---
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: 3
published: 1908-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 11, no. 3 (January 1908).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1103unse
  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: improvementera1103unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents are retained as bibliographic matter. The editorial run is printed pp. 161–240; the unnumbered advertising leaves before and after that run are omitted under the Improvement Era advertising policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1103unse
  publication_year: 1908
  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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, January 1908

*Improvement Era*. Volume 11, no. 3. January 1908. Organ of the Seventies and Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- A Fraudulent Prophecy Exposed, 161.
- The Twentieth Ward Institute, One of the Forerunners of the Y. M. M. I. A., Organized 1873, 165.
- Thoughts of a Farmer—III. Fertilizers—Uncertainties, 166.
- On a Ranch in Alberta, 168.
- Father Bundy and the All-Wood Wagon, 169.
- The Bright Angel, 175.
- The Bright Angel—Photograph, 176.
- Ready for the Winter Storms, 177.
- Natural and Supernatural, 178.
- Lily Lake, On a Summit of the Uintahs, 186.
- Romance of a Missionary—III. The Sisters Fernley, 187.
- The Boy Problem—I. Juvenile Faults, 194.
- Apple Pickers on Fruit Farm of J. G. Lambert, Le Grande, Oregon, 198.
- Spiritual Growth, 199.
- The World: A Poem, 201.
- The World’s Great Religions—I. Introduction and Brahmanism, 202.
- A Christmas Psalm: A Poem, 207.
- In Old Kyoto, Japan, 208.
- Portrait of Bishop Charles W. Nibley, 217.
- Editor’s Table—Loyalty to Home Manufacture, 218.
- A Wish for the New Year, 220.
- Messages from the Missions, 221.
- Seventy’s Council Table, 225.
- Mutual Work, 229.
- Events and Comments, 233.