---
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: 23
number: 1
published: 1919-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Changes in Church Officers, September, 1919,\" *Improvement Era* 23, no. 1 (November 1919): 66."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2301unse
  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: improvementera2301unse
start_page: 66
end_page: 66
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2301unse
  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.
---

# Changes in Church Officers, September, 1919

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Changes in Church Officers, September, 1919

 — Change in Stake Presidency. Granite stake, Frank Y. Taylor, presi- dent; Joseph J. Daynes, Jr., First counselor; Edward H. Anderson, Sec- ond counselor; (Aug. 31.) — New Branch. Mt. Sherman branch, Idaho stake, Joseph Hyrum Foster, address, Soda Springs, Idaho. — New Bishops. Wendell branch, Blaine stake, Mayben Fox succeeded C. O. Pederson, address Wendell, Idaho. Diamondville ward, Woodruff stake, William J. Jensen, address Dia- mondville, Wyoming. Thirtieth ward, Pioneer stake, Charles Cottrell, Jr., succeeded Heber S. Cutler, address 176 Mead Ave., City. Ririe ward, Rigby stake, William J. Chandler succeeded David Ririe, address same. Raymond First ward, Taylor stake, James E. Meeks succeeded John G Allred, address same. Paris First ward, Bear Lake stake, Ezra S. Stucki succeeded H. Edward Sutton, address same. West Layton ward, North Davis stake, Richmond Scoffield succeeded Samuel R. Corbridge, address same. Liberty ward, Liberty stake, William T. Cannon, succeeded Hyrum G. Olsen, address 1152 South 5th East, City. Lynndyl ward, Deseret stake, Albert L. Hurst succeeded Elmer A. Jacob, address same. Moore ward, Lost River stake, Willard H. Sorenson succeeded William N. Patten, address same. Franklin ward, Oneida stake, Cecil Woodward succeeded Samuel C. Parkinson, address same. Boise ward, Boise stake, William Henry Edgley succeeded George W. Lewis, address 2005 North 15th St., Boise, Idaho. Jerome ward, Blaine stake, James D. Pratt, succeeded Samuel S. Smith, address same. Msnard ward, Blaine stake, James H. Dixon succeeded Harvey Dixon, address same. Bunkerville ward, Moapa stake, William Wittwer, succeeded Edward I. Cox, address same.