--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Smith, George Albert collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 11 published: 1908-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Smith, George Albert, "Redeeming the Waste Places," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 11 (September 1908): 833.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11011unse 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: improvementera11011unse start_page: 833 end_page: 833 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11011unse 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. --- # Redeeming the Waste Places THE NEED AND KIND OF EDUCATION. 833 today is made glorious, tomorrow must needs also be glorious. Let us make our own generation the best in all the history of the world, and as sure as we live, the next generation will be the best also. Logan, Utah. REDEEMING THE WASTE PLACES. House of Joseph H. Dean, at Redmesa. The Redmesa Ward, San Juan Stake, Colorado, was organized by Elders Francis M. Lyman and George Albert Smith, May 27, 1908, Hyrum M. Taylor, bishop. A new meetinghouse wi,l be finished this fall. Photos by George Albert Smith. Temporary Meeting Place where the Redmesa Ward was Organized. -