--- 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: 8 published: 1917-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Great Russian Duma in Session," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 8 (June 1917): 688.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse 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: improvementera2008unse start_page: 688 end_page: 688 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Great Russian Duma in Session 688 IMPROVEMENT ERA "Why, there's Grandpa and Johnny, at last!" exclaimed Molly, and the group moved more rapidly toward them. Jerry looked up at the inscription above the exhibit before which his father and son were standing. He stopped and stared. What did it mean? Exhibit from the Dry-farm of J. and J. Mortimer. He looked at the two figures standing expectantly before him, then turned again to the inscription and to the placard telling of the prize. What did it mean? "Yep, it's our'n!" chirped Johnny in answer to the puzzled question on his father's face. He could contain himself no longer. "Gramp an' me's got the bulliest farm over in Dry Valley! We're goin' to take ye all out t' see it when ye git done lookin' around!" "Father!" exclaimed Jerry and there was a queer tightening in his throat as slowly he began to grasp the truth. "Father, what does it mean?" "Jist what the lad says, Jerry. Ye see Johnny an' me wasn't paticully needed on your farm any more so we thought we'd git t' work an' prove that dry-farmin' could be done around here as well as any other place. An' if our stuff here don't convince ye that it can, we reckon our acre up in Dry Valley will. The judges is been out there this mornin' an' they've got a committee figurin' on settin' up a State Experiment Station on our land an' they say it won't be five years before the hull o' Dry Valley will be a stretch o' wavin' grain fields." Chicago, Illinois Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. GREAT RUSSIAN DUMA (IN SESSION) WHICH NOW GOVERNS ALL THE RUSSIANS The Czar had ordered the Duma suspended. That body refused and on March 10 put themselves at the head of the nation. On the 12th a new government was formed with Prince Lvoff as Premier, and Professor Paul Milukoff as Foreign Minister.