---
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: 15
number: 6
published: 1912-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Priesthood Quorums’ Table," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 6 (April 1912): 560.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1506unse
  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: improvementera1506unse
start_page: 560
end_page: 560
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1506unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Priesthood Quorums’ Table

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660 IMPROVEMENT ERA opening up their way to preach the gospel. Elders, left to right:
C. G. Dabb, Harrisville; J. Lewis Swensen, Provo; Elmer Carter,
Fountain Green, Utah; Victor F. Spencer, Burley; H. G. Williamsen,
Inkom; C. L. Dalton, Blackfoot, Idaho.

 Elder Hilmar M. Nelson, writing from Odense, Denmark, says,
"This branch includes the city of Svendborg, South Fyn, where the Eiders have again taken up missionary labors, with the view to organizing a branch. Within the last few months, three new members have been baptized ,and there are prospects for more in the near future.
The Odense branch has a membership of one hundred, and since our last conference, eight new members have been baptized. We have a Sunday school and Mutual Improvement Association, and a Relief Society, organized here, and our meetings are well attended. Odense i3 one of the oldest cities of Denmark, fully one thousand years old, with a population of from forty-five to fifty thousand. It has. a beautiful pleasure resort, called Stige; also a nice little harbor, a beautiful park, a car line, and other modern conveniences; with a number of manufacturing enterprises, such as glass works and a sugar factory.
The elders in the picture are: Back row, left to right: John E. Christensen, Central; A. Hintze Hansen, Salem, Idaho; Joseph A. Christiansen, Mayfield, Utah (released); Ernest A. Jensen, Preston, Idaho;
Hans H. Madsen, Salt Lake City; Soren Andersen, Inverury, Utah.
Front row: Mikkel A. Mikkelsen, Fountain Green, Utah (branch president) Dagny Hansen, Odense, Denmark (organist) Hilmar M. Nelson,
 ; ;

Pleasant Grove, Utah (released).

 Elder Vance D. Walker, clerk of the Norwich conference, England, says:"We are holding more and better attended meetings this winter than ever before. The elders are getting more gospel conversations and receiving many more invitations to explain the prin-