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Show I TWO OGDEN STAKES ORGAINZED oo O O O O O O O o OFFICERS NAMED AT MEETING I. Browning Heads Weber; Tanner and God-dard God-dard Counselors u George E. Browning was the unar" Imous choice for president of Weber stake at a special conference held In ; th ogucn tatiernacle Sunday morning. Bishop Nathan A Tanner of the Eleventh ward was named M first, counsellor and Rrigham H Goddard, stake- superintendent of Sunday schools, was selected as second counselor coun-selor in i he stake presidency, Joseph Btlmson is stake clerk. Reorganization of the Weber stake came as B result of the recent death of President Iwls W. Shurtllff who j presided over the stake for the past 39 vears. Before the reorganization was effected the stake waB divided, Washington avenue being the general dividing line, with the exception Of the Second ward which remains intact. A ' t portion of the Second ward remains west of Washington avenue. HAS EIGHT WARHS. The Weber stake now comprise- eight wards the First, Second. Klev-I Klev-I ,-nth Rlverdale, Hoy. Clinton, Hoop- er and Kanesvllle. The stake retains! the name o Weber because of the fact that th.- Firsthand Secpnd wards were the foundation of the old Webei stake organised man years ago. Th stake has a population of approximately approxi-mately 7.000 people. President Browning was second counselor to President shurtllff for the past two yeara riioi to that time ho was bishop of the Second ! ward for two years and a member of the stake high council for two years He presided over the Samoa n mission from 1SU0 to l D 3 and d fe years ago was president of the seventy-sixth quorum of seventy. FORMER BISHOP. President Tanner has been bishop of the Eleventh ward since the ward was divided from the First ward nln-years nln-years ago He was counselor to Bish-op Bish-op D. H. Ensign of the First ward foi ! 13 years before the ward was divided, i Prior to that time he was engaged in j Mutual Improvement association work i in the Fust and Second ward? President Goddard has been Identified Identi-fied in Sunday school work an'! was superintendent of the stake Sunday 1 ..'J V. I .-. 11 van r-o lie M3 fl mplll- ' IO V- J 1 V w . i i -1 w . ...... ... . her of the Sunday school board under I.k.h'ird BallanMin i ml a member t j the First ward bishopric before he , was called to the Sunday schoo: board Utber officers chosen for the stake are Castle H. Murphy. Murray K. Jacobs, Jac-obs, George Shorten, Charles J A I lndquist Alma L Peterson, Wllford M. Thornlc-k, K. Van Kampen, md Leo M. Childs :is high councilors Additional Ad-ditional members and alternates Will be named later. OTILER OFFICERS Mrs. Marian F. Browning is pru dent of the Relief society; William J: Rackham, superintendent of Sunday chooli Hyrum A Belnap. superlnten-5 dent of Y. M. M I A., Mrs Alice H 41 Mack, presiaenl of the Y L. M I A .. Mrs Chariot ta Kay, president of the ffj primary association, Judse Dsivld li Roberts, superintendent of the stake genealoRlc-al o.-ft T)ic Religion class will be organized later. Before the slake was reorganized the conference voted to divide the stake. This matter was acted upon at a special priesthood meeting held In the tabernacle Saturday afternoon when all stake officers were released and the division of the stake agreed upon. President Browning has the unique distinction of succeeding a stake president who held office longer than ; any stake president of the hurch. He ISO succeeded the ward bishop with the longest record when ho succeeded Bishop Robert M Quarrle of the Sec-, ond ward five years ago PHKS. GRANT PREACHES. Persldent Heber J Grant and Apos-tie Apos-tie David O. McKay who directed the ', business of the conference, expressed ' their appreciation of the services of President Browning and President John Watson upon whom devolved the j l esponslbilltles of the stake during thf-, long illness of President Shuriliff 13x4 pressions of appreciation for the faith- fulness of the high council and stake ooards were also made by the chuixrh officials. oo Robert