Show PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE The conference was held at Metz on the 14 and 15 There were present of our home Elders Elders- Elders J JE E Booth President of the Nor Nor- N Northern Northern or- or thern States Mission President Samuel H M Stewart of the Penn Penn- Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania Conference and traveling Elders A H Woolley W P Ful- Ful Fulmer Fulmer mer Ful-mer mer Mark Bigler S C Hulet J JA A West J W D Hunter Hyram Bown Joseph Bartholomew 0 Bartholomew e 0 H Rand Randall ll and Wm R Stevens Slovene El- El Elders El Elders V dersE ders E EW W Hunter and J being at pi fJ in Canada were unable to attend The first days day's day s conference was poorly attended but on Sunday the schoolhouse was waR filled On the night of the second day a large meeting was held at the house of Brother George Van Gilder The prInciples laid d down wn by the brethren were listened to with marked attention On Monday the the Priest Priest- Priesthood Priesthood hood held two meetings at which the Elders reported their labors since the last conference Much r timely and valuable Instruction was given Fiven by President J E Booth There was also a branch organized here with Brothers George Van Gilder as presiding President an and H L Baker and J C Baker as asT T Teachers The reports of the Elders indica indicated indicated ted that at the present time the peo- peo people people peo people of the eastern States evince no great desire to hear the Gospel The hospitality d displayed ispay d by the farmers of Metz also the Sain Saints Bt during conference was worthy o 0 II 11 praise Elders Woolley Fulmer and Bi Bigler ler have been released and will willI I return home after an absence of nearly two years We much regret their departure By the b bye e Elder Woolley has had his wife with him for the last two months Would that more of our our sisters from home would let Jet the world know what Mormon women are Elders Stewart and Hunter will labor in and around Metz Elders Hulet and Bartholomew in Wetzel County W Va J A West and Hyrum Brown in Fulton County Pennsylvania Wm R B Stevens and andO andO O H Randall RandaU Potter r and Luzern counties Pennsylvania Elder Woolley secretary of the Pennsylvania Conference having heel been released Elder Wm R Stevens was sustained as secretary All the Elders and some pome ome friends escorted Si Sister ter Woolley y an and the re- re returning re returning turning Elders to the station on onI I their departure WM f R STEVENS STEVENS Clerk of Conference P S-I S S I read in the NEWS N of Au- Au August August Au August gust an editorial based upon a report from Wheeling W Va in which it is stated that the Church has a building in Wheeling for lor re- re religious religious re religious meetings and that the feel feel- feeling feeling in ing agai against the El Elders ers was such an that an outbreak is feared But I Imay Imay may add no Saints of our Church i iare are there no Elders have ha been laboring there no building owned by our people is erected there and no indications prevail in that section of the country With these s the dispatch was correct W W R K S METZ Marion County W Va Sept 17 1889 I |