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J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH World's Fair Vaudevilles.

Payson, Utah, 189[2].

Mirror of Utah.

J.Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH consists of twenty artistic paintings, each seven by eleven feet in size, covering all the principal points of interest in the Territory.

Realistic scenes of pioneer days and of Utah's early history, fine views of lake and mountain scenery, prominent buildings, the mining and manufacturing industries of the territory all have a place in this panorama.

A company of musical and comedy artists will acompany the entertainment and the route will include all the principal towns and cities of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and states east and it is also proposed to locate in Chicago during the World's Fair.

A good opportunity for live advertisers presents itself in the drop curtain for the MIRROR OF UTAH. This curtain will contain a correct picture of the World's Fair buildings and grounds and around this scene will be spaces for advertising cards, each about two by three feet in size. But very few firms can be represented on this curtain and our propositions are made only to the leading manufacturers and dealers of the Territory. If you are given the opportunity to represent your business thereon, you should take advantage of it as thousands of intelligent people will see this curtain, and it is advertising which they can't fail to see and read.

The tour will be commenced early next month and about one hundred Utah towns will be visited before leaving for the East.

OUR HOTEL, THEATRE and NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY will soon be out. A good chance for advertising for live business houses. Write for particulars.

simply a defense of the Mormon people in regard to the misrepresentations made against them, and presented in a way which raches people where other means would not and yet causes no offense to any. I propose to take the scenes through the East and on the strength of the "curiosity" of people in regard to the Mormon question, think that I can do a little good by creating a favorable impression for our people. Per my recent tour in Idaho, Wyoming and northern Utah, I found great difficulty in securing places to give the entertainment, and in one or two places where the meeting house was the only suitable place in the town, I was not

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J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH World's Fair Vaudevilles.

Payson, Utah, 189[2].

Mirror of Utah.

J.Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH consists of twenty artistic paintings, each seven by eleven feet in size, covering all the principal points of interest in the Territory.

Realistic scenes of pioneer days and of Utah's early history, fine views of lake and mountain scenery, prominent buildings, the mining and manufacturing industries of the territory all have a place in this panorama.

A company of musical and comedy artists will acompany the entertainment and the route will include all the principal towns and cities of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and states east and it is also proposed to locate in Chicago during the World's Fair.

A good opportunity for live advertisers presents itself in the drop curtain for the MIRROR OF UTAH. This curtain will contain a correct picture of the World's Fair buildings and grounds and around this scene will be spaces for advertising cards, each about two by three feet in size. But very few firms can be represented on this curtain and our propositions are made only to the leading manufacturers and dealers of the Territory. If you are given the opportunity to represent your business thereon, you should take advantage of it as thousands of intelligent people will see this curtain, and it is advertising which they can't fail to see and read.

The tour will be commenced early next month and about one hundred Utah towns will be visited before leaving for the East.

OUR HOTEL, THEATRE and NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY will soon be out. A good chance for advertising for live business houses. Write for particulars.

even given a respectful learning by the authority in charge.

It is for this reason that I would be pleased to have you investigate the matter and if you consider it worthy, give me whatever assistance you see fit to enable me to present the entertainment to the people whose cause is espouses.

I enclose you a program and you will see thereon the endorsements of some whom you probably know. I give the exhibition in the Payson meeting House, Saturday night, Dec. 31^st and if you write to Bishop Page or Hemish, I think both will be present and can give you any desired information I would prefer in almost every

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J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH World's Fair Vaudevilles.

Payson, Utah 189[2]

Mirror of Utah. J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH consists of twenty artistic paintings, each seven by eleven feet in size, covering all the principal points of interest in the Territory.

Realistic scenes of pioneer days and of Utah's early history, fine views of lake and mountain scenery, prominent buildings, the mining and manufacturing industries of the territory all have a place in this panorama.

A company of musical and comedy artists will accompany the entertainment and the route will include all the principal towns and cities of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and states east and it is also proposed to locate in Chicago during the World's Fair.

A good opporunity for live advertisers presents itself in the drop curtain for the MIRROR OF UTAH. This curtain will contain a correct picture of the World's Fair buildings and grounds and around this scene will be spaces for advertising cards, each about two by three feet in size. But very few firms can be represented on this curtain and our propositions are made only to the leading manufacturers and dealers of the Territory. If you are given the opportunity to represent your business thereon, you should take advantage of it as thousands of intelligent people will see this curtain, and it is advertising which they can't fail to see and read.

The tour will be commenced early next month and about one hundred Utah towns will be visited before leaving for the East.

OUR HOTEL, THEATRE and NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY will soon be out. A good chance for advertising for live business houses. Write for particulars.

Utah town to give the entertainment in connection with the Sunday Schools or Y.M. & Y.L.M.I.A. giving a per centage of the proceeds to any church fund desired or to the local association.

Hoping that you will look into the matter and reply as early as convenient, I remain,

Yours truly J. Frank Pickering

Emil Vauterlaus Nov. 20 '95

Garden City, Rich Co., Utah, Nov. 20th 1895.

President Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother!

For sometime past I have been thinking of writing to you, and as I have now a few leisure moments I trust you will bear with me as I shaall not write a very lengthy epistle.

