| Show STAKE conference the quarterly conference of the bear lake stake of zion was held in the tabernacle at paris idaho on saturday and sunday march 13 and 14 1897 there were present on the stand president boymore B young of the first seven presidents of seventies president wm win budge and counselors jas 11 hart andem and wm L rich of the stake presidency dency president J U stuck of tho the high priests priest quorum patriarch hugh findlay members of the high council bishops of the various wards and other local authorities saturday was devoted to the giving of reports of the different wards by the bishops and discourses by presidents tas jas II 11 hart wro wm budge and seymore E B young in the order named the reports of the bishops showed there had been considerable sickness during the winter and deaths in nearly all the wards the fast meetings since the change of time in holding thern them were reported to be the best meetings held and were doing much good tile the local associations were wera in excellent condition generally and improvement seemed to be the order of the day the recent visit of the stake through 0 all the wards was reported to have be been on productive of much good on sunday president win Wm L rich administered much valuable 0 counsel to ti the saints followed by an all excellent discourse by president budge badge full of fatherly admonitions to parents and replete with timely advice inthe in the afternoon president baymore B young read the address audress delivered in the salt lake tabernacle march on the occasion or the anniversary of president woodruffs birthday and composed by elder geo C sini smith th following it with a grand discourse on the proper education of the youth of zion elders anson C call and IV H lee of 0 woodruff also addressed the conference bearing powerful and aad glorious testimonies tim ti to the truth of mormonism Moin among the rich kich county conference visitors whom we had the pleasure of shaking hands with were patriarch W 11 lee bishops baxter mckinnon kennedy price and colder and elders byron sessions samuel weston anas south john weston goo geo peart aze kiel lee IV 11 II anderson aud and others the presence ot of all of whom showed their great love for or the truth i nud and th their air desire to hear bear the word of god as given through his servants JAMES II 11 WALLIS |
