| Show MISSOURI NOTES MOTES independence jackson county missouri oct got 16 1893 I 1 I 1 spent fent a happy sunday in the center stake of zion yesterday yeat erday anil and found many old time acquaintances who have gathered fathered arnould this thia place some of whom were once identified with the church I 1 have great sympathy tor some aume who seem devoted to tue good cause but are terribly tangled really in their minue minds I 1 have field conversation with those down here who have changed their faith from divid and then left for the Redrick ites and finally drilled to a reorganized zeu church I 1 will pay fay that there is a far better and more liberal feeling existing down here than I 1 have found before on this thia occasion oco aalon I 1 have be entreated with becoming respect by both the hen drick itus and josephites as aa they are termed meeting houses et 91 both nave have been opened to me I 1 gave an illustrated lecture to the reorganized sunday school on sunday bunday the at 10 am and was invited to preach in the Hendric kite meeting house on the block at 11 am and to give an illustrated lecture io in the evening at on the temple block there is a decided change anti anil more charity exhibited towards the utah saints than hereto heretofore fure I 1 received a hearty vote of thanks for my free lecture la in the reorganized and an appointment was announced for a lecture on the following tuesday night at which was also given in the newspapers resulting in a crowded in the stone church which cost about I 1 took a ride out to the big blus blue river six miles to see the only one I 1 0 uld u id find remaining in the county who helped to drive the gormong mormons out tie he says he was only a boy at the time but could shoulder a gun he also said 1 I 1 have nothing against the mor mons I 1 passed through utah my wife said it was the only place she would like to live it was the best place she had seen for my part I 1 had no education I 1 only went to school three weike got nine lickings bickings lic kings and quit if the mormons cormons were here now w uld you drive toem away with the knowledge you now possess I 1 in quiren no sir we have so 80 many worse people here now than the mormons cormons ax f raid paid he be I 1 took three landscape views where our people lived jived and the big blue crossing there is not one mormon house standing stan not evern even a chimney rhe jait ja it ne that stood is now a heap ut 01 sone many mormons cormons used to live down along the blue west of he relland the first meeting house was just a 8 little north of west near the river rhe fhe country is not as g od or as level level ws as it is nearer independence while I 1 was out at adam bradl Ab manon the metry Just mY mind woo was lull of thoughts or of the scenes of fifty five years yearn ago when there were houses house and terms arms on every haud band now the only house near the altar and valley in 1 the homeard farm mrs mcdonald a widow claims to mohave bave been the possessor for fifty years the valley below is in from one half balf to io three of a mile to the west and Is ie bounded by grand river west northwest and southwest as ag ih river lorma forms a curve leaving the valley much longer than wide the 11 bluff curves curvee much as ae does doea the river sail and has ha timber limber on it the bills in the back grobi d on the river are also covered with timber and ana the bluffed and pral prairie tio beyond form a beautiful picture I 1 have taken several views of the altor including theold the old house as aa well as aa the valley and the old stable where I 1 slept on a be bej A of corneous corn cobB at the he time of a snowstorm snowa torm when my blan keta were lost joet and the stable loit loft was crowded to its utmost capacity this was waa when the mob had driven some of our people from their homes and the houses and colonel kimball called t ut some militia from fort went to protect we the citizens many of the old landmarks looked natural and brought bad aad days daye and scenes to mind EDWARD STEVENSON |
