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Show TEMPLE flNDTABERHflCLL The Tabernacle Choir went to the Lagoon August l'2. and drew a large crowd. Professor Stevens qresented a popular set of numbers, many of which were comparatively new. Robert Lundin of the T wenty-third ward, Salt Lake City, returned Saturday, Satur-day, August 20, from a thirty-two months' mission to Sweden. He says the elders are meeting with success and many are being baptized. President George Q. Cannon and wife have returned home from the coast, having been called by the illness ol their daughter Vera, who was operated oper-ated upon for appendicitis. President Wilford Woodruff and Bishop Clawson will remain in California for a couple of weeks yet, visiting friends. All the Temples are at present closed. The opening of the Salt Lake Temple has been postponed until the first Monday in September, owing to the fact that the repairs and improvements improve-ments will not be completed until that time. A double wall is being con structed to keep out the damp along the passage that connects the main building with the Annex, and other improvements are being made. In his address at the Tabernacle Sunday afternoon, Apostle John Henry Smith took for his subject, "Monuments," "Monu-ments," the topic being suggested by the proposed Maine memorial monument. monu-ment. He spoke of the many monuments monu-ments in different countries dedicated to military and naval heroes and men sf science and literature, expressing his own feelings upon standing in the presence of monuments of Washington, Sir Walter Scott and others. A nations na-tions history ma3' be judged from the monuments it builds. Speaking of the Brigbam Young monument, he said it was erected by those who founded this commonwealth and made it possible to establish commonwealths in the surrounding sur-rounding territories. The employees from every department depart-ment of Z. C. M. I., Salt Lake, went out in full force to Saltair August 16. The store was closed at 4 o'clock, and everybody had an ejajoyable time. Miss Ivey Hays won the lady's prize, a pair of dancing slippers, for being the best waltzer of the unmarried contestants, con-testants, and her partner, E. Brain, the gentleman's prize, a handsome lamp. The boat race was won by William Beattie, who was presented with a Stetson hat, and L. G-. Iloapr-land Iloapr-land carried off the prize in the swimming swim-ming contest. In the three-legged race the first prize was carried off by Brigham Seare and Ebenezer Brain, and the second by S. C. Smith and W. Tj. Wilding. Each of the two boys winning first place was presented with a pearl-handled knife, the two seconds receiving an album apiece. Fritz Riser won a handsome rug as first prize in the foot race. In the shooting contest con-test Charles Hargetts and James Gibson Gib-son carried off the prizes. On Sunday, fVugust 7th, a new stake of Zion was organized with headquarters head-quarters at Pocatello, Idaho. It includes in-cludes the wa.rds and branches that formerly comprised the northwestern portions of tho Oneida, liishop W. C. Parkinson, of (.he Preston ward, was selected as Prpident of the new Stake, L. C Pond, Slake Superintendent of Sunday school's, J. F. Hunt, Stake Superintendent of Y. M. M. I. A., Sister Sis-ter J. G. Orato, Stake President of the Ladies Relief Society, Sister Jane Henderson, Stake Superintendent of the Primary Associations and Sister h. C. Pond, Stake Superintendent of the Y. h. M. I. A. The march of veterans and pioneers to join "the great majority" beyond the veil still continues. On the evening even-ing of Sunday, August 7th, Patriarch Christopher Layton passed away to his great reward. He has long been known as a prominent man in the church, and the fact that two far distant dis-tant settlements, one in Davis County, Utah, and the other in Graham County, Arizona, have buen named after him, shows how wide reaching for good has been his influence. He was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1821, joined the Mormon Church in youth, was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion Bat-talion and took part in the wonderful march from Fort Leavenworth to Southern California. Later he was Bishop of Kaysville, then counselor in the Presidency of the Davis Stake, and still later the President of St. Joseph Stake, in Arizona. He leaves an exceedingly -large family. Since Patriarch Layton's death Elder Lyman Curtis, of Payson, has followed him. Brother Curtis was born in 1S12, joined the church in 1S34, was a member of Zion's Camp and the Mormon Battalion. Elder William Hennefer, the pioneer barber of Utah, has also lately passed away. Elder Frank Olsen of Coalville, who has been laboring as a missionary in Germany and Switzerland for the past two and a half years, has returned home looking fine and hearty. The reports received of the lectures of Dr. James E. Talmage, in England, are very gratifying. The halls are crowded. Samuel M. Taylor, Esq., the United States Consul at Glasgow, is billed as his chairman at his lecture at the City Hall in the Burgh. The final lecture was changed from Liverpool Liver-pool to YVigan. |