Home.

This is “Labor Day” a public holliday. I did not leave home all day, but I did some phoning and planning for improvements to be made in our home.

Clarence Silver worked all day putting in switches and doing other electric work. The weather is very pleasant. [page break]

Home.

All well. Cool & pleasant

Our daughter-in-law, Ina who had a misscarriage ten days ago is getting on nicely.

I spent some time directing improvements on our home.

Attended to business down town and assisted in setting apart missionaries and instructing them.

I this day took possession of office room No 213 in the Office Building of the General Authorities. In the evening I attended a lecture in the Large Tabernacle by Reuben Clark on The League of Nations.

Home.

All well.

Unsettled weather, some rain.

We have had an almost unprecedented summer for heat and lack of rain but with Sunday’s rain and what has followed, coming at this date will likely insure cooler weather from now on.

We are undertaking to improve our home and have now at work on it, the painter who has contracted to paint the house both inside and out including the brick work and to do the papering. We also have the cement [page break] and concrete man at work putting in front and rear steps, approaches &c. We have the plumber making changes and the carpenter also. We have yet to get the plasterer and the tinner. Our Son in Law, Clarence Silver is doing our electric work putting in switches where we had none, changing our chandeliers for modern hangers &c. When finished and furnished our house should be clean and comfortable and satisfactory to us.

This day I made a trip down town in the forenoon and attended to business. In the afternoon I attended Religion Class General Board Meeting, YMMI Bd. Meeting and my Circle meeting.

Home.

All well.

I attended 9 o’clock temple meeting and made the opening address. I performed the marriage ceremony making Stephen H. Winter and Gladys Robison husband and wife.

I attended Council meeting in the temple from 10 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. I gave some time to directing & planning the work on the home. [page break]

Home.

All well Cooler this morning after the heavy electric storm of last night.

I made preparation to leave home and took 1 P.M. G.S.L. train for Preston, arriving there at 6 P.M. I stayed at Pres. Jos. Geddes’ home while in Preston but ate meals in other homes.

Preston. Ida.

Attended a meeting of the Stake Presidency at 9 A.M. and Conference meetings at 10:30 and 2 P.M. Bro Guy Wilson. Supt. L.D.S. High School arrived in time for the afternoon meeting. I went with the brethren to an adjoining town and administered to a young man named Jensen who has a broken leg; We rode out to Pres. Geddes’ farm 9 miles.

Preston.

I attended a meeting of Religion Clas officers at 9 A.M. the Conference meetings at 10:30 and 2 o’clock and in the evening attended and spoke at the Dedicatory services of the 4th ward meeting house. I offered the dedicatory prayr.

I ordained 22 Seventie, a Bp. & coun

Preston Ida.

I returned home from [page break] Preston in the forenoon. Attended to business in the afternoon and at evening attended a meeting in the Large Tabernacle where Pres B. H. Roberts discoursed upon the League of Nation’s.

Home.

I spent most all day directing the work on the home, selecting wallpaper &c. I took the 11:30 P.M. train for Butte where I arrived the following day at 4:35 P.M.

I left Butte for Billings on 8 P.M. train an hour late.

Billings.

I arrived at 5:30 A.M. and met Byron Sessions at the depot.

Pres. Woodrow Wilson and party arrived this morning also from the East and I saw and heard him speak in the Billings Fair Auditorium at 9:30 A.M.

The remainder of the day was spent with Byron Sessions & his son Edwin, Bro. Neville & his daughter, Edwin Sessions wife trying to reconcile them to live together or learn why. We learned why.

I took 9:30 train at 11 P.M. for Butte where I arrived the next morning at 9:30, late. [page break]

Butte.

I spent the day from 9:30 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. in Butte. Read paper, read from Gospel Doctrine, had shave & shingle &c.

Left for Salt Lake on 5:30 P.M. train.

Home.

I arrived from Butte & Billings at 8:30 A.M.

Attended to several items of business, interviewed Pres. C. W. Penrose at his office. Alice & I selected wall paper and attended a show at the Empress: LeGrand, Clarence and Mamie and Orin & Nina called during the evening. While Mother & I were away, Ruby called from the LDS Hospital where she has been working for nearly a year.

I have a sore on my chin which has become infected, I think, causing it to be swollen and inflamed.

Home.

On account of my sore chin, I remained at home during the day.

Improvements on our house are progressing but slowly. The home will be very much improved when finished. [page break] Mother & I took dinner with Geo. & Edith at their home. Joel took us in his car down to LeGrands’ and to Mamy’s in the evening.

Home.

Mother & I went down town and bought our Linoleum and oilcloth &c. We went to four houses and bought at Z.C.M.I.

I spent the afternoon at my office down town. Did work about the house. Work on the house progressing slowly.

Home.

All well

Spent the day mostly in and about the home and in selecting house furnishings.

Home.

I worked all day on the floors of our home preparing them for painting.

