---
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: 18
number: 5
published: 1915-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"The “Era” Story Contest,\" *Improvement Era* 18, no. 5 (March 1915): 455."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1805unse
  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: improvementera1805unse
start_page: 455
end_page: 455
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1805unse
  publication_year: 1915
  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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The “Era” Story Contest

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EDITI >RS' TABLE                                        455

772 wards and independent branches, we have received contributions
at the Presiding Bishop's office, from (u?> wards, and the fallowing is
a list of the amounts contributed by the several Stakes ;m<l missions:
Alberta                                 $    257.80    Nonh Weber
Alpine                                       561.90    Ogden                              437.79
Bannock                                      764.69    Oneida                             689.37
Rear Lake                                   1,222.81   Panguitch                          433.42
Rear River                 .   •              377.61   Parowan                            418.65
Reaver                                       240.70    Pioneer                            289.21
Renson                                       530. 1    Pocatell»                          630.18
Big Horn                                     206.56    Rigbv                              325.00
Bingham                                      259.50    St. George                         583.45
Rlackfoot                                    244.19    St.    [ohna                       189.75
Roise                                        135.80    St.    Joseph                      309.85
Roxelder                                     680.46    Salt Lake                          990.92
Cache                                        853.38    San Juan                           248.00
California wards                              32.90    San Luis                            97.90
Carbon                                       322.62    Sevier                             626. 1
Cassia                                       635.91    Shelley                            196.25
Cottonwood                                   379.41    Rnowflake                          273.05
Davis                                        964.78    Smith Sanpete                      619.43
Deseret                                      277.52    Star    Valley                     275.00
Duchesne                                     129.10    Summit                             478.97
Emery                                        188.55    Taylor                             750.00
Ensign                                       889.9"    Teton                               90.75
Fremont                                      732.76    Tooele                             317.75
C.ranite                                     642.07    Tinta                              197.80
Hyrum          .       ,
                                             668.94    Onion                              1   067
Jordan         .       ,
                                             474.98    Utah                               656.11
Tuab                                         292.18    Wasatch                            131.05
Juarez                                        18.45    Wavnc                              103.15
Kanab          .       .                     272.63    Weber                              362. 1
Liberty                                      586.97    Woodruff                           187.02
Malad'.        .       .                     408.21    Yellowstone                        192.30
Maricopa                                     160.01    Young                              103.35
Millard            .                         334.81    Northern        States   Mission   170.00
Moapa          .                             180.45    Central States                     209. HI
Morgan                 .                     155.73    Eastern States                ,    23J .5   I

Nebo       .   .                             644.26    Individuals                        192.15
North Sanpete                                621.26
   We are pleased to advise you that this fund, now aggregating fhe
sum of $28,411.52, has been collected without any charge to the fund
whatever, not even for postage or paper.
    Respectfully submitted, your brethren                         in    the gospel.
                                                                   Charles W. Xibi.kv.
                                                                   Orrin P. Miller,
                                                                   David A. Smith,
                                           Presiding Bishopric.
    Since the above was in type 75 more wards have reported, swell
iug the total to approximately $32,000.   A substantial proportion
has been scut to President Hyrum M. Smith and balance will
be remitted at regular intervals.

                                   The "Era" Story Contest
     Closing January 20. resulted in the awarding of the $25
prize  to Josephine Spencer whose story, "McClosky and the-
("able." will appear in the April number of the Era. There were
thirteen contestants. The judges were: Nephi Anderson, editor of
the Genealogical Magazine; Elizabeth Cannon Porter, a well
known story writer; Attorney Hugo P.. Anderson Mary Connelly,                    :

editor of the Young Woman's Journal; and the associate editor of
the Era.      A minority rather favored "'The Gift" by Elsie
