120 years ago today - Aug 6, 1891

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] Att[orne]ys Dickson and Richards presented a lot of questions that would no doubt have to be answered in the church property cases. I feel like letting the property go rather than try to defend it under the circumstances, but this is no doubt a wrong feeling. My Wife Lucy was blessed by the brethren today. I wrote to Gusta that we would have to give up the trip to London . . . This afternoon I went with Ex. Gov. West and F. S. Richards to visit a number of persons soliciting funds for the Democratic Party. I had a chat with John H[enr]y Smith and he said that he was willing that all of the stock (in insurance and ZCMI he held be sold and invested in Sugar Co.).

[Source: Diary Excerpts of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]