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Show 5 vw vvvvvwvvvvvvvvvvvv 3 TEMPLE AND TftBtRNftOLE 'Te"foUovirrgrn arrived in Liverpool for the- British mission have been assigned as follows: Brigham Y. Benson of Trenton, Leeds; John Cook, Rexburg, Idaho, Norwich; Stephen Thurston, Hyde Park, and Nephi Larsen, Treston, Manchester; A. J. Poulson, Richfield, Newcastle: Robert G. McQuarrie, St. George, and William S. Lockhead, Ogden, Scottish; Thomas H. Maxwell, Salt Lake City, Jacob Robertson, Spanish Fork, and Richard P. Carlisle, Alpine, London; Thomas Sumner, Provo, Nottingham; Andrew Ferguson, Lake Shore, Irish; Henry M. Haslam, Wellsville, Sheffield. The following have arrived at Liverpool Liver-pool for the various missions, but are yet unassigned: For the Scandinavian mission, Anton H. Jenson, Preston, Idaho; Alex H. Oblad, Salt Lake City; Niels Frederick-son, Vernon; Peter N. Garff, Draper. For the German mission, mis-sion, Samuel E. Gustaveson and Martin Mar-tin Ganglmayer, Salt Lake City; Robert J. Burton and Richard Lee Taylor, Ogden; Wilford C. Nuttall, Provo, Henry M. Lewis, Mesa, Arizona. For the Swiss mission, David L. McDonald, Heber; Robert L. Campbell, Salt Lake City. Elder Thomas Gilchrist, president of the Newcastle conference, has been honorably released to return home, and sailed from Glasgow on the steam ship Furnessia, September 7. Elder James E. Meeks has been appointed ap-pointed president of the Newcastle conference. Elder Heber B. Smith has been released re-leased as traveling elder in the Birmingham Bir-mingham conference and appointed to labor in the Liverpool office. William F. Colwell of Jacksonville, 111., writes to the Deseret News: When I first read the News I was a non-Mormon. Some time before M. I. C. IliS put in his appearance in tho city of Jacksonville. Thappened to be at his meeting when he and others made an attack upon the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Myself and wife are members of the church now, thank God! My house is headquarters for Jacksonville. We have some splendid meetings here at my house. The Lord is blessing us very much. Good seed is sown here that will bring forth fruit some day. The ward at Rockland, Idaho, has recently built a brick meeting house at a cost of $3,000. Rockland is a narrow nar-row valley about twenty miles long, and an average of about one mile wide, is well watered from a mountain stream called Rock Creek. The place was first settled in the year 18S2, by people from Farmington and Calls Fort, Boxelder county, and was organ ized into a ward in ISS-i by President Lorenzo Snow, and he set apart as bishop, Isaac Thorne, with Andrew Allen and W. W. Howard as counsel- ors. The ward was attached to Box- I elder, then to Malad stake, and in 1898 was attached to the Pocatello stake of Zion. Bishop Thorne and his counselors coun-selors are still occupying their positions. posi-tions. This little valley is situated across a desert sixteen miles southwest from American Falls, and is reached by a stage line, which caaries a daily mail. There is also a telephone line. There are about 500 people, including children, in the valley. Among the number are many non-Mormon families, fami-lies, but all live in harmony, and the people have the Latter-day Saint elders eld-ers attend to their religious rights in burying the dead, etc. The people are all well-to-do, having large ranches. Their principal crop is hay (lucern), some grain, an abundance of the finest vegetables and small fruits. The mutual improvement associations associa-tions of Salt Lake and Davis stakes held a "melon day" social at Lagoon Thursday of last week. The principal feature of interest was to see who could eat the most melons, and besides several wagon loads, a car was loaded with the lucious fruit at Bountiful and hauled to the resort. A game of base ball was played by players from both counties, Salt Lake winning by a score of six to five, all six of their runs being be-ing made in the last inning. Professor Stevens has begun to get the tabernacle choir in readiness for their proposed trip to the Paris exposition, expo-sition, where they will compete in the singing contests against the best organized choirs from all over the world. It is reported from the southern states mission that the elders in that vicinity are meeting wltb more public j favor just at present than for some time In the past. The hearts of the people are softening towards them and good work is being accomplished. |