--- 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: 12 published: 1919-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Mutual Work,\" *Improvement Era* 22, no. 12 (October 1919): 1097." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22012unse 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: improvementera22012unse start_page: 1097 end_page: 1097 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22012unse 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. --- # Mutual Work MUTUAL WORK 1097 A lunch was placed at one end of the lawn and the contestants were lined up at the other end. Paper hats were placed on the lunch, one for each contestant. The object was to put on the hat and eat what was under it, a large slice of watermelon. Hawthorne was first. Many of the spectators were sorry they could not enter this event. It is quite certain that some of the contestants took their time in this event when they saw what they had to eat. No. 10 was an attendance score of the number of tickets re- turned at .the canteen lunch. It was based on the number given to each ward. Farmers ward led in this event. The final score stood as fol- lows: Forest Dale, 30 points; Wandamere, 25 points; Hawthorne and Emer- son, 15 points each; Farmers, 10, and Wasatch 5 points. The outing was a grand success, and it is thouglit that it will help materially in putting over the membership campaign in the stake. The outing carried a good spirit with it, and gave people throughout the stake a chance to get acquainted. New Superintendent Sylvester Broadbent, was selected and sustained as superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the Wasatch stake, at the quarterly conference of that stake, July 26-7. Charles N. Broadbent, who has acted as superintend- ent for a number of years past, has been released, with full appreciation of his faithful services for the many years he has acted in that capacity. Paid First Fund Superintendent J. P. Jensen of the Jordan stake, has the honor of having paid the General Office for the South Jordan ward, the full amount of the M. I. A. fund for 1919-20, for 10 percent of the population of the stake. The first in the Church to pay the amount. New President of the Scandinavian Mission Elder Carl E. Peterson, of Ggden, has been appointed to succeed Elder Hans J. Christiansen of Salt Lake as president of the Scandinavian mission of the Church. Elder Christiansen has presided over the Scandinavian mission since May, 1912. Most Distant Branch on Earth Elder Malcolm L. Robinson, writing from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, July 17, says: "The Era is a most welcome guest to this far distant corner of the earth, and is read and re-read by Saints, elders and friends. Although it is months old at times before it reaches us, on account of the irregular is not dimmed in shipping, its message of truth, light and encouragement the world the least This is the most distant branch of the Church in all most literal sense of the from the Central stakes of Zion, and the Era, in the earth The work of the word, is carrying the gospel to the ends of the progressing in South Africa, the old barrier of blind prejudice is Lord is the look-out for the future tasigiving way before the voices of truth, and The seven elders laboring in this mission under the is verv promising. Smith, have been wonderfully ovfag presidency" of Brother and Sister youngest in the field has been away blessed in every way in the past. The are still happy fa^onr wor£ bnt from home over two" and a half years. We small force will be strengthened. hone the day will soon come when our branch here and voice the senti- As one I feel that I can speak for this mentrof the others by saying: 'Thank you from the bottom of our hearts bless its editors and contributors. for the Era, and pray the Lord to