Attended my Circle meeting in the evening.

Home.

I was in Council meeting from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. and then went to Intermountain [page break] Electric Co. and selected new lights for our home costing $72.00. In the evening I attended a reunion reception of my prayr Circle held at Bp. David R. Lyon’s home. Alice accompanied me and we had a very nice time.

Home.

All well.

I took 8:15 A.M. D. & R.G. Ry. train for Mack arriving at 6:40 P.M. and put up at the Uintah Ry. Hotel.

Mack, Col.

I had a touch of bowel complaint during the night.

I took train at 8:15 A.M. for Watson arriving there at 12:15 I got stage out of Watson at 1:15 P.M. and arrived in Vernal at about 6:30 P.M. Pres. Don B. Colton, President of the Uintah Stake took me to his home where I put up during my stay in Vernal. Elder H. H. Dummings had preceded me by one day and was there in the interest of Religion Class work.

Vernal.

Meetings were held at 9 A.M. 10:30 A.M., 2 P.M. and 8 P.M. I talked at all the meetings. [page break] I set apart the two counselors in the stake Presidency, a High Counselor and the Bishops and counselors in the Ashby and the Naples wards. A busy day. A good Conference.

Vernal.

Bro. Horace H.Cummings and I left Vernal at 7:15 A.M. and arrived at Mack about 5 P.M.

Mack.

I got train at about 3:30 A.M. and arrived in Salt Lake at 2:15 P.M.

I saw Pres. Woodrow Wilson and the pageant or parade. It was grand by reason of the numbers. I and members of my family attended the services in the Tabernacle at 8:15 P.M. I think the house was never before so packed, and I suppose that many thousands thronged the grounds and streets adjacent who could not obtain entrance. The presidents remarks which lasted for about an hour created a very favorable impression of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

I was introduced to Pres. Woodrow Wilson by President Heber J. Grant, who told the President that I had spent [page break] nearly three years in Europe while the war was progressing. Pres. Wilson while shaking hands with me leaned forward and remarked as nearly as I can remember the words, “You know that I have not misstated the conditions over there”. I answered in the affirmative

Last Sunday George was taking home from the Tabernacle meeting in his car, Edith, Mother, Ruby and Edna when in turning a corner he lost control of the steering divice and the car tipped over breaking the car top and wind shield and Edith had both eyes and the bridge of her nose blacked and the bridge in her mouth broken. Ruby had an eye blacked and Mother had a wrenched back & neck. Geo. & Edna escaped injury.

Home.

I spent the forenoon at my office, 213, and in the after noon attended Y.M.M.I. Bd. Meeting and my Circle.

Home.

I attended Council meeting in the temple from 10 A.M. [page break] to 3:30 P.M. after which Orin Woodbury took Mother and me and Nina & Edna down to Granite Furniture Co. in Sugar House where we bought a rug for the N.E. bedroom. We also visited H. Dinwooddy Furniture Co. and bought a Davenport for $256.50

In the evening Joel and Georgina took Mother and me for an auto ride and later to a show. We called and saw Rega & Lucena in their new home while we were out.

Home.

I went shopping with Mother buying house furnishings &c.

We arranged with Mr Johnson of Z.C.M.I. to come up to the house at 5 P.M. as designer to assist us in planning for curtains, drapery &c for our home. Arranged also for floor layers to come and see what is necessary to be done to our hard wood floors with a view to putting them in perfect order &c.

I left for Price on 8:15 A.M. train in company with Bro. Nephi Anderson and Sister Claracy Beesley to attend Carbon Stake Conference and Y.M. [page break] & Y.L. Mutual Convention. We were delayed enroute on account of a wreck ahead and arrived an hour late at 3 P.M. We went direct to the Stake house where the first session of the Conference was in session and each of us spoke. We attended a convention of Mutual officers in the evening.

Price.

I attended Mutual Convention meeting at 9 A.M., Conference meeting at 10:30 and at 2 o’clock and spoke at each. I attended a High Council meeting at 12:20 and another at 4:20 and addressed the High Council members. I ordained two elders, Set apart a number of auxiliary officers and administered to several sick people.

W A Morton came on the Sat night train arriving in Price about 11 P.M. to attend the Religion Class convention and as the three missionaries were there for the evening meeting I returned home leaving Price at 5:35 and arriving in Salt Lake at 11:15 P.M.

We had much rain during the Conference and the roads were very muddy. [page break]

Home.

I moved my book-cases up stairs and my books also and placed them in my office room at home.

Attended Ensign Stake Priest hood meeting in the evening and promised to be the peaker at the next meeting if my appointment does not take me out of the City.

Home.

I attended the Quarterly Conference of the Twelve in the temple from 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. with an hour’s recess in which time we took lunch and assisted in setting apart a company of about forty missionaries.

I spent the evening at home assisting Clarence Silver to put in lights in the rooms.