--- 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: 20 number: 1 published: 1916-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Good Turns,\" *Improvement Era* 20, no. 1 (November 1916): 62." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2001unse 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: improvementera2001unse start_page: 62 end_page: 62 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2001unse publication_year: 1916 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 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Good Turns Good Turns' A "Good Turn" Company in Canada H. N. Peterson, of Barnwell ward, Canada, took ill with rheumatism, and could not care for his farm. The men of Barnwell, under direction of Bishop Lawrence Peterson, (in the foreground) turned out this year with their teams to do the work for him. Seventeen teams, sulkeys, and teamsters appeared, and in one day, plowed, seeded and rolled sixty-five acres of their sick brother's land. It was a "good turn," gladly done, and incidentally not an unusual illustration of practical religion frequently encountered in the communities of the Latter-day Saints. Similar "Good Turn" in Utah An incident of a similar character took place in Morgan county, Utah, in September. A brother in one of the settlements had a son who was disabled by accident, so seriously that he required his father daily at his bedside. In the quarterly conference September 3, one of the stake presidency gave notice of the conditions, calling upon the brethren who had teams and could go, to meet on Monday, to gather and harbor the seed peas of their sick brother. They turned out and gathered upwards of a thousand dollars' worth of peas that otherwise would have been ruined by the first storm. It was a "good turn," prompted by true religious brotherhood.