---
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: 16
number: 8
published: 1913-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Editorial illustration," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 8 (June 1913).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1608unse
  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: improvementera1608unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1608unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Editorial illustration

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rence J. Clements, Salt Lake City; Albert G. Brain, Salt Lake City; David A. Robinson, Morgan, Utah. This picture is of the day school in Darbun, Miss. On account of the short school term there, the members of the Church requested President Callis to send an elder to teach school, so that their children could enjoy a longer period of school than the school taxes of the district warranted. Elder Karl S. Barton was assigned to take charge PUPILS OF THE DAY SCHOOL AT DARBUN, MISS. of the school, which is being held in the Darbun meetinghouse. Elder Barton is meeting with much success, and he says that the children are bright and intelligent and devoted to their studies. The regular course of study followed in the public schools of Mississippi is strictly adhered to in this school.