130 years ago today - Nov 15, 1884

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] 15 Saturday We Commenced our Quarterly Conference. Prayer By Moses Thatcher. Statistics Read as follows: 4 Patriarchs, 444 Seventies, 296 high Priests, 929 Elders 192 Priests, 232 Teachers, 292 Deacons 5,962 Members 8,351 Officers & Members, 3,436 Children under 8 years 11,787 Total of Souls, and 2,645 Sunday school Children. 14 Names were Presented to be ordained High Priests. President Taylor then made some remarks upon the Subject of the Class of men to be ordained High Priests. Quite a Portion of them should be smart inteligent faithful young Men to use for Presidets Bishops & their C[ouncillors?] to Presi[dents?]. Bishops were then Called upon to report their wards verbally. Quite a number reported. Afternoon. W Woodruff Prayed F M Lyman spok 44 m M Thatcher 40 M.

I met with the young People in the Evening. M Thatcher spoke 40 M Br Gill 23, G Q Cannon 17 M, & W Woodruff 25 M. We had a vary Good Meeting.

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]