---
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: 2
number: 12
published: 1899-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "To Association Officers," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 12 (October 1899): 957–958.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera212unse
  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: improvementera212unse
start_page: 957
end_page: 958
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera212unse
  publication_year: 1899
  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 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# To Association Officers

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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS.

    This number closes the second volume of the Improvement Era.
Every officer who has carefully read the past volume will agree with us
that he has received full value for the price paid for the magazine.                A
glance at the table of contents accompanying the present number, will
convince any reasonable reader of this fact.             The letters of commenda-
tion received almost daily are evidences that the               Era is establishing
itself in the love of the people.
       Every effort will be put forth to make the third volume merit the
patronage and support of the young people of Zion.                A reading of the
prospectus will at once show that the promised articles are alone worth
the price of subscription.        But the Era has given more in the past two
volumes than     it   promised.     It will   seek to continue this record in the
future.
       We call your attention to the fact that the magazine is not a pri-
vate enterprise.      It belongs   to you.     It is the    property of the young
men.  Every dollar that could be spared over and above the actual ex-
pense of issue, has been used and will be used for the cause of mutual
improvement. So we have sent the Era free to the missionaries. We

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958                       IMPROVEMENT ERA.

have given you a manual each year free, and for volume three, these
gifts will be continued.  The manual, The Dispensation of the Fullness of
Times, is ready for distribution with the first number, and is a volume,
larger than former manuals, full of interest to every student of Church
history.
      Now what do we ask of you as officers of the improvement associa-
tions?     We request that you subscribe promptly, this month, yourselves,
and, further, that each of you secure one other subscriber.
      We request of Superintendents of Stakes that this matter be placed
promptly before their officers, and that they first send their subscriptions
each with one other subscriber who is not an officer.
      We request presidents of associations and their officers to send their
subscriptions accompanied each with the name of one other subscriber
who is not an officer; the subscription price, of course, to be enclosed.
      We feel perfectly free to ask this of the officers, because it is their
magazine and their interests that are studied in the requirement made.
When all the officers have thus come to the support of the Era, they may
confidently go before the public, and their requests for subscribers from
the people generally will be responded to with alacrity.
      The Superintendents of Stakes, and the Presidents of Associations
will continue to act as the agents for the magazine, and we look to them
for prompt action in this matter.
      Do not wait for some one else to move.
      Do your duty by subscribing now.
      Be the first to get to work, and get this matter off your hands.