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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 1 Page: 16 (~1830)

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16 was improving at last writing and he was preaching. He spoke at Kewanee on his way to Buffalo Prairie. . . .

Bro. Duncan Campbell left to-day for his field of labor, Michigan and Indiana. He meets Bro. Wm. H. Kelley at Coldwater, Michigan, where they will labor together for a time.

Bro. Wm. W. Blair starts to-morrow, May 2, for Southern Illinois, via Canton and St. Louis.

Bro. E. C. Briggs will begin the summer's campaign at Quincy, Michigan, in a few days.

Bro. Josiah Ells has arrived safely at his home and will enter upon his labors soon.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 20, pp. 265, 266.

Herald for May 15 contains the following items:

Brn. Mark H. Forscutt and John S. Patterson, made a telling defense of the faith, quite lately in Birmingham. Learning that Messrs. Snow and others from Utah were in the town, Bro. Mark advertised that Bro. Patterson would speak on the subject, "Polygamy not Original Mormonism," and invited Mr. Snow to attend, and offered the use of the hall for a reply; or to pay one half the expenses of a joint discussion of the differences of doctrines. Neither of these offers was accepted.

Bro. Patterson's discourse was a good one, and was very fairly reported in one of the Birmingham papers, where it will more than likely "be read by thirty thousand people," as Bro. Mark writes. . . .

Elders are wanted. . . at Madison, Indiana; Golden City, Colorado; Highland, Ohio; South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Charles City, Iowa; Sweet Home, Oregon; Middletown, Ohio; Otter Tail Lake, Minnesota; Frewsburg, New York; Lafayette, Georgia; West Camden, Tennessee, and a host of other places.

Bro. E. C. Briggs left Plano for the field of his labor, on the 8th instant, full of faith and confidence in the Master and the Master's work. May God bless his labors.

Bro. Brand writes encouragingly from Atchison, Kansas; so does Bro. Hugh Lytle, an old and faithful laborer.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 20, p. 323.

June 1, 1873, brought the following news:

Bro. T. W. Smith arrived at Plano on the 20th of May, on his way east to his field of labor. He left on the 27th for Galien and Coldwater, Michigan, en route for Pittsburg [Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania, New York, and Jonesport, Maine. Bro. George T. Chute goes with him. . . .

Bro. Albert Bishop states that Bro. Bear had baptized three in Switzerland.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 20, p. 357.

Then came the following from the pen of Elder J. Avondet in far away sunny Italy:

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