---
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: 6
number: 4
published: 1903-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Announcements," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 4 (February 1903): 314.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  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: improvementera0604unse
start_page: 314
end_page: 314
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse
  publication_year: 1903
  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 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Announcements

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314 IMPROVEMENT ERA.
and is at present a valued member of the General Board, though
unable, owing to his business duties as Medical Superintendent of
the State Insane Asylum, Provo, to take such an active part in the
work as he did in the early years. The manual idea was first
effectively put to practical use in our associations by the outlines
made by Drs. Hardy and Brimhall, for the Contributor; the first
manual, issued in 1891, was largely written, introduced and ex-
plained by Dr. Hardy, who is a man preeminently endowed with
the power of organization, classification and arrangement. He
has a place for everything, and everything in a place. As teacher,
county superintendent of schools, churchman, organizer, physician,
and a man of splendid character and good deeds, he stands out a
prominent example—a modest and worthy workman.
A portrait of the first Secretary of the General Board,
Elder John Nicholson, with a sketch by Orson F. Whitney, will
appear in the next number of the Era.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The "Era" Story.
In response to the notice offering $50 for the best story
suitable for the Era, five manuscripts have been received: "The
Great Key," by Acorn; "A Week in a Box Canyon," by Henry
James; "Florry," by East Lynne; "Satan's Shafts," by Ramondo;
and "The Baby Elephant," by Uno Hu. The editors have selected
a committee of three readers, and as soon as it shall be decided
which story is the best, and most suitable for our magazine,
announcement will be made, and the publication will begin.
A Thrilling Narrative.
"Tiger Hunting in India," is the title of a thrilling narrative
which Col. R. M. Bryce Thomas, on request, has kindly written for
the boys of Utah, and which will appear in the March number of
the Era. Col. Thomas speaks from personal experience. He is
a retired officer in the British army who has had over thirty years'
service in the Empire, passing from military duty to administrative
duty in the interior states of India, in which land he has spent the