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Show SALT LAKE WDMH OBTAINS WHEAT . FOP U. S, : si SALT LAKE, Oct. S. -It was owing to the forethought and energy of a women that the United States food administrator ad-ministrator was enabled to obtain recently re-cently .175,000 bushels of wheal from the relief society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (Mormons). Tills store of grain had been saved up against a possible famine fam-ine and was madc.available to the government gov-ernment in a time oT great need. The woman who was chiefly instrumental instru-mental in saving up the wheat is Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, president of the church relief society. For forty-two years she carried out the wishes of Brighani Young in the storiug of the grain. Young, then president of the Mormon Mor-mon church, laugh her that some day there would bo a famine and he urged her to advocate saving grain. Through the medium of a paper known as the j Woman's Exponent? which Mrs. Wells edited for years, she preached the storing of grain by the women of the' church relief societies. The original work began through the gleaning of the wheat fields and grow annually, until in later years funds of the society so-ciety were invested in wheat, which was sold when prices were high, the j money being re-invested when the prices were low. Mrs. Wells traveled to every place in the west where members mem-bers of the Mormon church had colonized, colo-nized, preaching the storing of grain. With the advance in transportation methods endeavors wore made to stop ' the practice, but Mrs. Wells has insisted insist-ed that the work be continued. The graneries of the relief society are Again filled at the suggestion of Mrs. i Wells, who is still president of the relief re-lief society of the church, which numbers num-bers -18.000 members. Mrs. Wells is in her 01st year. Sho is as active as a woman of 45. She j has grandsons and great grandsons serving with the- American forces abroad and oneofUier ambitions told to-ld ay is to fly jnan-liirplane. Advancement' of her sex has always been a favorite field in the activities of Mrs. Wells. She was an associate of Susan B. Anthony. In 1S99 she represented rep-resented Utah women at the Women's International Council and Congress in London, and was presented to Queen Victoria during her visit there. She has been the Utah delegate to the Na-Uonal Na-Uonal Woman's Suffrage convention at different limes. -nn |