Show HARD iiiic TO GET I IIJSOP PROVO WARD REJECTS THE CHURCH APPOINTEE Evan Wride Appointed First But HeRe He-Re igned and the People Want Him to Withdraw His Resignation Provo Aug 14A very large congregation congre-gation assembled at the Sixteenth ward meeting house tonight to witness the installation of Bishop Evan Wride but the installation did not take place When the meeting opened President Partridge explained that Elder Wride who was some days ago promoted to the bishopric had tendered his resignation resig-nation on account of financial reasons This fact was generally known by the congregation who had prepared a petition peti-tion signed by 334 members of the ward The petition related the reasons assigned by Elder Wride and went onto on-to express confidence in him and prayed pray-ed that he might be retained President Partridge thereupon announced an-nounced that the authorities had already al-ready selected another man for the place in the person of Bengt Johnson jr and under the rules of the church nothing could be done in the matter of carrying out the prayer of the petition peti-tion except to reject the new appointee After some discussion a vote was taken on Johnsons appointment with the result that 90 voted to sustain him and 50 or 57 voted against him The rest of the congregation which numbered num-bered fully 500 did not vote at all Then President Partridge said It would be unjust to force Elder Johnson into the place since it was evident that many more than those voting negatively nega-tively were opposed to him He therefore there-fore suggested that a presiding elder be appointed until such time as the ward could agree upon a man for bishop This was acquiesced in and F T Eggertson jr was selected as presiding elder of the ward until a X Logan Local Items Logan Aug 14 Blackleg has appeared ap-peared among the cattle in some parts of the county Bishop W H Lewis of Lewiston lost six head the past week from this cause Mr Peter Greaves and daughter Mr C Andrews and Mr A T McCanne all of Nephi have been visiting in Logan Lo-gan the past few days the guests of Mrs Ray Ormsby Appendicitis at Heher Heber Aug 14John Clyde ex county commissioner has been ailing for several weeks and yesterday was operated upon for appendicitis The operation was performed by Dr Aird of Heber and Dr Wilson of Park City Mr Clyde is a very popular man in the county and great hopes are entertained entertain-ed for his recovery bishop can be chosen |