In the first place I may mention the fact that I am still in debt to the church to the amount of about $35⁰⁰ (Thirty-five dollars) which I borrowed at Liverpool, England in 1892 when I was released from my labors as missionary in the Swiss and German mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, before I had filled my mission.

Dear Brother, you do not know what I have suffered in my mind since the day that I again set foot upon American soil, about how my missionary labors terminated. Not a day passes but what I think of how I might have pleased God my Heavenly Father, in adding, or being instrumental, at least in helping to bring souls to a knowledge of the true Gospel of Christ, and perhaps might I even have been instrumental in bringing to a knowledge of the truth some

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of my relatives yet in the old world and in darkness. But I am blaming no one but myself. Money is very scarce here or I might perhaps have settled my $35⁰⁰ account with you and thus open the way whereby I could at sometime receive another call from "Box B." I got married about a year ago and of course you know to what it takes to begin life, and consequently I could not up to date get the money to pay my indebtedness to you, and that I feel is a bar to me receiving another call to go abroad as a minister of the Gospel. I have suffered as few suffer since my release. I do not prosper as I know I should have done had I filled an honorable mission when I had the chance in 1892.

All around me I see young men receiving calls from "Box B" to go on missions, and every time I hear of one getting called I feel miserable and downcast. If I could only get the assurance that at some future time I would get the privilege of going to the nations of the earth as a minister of life and salvation, I would be more cheerful, but I suppose I need not hope until I am able to square up my indebtedness to you. I have learned a terrible lesson and one which I shall never forget. I am trying hard to live a righteous life in the sight of my Heavenly Father, and I pray Him to help me, as I am, like

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every human being, but mortal. I promise you Brother Woodruff, should I once more be so fortunate as to get the privilege of going to my native land, that with the help of the Lord I would try to fill an honorable mission, and if at any time you see fit to call upon me, believe me I will leave no stone unturned but what I will make every effort to go, and fill an honorable mission. This is my only desire, and I trust, dear brother, that I may yet be honoured with a missionary call. I am thankful that I have a sound testimony of God's divine work and thankful that I have a standing in the only true church upon the face of the earth. I am thankful to God for the Priesthood He has conferred upon me through His servants. I also hope always to magnify the Priesthood of the Son of God. These are a few of the feelings that activate me, and not only now but always. I felt to let you know that I am not a dead member as far as my standing in the Church is concerned, but that I am a live member and I feel that my labors as far as I am pleased in position

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to labor for the building up of God's Kingodm upon the earth, are acceptable to my Heavenly Father.

I trust that I have not wearied your patience, for I know that you are never idle, and you have enough to attend to in the Church, without noticing letters of this kind which tend to add to your labors. But as a Brother in Christ, I ask you to give this letter your attention and consideration.

Praying that God may prolong your life upon the earth as a joy and a comfort to this God's people and ever praying for the welfare of Zion, I am With Kindest regards Your Brother in the New and Everlasting covenant Emil Vaterlaus

This letter manifests a very good [speech], and he should have a kindly and fatherly reply. I do not recall the reason for his return from his former mission; But I would kindly advise him that the best evidences of good faith on his part will be to pay his obligations to all honestly, and continue faithful to his duties in the church, and in due time he will have the privilege he desires.

J.F.S.

Sanford Colo May 11 [18]96

Pres Wilford Woodruff

Dear Brother I take This opportunity to write you for information I have been wanting to ask you for this knowledge for some time but I know you was troubled with many uncalled for and needless questions. But its sumer that I cant decide for myself. Now I desire to locate in a warmer climate as its sumer I cant never get reconciled to this cold one and for the last 2 or 3 yrs I have been anxious to make a change and I am now thinking of going to Old Mexico - and again I realize it is hard times to be moving around. I came here from the South: Now to be plain if I knew the Lord wanted me to stay in Colo I think it would settle me at once but if no objections I cant see why I cant do right in a warmer country as well as here. Now will you please write me and tell me what to do as you see my desires and that is to obey your counsel and I will receive it as from the Lord

Your Bro in the Truth James T White Sanford Colo

Denver May, 28 1890 Prs S. L. C. Uthah Dear Brother, [AO] my umpressions are at this time to say the following be for You & ask Your desision 15⁰⁰ acres of Land as been given to me to Sell By a lady by the name of Mrs E Johns of Bolton Missippy. & as I deasire if Possible for trhe church to handle it the following is the discripsion of the Land as given to me As the [Cally] Her Self

35 January 8^th, 0President Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother:

We have had quite a visit from Elder F. F. Hintze, from the Turkish Mission. There was no [illegible] of the Quion Line sailing on the Saturday following his arrival, consequently he was detained here until last Saturday, the 4th last, when he left here per Quion S. S. Wyoming en route to Utah. He was accompanied by Elder John M^cKellar, from Tooele, who arrived here April 26^th, 1889, and was appointed to labor in Scotland. He is 60 years of age and has been indisposed, more or less, ever since he has been here. Prest. Whitaker, before he left, recommended he should be released, but Bro. M^ckellar did not want to be, and so it stood over until I attended the Conference of the Scottish Mission, December 28 & 29^th when I found him suffering at the Conference However He was unable to attend the Conference, and on Monday, at a council of the priesthood it was unanimously resolved to release Bro M^c Kellar to return home in consideration of his delicate health & age, and he was satisfied to return