---
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: 19
number: 1
published: 1915-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Vernal M. I. A. Scouts," *Improvement Era* 19, no. 1 (November 1915).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1901unse
  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: improvementera1901unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1901unse
  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.
---

# Vernal M. I. A. Scouts

<!-- Figure: Vernal M. I. A. Scouts—top, signaling; center, rendering first aid to a scout who was hurt; bottom, their position in the face of the cliff in the cave. -->