---
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: 11
number: 2
published: 1907-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "First Y. M. M. I. A. in Jackson County," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 2 (December 1907): 144.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1102unse
  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: improvementera1102unse
start_page: 144
end_page: 144
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1102unse
  publication_year: 1907
  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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# First Y. M. M. I. A. in Jackson County

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FIRST Y. M. M. I. A. IN JACKSON COUNTY.
Wednesday evening, November 6, at the mission house on
South Pleasant street, was organized the first Mutual Improvement
Association that ever existed in the Center Stake of Zion. Presi-
dent Samuel 0. Bennion presided over the meeting and selected the
various officers to serve during the current M. LA. season, and
they were sustained by the unanimous vote of those assembled.
The association is officered as follows
President, A. P. Mortenson; First Counselor, George M. Bar-
tholomew; Second Counselor, V. J. Danielson; Secretary, George
C.Murdock; Treasurer, J. M. Redd; Chorister, R.B. Summer hays;
Class Leader, D. H. Fowler.
The society is composed of the local elders and Saints and
their friends, and will meet one night each week. The course of
study pursued is the same followed the current year by 'similar or-
ganizations throughout the stakes of Zion in the west, namely, the
manual entitled "Spiritual Growth." The members anticipate a
highly profitable season's work of mental, moral and spiritual
growth. Liahona, The Elder's Journal.