---
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: 10
published: 1915-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915), cover, masthead, and editorial contents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse
  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: improvementera18010unse
curator_note: "Masthead and table of contents retained. Commercial advertising leaves 2 and 99–100 are intentionally omitted. The unnumbered frontispiece at leaf 4 is represented in the owning item rather than transcribed as text. Pagination follows an image-verified ledger: leaf 3 = 851; leaf 4 is an unnumbered frontispiece; leaves 5–96 = 853–944."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse
  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.
---

# *Improvement Era*, August 1915

*Improvement Era*, vol. 18, no. 10 (August 1915).

<!-- Frontispiece: Favored Utah, Home, We Love Thee. -->

## Editorial contents

- As Suns of August Burn: A Poem.
- Gratitude.
- Longing for Home: A Poem.
- Rafting Over Green River.
- When Ends the Reign of Thor? A Poem.
- The Lord’s Prayer.
- Ode to Earth: A Poem.
- Will the Golden Age of Peace Ever Come?.
- M. I. A. Scouts Hiking on Maple Flat.
- Pioneers and Pioneering in Southeastern Utah.
- Wild Oats: Prize Story.
- Pansies: A Poem.
- Great Salt Lake City.
- Outlines for Scout Workers.
- M. I. A. Conference: First Day.
- Judge Not: A Poem.
- Snappy Sketches from Life—Satisfaction, or Money Refunded.
- The Greenhorn.
- A Sheepherder’s Soliloquy.
- Testimony—The Little White Slaver.
- After the Struggle—What?.
- The Galician Retreat—Greece and the War.
- Would Prohibition Be a Financial Loss or Gain?.
- What Boy Scouts Must Know and Do.
- Editors’ Table—About Our Conference.
- A Tribute to Utah.
- A Simple Story, With Two Great Lessons.
- Why Not Saloon-Keepers’ Liability?.
- Messages from the Missions.
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table—Suggestive Outlines for the Deacons.
- Ward Teaching.
- Mutual Work—Life Scout.
- Merit Badge Requirements.
- Enunciation.
- Passing Events.