--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 5 published: 1911-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Passing Events," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 5 (March 1911): 465–472.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1405unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1405unse start_page: 465 end_page: 472 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1405unse publication_year: 1911 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Passing Events PASSING EVENTS. 467 Haskell S. Jolley; Caldwell ward, Alberta stake, disorganized; Serge F. Ballif sustained as president of the Cache stake, to succeed Isaac Smith. Elder William H. Seegmiller, who for forty years had been a familiar figure in Richfield and Sevier county, resigned on the 17th of September last, as president of the Sevier stake of Zion, and Robert D. Young was chosen president, with James M. Peterson and John Christen- sen, counselors. Elder Seegmiller was born in 1843, in Ontario, Canada, joined the Church in Florence, Nebraska, in 1861, came to Salt Lake that year, and lived there until 1867, when he helped settle the "Muddy." He returned to Salt Lake City in 1871, filled a mission to Canada in 1872, came to Sevier in 1873, where he served as counselor to President Joseph A. Young of that stake. He also served as counselor to Presidents Franklin Spencer, and to A. K. Thurber who died in 1888. He was chosen president of the Sevier stake in 1888, and has held the position with honor and ability, until his release on account of ill health. Elder Gearson S. Bastian was honorably released as president of the Wayne stake of Zion, on the 6th of November last, and Elder Joseph Eckersley was called to succeed him, with Elder John R. Stewart and Bishop Benjamin B. Brown as counselors. President Francis M. Lyman and Elder A. W. Ivins attended the conference. Elder Bastian is well known throughout the Church as a man of sterling ability who has seen a great deal of pioneer life. Energetic and able, he made a success of his labors in that stake. He has now purchased a large tract of land in Sigurd, and is at present located at Ephraim. He labored as a coun- selor in the Wayne stake presidency ever since its organization, in 1893, until February, 1906, when he was called to be president. Joseph Eckersley, the new president, has labored as stake clerk and stake super- intendent of Sunday schools, and was the first counselor in the stake presi- dency to President Bastian. He is a progressive, energetic man, with a firm belief in the splendid material prospects of Wayne county. Elder William O. Lee died in Alberta, Canada, suddenly, Janu- ary 26, 1911, a paralytic stroke being the immediate cause of his death. He was born in Tooele, in 1861. Being left an orphan, he was reared by his grandmother, in the 19th ward, Salt Lake City. Elder Lee was very active in all the organizations of the Church from the time he was a young lad until his death, being particularly active in the Sunday schools and Mutual Improvement associations. He was at one time superintend- ent of the Davis stake Y. M. M. I. A., and has acted in that capacity for many years in the Alberta stake. He married Louie Calder, in 1887, and spent three and a half years in the Samoan mission with her. While in Davis county, his wife died; in 1901, he married Miss Armenia Willey, the following year moving to Canada, where he has since lived, in Cards- ton. He was a faithful worker, not only in the Church and its organ- izations, but in many activities pertaining to the temporal affairs of the people. Elder John Edward Kirkman, who came to his death in Hawaii, on January 10, it appears did not fall from a precipitous cliff into the sea. He came to his death in trying to cross a mountain stream which was unusually swollen. He got into the center of the stream, when his mule lost its footing, and he was washed with the animal over a high waterfall, some twenty feet below the crossing, which neither he nor his companion, who wisely did not venture to cross the stream, knew existed. After strenuous effort, the body was found in a cave below the fall ; it was veiled by the falling waters and washed continually with the rainbow spray, so that his body was preserved as though in sleep. It is expected the body will be brought to Utah for burial. Elder Frank 0. McMaster, of Salt Lake City, his companion who accompanied him on his fatal journey, has written his parents an account of the sad occurrence. Reciprocity with Canada has attracted considerable attention since the announcement, Jan. 26, by Prest. Taft that he was in favor there- of. It will be remembered that at the suggestion of the United States, which was cordially accepted by Canada, commissioners, representing the two governments, met at Ottawa, last November, to consider a possible basis for a reciprocity trade agreement. The conference was adjourned, after a few days' deliberation, but the commissioners reassembled at Washing- ton early in January, and held a session lasting two weeks, after which they announced that they had reached an understanding. The subject is causing considerable comment in England, where, from some jocular remarks of Champ Clark, the next Democratic speaker of the House, it is believed that reciprocity is an opening wedge for the annexation of Canada to the United States. The article in this number of the Era, by Dr. Tanner, will interest the reader, in view of Representative Howell's stand. He is opposed to the particular bill which passed the House Feb- ruary 4, on the ground that it grants free trade on all farmer's products and raw materials, while maintaining the tariff on manufactured articles. Both countries agree to put on their free lists cattle, horses, PASSING EVENTS. 