Show correspondence BATIK BATH HOUSE AND TJ ART OF SWIMMING editor deseret news nevus A few weeks ago a petition was lor for warded to the city council by some 1500 1600 of the taxpayers of the city to devote the warm springs bath house for public use at a nors non inal charge 4 enough bough nough to pay expenses of running it I 1 ho hope e our city fathers will grant the petition also a person to take the ol of the baths who can teach the art of swimming it I 1 ia very requisite that our boys should know how to preserve their lives in the water the writer lost a son a boblo aniblo and amiable young man of 20 years of age in that small sheet of water at calders farm it he had had the least notion of a strokes would have saved his life there are hundreds of boys in our city who would oe be glad of the opportunity to learn and parents who would be thankful for the same I 1 hope the committee will tall fast in this consideration JAMES JAMBS COULT salt lake city june 23 1886 THE SOUTHERN STATES NIS MIS SION STRUCK SPRUCE BINE franklin county ala june 1886 editor deseret news having seen nothing in the NEWS for some time from this part we thought a few items concerning the work ii 01 the lord in this part of the vineyard would be of interest to our many friends in zion on the and loth of may president morgan met in conference with the elders deib in the eastern part of the state at silver run talladega county where tour meetings were held and much valuable instruction was given to the elders who reported their nelds ot of labor to be in a prosperous condition the elders present were J 0 de la mare president of the conference it R kand and R RW W allred A T angell and W H wilson on the lath and of the present month elders do de la mare wm J woodbury Wood oury david J bohnett Bo anett james campbell and geo W baker met with president morgan and elders A J mccuiston and john W hart of the west tennessee conference at this place where four meetings were held and much valuable instruction was waa given by presidents morgan and do de la mare the elders reported their fields as being in a pios pro percus sperus condition generally at present there are nine elders in t the he state all ail feeling well and doing all they can to advance the work of the lord some time ago the salt lake papers bublis ed an extract from the courier journal stating that a cormon ft ormon elder was drowned by a mob in shelby county As the statement has not been corrected we will now set the minds of the at rest by stating that elder de la mare is the man reported drowned he is now in good health and spirits the work of the lord is progressing favorably and the prospects are that some new dew members will soon be added to the church ever praying for the welfare of zion I 1 remain your brother in the gospel geu GEOW W BAKER JR |