| Show RETURNED ELDERS bider F W bills whose home lain north agdens and who has for the post past two and a half years been laboring as a missionary in tasmania arrived in this city wednesday to la charge of a company of returning missionaries and emigrating salute saints from different parts parter of too antipodes elder ellis bills left home on nov nova k 1898 having baving been called to open up the gospel work in tasmania after it IL had been closed tor for a period of nearly thirty five years he was accompanied byeller by elder JL C pond and wife wilband wi leand and two brethren have labored assiduously during their absence in spreading the she gospel message to the people residing in that portion of coudry country on their arrival they found that those who had joined the church so 80 many years batore had either passed to the other side ld or migrated emigrated to this country so that the work bad to be begun anew it ii took some time to break down the bar biers of prejudice pread ioe that were existing but by persistent efforts and the help of time lord they succeeded in the abe desired sad end until at pros pre 1 murthe na the prospects are bright for a goca at work being done there elder ellis spent abent some borne seven weeks in traveling abro through kgb victoria and melbourne and a short abort time in now new zealand he Here returns turne in good health and fecho that his bis labors have bare not been in vain the personnel pere onnel of the party some gome of whom stopped oft off at their different residences in idaho and elsewhere is an aa follows F W ellie bills JL L C pond and wife louie K also aleo two children born to them in tasmania lucinda tasma taema and gladys may G W lewis missionary from the victoria conference australia R H bodily missionary from the queenland conference can forence australia E 0 best beet missionary from cantberry conference new zealand emigrating saints bainte robert and margaret menzies from now new zealand Zea laud W J victoria australia lean leah ta holmen tasmania george and mary J wilson and family of six and Thoma Thom asand and laura E finlayson Finlay aon and family of ten all from new zealand elder bider thomas A howard of BIR bi t cottonwood arrived in this city wed cooday returning from the british mission he left home for his hie field of labor on march 16 1894 and during his bis absence did duty as a traveling elder in the newcastle conference england edgland the work he says is improving in ia that part of the lorda vineyard and the missionaries are fast making many warm friends the principles of the gospel are being in ins s vesti gated and the prospects proe are that ore ere long many honest hearted people in that vicinity will make application for baptism elder bluer howard ailed from glasgow on his hia return trio on ayli eth and od the voyage of fourteen days in clogging croe crog ilog ging the ocean on the steamer Ano borlA it wile waa a very MY pleasant one he spent some time in visiting friends in brooklyn N Y otherwise he should have arrived here much sooner than he did his health hoe has been splendid while away the NEWS had a pleasant call friday from elder E 0 best beat of this city who has ban recently returned from his labors laboris as a gospel messenger in the australasian mi eelon n elder best left thin city feb 25 1898 and during his hie absence of over three and a halt half years be has labored in now new zealand Za aland his hio work being distributed in districts the work be says la is progressing very favorably and the mission to la io in good condition the hearts of the people are becoming softened to mor and they are turning their attentions to an investigation of its ite principles I 1 generally speaking the bid elders era are treated t with much muc h respect ct and great kin kindness doess to ia shown them in their visits among the people the elders laboring there are very oner and a good work is being ascom pi abed labed As aa an evidence of this state went ment it to is but necessary to say bay that in new zealand alone 35 sofas have been added to the church membership during the past year elder beat has baa enjoyed good health and left sydney sydn ey australia on his bia return trips trip may let saturday afternoons a rio orande grande western train had among its passengers three returned missionaries elder bair of richmond cache county elder philip H margette Marget tB of preston idaho and elder heber C anderson anderaon of the sixth ward salt lake city rider eider bali left his home in april L 1894 1804 and performed missionary duty doty in the north carolina conference of the he southern states mission during his absence from home he reports a good feeling there among the elders and the people the latter being much more anxious to bear the gospel than they were in former years elder margetts margetto left on his mission oct going to the indian territory mission he was first assigned to arkansas laboring there until his health necessitated a chay change age his now new field was in indian territory his time being divided among the creek choctaw and cherokee nations during daring the latter portion of his bis absence he be presided over the cherokee conference the past few months his hie health has not been the best be has been able to perform his labors he is stopping over in this city visiting his bis father the veteran actor poll phil marietta margetts and his mother who is in seriously in ill with pneumonia and whose condition Is reported as more hopeful today than fur for several days past elder anderson Ana ereon left on his mission september 1 1894 going to the indian territory for a time he labored in the cherokee and creek nations and then was transferred to the kansas kaneas coti conference ference where he be performed missionary duties and aided in finishing the meeting house there upon the building being removed to its present site he was next appointed to the choctaw nation remaining there to the close of his bin mission minion for a time a few weeks ago he be was severely ill III but waa gradually regaining health previous to ibis bis release and was able to resume bin hi labors the three elders named returned I 1 lo 10 fair health and good spirits meir elders margetts margette and anderson report co considerable sid side erable raDle improvement to in prospects in the indian territory the past six months as af i the people are getting to be better informed about the mormons cormons Mor mons and add give low less credence to the absurd tales commonly circulated concerning them |
