Mutual Work: Hawaiian M. I. A.; Mutual Notes

MUTUAL WORK. HAWAIIAN M. 1. A. The annual r«port of the conjoint Mutual Improvement Associations of the Hawaiian Mission for the year ending December 31, 1907, has been received, signed by Samuel E. Woolley, president, and W. J. Flowers, clerk of the mission. The names of the seven conferences are: Laie, Oahu, Kauai, Hailo, W. Maui Honolulu, So. Hawaii. In these seven conferences there are 25 branches, and each branch has an organization of the M. I. A., properly supplied with presidents, counselors, secretaries and treasurers, most of whom are natives. There are 1, 188 members, 1,071 active members, with an average attendance of 613. There were 1,042 meetings held altogether. The largest branch is Honolulu, with an active enrollment of 125, and an average attendance of 75. Then follows Laie, with 100 enrolled, 80 active and 49 average attendance; Kekaha, with 87 active and an average attendance of 45. The smallest enrollment is in Molakia, 16, and an average attendance of 12; and Kapaia, with an enrollment of 18 and an average attendance of 14. The Y. M. M. I. A. Manual and roll and record books are used, and in Laie, Waikiki and Honolulu there are small beginnings for libraries. Elders Eugene J. Neff, H. H. Millward, and W. C. Jefferies are the mission president and counselors of the M. I. A. MUTUAL NOTES. Liahona the Elder's Journal, is authority for the statement that a Mutual Improvement association has been organized in St. Joseph, Mo. , and that much interest is taken in the work. The current Manual is the text book. On January 24, a Y. L. M.I. A. was organized in Independence, Mo-, with May Green, President; Phebe Madsen, Joanna Oleson, counselors; Minnie Anderson, secretary; Eliza Summerhays, treasurer. They will meet conjointly with the young men for preliminary programs, and will study the current outlines, as found in the Young Woman's Journal. In an introduction to a notice of the 3rd ward, Brigham City, last month, it was stated that there was an Era in every family in the ward. This is not quite correct, but the officers, as was stated in the body of the writing, aim to place one in every home. It should also be noted that there are 695 souls in the ward, and 115 subscribers, not 929 souls and 110 subscribers, as before stated. Joseph Eeber, president of the Littlefield association, an unorganized ward in St. George Stake, Utah, claims to have broken the record for obtaining subscriptions for the Era. He says: "I have only seven families in this place to canvass, and have secured eight subscribers." "He hopes this is a record-breaker for the Era, ' ' and it certainly is, for no other ward up to date has reported more subscribers than families.