during Thursday and Friday, Nov. 16 & 17, having also visited
by special invitation of the Trustees the new district school
houses at Richfield and Salina, both of which are
a credit to these communities, with the exception of the
bad financiering of the Richfield Board in this mat-
ter.
Bp. Madsen, of Gunnison, having met me at Salina in
the evening of Friday, Nov. 17, took me to Gunnison the
next morning. But before arriving at Gunnison proper,
I had to meet unexpectedly the Sundayschool children
with their teacher at the "Gunnison Field" at 11 A. M.
and address them, after which we were received at
2:30 P.M. at Gunnison by the students of the Seminary
with their teachers, which also necessitated an address
to them at the Seminary, which meeting was attended
by many parents. There had also been announced
a lecture for the evening which duty I performed
also to the best of my ability, but I confessed after that
I was somewhat tired for once. Sunday was spent
in visiting and addressing the Sunday school, likewise a
meeting in the afternoon, and a meeting of the Sunday
"Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 5 December 1893," p. 20, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/vx1L