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Show ALMIRA J. MER- RILL IS DEAD! A Prominent Woman of Richmond Passes to Great Beyond. All The Other News. Richmond, April l. 1000. In the passing away of Mrs. Almlra J. Merrill, Mer-rill, who died here Sunday, April 8, at I p.' in., Richmond loses another of her esteemed pioneers and energetic workers, while her children, of whom 11, and 37 grandchildren survive her, are deprived of a most devoted mother moth-er and grandmother and a wise counselor. One of her children preceded pre-ceded her to the grave. Mrs. Merrill is the third wife of the late Apostle Mariner . Merrill, having hav-ing married him in 1805 when she was but sixteen years of age. Sho endured with him the tilals and hardships so familiar to all the early settlers of this valley, and worked In the different differ-ent organizations of the church from her arrival here. She acted for twenty-two j cars as president of fie Heller Society and In this position she always offered a helping hand to the poor and needy, making friends and becoming beloved by all with whom she associated Sister Merrill was the daughter of Fredrick and Elizabeth Pond Haiti-bridge, Haiti-bridge, being born in Salt Lake city, August 27, 1840, during the hardships brought on by the ever memorable j famine of that tlmu During the gold crae of 1840 her father went to California Cali-fornia and never ictuiued. A little later her mother matried Reason Lewis and they all In lbuO moved to Cache Valley, wheie six yeais later, as stated above the deceased man led Apostle Merrill. For the past seventeen years Mrs. Merrill had been a patient sufferer from liver and kidney tioublcs. About two weeks ago .sevens complications I set In which caused her death, although al-though everything that could be done for the unfortunate sutlercr was done to lclcive and cure her. She was a great believer in education educa-tion and she thought no sacrlllce too great that would help any of her children cducatlqnally. As a lesult of thU noble trait all her children have received educations, four sons having graduated fiom eastern colleges and universities and later have Interested themselves In the educational Interests In-terests of the state. Her sons have all tilled missions at home and abroad, one of them, Leon, having recently arrived In Chicago on a mission to the central states, while her son Preston Is llnlshing a medical course In the Northwestern Medical University. Funeral services will be held In the Richmond meeting house Wednesday, April 11th, at 11 a. m. Personal Mention. Fred S. Schow has Just received a report fiom Washington, D.C., on the result of the recent Civil Service examination ex-amination held in Logan, and In which Mr. Scow wits a participant. The leport states that Fred has 1708 points, or :i08 above that required to pass the examination, and as he had passed satisfactorily, to be leady when called for to go to the Philippine Islands, he having signed an agreement agree-ment to that effect befoie ho took the examination. Spring weather having arrived ac-tle ac-tle work inalldiiectlons has beguh in earnest, and tho work on our tabernacle tab-ernacle will bo no exception to the rule.' The commlttco has ready for delivery In tho shops In Logan over $2,000 worth of work. The painting of tho celling will be begun soon now. Nelson Hros. were offered $1,000 for their "Hrown" place, but after due Investigation and thought decided not to sell at this figure and aro now holding hold-ing out for a higher one, should they sell at all. Mr. G. A. Naylor, who for the past two years has been the Richmond agent for the Studebaker Hros. Co., has been transferred to Lewiston and will work there, ho having begun Monday. Sara Evans, who has always looked after the Lewiston end of the Studebaker wagon business, will work-here. work-here. Several of the Scandinavian sisters did a noble act Mond ty by calling on Charlotte Pearson, an elderly lady who is crippled up with lhcumatlsm, taking with them picnic and some money to give her. A pleasant after-Upon after-Upon was spent and all felt well repaid for going. Death claimed tho 10-year-old son of Moroni H. and Lucy A. Hair of this lace Monday afternoon. The little boy had been sick with rheumatism slno tho beginning of December, although al-though lately he seemed on tho Improve. Im-prove. The tlmo of the funeral at this writing had not becn set, as Mr. Hair Is unable to locate his son Alvln, who Is somewhere In Oregon, John Dobson, an early settler here, Is quite III of kidney trouble. |