Show MUTUAL rEPROTEStElIT1 WORK I I I Some Great Strides 3Eade Down In I Washington County I St George Dec 6The mutual improvement im-provement cause has made some tremendous tre-mendous strides here since the impetus given to the movement at the September Septem-ber conference when Apostle F M Lyman and J G Kimball of the first seven presidents of the seventies laid before the people the plans of the church in regard to its youth Under the able leadership of such men as E H Snow one of the general aids and D H Morris and his aids in the stake presidency of the Y M M I A the spark kindled at that conference confer-ence has been fanned into the flame of enthusiasm and renewed interest and diligence is being taken in the cause of mutual improvement work The stake officers of young men have already held two conferences The first uas held at Virgin City for all the upriver settlements Besides the stake officers there were present E H Snow E B Snow of the stake presidency Messrs George F Whitehead W J Lewis and Misses Lotta Ashby Emma Macfarlane and Mary Morris of the St George Glee club A rousing good time was had and the seasons work opened with a boom The second conference convened at Banlcerville Nov for all the settlements settle-ments down the Rio Virgin An excellent excel-lent time was had there The Banker yule folks added materially to the enjoyment en-joyment of the occasion by giving a concert dusr mnfaronc Jbp western pirt has been thoroughly visited vis-ited it being deemed too widely scattered scat-tered to hold a successful conference at this season of the year There are in this stake some 20 associations asso-ciations requiring a journey of about 500 miles in order to visit them entailing en-tailing a great amount of time and labor on the part of those whose duty it is to visit these sections and distant organizations All of which are organ ised with the exception of perhaps one Apostle Lyman and Elder Kimball when here pronounced this the banner stake in mutual improvement work slating they found more life and progressive pro-gressive officers than they had in the other stakes visited St George has a fine and largely attended at-tended association and is having avery a-very successful series of meetings |