Mutual Work

Passing Events. At the Lehi Tabernacle, on Sunday afternoon, May 8, 1910, 1,291 people attended meeting. The occasion was the dedication of the splendid building. Bishop James H. Gardner, of the second ward, presided, and Presidents Joseph F. Smith and Anthon H. Lund, the stake presidency, high councilors and bishops of the stake were present. This tabernacle is one of the finest churches in the state. It is built of buffcolored pressed brick, on a foundation of blue limestone, with a heavy footing of concrete. The seating capacity is 1,100, and the cost $46,500, not counting the beautiful pipe organ, nineteen feet high, eight feet deep and twenty feet wide, having thirteen couplers and accessories, which cost $3,700. A portrait and description of the organ has The corner stone of this 1901, the ground having LEHI TABERNACLE. Dedicated May 9, 1910. heretofore appeared in the Improvement Era. tabernacle was laid on the 14th of September, been broken in the fall of 1900. The dimensions of the building outside

PASSING EVENTS. 861 are 76 by 121 feet, the main auditorium being 60 by 80 feet. Lehi was one ward at the time it was started, presided over by Bishop T. R. Cutler, but before ii was completed the city was divided into four, with Anders Fjeld, James H. Gardner, Henry Lewis and John Stoker bishops of the respective wards. The main auditorium of the building is now used by the first and second wards, while the room at the back is used by the second ward Relief Society. Originally it was planned that the basement should be used for Sunday school and Mutual work, but when the ward was divided, the second ward finished the part of the house now used for their assembly rooms. The main room seats four hundred people, and there are four class rooms, besides a front room and a furnace room. The grounds cover an area of eleven by thirteen rods, are surrounded by a fence, and will be parked early next spring. The building was dedicated May 8, by President Joseph F. Smith, and on the day of the dedication many former residents of the city came from different parts to attend the exercises. The alfalfa weavil, a lucern pest which has spread from Salt Lake county to surrounding counties, has done much damage to the alfalfa crop in Tooele, Davis, Summit and parts of Utah counties. This is one of the most serious troubles that the farmers of Utah have ever met with, and the extinction of the pest should receive not only the hearty co-operation of every farmer in the state, but that of every other citizen. In the Deseret Farmer, of May 21, the following editorial appears: "Professor Titus reports that this pest has been in Utah since 1904, and last year (1909) it began to spread from Salt Lake county to adjoining counties. Anyone who has not had actual experience with the insect can hardly appreciate the extent of the loss. Serious injury in the field appears in the distance like frost, but closer examination shows thousands of young worms feeding upon the plants. "We regard this as the most serious menace to Utah agriculture that has ever appeared, and feel that a united effort should be made at once to check its spread. In relation to methods of control, Professor Titus has the following to advise: "Cut the first crop as early as possible. The ground should be disced and cross-disced as soon as the hay is off, and then gone o,Ter with a leveler in the same way. These operations will kill a large percentage of the young worms. Then force the second crop as rapidly as possible and repeat the discing and leveling. "In a newly infected district, like Tooele county, it would seem to us the part of wisdom to go over the field with a mowing machine, fire and plow. This is a serious problem, farmers of Utah, and needs to be met with every force at our command." John Hafen, the well known landscape painter, died at Indianap_

862 IMPROVEMENT ERA. olis, Indiana, on the morning of June 3, 1910. His name has been a household word among the people of Utah and the West generally for many years, and in the Church and state publications his work and name were frequently mentioned. Mr. Hafen was born in Scherzingen, Switzerland, in 1857. At the age of five he came with his parents to Utah, and since that time has spent most of his life in the state. He has been abroad several times to pursue his art, and did his most extensive studying in the Julian Academy, Paris. His landscape work, particularly, has attracted great attention. He won the state prize of $500 for the best painting, in 1900, and in 1902 the medal of honor from the Utah State Art Institute. The same year he received the first prize for the best landscape painting at the state fair. Just prior to the dedication of the Salt Lake temple he labored as a decorator of the interior of that edifice. Recently he has passed much of his time in Indianapolis, where he was engaged in painting portraits of many leading citizens, and had won considerable success in his efforts in this line, as well as in landscape painting. His family was with him at the time of his death, they having left their home in Springville only a few days before, to spend the summer with him. His death was entirely unexpected. He was a man of excellent taste, and was very spiritual-minded in his feelings. He believed that his calling to art came from the Divine Spirit, and this upheld him so that adversity had no power to dull his genius. Funeral services were held in the Provo tabernacle on the JOHN HAFEN. A late Portrait of the Artist John Hafen.

PASSING EVENTS. 863 morning of June 9. L. A. Ramsey, the artist and author of the portrait of Joseph Smith, Elder Nephi L. Morris,Dr. George H.Brimhall, Elder B. H. Roberts, and others, spoke in eulogy of his life and labors. His body was buried in the Springville cemetery. On Sunday morning, 5th, at the annual conference of the M. I. A., a fitting tribute was paid to the memory of the artist by Elder Heber J. Grant, who, in addition, read appreciations of his life and work, from a number of Utah artists. Heber Scowcroft, who was appointed a member of the Auditing Committee of the Church at the late April conference, was only twelve years of age when he came to Utah with his parents. He was born in Tottenham, Lancashire, England. January 21, 1868, and is the son of the late John Scowcroft, who with his wife and five children emigrated from their native land, England, in June, 1880. Heber attended the public schools of Ogden until seventeen years of age, since which time he has been identified with the business established by his father, becoming a partner in the firm of John Scowcroft & Sons Company, one of the large wholesale houses of Utah, in January, 1889. He is also a heavy stockholder and director in the Pingree National Bank, a stockholder in the Bank of Preston, Idaho, and a stockholder and director in the VolkerScowcrof t Lumber Company, besides holding interests in many other commercial organizations of the state. He was married to Ellen Pingree, a daughter of Job Pingree, in January, 1890. She died in 1900, leaving him three children. In the following year he married Ida Pingree, a sister of his former wife, with whom he has eight children, five of whom are eight years of age and under. He has occupied a number of Church positions, being counselor to President John L. Herrick, in the Y. M. M. I. A. of the second ward, Ogden, in 1896. He was second assistant to A. McLaren Boyle, in the superintendency of the second ward Sunday school, in 1897. When, in 1889, John L. Herrick was called to fill the position of superintendent of the Weber Stake Y. M. M. I. A., Heber was called as his second assistant, in which position he labored faithfully for many years, and was released in 1901 to act in the bishopric of the second ward, as counselor to Bishop Robert McQuarrie. In 1904, when the parents class movement was first agitated, the second ward of Ogden was selected for the experiment, and Heber Scowcroft was chosen to take charge and supervise the first class thus organized in the Church. The experiment was a success, and other classes were proposed in other wards. He assisted in launching this movement, being later made a member in the Weber stake Sunday school board, laboring in the parents' department, with Judge H. H. Rolapp at the head. After the division of