469 sheep, hogs, poultry, whea: and other grains, fresh vegetables and fruits, hay, milk, butter, eggs, and all kinds of fish and timber. On secondary food products mutual identical rates are established, and on certain manufactured articles rates are mutually reduced. An Ode to Efficiency, by Edmund Vance Cook, of Ohio, was printed in the October Century, 1910, on J. E. H. (J. E. Hickman) the ' 'Mormon' ' school-master. Two years ago Mr. Vance visited Mr. Hick- man and the Murdock Academy, at Beaver, Utah. The candor of the author, and his appreciation of what is being done, is particularly ad- mirable: He saw across the desert waste, Where hardships warned, but duty beckoned; Here were young lives untaught, unplaced, With possibilities unreckoned. He left the comforts and the aids Toward which the modern mortal strives; And brought these lost-land boys and maids His life to help their lesser lives. His faith he gives to Joseph Smith, His works he gives to human-kind; To me his miracle is myth, And strange the habits of his mind. But let him hold what faith he please; I know a man, whate'er his make: I care not where he crooks his knee, I grasp his honest hand and shake! Samuel Bateman, who was a member of the faithful company of men called the "Old Guard," born July 1, 1832, at Manchester, Eng- land, son of Thomas Bateman and Mary Street, died January 23, 1911, at West Jordan. He accepted the gospel about 1838, emigrated to America the following year, and located at Nauvoo, passing through the varied history of the "Mormon" people at that noted place. He arrived at Si.lt Lake City in the fall of 1850, and located at West Jordan. He spent a great part of his life in public office, and in the service of the Church. He was an Indian guard in 1853, and in 1857 took active par- with Lot Smith in the Johnston's army trouble. He accompanied Presi- dent Brigham Young on a trip south in 1861, traveling in all about twelve hundred miles. In 1870 he accompanied President Young on a trip north, and attended President Taylor during the anti-polygamy raid, being with him at his death, in 1S87. He also served as guard for President Wilford Woodruff. In all his life he was a faithful, trusted, honest and upright man. The funeral was held at the West Jordan ward house, on Tuesday, January 26, and was attended by a large number of his old friends, many of the old guard, President Joseph F. Smith and prominent leaders of the Church. The following lines were written by his daugh- ter, Julia B. Jensen, to his memory: THE OLD GUARD. One more of their number has gone to his rest, One more of the valiant Old Guard; One of the boys who gave their all and their best, In defense of the work of the Lord. The boys were all there, when we laid him to rest, The boys of the faithful Old Guard; So tenderly they spoke of this one so blest, Who has gone to his rest in the Lord. It was his dear wish that his comrades, The Boys, Should help gently lay him away; They had shared his dangers, his faith and his joy, In work they could never betray. It was not for earth's riches the Old Guard fought, Nor the things that die in a day: 'Twas the dear Master's work to preserve they sought, And they worked for eternal pay. Thus the gray-haired Boys will be called one by one, To return to their Master and Lord ; And as true they'll be in the Eternal Home, Our honored and faithful Old Guard. Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward died suddenly January 28. 1911, age sixty-six years. She was one of the most widely known of Ameri- can women authors.being particularly known for her stories for children. Her first story was published in the Youth's Companion when she was only thirteen years of age. She has written a number of volumes of verse, and short stories, besides sketches for magazines, and the list of her books amounts in all to about forty titles. Andrew Carnegie has given recently ten million dollars addi- tional to the fund of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, to which, in 1902, when it was founded, he gave fifteen millions. 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V The Bible's Three Hundredth Anniversary. . . The Home Guard. A Story A Crisis. A Poem The Greatest Problem of the Human Race.. . At the Aviation Meet, Salt Lake City. Photo. To My Missionary Boy, A Poem The Worth of A Boy Reciprocity with Canada Views in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Editors' Table — The Revolution in Mexico Messages from the Missions Priesthood Quorums' Table Mutual Work — Work of the Stake Superin- tendent— Are Your Records Well Kept?. . Passing Events Frontispiece Junius F. Wells 379 Thomas W. Brookbank . . . 395 Hamilton Gardner 400 Words by Charles W. Pen- rose, Music by George Careless 406 Charles Goodman 409 Moroni Snow 410 Solomon F. Kimball 415 H. J. O'Brien 421 William George Jordan .... 422 George W. Crockwell 427 430 Nephi Anderson 431 Lewis W. Larsen 437 Dr. Robert Stezvart. 438 443 Annie Malin Leila Marler Hoggan . . . Dr. Joseph M. 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