| Show IN 0 THE pennsylvania conference PRATT MARYLAND february 26 25 is 1895 af to there are twelve elders elder Ja laboring boring in ID this com conference ference this winter all have bays enjoyed pretty good health with the exception of slight blight colds colde winter started to in earnest december De oember anu anti we till still have plenty of show enow the elders have not been able to do deeo to much mach traveling since then than the weather being so severe the people here may aay they have hotl not had as cold a winter for many years jears the roads roade have been drilled drifted full and many of them are still closed our elders elden as an a usual thing receive good treatment irom from the people but aby many of them treat lightly the menage age we have preferring rather to heap to teachers who make it a study to tickle their itching ears the people of west virginia who aim se tobacco as aa a usual thing prefer the use of snuff anuff instead of chewing it is mid aid there to Is more nufi anuff used by its in habitants babi tanta than thata in any other state and this winter the article has ban rained from 26 to 50 coots cents per pound 0 saturday feb letb elder nefi neff and I 1 took train at littleton our heau beau T quarten qu arters arten for newburg preston preiton county ont virginia where we we t elders duffes and holbrook we have efured moored the ellis ball there for our pring opting conference which will be held march and the hall ball will mt eat persons nicely we have also made arrangements for rates at the hotel at 76 cents per day there have bave been no meetings hold held just juel in this vicinity but abord are some who hava bavta desire to attend and we trust the people will turn out to bear the mes mee one age we have to bear if any of the southern states elders labor laboring inic iu in the eo unties south ot us jimb to attend we will be pleased to lo see them the snow was so as asep that chrt it was almost impossible to travel so elder dories end and I 1 bought we would visit our friends at pratt maryland Mary Jand wt we reached here bete last evening there is some ome sickness among the saint we have a branch of the church here of six sixteen bemben wbk ano are an all interested Inter ted in the cause the NEWS in IB a regular visitor to the saints and the sermons are read re d with pleasure the saints here hav bave concluded that elder grant figured correctly out the word of wisdom and they are now dow using wheat as a substitute for some gome also have dropped the tobacco habit the preaching of the eluera elders to la the caute came of a great deal of bible reading na among the people who look for points to condemn the doctrine produced but they become astonished when they find that what Is ii called mormonism niem is no new doctrine but was wag preached anti and written 1800 years ago by jesus and the apostles your brother WILFORD |
