--- 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: 9 number: 7 published: 1906-05 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* 9, no. 7 (May 1906): 575–576.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0907unse 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: improvementera0907unse start_page: 575 end_page: 576 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0907unse publication_year: 1906 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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Our Work OUR WORK. Y. L. AND Y. M. M. 1. A. CONFERENCE. The General Conference of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be held in Salt Lake City, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 8, 9, and 10, 1906. The Young Men's officers' meetings, or business meetings, will be held at Barratt Hall, beginning Friday at 10 a. m., and continuing Saturday at 10 a. m., and 2 p. m. The Young Ladies will meet in the Assembly Hall. Conjoint officers' meeting will be held on Sunday morning, June 10, at 10 o'clock in the Assembly Hall, and general public meetings in the Tabernacle at 2 and 7 o'clock p. m. that day. Field-day will be enjoyed at Calder's Park on Friday afternoon and evening, admission being by tickets which will be distributed by the officers. All officers and members of the associations are requested to be present at all the meetings, and a cordial invitation is extended to all the Saints to attend the Tabernacle meetings. They will also be made welcome at the business meetings. Joseph F. Smith, General Superintendent Y. M. M. L A. » Martha H. Tingey, President Y. L. M. I. A. Edward H. Anderson, Secretary Y. M. M. L A. Ann M. Cannon, Secretary Y. L. M. I. A. GENERAL M. I. A. CONFERENCE. At a meeting of the General Board Wednesday evening, April 4, the date of the General Annual Conference of the Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church was fixed for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 8, 9, and 10, 1906. The first meeting of the Young men will be held in Barratt Hall on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, and the officers meetings of the Young Men will be continued on Saturday morning and afternoon. The conjoint officers meeting will be held in the Assembly Hall on Sunday morning 10 o'clock, and the general conjoint meetings in the Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon and evening. 576 IMPROVEMENT ERA. The Board decided that Friday afternoon and evening will be devoted to Field-day sports at Calder's Park vi^here admission and amusements v^ill be provided free by the General Board. Tickets of admission will be distributed to the guests. The Park and its amusements will be reserved exclusively that afternoon and evening for the use of the Mutual Improvement Associations. The following committees were appointed. On program: Bryant S. Hinckley, Thomas Hull, Willard Done, Rulon S. Wells, Sarah Eddington, Susa Young Gates, Mabel Talmage and Mattie Reed. On Field-day exercises: Nephi L. Morris, Brigham F. Grant, Phillip S. Maycock, T. A. Clawson, L. R. Martineau, Mrs. E. W. Eardley, Emily C. Adams. Mary Connelly, Ruth May Fox, Joan Campbell. On entertainment of guests: Benjamin Goddard, Geo. A. Smith, Louis A. Kelsch, Augusta W. Grant, Emma Goddard, Ellen Wallace. On transportation: Edward H. Anderson and Aggie Campbell. The General Board desire active work on the part of all the members of these committees; and request the superintendents of stakes and ward presidents to take the matter of the conference in hand and provide for a large representation. SUMMIT STAKE SUPERINTENDENCY REORGANIZED. The annual M. I. A. conference of the Summit stake was held in Coalville, Sunday, March 18, and was attended by Elders Moses W. Taylor, B. F. Grant, and Miss Aggie Campbell. Superintendent C. A. Callis, who has efficiently conducted the affairs of the Y. M. M. I. A. in that stake for the past nine years, tendered his resignation to fill a mission to the Southern States, to which he has been called. A spirited conference was held, and from reports. Mutual Improvement work in the Summit Stake is advancing with satisfactory strides. Elder George E. Wilkins of Peoa, Utah, was chosen and sustained, and set apart,as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Summit stake, in place of Elder Callis, with Ira Pace and Frank Pingree as counselors, and Alonzo J. Marchant, stake secretary. * OFFICERS AND SECRET SOCIETIES. Replying to questions which have been asked of the General Board, it may be stated for the information of our workers that it is the desire of the Board that persons who belong to secret societies and fraternal orders, be not chosen as officers in the Y. M. M. I. A., and that where officers are found to belong to such societies, it is desirable to have them discontinue such membership.