--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Associations, Young Men’s Mutual Improvement collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 1 published: 1909-11 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," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 1 (November 1909): 94.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse 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: improvementera1301unse start_page: 94 end_page: 94 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse 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 Mutual Work. New Secretary and Assistant Manager. At a meeting of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. held on Wed- nesday, October 13, Elder Moroni Snow, on the recommendation of the General Superintendency of Y. M. M. I. A., presented by Elder Heber J. Grant, was unanimously appointed General Secretary of the Board, and Assistant Business Manager of the Improvement Era. He is the son of Erastus Snow and Artemesia Beaman, and was born in Provo, May 13, 1858. His parents moved to St. George in 1862, where young Snow spent the early part of his life. He attended the public schools, and in 1875 entered the Deseret University, where he spent three years. In St. George he had his first mission through Wash- ington, Iron and Beaver counties with Elder C. S. Burton in the inter- est of the Y. M. M. I. A. In 1879 he went on a mission to Great Brit- ain, returning on account of ill health in the fall of 1880. In the M. I. A. he is an old worker, having served as ward president, counselor to Superintendent A. W. Ivins of St. George Stake, and on the departure of Elder Ivins for the Mexican mission, as stake superintendent, which posi- tion he occupied until 1885,when he removed to the north. In 1900 he settled in Provo,where he served as an alternate member of the High Council, was subsequently ordained Bishop of the Provo Fourth ward, and on the division of the Provo wards became bishop of the Fifth ward, which position he held until his removal to Salt Lake, in 1906. He has held several political positions, including alderman, jus- tice of the peace, county recorder, county superintendent of district schools, and deputy county surveyor of Washington county. In Provo he was a member of the Provo city council, serving two years as president of that body, and was re-elected a member of the council and continued to serve in that capacity until his removal to Salt Lake. In 1882 he married Emma Adelaide Gates, daughter of the late Jacob Gates, and they have eight children. His wide experience, zeal and varied abilities will now be devoted to the Era, and to the growth of the thriving organ- ization of which he is now the general secretary.