Show USUAL attendance the first quarterly qua terly conference for the year 1916 of the box elder stake was held in the tabernacle in this city on saturday and sunday last the visitors irom from salt lake were apostle joseph F smith jr and bishop orrin P miller of the presiding bishopric of 0 the church the stake presidency and all high councilmen were also in at as were the bishops of 0 all the wards of the stake their counselors and a very rood good representation of the lay membership I 1 the first meeting on saturday was for the priesthood only and was attended t e n d e d by b y 3 5 8 of that t li a t body b od y at the opening e r e n in g session s es si 0 n president pr e si d en t stohl S t ohl made some remarks in ill which he outliner outlined briefly the condition of the stake elder J francis terrell merrell spoke for a tew few minutes on oil the matter of 0 the sugar factory and urged the farmers to be loyal ui in the matter of supporting the institution and thus bringing to themselves the profits which the industry scatters elder abel G rich delivered a spirited address full of wise suggestion on the subject of temperate living and the benefits accruing he was followed by elder joseph P F smith jr whose theme was be ye clean and lie he read from the scriptures the word of the lord on tile the matter lie he emphasized the point that as we saw row so shall we reap in the afternoon the general public was invited to be present and souls attended the services were were characterized by addresses on oil temple work V ork by elder joseph A west and At at sacrament meetings by bv 0 C dalby after which bishop 0 P miller gave cave some interesting statistics ou on the tha work done in the temples of the church in 1914 and told of what is being done right now in that line the temples being crowded to their capacity referred to the dox box elder stake r record C ord and the people a although ith ugh there are some things in which improvement can be made elder smith was the last speaker and lie spoke of tile the low death rate among the latter day saints as compared with the insured world stated that it is possible to lengthen our lives it if we nye live right and he be disagreed with the idea that when a person dies the lord has called him declared that the lord has mighty little to do with wilh the great majority ot of deatha ahmoi among ll 11 g and young people P parents ar ants and the individuals themselves are responsible for the most part during the meeting special musical num numbers hers were rendered by mrs callie L kofoed and victor E madsen and C elias jensen the terrific storm which raged be tween the morning and afternoon sessions deterred many from attending tile the afternoon services however 1000 persons were present and a spirited session cAsion was held the general and local authorities were presented and sustained some changes were made in in the auxiliary organizations made necessary by the resignation of a number of workers addresses acre trade made by apostles joseph F smith jr and bishop 0 P miller the first named discoursed uran the sacrament and the responsibilities bili lif ties atten at deat upon the partaking of of it il lie ho aso also spoke for a short time on the subject of temple work an aal ani I marriage bishop wilier confined his remarks to an exposition of the church doctrine dc trine of marriage and read from the doctrine covenants if tle word of the lord relative to it durin during the services sen ices the choir reid red the hymn all hail the clorious ISI tl onous orious day the selections entitled 0 ye ve vallies and mountains amercio A merci merVIL SO riu fair and free and the anthem nos HO annah miss florence jons of willard rendered the solo for all eternity the prayers were offerall bv bishop J H welling and mile eldi isaae isaac IL II jensen at the evening service a barq largs greg tion was present the was characterized by a short musical program arranged by the Mutu mutual ats which included two songs from the first ward scouts a ladles ladies clorus from the second ward and a retold story by sister osborne ot of the second ward addresses were delivered by apostle joseph F r smith bishop milter miller and president oleen N stohl the subjects being clean cean living marriage and missionary work vork and some of the early church history the opening and closing songs were the hymns what was witnessed in the heavens and 10 lo the mighty god tha prayers were nere offered by elders F W V fishburn and homer holmgren at the sunday sunda morning session a record crowd was jn in at the count showing 1660 in the tabernacle bernace Ta the opening song was the lord Is my aly light after which elder joseph A west niest NI est offered the invocation and then the schools sang there is a green hill far away the sacrament was administered by the bishopric pric of the first ward during the thel passing of which victor E madsen sang kind words with the schools joining in the chorus the sacrament gera gem and concert work was led by miss phyllls phyllis madsen a boys bays chorus from the se second ward sang 0 it Is wonderful mrs ethel R jensen gave a reading and stewart vance sang a solo bishop 0 P miller entertained the children iby by telling them the story of day dav continued on page three STORM PREVENTS I 1 USUAL attendance continued irom from first page id and the lion and goliath ile he was followed by apostle joseph F smith jr who told a story and the schools sang 0 say what is truth and the benediction was pronounced by at ai E P cordon |