~ Wednesday
Nov 24 1880
we attended a Meeting with a relief society Mrs Woodruff
spoke 35 M[inutes] and gave vary good instruction to the people
we took cars & rode to Salt Lake City and I had a severe
cold on my lungs & had a sick night. Distance 95 Miles
~ Thursday
25
Thanksgiving day I received 5 letters. I wrote
one letter to Br Bleak we had quite a snow storm Endow-
ments were given to day there was quite a Number of
young folks Married today My son James Buried his
syoungest Son [daughter] to day. My Daughter Bulah returned
home from the East this Evening I heard a letter Read
from James Blackburn a Missionary at Michigan
giving an account of the Persecution He was recei-
ving from the people, they were driven from place to place
He also related a most horrible circumstance He had rec[ieve]d
a letter from B Palmer of Cleveland Ohio saying
that the water Reservoy of that city had become so foul
they could not drink it they drained the water off
and they found in the bottom of it 700 dead infants
all probably begotten out of wedlock how they can as
a Nation stand with such corruption in one Christian
city Not ownly Evidenc of 700 cases of whoredom in
one city but of 700 Murders in one city and the
inhabitants Drinking the water from their bodies 6 M[iles]
~ Friday
26.
I returned to the City & wrote a letter to McAllister
~ Saturday
27
I wrote one letter to I F Carter and a Draft for
$62 for Bulah I wrote to Br Lutz I sent a descrption
to him of John Taylor, Erastus Snow, Francis M Lyman
& John Henry Smith I visited C. C. Rich He seemed some better
~ Wednesday
Nov 24 1880 we attended a Meeting with a relief society Mrs Woodruff spoke 35 Minutes and gave vary good instruction to the people we took cars & rode to Salt Lake City and I had a severe cold on my lungs & had a sick night. Distance 95 Miles
~ Thursday
25 FIGURES Thanksgiving day I received 5 letters. I wrote one letter to Br Bleak we had quite a snow storm Endowments were given to day there was quite a Number of young folks Married today My son James Buried his [FIGURE]youngest Son daughter to day. My Daughter Bulah returned home from the East this Evening I heard a letter Read from James Blackburn a Missionary at Michigan giving an account of the Persecution He was receiving from the people, they were driven from place to place He also related a most horrible circumstance He had recieved [FIGURE] a letter from B Palmer of Cleveland Ohio saying that the water Reservoy of that city had become so foul they could not drink it they drained the water off and they found in the bottom of it 700 dead infants all probably begotten out of wedlock how they can as a Nation stand with such corruption in one Christian city Not ownly Evidenc of 700 cases of whoredom in one city but of 700 Murders in one city and the inhabitants Drinking the water from their bodies 6 Miles
~ Friday
26. [FIGURE] I returned to the City & wrote a letter to McAllister
~ Saturday
27 FIGURES I wrote one letter to I F Carter and a Draft for $62 for Bulah I wrote to Br Lutz I sent a descrption to him of John Taylor, Erastus Snow, Francis M Lyman & John Henry Smith I visited C. C. Rich He seemed some better
