1911-02-Improvement Era-Writing from Allegheny Pennsylvania

Improvement Era, v14 n4, February 1911, p. 356.

Writing from Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Writing from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1910, Elder Heber D. Clark says: "We have eighteen elders located in seven different districts. In each of three of these centers there is a Sunday school, a regular sacrament meeting, and a Mutual Improvement Association, all well equipped with officers, and each with a good attendance. In the other four districts, where halls are not available, meetings and classes are held at the homes of the people. In all, we have three hundred and twelve members of the Church; twenty-one of these joined this year. Thirty local brethren hold the priesthood. The branch at Fairview, in Franklin county, is presided over by Elder A. E. Stanger, aided by Elder Martin Martinsen. The stone, L. D. S. meetinghouse there is the only one of its kind in the state. Nine new members were added to the branch, by baptism, this summer, which gives them a total membership of over forty. During the season, twelve branch conferences were held in different settlements of the Saints, and the local newspapers generally made favorable mention of the work. The people are very friendly and hospitable. The elders have effective conversations upon the gospel with nearly all who accept literature. The prejudice of some of the ministers, in localities where the elders labor, has been aroused, and in a number of cases their sentiments have been "hot against us," but in nearly every instance, for our immediate good, and ultimately for our good probably in every case."