The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-06
CONFERENCE IS
TO END TODAY
Final Meetings in Tabernacle
for Presentation of Author
tiles and Addresses.
PRIESTHOOD IN SESSION
SPECIAL EXECUTIVE MEETING is
HELD IN ASSEMBLY HALL.


| eTal conference, yesterday was taken up
with divisional meetings in assembly
| hall, Barratt hall and the Eighteenth
| ward meeting house Most of the con-
| ference visitors, excepting those attend
| ing the meetings of the officers of the
| Relief society and Primary association
| in the afternoon. took advantage of the
opportunity to visit the state fair or to
attend to business in the city.
! At 10 o'clock in the morning there
/ was a special priesthood meeting at
| assembly hall, to which only the gem
/ eTaI officers of the church and members
| of stake presidencies and ward bishop
/ RIGS and few others were admitted.
| The officers of the Y. L. M. I. A. met
at the Eighteenth ward chapel at the
same hour.
In the afternoon at 2 o'clock the Of
| fcers of the Primary association met at
| Barratt hall. and at the same hour the
officers of the Relief society met at as
sembly hall.
Bathsheba w. Smith, president of the
! General Relief society of the church,
/ presided at the afternoon meeting in
| assembly hall, delivering brief ad-
| dress. Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, gen.
eraI secretary Of the society, read her
annual report, and Mrs Clarissa S.
| Williams, general treasurer, made her
I IEDOII- Alter lilt llAStt utLltllO llOiiA lliN
| president of the society, Mrs. Phoebe
Y. Beattie reported on the nurse work
| Of the society, Mrs. Ida SmoOt Dusen-
| berry delivered an address on "The
/ Mother and the Child" and Mrs. Min
ME H. James spoke on study lessons at
ward meetings. J. J. Mcclellan at the
piano and Willard Weihe with the viO-
lin contributed an enjoyable musical
number. and Mrs. Lizzie Thomas Ed
ward. director Of music for the general
relief society, sang "Oh Loving Father
No Counsellor Named.
No action was taken by the Relief
| society towards filling the place of
| counsellor to the general president
caused by the death of Mrs. Annie
Taylor Hyde last spring, and it is not
expected that this vacancy viii be filled.
Mrs. Amy Brown Lyman was appoint
ed a member of the general board of the
society, to succeed Mrs. Hyde, and Mrs.
Anna k Hardy was appointed a MEM
Der of the board, to succeed Mrs. Re
| becca Mantle Little, VINO died recently.
| The following chairmen of special
committees were also appointed yester-
day: Building committee, Mrs. Emc
line B. Wells; peace committee, Mrs.
Emily S. Richards; hospital committee,
| Mrs. Juiina NJ. Smith; mothers work,
| Mrs. Ida SmOOt DusenbeTry; nurse
! work, Mrs. Phoebe Y. Beattie; furnish
ing new building, Mrs. Clarissa S. Will
liams; press committee, Mrs. Carrie S.
Thomas. cT. Margaret c. Roberts was
also appointed instructor of the school
for nurses, a position she has held for
several years.
The report of the general secretary
showed that members of the general
board had visited fifty-five stakes, and
Mrs. Wells referred to the attendance
of Mrs. Emily S. Richards and Mrs. Ida
SmOot Dusenberry to the quinquennial
convention of the International Council
of Women at Toronto: the visit of Mrs
Carrie S. Thomas to the executive con-
ference of the national council, and of
the attendance of Mrs Alice Merrill
Horne and Mrs. Elizabeth s. Wilcox to
the triennnial convention of the Ma
tiOnal Council of Women at Seattle. The
reception given to Mrs. Bathsheba w
Smith by the society on the occasion of
her eighty-seventh birthday was also
reported.
Report of Treasurer.
The report of the treasurer included
the building fund, expenses of the
school for nurses, hospital fund, Lund
home and the missionary fund, as well
as the general expenses of the society
of the society, extended her greetings
to the officers and blessed them and
their work, referring to her pleasant
activity in the Relief society since SIC
Joined it as one of the eighteen char
ter members, and saying that, with the
temple, the Relief society was her
home"
The report of Mrs. Beattie on the
work of the school for nurses showed
l. Il
A change has been made whereby ap.
plicants may take the course on pay
ment of SO by the president of their
local Relief society and signing a con
tract to donate forty days work to the
society under the direction of Mrs.
Empey, the change being a reduction of
the number of days of free work from
fifty to forty, and the agreement to per-
form tie services within one year, in
stead of two.
This report showed that with the
completion of the quarters in the new
building, the school would not be under
the expense of hiring quarters. The So
ciety now has more than 400 nurses in
the field
Mrs Ida Smoot Dusenberry delivered
an interesting address on the Glory OF
Motherhood, taking Christ and Mary
as the great example
The address of Mrs. James on the
study of lessons in ward meetings of
the society advised the careful prepa e.
ration of lessons in a systematic man.
ner, bringing out the suggestion that
the women were never too old to learn
these lessons, which would increase
their efficiency in the work of the So
ciety.
Closing Session Today.
The semi-annual conference of the
Mormon church will hold its closing
sessions at the tabernacle today, and
unless plans are changed suddenly, as
last spring, there viii be meetings at 10
in the morning and in the afternoon.
The general officers of the church will
be presented and sustained and two va
cancies may be filed. 1t was reported
yesterday that several changes would