---
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: 7
number: 8
published: 1904-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Our Work," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 8 (June 1904): 629.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0708unse
  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: improvementera0708unse
start_page: 629
end_page: 629
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0708unse
  publication_year: 1904
  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 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Our Work

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OUR WORK.

New Stake Officers:
    The division of the old Salt Lake Stake necessitated the organization
of four new boards of Y. M. M. I. A.   The following are the new workers
which have been chosen, and with whom the Era wishes to come into
close touch, believing that by nearer acquaintance we may be mutually
benefitted:
     Ensign Stake:   —Mathoniah Thomas, superintendent; Henry T.McEw-
an, Rodney Hillam, Jr., assistants; E. L. Parker, secretary and treasurer.
     Aids, Louis R. Wells, David A. Affleck, Wm. Folland, L. T. Whitney,
R. M. Owen, John C. Howard, J. G. Midgley, Jr.
     Liberty Stake:   — Louis Iverson, Superintendent; A.   C.   Matheson,
Fred. S. Musser assistants; Lorenzo Elggren, secretary and treasurer.
     Pioneer Stake:   —Alexander Buchanan, superintendent; Edward H.
Eardley, Harrison E. Jenkins, assistants; George D. Bennett, secretary
and treasurer.
     Aids, George H. Sperry, Lando Brown, Joseph Davis, Walter A.
Wallace, Carl Stelter, James Mace, Ephraim Bjorklund, Rudolph Boss,
Wm. H. Marsh, E. LeCheminant, Geo. Adamson.
     Salt Lake Stake:   — Geo. Q. Morris, superintendent; John B. Reid^
Jesse T. Badger, assistants; T. H. Cartwright, secretary and treasurer;
Willard P. Funk, corresponding secretary.
     The departure on a mission to Holland of Superintendent Serge F.
Ballif of the Cache Stake, made necessary a new Stake organization, which
      ,

was effected on Sunday, May 8, as follows. Elder J. Golden Kimball rep-
resenting the General Board: Hirschel Bullen, superintendent; John A.
Hendrickson, recently returned from Norway where he presided over the
Christiania   Conference,   and John W. Crawford assistants; Frederick
sScholes, secretary, and George W. Lindquist, treasurer.