--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Price, Fred J. 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: 'Fred J. Price, "Ward Teaching," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 936–937.' 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 start_page: 936 end_page: 937 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. --- # Ward Teaching Ward Teaching It is often said that ward teaching, during the summer, and especially in country wards, cannot be effectively accomplished. The follow- ing report of President Joseph R. Shepherd of ward teaching in the Bear Lake stake of Zion, for the month of June, 1915, shows the con- trary, almost' to perfection. The date of the monthly meeting was June 20. Note the number of teachers who attended that meeting: PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS' TABLE 937 Number Number Number Per cent Number teachers WARD families families af families ward attending in ward visited visited teachers report meetings Bennington 51 51 100 12 6 Bern 27 27 100 10 5 Bloomington 106 106 100 30 15 Dingle 79 79 100 27 11 Fish Haven 42 42 100 12 8 Garden City 71 55 7/ 24 8 Geneva 28 28 100 12 10 Georgetown 99 99 100 30 21 Laketown 51 51 100 18 13 Lanark 31 31 100 12 5 Liberty 44 44 100 24 17 Montpelier 1st 164 164 100 53 18 Montpelier 2nd 158 158 100 39 19 Nounan 37 35 98 10 9 Ovid 44 44 100 14 6 Paris 1st 110 110 100 37 13 Paris 2nd 117 117 100 35 15 Raymond 28 21 75 8 7 Round Valley 12 12 100 4 3 St. Charles 123 123 100 44 28 Sharon 28 28 100 10 5 Wardboro 37 37 100 14 7 Totals and Percentage.... 1,487 1,462 98 479 249 Fred J. Price, Stake Clerk. THREE GENERATIONS