Show KNOW INOW UT iAh H S By By- ALBE ALBERT T F. F PHILIPS in England continued and results were most most gratifying to the leaders of f the church At a general conference held in Manchester England on August 13 1848 1843 there were 28 8 conferences conferences and branches with a total of ot members represented In November the high council of ot voted I to receive rece Oliver Cowdery back Into the church by baptism at hi his own request This was done and later he hs was sent on a mission to England Cowdery was one of the three three witnesses to the Book of or Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- or mon and and was the first general church recorder He lIe was one of the six who organized the church and I ho was the first elder in the n to preach ireatha a public discourse On April 11 Il ISIS 1838 charges were ven preferred against him nine in number six of which w were sustained which barred him from the church Ten years ears later when he sought Bought rE readmission slon to the church he hd declared he wrote with his own pen the entire Book of Mormon with the exception of or ofa ofa ora a few pages as as' as asit lt Jt fell from tho the lips of oC the Prophet Joseph Smith a a aS he translated it by the tho gift and power of oC God and that he beheld with his own eyes eyE'S and handled with his own hands the gold plates from from which which the Book of Mormon was transcribed lie JHo died at Richmond nay Kay county Missouri 1 on March 3 3 1850 I C S C There was one thing Brigham Young believed in outside of ot his religious tenets and that was the absolute absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute necessity for play and amusement for the peo pie pIc The result was that Social halt hall was built It stood ion on on the plat of ground just south of the Belvedere Belvedere Belvedere Belve Belve- dere apartments on State street at the entrance to 10 Motor MOtOl av avenue av nue It was opened on en New Years Year's day 1853 with a grand ball The first play was presented on January 17 1853 In 1862 Brigham Young built the Salt Lake theatre In 1849 plays presented in the old Bowery Then came the the- l Music and Dramatic Dramatic Dramatic Dra Dra- matic company followed by the Deseret Dramatic as association association as- as which was organized October 1 I. I 1840 This association after presenting plays in Social So hall was temporarily disbanded and was succeeded by the tho Mechanics Mechanics' Me Me- Dramatic association Prior to 10 the opening of the Salt Lake theatre re the Deseret Dramatic association association asso asso- was reorganized Social hall was the scene of or many functions as was the old Bowery flowery Tho TIm plays plas were wel presented by amateurs but they were well sustained When the gathering was too large for a party In any of the homes Social hall hail was used The Tile Basement basement was fitted Up for cooking and there was wasa a dining dining- room adjoining with seats and tables sufficient for persons C C C COn On December 1 1849 the first Sunday Sunda school in Utah Dials was opened by Elder Richard Ballantyne inthe Inh in inthe the h Fourteenth ward vard of Salt Lake C City t I |