Today in Mormon History - Oct 15

Joseph Smith purchased a safe -- probably intended for bank use. [Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 468-470.] (1)
-- 175 years ago today - mid Oct 1836

Boyd K. Packer, Twelve's acting-president, tells BYU devotional assembly that Bishops should exercise strict control over LDS funerals because families are conducting funerals where "several family members speak in a funeral, we hear about the deceased instead of about the Atonement." DESERET NEWS notes that he speaks about "unwritten laws" of church conduct, but does not quote or paraphrase Apostle Packer's statements against content of LDS funerals by grieving families. (2)
-- 15 years ago today - Oct 15, 1996

Pres[ident] [David H.] Cannon * remarked, it was designed to have all [officiators] stick to the [scripted] text and all unwritten parts to be given [acted out] exactly alike in all the temples. He wished there would be no corrections made in the wording by any one, except by those accompanying them in the ceremonies as Eloheim may prompt Jehovah and vice versa, then only in very important errors and in a manner not to give offense or that exception may be taken. [Temple Minute Book, St. George, Oct. 15, 1906] (3)
-- 105 years ago today - Oct 15, 1906

1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship