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Show I RELIEF S0C1EIY TO ossiEiiiesi Seventy-sixth Birthday Will ' Be Celebrated by Special Services in Wards. Tho .seventy-sixth a inii vrrxary of tho formation of tlio Relief wieicty by Prophet Joseph Srnitli in .Nauvoo will he celebrated today by special services in the various ward chapels. It ia believed be-lieved the anniversary will be observed generally throughout tho Mormon church, us many letters of inquiry have 1'ceji received at the general office of I he organization from the western ntal.es, the California missions .and tho different intermountain states. Mrs. Kmmoline j. Wells, tho aged : 'l of the society, ami Mrs. Annie i Wells Cannon will 'speak in tho Thirtieth Thir-tieth ward; Mrs. Clurissa H. Williams at Cottonwood; Mis. Juliua L. .Smith 1 ii ml Miss Harah l-Jddingtou at Farm-i Farm-i ington; Miss Kddington also in tho evening at tlie Nineteenth ward; Mrs. Amy Jfrown l.ymnii at tho Thirty-third; ' Mrs. hlli.u belli Wilcox in the Seventeenth; Seven-teenth; Mrs. Kmily S. Richards at Murray; Mur-ray; Mrs. Julia, 1. M. Farnsworth at the Twenty-eighth; Mrs. Junctlo A. Hyde nt Fanners ward, and Mrs. Carrie" a. Thomas in tho Fourth ward. Ms. Fli.a Jionnioii of tho Primary board will speak on the anniversary at Cen-terville. Cen-terville. A musical programme bv the Relief society choir will be given in the Nineteenth ward, in addition to an address ad-dress by Miss Fiklington. A number of stake and ward Relief society presidents will speak at the different meetings and members of the council of twclvo will discuss the organization organ-ization and scope of the society. in their sermons tonight. The Relief society now has an enrollment of 50,000 women. It has a splendid record in N philnnthropie and war work. |