthand} A cold raw morning I Met
the Assembly at 10 c at the Meeting
House at 10 c {shorthand}

G Q Cannon spoke 63 M

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March 8, 1884 ~ Saturday

March 8, 1884 [FIGURE] Phebe W. Woodruff is 77 years old today This is Phebe Whitemore Carter Woodruffs Birth day She is 77 years old this day at 10 oclok A.M. we have both been preserved in a wonderful manner through all the vicissitudes of this life so far and both are still in good reasonable health.

I took cars & rode to Woods Cross to attend a quarterly conference at Bountiful we Met at 10 oclok Peter Barton Prayed The Statistical Report was read Davis stake contained 2 Patriarch, 136 High Priest 220 seventies, 326 Elders, 75 Priests, 70 Teachers, 108 Deacons 3810 Officers & Members, 1586 Children under 8 years 5396 Total of Souls. Four Bishops then made a verbal report of their wards. Then W Woodruff spoke 50 Minuts upon the organization of the Priesthood and its labor we dined with Br Call, and Met again at 2 oclok J. B. Nobles Prayed. 4 Bishops Reported then Joseph F Smith spoke 60 Minuts I spent the night at Br Calls 10 Miles

March 9, 1884 ~ Sunday

9 Sunday we Met at 10 oclok G Q Cannon having arived He spoke 63 Minutes followed By W Woodruff 15 Minutes. I dined with Phebe Sessions & Met in the Afternoon at 2 oclok Prayer By Samuel W Richards. Wm R Smith spoke 12 Minutes John W Hess spoke 5 Minutes, Anson Call 7 Minutes, Samuel W Richards Joseph F Smith 35 G Q Cannon 15, W Woodruff 5 which closed the conference. [FIGURE] Samuel W. Richards said whare a Man had 2 or 3 wives one After the other and did not have but one at a time He would still be in Poligamy in the next world the same as though He had them all at one Joseph F Smith