--- 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: 12 number: 6 published: 1909-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mutual Work: The Snowflake Mutuals; The Annual Conference; New M. I. A. Song Book," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 6 (April 1909): 497.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse 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: improvementera1206unse start_page: 497 end_page: 497 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse publication_year: 1909 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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work: The Snowflake Mutuals; The Annual Conference; New M. I. A. Song Book MUTUAL WORK. THE SNOWFLAKE MUTUALS. Superintendent Joseph W. Smith of Snowflake Stake, writes March 16: "The Mutuals, in spirit and earnest interest, are well up; and I might say, a little beyond high-water mark. A number of the associations are already through with the lessons, with beautiful testimonies of the value of the Manuals. Have just completed a tour of the stake, in part of which I had the pleasant company of Elder LeRoi C. Snow, who seems to be full of the spirit of the M. I. A. Work. I find that our slogan: 'Better order for the Mutuals' has borne good fruits. We have done considerable through the Mutuals, for the Academy Building, and in maDy other lines here at home, we can see the evidences of good work accomplished. The academy, though somewhat crowded in its present quarters, is having a very successful year." THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE. We hope to give particulars of the Annual M. I A. Conference in the next number which will this year be held on June 5 and 6. I In the meantime secretaries of the wards and stakes should prepare and forward their annual reports( the ward secretaries to the stake, and the stake secretaries to the General Secretary, Alpha J. Higgs, Salt Lake City. NEW M. I. A. SONG BOOK. The Deseret News Book store has issued a third edition of the "Y. M. M. I. A. and Missionary Hymn and Tune Book," compiled and arranged by Prof. Evan Stephens, leader of the Tabernacle choir. The price of this new edition has been reduced so that it will come within the reach of all M. I. A. workers. The retail price is 25 cents per copy, or in half-dozen lots or upwards, $2.40 per dozen. The arrangement and selection tf the music in this well-known collection is peculiarly adapted to the use of the young men, of our organizations.