--- 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: 32 number: 8 published: 1929-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Improvement Association News,” *Improvement Era* 32, no. 8 (June 1929): 703–704." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3208unse 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: improvementera3208unse start_page: 703 end_page: 704 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1929-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3208unse publication_year: 1929 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 1929, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Improvement Association News During the latter part of April, President Heber J. Grant made a hurried trip to Los Angeles where, on the 28th of that month, he dedicated the Hollywood stake tabernacle. He was accompanied by Pres. Charles W. Nibley. The Hollywood stake was organ- ized in May, 1927, and now has a population of more than four thou- sand members. The beautiful taber- nacle, erected at a cost of nearly $300,000, has been completed and paid for since the organization of the stake. The program, suggested in the April number of the Era by the Presiding Bishopric for the Lesser Priesthood Centenary celebration, was effectively carried out in most of the wards of the Church. Sunday, May 12, was given over largely to programs furnished al- most entirely by the boys, though in many of the morning sessions beau- tiful Mother's Day exercises were com- bined with Priesthood activities. Tues- day evening, the 14th, these programs were continued, and the effect of the Priesthood on the lives of our youth was demonstrated in an impressive and in many cases in a very touching man- ner. It is not too much to say that no other organization in the world offers boys and young men an equal oppor- tunity for development in spiritual matters. In most of these gatherings, they did the speaking, the praying, blessed and passed the emblems of the holy sacrament and, indeed, furnished practically the entire program. * * * Elder Arthur Welling, formerly bishop of Liberty ward in the Liberty stake, and for eight years past a mem- ber of the faculty of the Latter-day Saints' College, has been called to pre- side over the Northcentral States mis- sion. He succeeds President John G. Allred, who has presided in that mis- sion ever since its creation in the sum- mer of 1925. President Welling filled a mission more than a score of years ago in the Eastern States, and his train- ing, faith and kindly spirit well qualify him to carry on the excellent work of Pres. Allred. His wife, who will accompany him, is an ardent Church worker and will prove a splen- did aid to her husband, having as she does an intimate knowledge of the needs of the auxiliary organizations. * * * On Sunday, April 28, the Emery stake was reorganized under the direc- tion of Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, of the Council of the Twelve. Pres- idents Lars P. Oveson and his coun- selors. Presidents Alma G. Jewkes and Alonzo E. Wall, were honorably re- leased, after nineteen years of faithful service. For twenty years Pres. Ove- son was bishop of Cleveland ward and was then asked to move to Castle Dale and serve as president of the stake. He has been very diligent in the dis- charge of every duty as have likewise his counselors and the members of the high council associated with him. Elder A. Richard Petersen, was ap- pointed as the new president of the stake. He was formerly president of the Norwegian mission and, until the new call came to him, was bishop of Ferron ward. He selected as his coun- selors, Elders J. Frank Killian and Ne- phi L. Williams. President Killian has served as representative in the state legislature for two sessions. Pres. Williams has been a very efficient stake 704 IMPROVEMENT ERA June. 19 29 superintendent of the Y. M. M. I. A. for several years. Pres. Ed. M. Rowe, first counselor to Pres. Henry A. Gardner ever since the organization of the Palmyra stake, was honorably released Sunday, April 28, because of his removal to Provo. Pres. Wells T. Brockbank, formerly second counselor to Pres. Gardner, is now advanced to the position of first counselor. 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