Statehood!!!

 

 When news arrived of President Cleveland’s announcement that Utah was admitted into the “sisterhood of states,” what one thing didn’t then people of Salt Lake City do?

a.      Fire guns

b.      The flag hoisted

c.       Fireworks lighted

d.      Bands played

Yesterday’s answer

c.   Information pertaining to the priesthood

The following from the journal of Warren Foote dated May 13, 1837:

   13th. The rest of our company being somewhat anxious to see the Prophet Joseph, and the Temple, concluded to accompany Father, and myself to Kirtland. We hired a man to take us to that place for $5.00-distant 12 miles. We arrived there about noon. In the afternoon we went into the [Kirtland] Temple, and saw the mummies and the records which were found with them (we went to the prophet's house to see him. This is the first I saw him, and shook hands with him). Joseph Smith Sen. explained them to us, and said the records were the writings of Abraham & Joseph, Jacob's son. Some of the writing was in black, and some in red. He said that the writing in red, was pertaining to the Priesthood.

Autobiography of Warren Foote, Typescript, HBLL; htpp://www.boap.org/