Sept 29, 1883
I took cars this morning with Presidents Taylor & Cannon
& rode to Provo and attended a Board Meeting of Provo
Factory. I found Sister Smoot much Better Emma
stoped with her through the day I attended a priesthood
Meeting in the Afternoon and spent the night with Br Smoot 50 miles
A O Smoot Harvey Cluff, Isaac Bullock And David
Holdaway set apart 25 Home Missionaries G Q Cannon
spoke 30 M[inutes], W. Woodruff 20 He said there would be
a Dividing Line in this Church and that line would
be Between those who could Preach the whole Law of
God including the word of wisdom and practice what
they Preach & those who could not
~ Sunday
30 Sunday I met with F M Lyman & Platt Lyman we
Attended the Prayer Circle & met with the People at 10:30
Platt Lyman spoke 23 M[inutes] F M Lyman 22 M[inutes] W Woodruff 25 m[inutes]
Afternoon I met with the Missionary School of Maeser
which was vary interesting. At 4 oclok I took cars & returned
home to S L City 50 Miles
~ Monday
Oct 1. I spent a part of the day in cleaning out my orchard
cutting down my Apple trees and piling them in my wood
Pile I set them out in 19850 and now after 33 years
I am cutting them down to make room for Building
as they are no benefit to me as all the Apple have
been destroyed by the Apple grub or worm I met in
the Afternoon with the Presidency & Twelve and investiga-
ted the Sanwan Stake the propriety of maintaining it
or Abandoning it
Sept 29, 1883
I took cars this morning with Presidents Taylor & Cannon
& rode to Provo and attended a Board Meeting of Provo
Factory. I found Sister Smoot much Better Emma
stoped with her through the day I attended a priesthood
Meeting in the Afternoon and spent the night with Br Smoot 50 miles
A O Smoot Harvey Cluff, Isaac Bullock And David
Holdaway set apart 25 Home Missionaries G Q Cannon
spoke 30 Minutes, W. Woodruff 20 He said there would be
a Dividing Line in this Church and that line would
be Between those who could Preach the whole Law of
God including the word of wisdom and practice what
they Preach & those who could not
~ Sunday
30 Sunday I met with F M Lyman & Platt Lyman we
Attended the Prayer Circle & met with the People at 10:30
Platt Lyman spoke 23 Minutes F M Lyman 22 Minutes W Woodruff 25 minutes
Afternoon I met with the Missionary School of Maeser
which was vary interesting. At 4 oclok I took cars & returned
home to S L City 50 Miles
~ Monday
Oct 1. I spent a part of the day in cleaning out my orchard
cutting down my Apple trees and piling them in my wood
Pile I set them out in 1850 and now after 33 years
I am cutting them down to make room for Building
as they are no benefit to me as all the Apple have
been destroyed by the Apple grub or worm I met in
the Afternoon with the Presidency & Twelve and investigated the Sanwan Stake the propriety of maintaining it
or Abandoning it
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," September 29, 1883 - October 2, 1883, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/mq9G