The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-10-10
MOTHER OF MRS. WOODS
FAMOUS UTAH WOMAN
SAVED WHEAT TO PROVIDE
AGAINST FAMiNE-HELP-
ED GOVERNMENT.

Salt Lake dispatch tells the
story of the remarkable career of
Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells; how as the
society she saved wheat to be used in
case of famine and how this same
wheat was turned to the government
to feed our soldiers and allies; how
she edited a newspaper in which she
preached the gospel of storing grain;
and how she won distinction in the
cause of woman suffrage as the as
sociateof Susan b. Anthony, and how
navigate the air. 1t is a most inter-
esting story anywhere, but particu-
larry SO in this city, for this noted
and talented lady Is the mother of
Mrs. w. w. Woods, wife Of Judge w.
w. Woods, of the district court Mrs,
Wells has several times visited Mrs.
Woods here, her last visit being about
two years ago. A few months ago
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Allen, the latter
Mrs Woods daughter, visited Mrs.
Wells in Salt Lake City. In spite of
her advanced years, Mr. Allen says
her mind Is as bright and active as 1t
was forty years ago. The Salt Lake
dispatch says:
Saved $4,000 Bushels of Wheat.
1t was owing to the forethought
and energy of a woman 81 years of
age that the United States food add
ministration was enabled to obtain
recently $4,000 bushels of wheat
from the relief society of the Church
Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints
(Mormons). This store of grain had
been saved up against a possible fam
inc and was made available to the
government in a time of great need.
The woman who was chiefly in
strumental In saving up the wheat is
Mrs, Emmeline B. Wells. president Of
the church relief society. For az years
she carried out the wishes of Brigham
Young in the storing of the grain.
Young, then president or the Nor
mon church. taught her that some
day there would be famine and he
urged her 20 advocate saving grain.
Through the medium of paper
known as the "Woman's Exponent"
which Mrs. Wells edited for years
she preached the storing of grain by
the women of the church relief So
cieties.
The original work began through
the cleaning of the wheat fields and
grew annually, until in later years
funds of the society were invested in
wheat which was sold when prices
were high, the money being reinvest-
ed when the prices We're low. Mrs,
Wells travelled to every place in the
west where members of the Mormon
church had colonized, preaching the
storing of grain.
With the advance in transportation
methods endeavors were made to stop
the practice but Mrs. Wells has in
sisted that the work be continued.
The granaries of the relief society are
again being filled at the suggestion of
Mrs. Wells. who Is still president of
the relief society of the church, which
numbers $4,000 members.
Mrs. Wells is in her DIST year. She
is as active as a woman of As, She
has grandsons and great -grandsons
serving with the American forces
abroad and one of her ambitions to-
day is to fly in an airplane
Advancement of her sex has always
been a favorite field in the activities
of Mrs Wells. She was an associate
Of Susan B. Anthony. In 1899 she
represented the Utah women at the
Woman's International Council and
Congress in London, and was present
ed to Queen Victoria during her visit
there. She has been the Utah dele
gate to the national woman's suf-
frage conventions at different times,