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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 34 Page: 606 (~1889)

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606 In the early part of June a branch was organized in Oregon by Hiram L. Holt, called the Drift creek Branch.

On June 3 J. W. Wight and C. A. Butterworth, missionaries to Australia, sailed from San Francisco, and landed in Sydney, Australia, the 28th of the same month.

June 11 J. J. Cornish wrote from Freesoil, Michigan, that he had just closed a three-evening discussion with a Reverend Mr. Snyder, of the M. E. Church, discussing three propositions touching water baptism.

June 14 a debate began between Elder R. C. Evans and T. L. Wilkinson of the Methodist Church, at Waterford, Ontario. Four propositions were discussed, three of them on the question of baptism, and one on the Godhead as taught by the Methodists.

At a district conference of the Gallands Grove District, held at Deloit, Iowa, June 15 to 17, a district Sunday-school association was organized. James Baker was appointed superintendent, C. J. Hunt assistant superintendent, and Fannie Pett secretary.

On June 16 Fulton Branch was organized at Fulton, Iowa. John Heide president, John Sutton teacher, Ella Deiley secretary.

On June 16, L. D. Hickey, formerly an apostle under James J. Strang, wrote President Joseph Smith making a proposition that he would accept President Smith as the legal president of the church, but still retaining the faith and claims of James J. Strang, to which President Smith replied in an editorial published in the Herald for July 14, as follows:

Elsewhere in this issue there will be found a letter from Elder L. D. Hickey, dated June 16, 1888, and an extract from one dated June 17.

It will be seen by these letters that Elder Hickey and those with him, if

few days ago which was well attended. They have elevated themselves not a little in the eyes of the people here by their energy and determination in paying for the church, and by their quiet and sensible conduct in the opening of the building. They can now taste the sweets of independence and feel, as Tehopea said to me a few days ago, that they are a homogeneous body and can depend upon each other. It was a little surprising to some to see some hundreds of these Paumotu people living together for several days with no rioting, quarreling, or drunkenness. This is new to papeete folks, and I have heard it several times remarked on.

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