| 289 and M. T. Short, Southeastern Kansas and Southwestern Missouri; J. T. Phillips, Missouri; J. C. Foss, Maine and Rhode Island; J. W. Gillen, Australia; I. N. Roberts, Kansas; Joseph Lakeman, Maine and New Brunswick; F. C. Warnky, Magnus Fyrando, released; D. H. Bays, released subject to inquiry by First Presidency; A. J. Cato, released subject to inquiry by his quorum; J. C. Clapp, Oregon and Washington; C. N. Brown, New York and Massachusetts; J. W. Bryan, Texas; W. T. Bozarth and G. T. Griffiths, Missouri and Southern Iowa; Columbus Scott, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio; R. M. Elvin, Southwestern Iowa, Southeastern Nebraska, Northwestern Missouri, and Northeastern Kansas; James Brown, West Virginia, and Ohio; Thomas Taylor, president of European Mission; P. N. Brix, Danish Mission.
October 13, the Mount Pisgah Branch was organized in Perry County, Indiana, by Elder B. V. Springer. The Welsh Mission held a conference at Aberaman October 26. The business was of local character.
In the Herald for October 15 the editor gave an account of his visit to Decatur County, Iowa, which will be of interest in showing progress to that time, and by comparison show subsequent progress to the present. He wrote, among other things, the following:
Though only two years had passed since the editor was there, the country had assumed a more matured look. Thrift and more careful management were visible in every direction. The farm houses seemed whiter and cleaner; the yards seemed less littered up, and it was with some misgivings that the editor asked himself the question, Is this the same country that I visited two years ago? Many of the faces of landscape and people had changed, and that for the better. Some of the latter, looking quite familiar, were pleasant and cheerful, compared with themselves as seen the two years before. . . Sheds had been repaired, fences seemed to have been fixed up; wells were putting off the half sunken condition in which too many were seen before. Some attempt at ornamentation had been made here and there; and altogether the first notes were encouraging.
The Leon and Mount Ayr Railway is at present writing within a mile or two of completion to Mount Ayr, by the way of Davis City and the Colony. A town has been laid out in Fayette Township, and an assurance received from the railway people that it shall be called Lamoni. A
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