--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 1 number: 1 published: 1897-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"A Word to Our Friends,\" *Improvement Era* 1, no. 1 (November 1897): 61." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera11unse scan: "Original source link: https://archiveviewer.org/viewer/internet-archive/improvementera11unse" start_page: 61 end_page: 61 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1897-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11unse publication_year: 1897 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1897, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # A Word to Our Friends PERMANENT DEPARTMENTS. 61 A WORD TO OUR FRIENDS. The month of November is the one in which the friends of the Era must be active in rolling up a good subscription list for the magazine. All things considered, November is the month when the people of this intermountain region have in hand the most money, and our young men cannot do better than to devote a portion of the means secured by the year's toil to obtain intellectual food for the season of leisure that comes to them with our long evenings in winter. And since the Era is a publication intended to be especially suited to the young men of the Church of Jesus Christ, our friends will be doing their associates a favor by calling their attention to the Era and urging them to subscribe for it. Moreover, this month the officers and members of the Improvement Associations will have the Era in hand, so that they can present the first number to those whose subscriptions they solicit. The Era is no longer a prospect, it is here. This number is a prophecy of future numbers. There will be improvements made from time to time, and new departments opened, doubtless, but the general character of this present volume is foreshadowed in this initial number. We ask our friends to do all that is possible for them to do to make the Era a success; and in doing that they will be helping the great cause of Mutual Improvement.