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Show 6 Hopi Indian. Equipped with hot Ele sarooma and cold water fac111 ties. • 2 Lavatories. cloakroan. Building heated with air heated b oil-burning In this building the Recreation Hall stage with elevated above the main hall floor, as before in the ,ccurately the the same distance. T he be basement b,eneath the stage end its two s e the not furnace. th e two tismalo1d idP, at the aides are buildlng, although perhaps and two classrooms room rooms. roms " are in t . Auxiliary Associations Relief Soc iety Objective and Organization ."1arch 17, 1842, 'The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo' was organized smith. »m:na SIli th was chosen Joseph prophet by president with El1z.sbeth ,Ann Whitney and Sarah ·M. Cleveland as counselors. The purpose or the society is to furniSh the sisters of the church an organization through Which they could actively,toster the welfare of the members. The duty of the society was stated to be to aid the poor, nurse the sick and afflicted ' and in a general way, under the direction and guidance of the bishop, to the ' t, engage in true charitable work in behalf of all whose necessities reuire This was the first organization of women in the world, SO far assistance. records." as history ---Joseph . F. Smith in "Essentials of Church History", page 318. The' local Relief society was organized at Allen's Camp september 7, 1877. On that date a special meeting of the women of the settlement was called, at' which Willlgm C. Allen, Joseph H. Richards, and John Bushman---local presiding ecclesiastical officers, elected to the presidecy of the United Order on the 5 of the preceding month of June---were in attendance for the purpose of ef this formal organization. an the earlier minutes, the organization is referred to as "Female's Association", "Improvement· society"', or merely as the Association; and it was not until 1886 that we find it called the"St. Joseph Relief The first officers, sustai ned at the organization meeting just fecting Society". referred to, were Mary Richards, president; Hannah Nielson and Anna Clark, coun selors; Eliza E. Tanner, secretary; Mary Bushman, treasurer. Reguaar meetings each month---the lere scheduled at 2:00 0' clock p. m on the first Thursdy of , first of these meetings was held October 4, 1877 • In minutes of .Apparently no roll was kept for some time after organization. sophia Nielmeetings of 1877 in addition to the names of the officers sustained, in the minand are mentioned; son, Anna sophia McLaws, and Lora Waddill Versa Quinn, Amanda Talley, Susan utes of 1878, we find "Sister" Quinn, Mary Golden, menand Abby Farrington also lden, Lula Scarlett ' Florence Austin, Martha Quinn, Skouse, tioned , as members. In the earliest .inutes. nothing . 1S sa to outside of the sen timent s work 1 d re leti V e of end expressions regular meet1ngs---in these , testimony-bearing 'h e seem to have The minutes 9ft been the procedure. me e tin .::. '_ held April 4, 1878 . |
