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Show IC0IEERE1ES OF WINS HUE HELD The'annual conferences of three wards of the Weber stake was held yesterday, the Riverdalc, South Weber and Uintah wards participating. The meetings were held under, the direction of the slake presidency and members of the high council. The speakers at! Rlverdale were President Lewis W. i Shurtllff, Eiders Joseph McFarland, M. Charles Wood and C. J A. Lindquist. At Uintah the speakers were President Presi-dent John Watson, Elders Wiley Cra-gun. Cra-gun. John R. Watson and Stake Clerk Scoville, Elders George Shorten and Joseph Ririe. Interesting services were held at each conference and work jof instruction for the coming year was outlined. Stake Workers Meet. The monthly union meeting of the Ogden Stake .Auxiliary association workers was held yesterday afternoon at the Weber college. One feature of merit of the meeting was the singing of two songs by tho deacon's quorum of the Pleasant View ward. Instructions Instruc-tions for the. coming month were given to tho teachers and heads of departments depart-ments present by the stake board members. mem-bers. President Levi Edgar Young spoke yesterday to the Seventies of the Weber We-ber stake at a specially called meeting meet-ing in th escond ward. His subject was the special work of the Seventy in the church organization. He discussed discuss-ed phases of the world war also, stating stat-ing that religion was going to be one of the principle factors in bringing the war to a close. North Weber Conference. In the Third. Tenth and Marriott wards last night annual conference was held - Tho meetings wore under direction of Presidents John V. Bluth, James Wotherspoon and Francis W. Stratford. One interesting feature was a short address in the Third ward bv Mrs. Margaret Compton, who recently returned from a mission to the Society Islands. Mrs. Compton told of the work among the Maoris on Tahiti and other islands of the group. She made several small sail boat excursions about the islands and told of those In interesting fashion. The people aro intelligent, kind and hospitable she said, and were enthusiastic workers when once enlisted in the cause of Christianity. J x |