--- 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: 10 number: 1 published: 1906-11 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: Notes; Monthly Reports; The Senior Manual," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 1 (November 1906): 72–73.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera101unse 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: improvementera101unse start_page: 72 end_page: 73 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera101unse 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: Notes; Monthly Reports; The Senior Manual OUR WORK. NOTES. On Sunday evening, September 23, a number of important changes were made in the Cannon ward M. I. A. by Bishop Lewis T. Cannon, assisted by Stake Superintendent E. H. Eardley. Martin Anderson was chosen and set apart as president of the M. I. A. and James Wells was set apart as secretary and treasurer of the Pioneer Stake Y. M. M. I. A. At the stake quarterly conference of Box Elder, on Sunday. September 9, James P. Olsen was set apart as second assistant superintendent Y. M. M. I. A., in place of George W. Watkins, who has been called as a member of the First ward bishopric. At the convention, held on Sunday, September 23, Hyrum Perry was selected as aid in the stake board. The stake secretary, George L. Zundell writes: It is the unanimous voice of all our workers that our recent convention was the most successful convention ever held in Box Elder. In losing Brother Watkins from our ranks we feel that a good worker has been taken from us. We have already eighty-four Eka subscribers to Volume X, the Third ward having obtained eighty. Their quota is thirty-six. Secretary G. N. Curtis, of the Northern States Mission, writes from Chicago, under date of October 10: The Y. M. M. I. A. of the Chicago branch was organized during the past week and had its first meeting last night. We had a very large attendance for the opening night, and look forward with interest to the study of the Manual. We have an excellent boly of students here, and they are a great help to the local brethren. We are thankful to them for their assistance; and as a band of workers, we are indeed proud of them. Brother Samuel Thatcher was chosen president, with Brothers L. A. Ramsay and Israel Stewart as counselors. Luther Dennison, one of our local brethren, was chosen secretary of the Mutual. Last year the association had a very successful year, and the officers chosen for the coming year predict a bright future for the Mutual work in this part of the Lord's vineyard. All the elders are more than pleased with the Era, and await its arrival as eagerly as the arrival of a letter from home. On Sunday, September 2, the following M. I. A officers were selected for the associations of Logan: 1st ward, Joel Ricks, president, John H. Wilson, Heber Maughan, counselors, and Will Morrell, secretary. Second Ward: W. G. Morrell, president, W. W. Hall and L. W. Hatch, counselors, and W. R. Worley, OUR WORK. 73 secretary. Seventh Ward: A. G. Lundstrom, president N. P. Nielsen and N. P. Anderson, counselors, and Hyrum Hansen, secretary. Fourth Ward: J. S. Campbell, president, W. M. Evarton and Ole Sonne, counselors, and Alma Sonne, secretary. In the fifth ward the old officers were sustained for the new year's work. At the M. I. A. convention of Cache stake, held at Logan, September 23, the resignation of Superintendent Hirschel Bullen,who has occupied that position for some years, was accepted, and a reorganization of the stake officers of that stake was completed as follows: A. E. Cranney, superintendent; Hopkin D. Campbell, first assistant; Fred Scholes, second assistant; L. C. Farr, Jr., secretary; Walter M. Jenkins, assistant secretary; Noah Larsen, treasurer; C. V. Hansen, librarian; Charles McNeill, chorister. MONTHLY REPORTS. The attention of the stake superintendents of the Y. M. M. I. A. is called to the blank reports recently mailed them by the General Secretary, which they have doubtless distributed to their ward presidents. It is important that they call the attention of the ward presidents to the necessity of filling these out promptly on the first of each month, and returning them to the stake superintendents, giving the condition of the associations, in accordance with those blanks. The stake superintendents are requested to forward a condensed report on one of the same blanks to the General Secretary, as soon as the reports from his stake are gathered. In this way the stake officers, as well as the General Board, will be in- formed of the condition of the work as it progresses, instead of waiting until the end of the season; and remedies may be applied where the work is lagging. THE SENIOR MANUAL. The first numbers of the Senior Manual were delivered to the General Office as late as the 4th of October, at which time a large number of orders were ready and on hand to be filled, the delivery of the Manual has been very slow during the month, owing to a lack of workmen in the bindery, and this has caused a delay, which we very much regret, in the distribution of Manuals to some of the associations. However, the orders can now be filled, and those who are riot yet supplied with Senior Manuals will kindly send their orders immediately, and they will have attention, in their turn as soon as possible. Orders for the Junior Manual can be filled on day of arrival.