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Show MOILMOX KI.DKUS A15K MAKOOXKl) IX MISSOURI The recent snow storm marooned in Hiniip'iiTs, Missouri, a company oC nine Mormon elders enroute from Independence, In-dependence, Missouri, to Carthage and Xauvoo, Illinois. They are Joseph Jos-eph T. Atkin, St. George, Utah; Joseph Jos-eph Bitter, Ririe, Idaho; John V. .England, Arimo, Idaho; L. W. Edwards, Ed-wards, Panaca, Nevada; J. Francis Merrell, Brigham City, Utah; Lorin M. Mendenhall, Preston, Idaho; Chas. y. Goodliffe, Park Valley, Utah; E. D. Halnies and O. C. Clark, o Wichita, Wich-ita, Kansas. The latter two are members mem-bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, residing in Wichita; Wich-ita; the others are missionaries of the same church. The object of the journey is a visit to prominent places in Missouri and Illinois, associated with the rise of the church and its sojourn so-journ in the two states. The places being Liberty, Far West, and Adam-son Adam-son Diahrnon, known as Old Diah-mon Diah-mon in Missouri and the towns of Carthage and Nauvoo in Illinois. These elders are laboring in what is known as the Central States, mission, comprising the following states: Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Texas and Louisiana and has a church population in these states of approximately 10,000. These Mormon Mor-mon Elders are Keenly appreciative of the courtesy extended them as strangers in a strange land and state that they will long remember their visit to this state and their enforced sojourn in Humphreys. The Milan Standard, Milan Mo. |