Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-15
Famous Mormon of Salt Lake City
Attends Mormon Conference.
is ONE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES
He Says That Interest in Iowa In the
Mormon Doctrine IL Increasing
Missionaries working In
the State.
From Mondays Daily.

from Mondays DAILY.
The semi-annnal conference of the !
Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints which has been in session in
this city since Saturday morning,
closed last evening. The meetings
were held in Woodman hall, corner
Second and Court streets, and were
largely attended by members, of the
sect from this state, together with a
number from Utah. The Sunday ey-
|ening sermon was preached by Elder
Nj. II. Cowley, of Salt Lake City, one
of the twelve apostles of the church,
his discourse being on the work Of The
church in general. The conference
was held for the exclusive purpose of
bringing the Mormon missionaries in
this state together and reviewing the
work of the past six months. The
church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, of which the mother church isl
located at Salt Lake City, is sending
missionaries into every state in the
Union. There are large number in
Iowa, and every year the number is
increased as the work requires. Elder
Cowley said in reply to the question:
SIS not the Mormon church making
Ottumwa since the recent debate here
between the Recognized church of
the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ
and the followers of brigham YoungP"
that such was not the purpose of rheir
visit here at this time. "Our church
has hundreds of missionaries in the
| field. and in Iowa we find an increas-
ing interest in the doctrine which we
1 advocate. This conference is our reg
ular semi-annual meeting for the pu.-
| pose of permitting the several mis-
sionaries throughout the state to
| come together and arrange plans FOR
future work, and if necessary to pro-
4 vide for portions of the state where
| there are no workers."
Elder Louis A.. Kelsch, OF Murray,
| Utah, was also present at the confer
\ ence. Elder Kelsch has supervision Of
i all the work in, the northern states
4 mission, which includes the states of
Indiana. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michi-
| gan, Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa,
| Illinois and North and South Dakota.
4 Elder kelsch's headquarters are in
Chicago, for which city, he. in compa-
ny with Elder Cowley, departed this
morning, going via Nauvoo, ILL.,, the
former seat of the church.
Among the other elders present at
the conference were: j. F. Thomas,
Manassa, Col, president of the Iowa
conference; Elder Ben l.. Rich, Rex
burg, Idaho, president OF the southern
states mission, with headquarters Mt
l Chattanooga, Tenn: j. NJ. Piepgrass,
Murray, Utah; p. A. Nortensen, San
ford, Col; Nephi Ottesen, Provo,
4 Utah; Il. G. Taylor and S. II. McClel-
4 Ian, Juarez, Mexico; d. NJ. Bickmore,
Paradise, Utah; Henry Erickson, Mil
Creek, Utah; j. H. Hawkeswoo1. Lew.
iston, Utah; ID. j. Harmon, Preston
| Utah; w. A. Smith, Lewiston, Utah;
j. w. Jensen, Hyrnm, Utah; w. II
] Bateman, West Jordan, Utah; N. Han
sen, Mt. Pleasant, Utah; j. L. .Ander
son. Ephraim, Utah; r. w. Stokes
Draper, Utah: ]. w. Wheadon, South
Jordan, Utah; l.. Day, Granger, Utah;
William Arave, Taylor, Utlh.