POOR ACCOUNT Balance on hand January 1, 1928 $17.24 Transferred to incoming Presiding Elder $17.24 MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT Balance on hand January 1, 1928 $25.46 Paid for Heat and Light 5.68 Paid for improvements 6.80 Balance on hand June 30, 1928 12.98 $25.4618 Brother Spendlove served for about one year when it was decided to call a special meeting of the branch, 16 June 1929, to consider whether the branch should be maintained or joined to the Milton Ward. Apparently it was decided to maintain the branch because two months later it was decided to release Joseph Spendlove from his special appointment of acting as presiding elder of the Stoddard Branch and call George M. Robinson, a member of the branch, to preside. A month later, however, it was decided by the stake presidency to ask the General Authorities for permission to join the branch to the North Morgan Ward, and so Brother Robinson was never called. On 5 January 1930 at 7:45 p.m. the Saints at Stoddard met for the last time as an organized branch. In attendance at the meeting were the stake presidency, stake clerk, the Bishop and his first counselor of the North Morgan Ward, Presiding Elder Joseph F. Spendlove, and twenty-two members of the branch. President Randall "explained that the aim and desire of the Stake Officers is and has been for the welfare of the members of the Stoddard Branch and that the conditions that exist here have been given considerable thought and consideration by the Stake Presidency, High Council and referred to the First Presidency and we propose to disorganize the Stoddard Branch and join them to the North Morgan Ward expressing the hope that they would feel welcome and be one with them. The members of the branch were then given the opportunity to show by sustaining vote whether they accepted the proposal. There were three negative votes so the proposition carried."19 On Sunday 11 November 1928 the Mountain Green Ward was disorganized and consolidated into the Peterson Ward. Both bishoprics had recommended this action to the stake presidency. Presiding Bishop Sylvester Q. Cannon presided over the meeting which was held in the Peterson schoolhouse. Bishop James Carrigan of the Peterson Ward and Bishop Joseph A Parrish as well as all ward officers were released. A discussion then followed as to what the new ward should be called. Bishop Cannon suggested that inasmuch as the post office and town was called Peterson, it would be to their advantage to call the ward by the same name, which motion was sustained. The name of Joseph A Parrish was then presented to be the bishop of the Peterson Ward. James W. Carrigan and