Show RETURNED ELDERS elder john R booth who has baa been laboring in the Man manchester hester confer ence england returned home today having left liverpool on the steamer alaska 10 two weeks ago hamade he made the NEWS office a call and was look ing and feeling well on saturday last we received a call from elder robert duke of heber city who had just returned from a mission to the states he ele labored in the northern states mission first in south ern indiana and southern illinois where the elders elden were well treated but in ohio jils his next field but little interest is taken aiji the gospel by the people elder duke enjoyed his ministry but Is glad to get name beme this afternoon we received acael a call from elder james smith of hays ville and elder ij L nelson of provo both of whom had bad just arrived from missions to europe the former left home on the ath ach of june J une 1890 and during his entire absence labored in london england conference with the exception of the last six weeks of his bis mission which he spent in birmingham elder nelson left utah on the ath of april 1890 and labored in the swedish portion of the scandinavian mission minion in the northern part of that country the work of the lord in i spreading numbers of people embracing the gospel as preached by the elders both these brethren are in go good od health and enjoyed their ministry abroad elder T P coleman of st johns arizona Ar lcona who left his bis home for a mission to great britain on the of may 1890 called at our office last evening having just returned from the old world the first fourteen months of elder Co lemana lemanis mission were spent in the norwich conference he was then transferred to the london conference where he re remained mined until return home he met his mother in this city who is at the holy cross hospital attending one of her sons who recently had the he misfortune to badly fracture one of his bis legs elder B Heert jes of the twentieth ward of this city called at the NEWS office this a in having just returned from a mission to alland Hl H land to which pait of the world he went as it a missionary in Oo october tober 1889 the first eight months of his bis mission were spent in the city of rotterdam where with elder lewis simons also of the twentieth ward this city he performed an excellent work next he labored in arbea for ten months where he also met with good success at the expiration of that term he was appointed as traveling elder for the northern provinces of the netherlands in which capacity he labored until he was released to return retura home his homeward voyage across the ocean was extremely stormy and occupied ten days he returns return ain in fair health and good spirits |