Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Wilson Nibley, 82, Second Counsellor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) ; of pneumonia; in Salt Lake City. For 18 years Presiding Bishop of his church, Bishop Nibley was chosen Second Counsellor in 1925, thus becoming a member of the highest Mormon body. A lumber and sugar tycoon, he was rated Mormonism's wealthiest man. Bishop Nibley had three wives, espoused...
...This Is The Place." In Utah last week there was another frontier show commemorating not broncos and steers but covered wagons and the arrival of Brigham Young with his 148 Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley in 1847. Under a searing sun which killed one man, dropped a score of others, a three-hour historical parade filed through the streets of Salt Lake City. Queen of the celebration was Margaret Young, 20, a great-great-granddaughter of old Brigham through the line of eldest sons.* On her float which won first prize in the parade, Miss Young, garbed...
Climax of the Salt Lake celebration was a pageant, witnessed by 20,000 in the stadium of the University of Utah where Miss Young is a junior. Here she emerged from a hive as the Queen Bee of Deseret (the honey bee of the Book of Mormon, symbol of industry). Other features of the pageant included Indian dances, Brigham Young's declaration "This is the place!" as he led his followers down into the valley, the seagulls which ate the crickets and saved the settlers' first crop, the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Point marking...
...Catholic Reno paid practically no attention to the news that Bishop Gorman was to be installed there. Catholics were pleased, but although they are the largest denomination in Nevada (as they are throughout the Southwest except in Mormon Utah) they are not imposing in number: only 8,447 communicants. There are no Catholic officials in the city of Reno. There were none among the supporters of Nevada's six-week divorce law last March...
Married. Hyrum, 73, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; to his neighbor, Mrs. Hannah Lyle Chapman, 37; by Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Bishop Edward L. Solomon; in Salt Lake City. Father Dempsey divorced Mrs. Cecelia Dempsey, mother of "Jack," in 1919; married Lottie Dexter Blasingame in 1924, was divorced by her five months later. Said Mother Dempsey to inquiring reporters: "None of the public's business when we were divorced, if we ever were divorced. I don't care what he does. That's his business...