Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-04-14
MODERN STYLES
ARE CONDEMNED
PRESIDENT SMITH REsUKEs Wo-
MEN WHO FOLLOW lMMMoDEST
AND RIDICULOUS MODES.
Doctrines Of the Mormon Faith and
Achievements of Mormonism Sub
jects Of Speakers at Closing
Session of Conference.

Salt Lake City.-The closing session
of the eighty-sixth conference of the.
Church of Jesus Christ OF Latter-day
Saints, on Sunday, April 9, was mark
ed by the attendance Of a huge crowd
that overlooked the tabernacle into
the Assembly hall and then into the
Temple square, where an outdoor
meeting was held in the afternoon.
Outlining Of the church's stand on
the question Of the liquor traffic, hy-
phenated citizenship, reports on the
situation of Mormon colonists in Mex
leo and a statement by President Jo
seph F. Smith of the expenditures of
the church during his term in office
had been the features of the conven
ton.
Doctrines OF the Mormon faith and
achievements of Mormonism were the
subjects Of most of the speakers on
Sunday. Prohibition was brought
strongly to the front in the meetings
at the Assembly hail. and G. w. Nib
ley, presiding bishop of the church,
spoke on Mormonism and patriotism
at the afternoon meeting in the taber-
nacle.
Modern fashions in women's attire
were vehemently condemned by Presi-
dent Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon
church in his closing address at the
meeting IN the tabernacle Sunday
night of the Deseret Sunday School
union. He said many of such fashions
originated in the demimonde, and he
scathingly rebuked Mormon women
who follow what he called immodest
and ridiculous fashions.
Some Of the history of the Mormon
church in Its relation to the possible
future OF the organization was related
by Apostle Orson F. Whitney at the
morning session.
The general secretary Of the Des-
eret Sunday School Union reported
that there were 1852 Sunday school
organizations at the present time. In
these there were 21,761 officers and
teachers, Or as many as there was Of
total membership at the time the Nor
mons left Nauvoo.
| Salt Lake City.-Record crowds at
tended the opening session on April 6
of the eighty-sixth annual conference
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter-day Saints.
An account of his stewardship. was
| given by President Joseph f. Smith
at the opening of the conference,
which marked the eighty-sixth anniver-
sary of the founding of the church,
and it was given before what is said
to have been the largest gathering
/ ever present at weekday opening
of conference. The report detailed
the expenditure of $16,949,946 during
/ the fourteen years of President
Smiths administration. OF this total
! $3,714,455 was spent in church schools
and $3s279,9 800 was paid to the poor
through the various church channels
/ Il scarcely need to add one remark
TO this report" said President Smith
'fbut / want to tell you this, that the
tithes and means of the church have
not stuck to my hands nor TO the
hands of any of my associates. They
have gone to their legitimate purposes
have gone to their legitimate purposes
will guarantee you, so long as my
brethren are in charge, with whom
am associated, you will never have
cause to suspect that your means will
be misused or appropriated"
Besides President Smith, the speak
eTS Of the day were Anthem H. Lund
sirst counsellor to President Smith
who talked on the religion classes
Charles w. Penrose, second counselor
who handled several problems of the
ology, and Francis M. Lyman, presi
dent of the twelve apostles, who urged
abstinence from the use of liquor, tea
coffee and tobacco.
Attending the conference are nearly
all the general authorities of thu
church. OF the quorum of the twelve
apostles four were absent. They arr
Senator Reed Smoot, who is in Wash
ington, ID. c.; Hyrum M. Smith, who II
In Europe, presiding over the mission
Y there; Orson F. Whitney, who is il
with la grippe, and David o. Mckay
who is confined to his home as a re
suit of injuries received In a reeen
automobile accident.
At the annual meeting of the Won
ems Relief society of the Church o
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
held iii the Assembly hall on Marc
4, Dr. Emmeline B. Wells, presiden
of the society, in her annual address
welcomed the visiting delegates, an
Mrs. Game of Cache county respond
ed to the address of DIR. Wells. Re
| ports BIZ the work in the stakes wer
I given by Mrs. Aggie Fl. Stevens of We
Der, Mrs. Alice r. Woolley of Tooele
Mrs. Phoebe A. Brough of Woodruff
Mrs. Minnie N. Robinson of the Cal
fornia mission and Mrs. Louise I
Benson of Oneida stake.
During 1915 members of the Relic
'ociety of the Mormon church spen
%a.797 dsrs with the sick and made
total of 7e. 500 special visits to the a
9icted, total OF $56,967.31 being pal
, for relief of the suffering, as show
In the annual report of the Relief s,
: ciety.
Further data of the report shove
q that the society had given direct hel
a to 6,B16 families; that it prepared
\ 054 bodies for burial, and that buris
: clothing had been furnished for 1854
bodies. The society also was show
to have 210,050 bushels of wheat
store In various elevators and that a
the resources of the society. includir
moneys, aggregate valuation !
e s536lO46.2s.
!. Missionary reunions we're a featul
!, of the work of the conference, mi
: sionaFies who had performed servit
y in many lands meeting and renewiT
l. friendships with former co-laborers
The Town Man and His Troubles.