I. Burton Heads' New Division Termed South Ogden Stake South Ogden is the name of nev. stake organised in this city Sunday afternoon under the direction of Prss-ldent Prss-ldent Heber J Grant and Apostle David 0 McKay, al a special conference confer-ence held in the Ogden tabernacle The stake comprises the east portion of Weber stake, vhlch v, divided al ja special conference held in the tab-, ernacle Sunday morning. Robert . Burton wns chosen pros- I ident of the new stake; Joseph Ririe ( first counselor and Joseph G M - ' I-'arlanc Is second counselor In tho J stake presidency Thomas A Shrccve, a former member of the Weber stake high council, was appointed stake clerk, succeeding Evert Xeuteboom President Burton was a member of the Weber stake high council from 1915 until called to preside over till new stake Ho served as a missionary In Germany from 1S&0 to 1102 and ; was a member of the stake Sunday school board and president of Ihn seventy-seventh quorum ol seventy, He held office In all the priesthood , quorums while a boy and young man. HIGH COUNCIL MEMBER, President Ulrle was a member of the Webej stake high council from 1915 to i:22. During the p;tst year li has had charge of the borne missionary mission-ary work of tin- stake. He was a missionary mis-sionary in England from 1 90 1 to 190X and has been actively engaged in Mutual Mu-tual work. President SdeFarlane was e member of the Weber stake high council for the past 1 1 years! and chairman of the Council for the past four years. He WAS secretary of the European mls-sion mls-sion from 1S97 to 1901. a member f th- Weber stake Y. M M. I A. be- fore the -tlake was divided 14 years ago and prior to that time president of the Second ward Mutuals Member of th high council named at the conference were Charles A. Halverson, i Charles Wood. Alfred Gladwell Martin Dalebout John R. Waison. Hyyum A. Shupe. William H, Render, Jr., Joseph K. Evan-. William S. Paine, Evert Ncuteboom. David J Wilson One additional menih'er and sir a If orna I e will lie selected later OTHERS IPPOIPi FED. Ered C Schade is superintendent of the stage genea'.cgbal si.rielv; Mi-Almira Mi-Almira C. Rich, president oi the Relief Re-lief society. William H. Manning, superintendent su-perintendent oi Sunday schools; David Da-vid H Henderson. superintendent of Y. M M . A . Mrs. Gladys F. Har-berfson Har-berfson president of V I. M I . Mrs. Jepse Bingham, presideut r the Primary association; S. E. Hinckley superintendent -' 'be k itKion . last Members of the boards will be chosen later. The new stake has a membership of approximate!;. .". 000 divided among the Rif-h Ninth Twelfth. Fourteenth, iSout.li Weber and Uintah wards a division of the Ninth and Twelfth wvirri- li Lhticlpated, o FOUR STAKES. Thei-Sre now four stakes in Weber We-ber county, the Ogd-n South Ogden Weber and North Weber The neces-slt neces-slt nf th- division gives evidence of the rapid growth of the city and county. President John Watson, who was counselor to President Shurtllff for 14 years, resigned and his resignation was reluctantly accepted iy the i hurch officials and members' of the stake He ha been in active church WOrh f"!' many years and President Grant and Apostle McEav voiced thel: appreciation apprecia-tion for his long and faithful services and announced lhat Preslden Watso would act as ex-officio sta!c preside 111 to -the Weber and South 1 l to ndvise and counsel with the stak officials as his servlcjes may he required re-quired EXPIA1X PfIlC" President Grant and Apostlf McKaj explained the policy "f the .-hurch in dl Idlng wards and stakes for the pin -pose of bringing mo'-e people Irtto ac-tlv ac-tlv service. Living the gospel rather than preaching the pospel v a - responsible respon-sible for the growth of the church and progrcs canie as a result of active service. President Grant called attention to the nature ami disposition of men when they get s little authority to exercise ex-ercise unrighteous dominion and advised ad-vised th new office-s to discharge the duties in humility meekness and kindness. kind-ness. oo |