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Improvement Era, vol. 14, no. 5, March 1911, p. 464

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations

466 IMPRO VEMENT ERA . to interest the reader in the Book of Mormon itself, and are attractive both in matter and presentation. William A. Morton has been appointed by the First Presidency special missionary in Religion class work, and general field worker. Religion class workers everywhere will hail this appointment with great delight. Elder Morton will devote his whole time to the details of the work. He is peculiarly qualified for this labor, and his ability and enthusiasm as an attractive speaker and entertainer of the children will be felt for great good among the Religion classes which will doubtless receive an impetus such as they have never before had. The insurrection in Mexico, in the interest of Francisco de Madero, the defeated candidate for the presidency, which broke out on November 17 last, is still in progress in northern Mexico. Considerable trouble has been experienced by roving bands of robbers in Chihuahua, where they have attacked settlements which they considered were unable to defend themselves. Several conflicts with government troops have taken place, and things are in an uncertain condition in that state. So far the settlements of the Latter-day Saints have not been disturbed, though much anxiety has been felt, and the situation is serious. Horace Greeley's hundredth anniversary was celebrated at Amhurst, New Hampshire, February 3. Mr. Greeley was the founder of the New York Tribune, and was one of the most widely known editors of his period. Suitable exercises were held in the town hall, and a num- ber of reminders of Mr. Greeley, in the form of letters and papers, were produced at the exercises. Mr. Greeley was instrumental in founding Greeley, Colorado, in 1870. Here, also, exercises were rendered at all the public schools, while dinner parties and other gatherings of the pioneers were held in honor of the day. "Go west, young man," origi- nated with Horace Greeley. New wards and changes for the month of January, 1911, are re- ported as follows from the Presiding Bishop's office: Levi J. Hawkley, sus- tained as acting bishop of the Lincoln ward, Bingham stake, to succeedMoses Wright; Silas L. Wright, sustained as bishop of the Bennington ward, Bear Lake stake, to succeed Amos R. Wright; William R. Morgan, sus- tained as bishop of the Liberty ward, Bear Lake stake, to succeed Edwin N. Austin; John H. Hinckley, sustained as bishop of the Cowley ward, Big Horn stake, ' to succeed William C. Partridge; George M. Porter, sustained as bishop of the Lovell ward, Big Horn stake, to succeed