--- 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: 17 number: 8 published: 1914-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "M. I. A. Conference," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 8 (June 1914): 801.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1708unse 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: improvementera1708unse start_page: 801 end_page: 801 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1708unse publication_year: 1914 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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # M. I. A. Conference : ARCHITECTURE OF CHURCH BUILDINGS 801 water to the meeting house and a small swimming pool was de- singned as a part of the building in order to utilize the warm water. It is equipped with good ]iluml>ing, including shower, baths and toilet rooms, and it is heated by an up-to-date steam plant. Altogether this building has been highly praised as being of a type suitable to, and well within the means of the average ward, while at the same time it possesses excellent arhcitectural merit. M. I. A. Conference The nineteenth general annual conference of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations and the twelfth annual conference of the Primary x'Vssociations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will, be held in Salt Lake City, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 12, 13, and 14, 1914. All members are invited and all officers are particularly re- quested to be present at of the meetings of the conference, all and a cordial invitation extended to the Saints generally to is attend the meetings to be held in the Tabernacle at 2 and 7 p. m., on Sunday, June 14. Joseph F. Smith, Martha H. Tingey, Heber J. Grant, Ruth May Fox, B. H. Roberts, Mae T. Nystrom, Presidency, Y. M. M. I. A.General Superintendency, Y. L. M. I. Louie B. Felt, May Anderson, Clara W. Beebe, Presidency Primary Association. Average Percent of Attendance of Priesthood At weekly Priesthood meetings foi" the three mo nths ending March 31, 1914, based on the total Priesthood of the stake, a s compiled by the Pre- siding Bishop's Office, in the order of percentages shown Per Cent Per Cent Per Cent 1 Alberta 34 23 Star Valley .26. .45 St. George 21 2 Box Elder 32 24 Weber 26 46 Utah 21 3 Maricopa 32 25 Bingham 25 47 Yellowstone .21 . 4 St. Johns 32 26 Malad 25 48 Moapa 20 5 Taylor 32 27 Union 25 49 Morgan 20 6 Cache 30 28 "Wasatch 25 50 San Luis 20 7 Liberty 30 29 Alpine 24 51 Bannock 19 8 Ggden 30 30 Millard 24 52 Beaver 19 9 Big Horn 28 31 South Sanpete. 24 53 Salt Lake 19 10 Blackfoot ....28 32 Wayne 24 54 Boise 19 11 North V^eber..28 33 Carbon 23 55 Jordan 19 12 Pioneer 28 34 Nebo 23 56 Tooele 18 13 San Juan 28 3.5 North Sanpete. 23 57 Woodruff 18 14 Bear River . .27 . 36 Oneida 23 58 Kanab 17 15 Cassia 27 37 St. Joseph 23 59 :f'anguitch ... .17 16 Davis 27 38 Young 23 60 Duchesne ... .16 17 Fretnont 27 39 Bear Lake ... .22 61 Summit 14 IS Granite 27 40 Ensign 22 62 Parowan 13 19 Hvrtim 27 41 Rigby 22 63 Pocatello * 20 Juab 27 42 Snowflake ....22 64 Teton • 21 Sevier 27 43 Deseret 21 65 Uintah * 22 Benson 26 44 Emery 21 Reports arrived too late to be included in classification.