Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10

are evidences OF the obedience which
the faithful accord to the heads of the
church.
The Mormons are proud of the mus
ical feature of their worship. Individ-
ually they are proud of their voices
and their ability to sing. The children
are trained to it from infancy in the
Sunday school classes, and they grad
uate into the choirs of the ward meet
ing houses. There are twenty-four of
these meeting houses in Salt Lake
City and each one of them is a good
sized church. These twenty-four
churches have choirs which surpass,
perhaps, the paid and volunteer
choirs the best and sweetest voices
tional churches. From the ware
chores the best and sweetest voices
are called for singing in the taber-
nacle, where general services are held
on three Sunday afternoons in each
month. 1t is recognition which the
ward singers strive for. 1t is the Gull
mination of life of devotion to voice
culture. Once in the great choir their
ambition is to stay there and perhaps
some day become a soloist. OF the
soloists each one is superb artist.
There are grey boards and wrinkled
races to be seen among the 500 which
sit tier above tier in front of the grand
organ on Sunday afternoon, and there
are girls in short frocks. Butvoice and
not age is the consideration. They
are good singers, all of them, and their
ordinary Sunday music is enough to
thrill the soul of the song lover to its
very depths. On special occasions,
like the coming concert for the stock
men, they fairly surpass themselves
and the magnificence of the treat in
store can hardly be realized.
Speakers and Their Subjects.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. S.-The pro-
gram for the fourth annual convention
of the National Live Stock associa-
ton was made public yesterday. The
meeting will convene in Assembly hall
on January Is for session of four
days and will be participated in by
many of the leading authorities of the
nation on live stock matters.
The committee appointed by author
ity of the Fort Worth convention to
draft a bill dealing with the disposi-
ton of the arid lands of the west will
meet at the Knutsford hotel on Janu-
airy 13 to draft it's report. The ex-
ecutive committee will meet at the
same place on the day following.
Tuesday, the first day of the conven-
ton, will be devoted to the address of
welcome by Governor Heber Wells, of
Utah, the associations response by r.
M. Allen, of Nebraska, the annual adj
dress of President John w. Springer,
reports of standing committees and
five-minute addresses by members of
the executive committee on live stock
conditions in the state they represent.
The following are some of the speak,
ers and their subjects: -
Agriculture, Herds and Horses.
l.. G. Powers, chief statistician for
agriculture, census department, "Our
National Wealth in Live Stock"
Abraham Renick, Sycamore, KY,
Establishing Breeds of Cattle"
Levi P. Douds, Illinois, American
Live Stock and Dressed Meats Export
Trade"
General John B. -castleman, Louis
vile, KY, "The American Saddle
Horse and the Assessment Classifca-
ton of Live Stock"
George H. Maxwell, Chicago, "Rela-
tion of Irrigation to the Live Stock In
dustry."
R. S. Huidekoper, Washington, DC.
Necessities Required in Army
Horses"
A. j. Knollin, Kansas city, prob
lens in Handling Large Sheep Inter-
ests."
| Marvin Hughitt, president Chicago
& Northwestern railway, Evolution In
| Transportation"
| Charles H. Frye, Seattle, Alaskan
Meat Traue and It's Requirements 2
George B. Van Norman, illinois
Live Stock Exchanges and Their Re
lation to the Producer"
c. G. Goodwin, Salt Lake City, what
the Press Has Done for the Live Stock
Industry"
The subjects which will receive the
greatest attention are:
"The Grout Bill" This will be OPP
posed by John F. Hobbs, of New York,
and favored by d. w. Wilson, of Elgin,
Ill.
Should the Government Lease the
Public Domain?" Supported by John
P. Irish, of California, and opposed by
John M. Carey, of Wyoming.
"An Annual Classified Census of
Live Stock" G. w. Pugh, of Arizona,
DR.. Charles Gresswell, of Colorado,
and G. B. Towers, of Montana.
1 The entertainments Will be extern
1 sive. A grand reception at the Knuts-
ford hotel on Tuesday evening by the
governor of Utah, assisted by the wo-
men of the city.
/ Wednesday evening, concert by
500 voices in the famous Mormon tab
ernacle.
Thursday evening, illustrated Ices
ture in assembly hall by B. G. Judson
of Portland, Ore, assisted by some
of the leading musical talent of the
| state.
THE Piece de Resistance" on the
last night will be stockmen's smoker,
given under the auspices of the Inde-
pendent Order of Elks.
Saturday morning the delegates and
visitors will go for an excursion thru
the Pacific states, occupying two spe-
cial trains. The indications are that
this convention will be the most inn
portant and largest attended the as
ISOLATION has ever held Arrange
ments have been completed to care
for 1,500 delegates and 5000 visitors.
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