16 thoughts on “Latter-day Saint Images, 1929 (4)”

1. If L.S. Kartchner in that picture from the Mexican Mission is Lafayette Shepherd Kartchner of Snowflake, Arizona, then he’s the brother of Thalia Kartchner, my grandfather’s third wife–whom she always referred to as “my brother Lafe.”

   He would have been in his mid 30s and married in that picture. Were married men of that age still being called as missionaries in 1929?

2. Lafayette Shepherd Kartchner? I just saw something the other day about the Kartchner family. What was it?

   Oh. I still have it up in Reunion. Prudence Miller married Martin Ray Tanner in Snowflake in 1900. She was the daughter of Ninian Miller, the adopted son of Eminent Woman Ann Crosby Thomas, and Sarah Emma Kartchner.

   I assume (without bothering to look) that Sarah would have been Lafe’s aunt.

   And, with a name like that, Lafe would have been named after Marcus De Lafayette Shepherd, mayor of Beaver, Utah. (He, however, went by the name of “Fay.”)

3. He! I’ve seen other men named Marcus De Lafayette” Whoever, and it was only recently that I realized that Marcus = Marquis.

4. Mark, yes, that was still the era of married men as missionaries.

5. My daughter things that One Direction is on the back row if the Mexican Mission picture.

   I see Rey L. Pratt who is a hero in Argentina mission history.

6. *thinks

7. It looks like John Widtsoe was busy–attending a mission conference in France, then helping to open Czechoslovakia. Ardis, any idea what “Bohemian Girl” was about?

8. Operas in MIA and operettas in Primary were standard annual events in that era, as regular as roadshows and Gold and Green Balls and scout camp. What a different world it was!

   Rey L. Pratt had helped to open the South American Mission (with headquarters in Buenos Aires) only three years before this picture was made, Carol — nice to think he was remembered so long afterward as your mission years.

9. Anybody know anything about that Dayton, Ohio Chapel? It’s surprised me to see such a beautiful (and large?) chapel in a place I would have assumed wouldn’t have supported such. Is it still around? (Nothing close to its age in that area comes up on the chapel locator tool at lds.org.)

10. I hope someone who does know will comment, David. My first hunch is that the local congregation bought an existing church building vacated by some Protestant sect moving on to newer and larger quarters. It just seems incredible to me that a presumably smaller congregation so far from the Mormon heartland could have afforded to build a new building with so much art glass.

11. David, I lived in Dayton for several years a few years back and I am not aware of any such beautiful LDS chapels, although I can’t say definitively. I am not surprised by its existence back in the 1920s in Dayton, however. Dayton has so many gorgeous buildings, homes, and parks from its moneyed heyday.

12. No one has commented yet on the scandalously exposed shoulders of the YW in North Weber?

    Rey L. Pratt is still fondly remembered in Mexico, too. When I served there in the mid ’90s, many congregations still used the 1948-edition hymnal, which frequently listed him as the translator.

13. I like the occasional bow ties on the missionaries. “Bow ties are cool!”

14. Thanks, Gina.

15. Re: Pocatello Beehives. How old would the girls in that picture be? I know that now Beehives are 12-13, but that name has not always been used for that age group. It seems like my experience was with Gaynotes and MerriMiss, or something like that.

    Would it be an imposition for you to research the origins or progression of names for the Young Women’s age groups?

16. charlene, I’m not sure whether the 14-year-olds were still Beehives in 1929 or not — good question. It would be fairly easy to research and come up with a table of class names and ages, and the dates they changed. Thanks for the suggestion!

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