1919-12-Improvement Era—President Heber J. Grant

President Heber J. Grant

Improvement Era, December 1919, p. 183

President Heber J. Grant arrived home on Nov. 10 from an extended trip to the east, on which he started Oct. 17. While absent he visited Independence, where he held well-attended meetings. On Sunday, Oct. 26, President Grant spoke in the new Brooklyn chapel, and Wednesday following, at a convention of Rotarians at Boston. George W. McCune, president of the eastern states mission, accompanied him. After the Rotary club luncheon in Boston, Mr. Simmons, the district Rotary governor; Mr. Phillips, secretary of the Boston Rotary club; Presidents Grant and McCune and President Grant's daughters, Emily and Frances, who are studying in Boston, took an automobile ride through Concord and Lexington, over the route taken by Paul Revere. They also visited other historical places. In Washington, President Grant paid his respects to the Utah representatives in the Senate and the House. He also called at the White House, where he met Secretary Joseph Tumulty, Admiral Carey T. Grayson, General John J. Pershing, Walker D. Hines, and other government officials. Congressman Welling took the party to Mount Vernon. President Grant also met "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Postmaster General Burleson, Vice President Marshall and Secretary of the Interior F. K. Lane. From Washington President Grant went to Toronto, Canada, where he visited the new mission residence headquraters recently purchased for the Canadian mission. He left for San Francisco, Nov. 13, on his way, with Bishop Charles W. Nibley, Elder Stephen L. Richards, and others, to Hawaii, to dedicate the new temple building.