Show stake conference k fsr ir y the rhe regular regul ar quarterly aly conference of na illard stake of zion was held at holden last saturday und ond sunday pi preceded deeded on friday Oter afternoon noon by relief society 4 con ferebee and priesthood 1 hood meeting m e eting V ivi in the evening 4 there were present of the general church burch authorities presidents ent arancis M na lyman and a nd elder george F richards of the quor the twelve apos apo 1 s ties all the members of the stake presidency were also present rep sen tand and all the ward bishops except those of kadosh and meadow who were prevented by sickness from attending the forenoon session of saturday was occupied by reports from f rom wards and auxiliary assoil asso Z atilus s which were in the mam main quite encouraging 0 at the after noon session more reports were civell given 4 after which elder willis B E robis robison was called c and spoke very interestingly lor for a short aci me related an ah experience of a alde alderin El derin in ohio obio gooon c calling at a house was refused admA admittance tance by the ibid lady Y who ho w when h en opening tho door just a little and seeing it was a man closed it quickly but the ahe el elder der got gob his foot be 1 tween when he heard a I 1 lad lady inside say slam the in his bis face mother the elder said you need not slam the door in my face for i will leave us as soon as I 1 have delivered my 1 message es sage lam I 1 am a mormon elder r md and have bave a m message P asage r for you this was at the ti time methe the smoot case was before the senate committee and as soon as the lady heard that oat he was a mormon elder she opened the door inside and said I 1 oh are you one of u those mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 have heard and read so much about that mormon apostle in the U S senate come in I 1 want to hear bear what yow hai ha j 3 to say about your pur people and your doctrine and the result was the conver sion and of the whole family elder eider F R lyman of the stake presidency spoke brief ly of the condition of the take shahe corroborating k the report previously t given by president A A A hinckley elder george georae t F P in in the course of his remarks said this stake presidency is as good as any in the church spoke of a ward in the northern part of the state where whee wac of the church members observed the word of wisdom Wis doin and paid tithing A remarkable re cord ain in the work of the lord if we make small investments we will have small returns but if we make lar gein vestments we will have large returns sunday school union OD meeting t was hold held in the evening evenin 0 when various topics were discussed the sunday fore forenoon voon session was under the auspices of the sunday school one of the speakers told about a visit to fillmore a short timp time ago when he stopped at one of the hotels where he met a stran ger er who w ho was also stopping there and in conversation he asked the stranger what he thought of the fillmore people the stranger 0 s observation had been limited to central M main ain stroe v ii the length of one block and be had conclude ed that the fillmore people were a tobacco smoking and chewing whiskey drinking dissolute I 1 set 0 of f leafe loafers rs this was on a sunday and in the evening both gentleman attended the mutual improvement meeting and after meeting the ranger si pr said he had reversed his apih opinion IPP sayings saying 1 I have been looking nto into 1 the 1 faces ades ofa h hundred bright intelligent I 1 nt el 1 young men and a a a faces of beautiful intelligent ent and tind and pure young ladies and my opinion of the fillmore FUlmore people is if changed I 1 elder eider oja Po renson of learn bugton who had been called d home from his mission in norway owing owing ca to his cifes sickness who died a few hours after his arrival spoke of his la borsand and empei experience iunce in that far off northern country at the sunday afternoon session sion the general and local author ties were presented by prest hinckley and they were bihun 11 un sustained by voto vote of the people president lyman presented the name of taomas 0 stephenson for ordination to the office of a patriarch and he was also s sustained usta ined president lyman exhorted all to be faithful and in the course of his remarks said one bad thin can damn a person but it takes all the good things to save and exalt one elder 11 geo F richards spoke on the duties of the lesser priest hood 0 also upon the importance of parents setting proper examples before the children and I 1 said barents be what you want your children to be the holden ward choir is one of the best and the services were interspersed with some splendid singing ginging |