--- 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: 4 published: 1908-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Mutual Farthest North," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 4 (February 1908): 312.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse 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: improvementera1104unse start_page: 312 end_page: 312 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse 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. --- # The Mutual Farthest North THE MUTUAL FARTHEST NORTH. Elder John J. Piepgrass sends a photo of the M. LA. workers of Narvik, Norway, and writes under date of November 14: "It may be of interest to your readers to know that there is an organization of the Y. M. M. I. A. north of the arctic circle. It was organized October 20, 1907, by Elders John J. Piepgrass, and P. Ealmer Nilsen. We have at present 16 enrolled, about one half of that number being non-members of the Church. All take a great deal of interest, however, in our work; and as our friends are among the better class of people, it helps to allay prejudice against us. Narvik appears to be one of the best towns north of Trondhjem for our cause; but we have some disadvantages not known in the southern part of the country. We have only about four hours of light at this time of the year, which makes it very bad for traveling in this country. This part of Norway is nearly all islands, and it is very difficult to cross the fjords in small boats in the winter time. May the Lord bless the work at home as well as here in the North.*' M.I. A. in Narvik, Norway, the only Mutual north of the Arctic Circle. SUMMER WORK. The officers of stakes will remember that last season, a number of the stakes prepared summer programs in unison with the officers of the Young Ladies' Asso-