--- 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: 22 number: 4 published: 1919-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Union Ward Chapel," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 4 (February 1919): 330.' 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: 330 end_page: 330 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. --- # Union Ward Chapel 330 IMPROVEMENT ERA cpnnot sit idly down and be mere victims of circumstance. They must take for their slogan the Mutual Improvement motto "The : glory of God is intelligence," and make a business of seeing that not one young man or one young woman is allowed to grow up in ignorance, but that all are emancipated by intelligence. Logan, Utah UNION WARD CHAPEL This picture shows the cozy and homelike surroundings provided hy the good people of Union Ward, Jordan stake, for their house of worship. Since early days, the old "Cow Trail" leading from the pasture lands to the old "Union Fort" passed through these grounds. Many are the speakers whose sermons have been disturbed by the jingle of the cow bells as the animals passed over where the lawns, flowers and cement walks are now located. When the people undertook to re-arrange affairs on the grounds, the brethren of the ward turned out and laid the cement walks, the good sisters of the Relief Society furnishing a first class dinner. For the Union Ward Chapel enre of the lawns and the growing of the flowers, which border all th° walks and fill the windows in the chapel, much praise is due to the caretaker, Elder Charles Denney, who may be seen stooping at the front in the foreground of the photo. During the past season, many compliments were given Brother Denney from far and near on the splendid appearance of the grounds. The unanimous sentiment of the Saints is that the surroundings created entirely a different feeling, making the old chapel much more inviting. Bishop Heber J. Burgon, in giving this information to the Era, closes with the wish that every chapel and its grounds in all the wards of the Latter-day Saints might have as good a care-taker as Brother Charles Denney.