---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Poulsen, Ezra J.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 4
published: 1919-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Poulsen, Ezra J., "Pal o’ Mine," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 4 (February 1919): 345.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2204unse
  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: improvementera2204unse
start_page: 345
end_page: 345
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2204unse
  publication_year: 1919
  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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Pal o’ Mine

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NEW MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVE                        345

high council of the Cache stake. Following this appointment,
he was called on a short mission to the Northwest, accompanying
Elder Joseph W. McMurrin to Boise valley, and assisting in
the establishing of a branch of the Church, which later became
a stake of Zion. On the 6th of April, 1909, he was called to
preside over the Northwestern States Mission, succeeding the
late Elder Nephi Pratt.     This position, which has occupied
nearly ten years of his life, he still held when called to the
apostleship.  He married Martha Jones, of Farmington, June,
1896. They have eight children, four boys and three girls, seven
of them living.    His oldest son is a lieutenant in the U. S.
Army.
    Counting his work in his ward as a youth, in the Brigham
Young College, in the bishopric, and as chairman for seventeen
years of the Logan tabernacle choir, with his missions to the
east and northwest, he has been practically a laborer in the
Church all his life, as was his father before him.
    In his business career, he assisted in establishing the Logan
knitting factory, serving for ten years as its manager; and also
organized other enterprises in Logan, among them the Commercial Boosters Club, serving two terms as president of that
organization.
     He is a fluent and emotional speaker, one of the sweet singers of Zion, and a man who has succeeded in winning the love
and respect of the Saints and citizens generally, especially in the
great Northwest where he is best known.          E. H. A.

                             Pal o' Mine

              Do you know the days are brighter,
              Pal o' mine,
              For the charm of having met with you?
              Do you know my heart is lighter,
              For the thought that you were true?
              It'sa long and weary way we've traveled,
              Pal o' mine,
              But we've reached the lonely parting in the road,
              Where you pass on to God's white throne,
              While I remain to trod the stony path alone.
              In the battle's din, undaunted,
              You were true to God's ideal.
              Not another manly trait was wanted,
              Pal o' mine,
              To make your life a shining light to men.
              And though you join the ranks of death,
              Pal o' mine.
              Yet it's not forgotten you will be;
              But your name will live in glory
              In the annals of the free.
                                                       Ezra L Pouhen
Garden City, Utah