Show S IN SANPETE Au Enthusia MassIJIeeting at Ephraim S MANII May 3 1885 To the Editor THE HERALD S Precisely at 1 pm a large assembly was called to order in the Ephraim Tabernacle on Saturday May 21885 The welltrained Ephraim Brass Band opened the proceedings The organization organiza-tion of the meeting was then effected as follows Canute Peterson Esq president Henry Beal Esq vicepresident L M Olsen secretary in chief George Taylor and W I Reid assistant assist-ant secretaries ElderJames Warehatn chaplain After the opening exercises the object of the meeting was tersely told by the chair Assistant Secretary Reid then read splendidly the manifesto and protest of the Saints to which reading a breathlessattention was paid At the close of the reading Mr D Candland moved the acceptance and endorsement of the manifesto and protest pro-test Speeches being in order Elder John B Maiben spoke eloquently of the wrongs this people have and are now suffering The question being called for viz the adoption of the protest a very vigorous and enthusiastic Aye was given Then followed the signatures by the hundred which had time permitted to apply to each ward might have been swelled into thousands Thus one more red letter day has been added to the calendar of the Saints What will be the effect of this later protest pro-test it is hard to say for even the astrologera and soothsayers say the heayens and everything else are so disrupted dis-rupted that disruption is more disrupted dis-rupted Certain it is the horizon everywhere every-where is murky warlike In passing I may be permitted to chronicle the widows wail of that excellent ex-cellent hostelry the Ephraim House for it was said that the chirographist Professor Pleit his board bill unpaid un-paid and his writing class students expecting ex-pecting the promised prizes last Friday evening Itlooks as Ifdishonesty was mightier than the pen In the list of registrars for this county the selection is generally if not altogether alto-gether from the ranks of the pronounced pro-nounced some traveling miles to the field of their registration in some instances in-stances a distance of ten or twelve miles So wags the world A LOOKER ON I |