| 373 October 5, 1881, Orson Pratt, one of the original Twelve Apostles chosen in 1835, died at Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of a little over seventy years. (See his biography, vol. 1, p. 652.)
October 6, 1881, the Hope Branch was organized near Derby, Indiana, by Elder B. V. Springer, with ten members; Priest Uriah Cummings presided, J. S. Harding teacher, William Cummings clerk.
The Herald for October 15, 1881, the last number issued from Plano, Illinois, contained the following editorial comment:
President Joseph Smith left Plano on October 7, with his family and household effects, for Lamoni. . . .
This issue closes the stay of the Herald in Plano, Kendall County, Illinois. It came here in 1863, and was kindly received by the leading citizens of the place. It began its career here with a list of three hundred subscribers, many of them free; and some of them taking several copies. It had a press and fixtures costing about $275; and occupied one room about eighteen by twenty feet square. It had Bro. Isaac Sheen for its editorial force, with Bro. Wm. D. Morton, Sr., as its foreman, compositor, and pressman; with a Washington Medallion No. 4, hand press, as its machinery. It will reach Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa, and begin a new departure (on the old way) with an eight horse-power engine, two cylinder power-presses, and a jobber press, with type and other fixtures to match, and office two stories high, thirty by sixty-five feet in size (engine room attached), an editor, bookkeeper, superintendent, and five compositors.
The Kendall County Record, published at Yorkville, county-seat of Kendall County, noticed the departure of President Smith as follows:
Elder Joseph Smith, the president of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints, took his final departure from Plano last Saturday night. The publishing house will follow inside of a week. The concern goes to Lamoni, Iowa, where the central organization will be stationed. Mr. Smith leaves Plano but carries the good will of Plano's citizens with him. He has lived here for the past fifteen years and has always borne the reputation of a good citizen. Always to be found on the side of right, he maintained his position to the end, and goes to his future home with sad farewells and good wishes of his many friends. The organization will be continued in Plano.
On November 1 the first number of the Herald issued from Lamoni, Iowa, contained the following in its editorial columns:
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