Show missionary WORK IN MONTANA A council meeting was called by our late president elder F S bram bramwell well january 14 at anaconda to which all elders were called from their different fields of labor to give in their respective reports and decide the best bes t method of conducting the missionary labors in the state of montana q heretofore this mission has been under the supervision of the bannock stake presidency and the missionaries have been supplied from that stake at the last conference in rexburg it was decided to sever this mission from said stake at our council meeting important business was transacted for the furtherance of the mission the old fields were marked into conferences namely the anaconda conference embracing granite and the southern half of deer lodge counties with elder C R J harris as aa president the butte conference embracing silver bow and beaver head counties with elder C J black as president the missoula conference embracing ravalli and the southern portion of missoula counties with elder william hill who has recently returned from a mission to the eastern states as president the sheridan conference embracing maddison Madd lson and the southern portion of jefferson counties with elder W G paul as president those fields have all been worked to a limited extent on account of a lack of elders the work has been confined to a very small portion of the state the reports from the different elders were very gratifying A branch has been recently organized in butte city with a membership of thirty five saints by elders bramwell harris william thornby and H S jackson other fields have just recently been opened the elders axe are treated hospitably A number of local elders were called to assist 1 in spreading the graffel gos when not otherwise engaged as we feel that much help can be received from this source A proposition was made that the saints pay in a small fund aae each h month tor for the purpose of buying tracts paying for the rent of the halls and to assist in various ways in the mission field this will be generously responded to as they express a de sire to see a spread of the gospel A missi has been established with headquarters at anaconda A number of new elders returned from idaho with elder Bramwe wll namely W G paul erastus jensen william ricks J L stoddard and william hill all were very encouraged by the reports from atom the different fields I 1 your paper will be a welcome visitor at our fi resMe H S JACKSON clerk |