---
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: 12
published: 1915-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Ready to Start," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 12 (October 1915).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18012unse
  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: improvementera18012unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18012unse
  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.
---

# Ready to Start

The Teton Stake M. I. A. contestants of Driggs, Idaho, used eight automobiles May last to take part in district contests. Seven are shown in the picture; the eighth went on the day previous as a pilot over the fifty-mile road to the place of contest. The stake took a lively part, and Teton took twenty-two points in its favor, just a few ahead of any other. The contestants in story-telling, public speaking, boys’ and girls’ choruses, and the double mixed quartet are all there. The expense for the autos alone was one hundred sixty dollars. Their good and instructive time, however, was worth it.