Show Mormon Battalion Featured on Cover of Improvement Era The Mormon Battalion monument monument ment located on the State St e Capitol rounds grounds in Salt Lake is featured on the cover of the July number of oC the Improvement Era Ern A tie tie- of oC the monument is given in a short ar article i le by B II 11 Ion I on toe e page pape pa e and ano a tribute tribute is paid by the same author to the th I Battalion in page e Th The monument done in brown in ink against ag a lavender background 1 I forthe forms a most striking striking- cover fo for the magazine ma azine Eleven articles led ed by bv one con by Dr Harold W Bentley manager of oC the Columbia University sity Book Store in New York City Cit on George nn f f nr los its including Nothing Ventured N Nothing othin Gained The Thc Scar Love Blossom and This Thi Business eleven cleven poems the fir first t tone one ly illustrated by b means of photographs photo and in the departments ire are found in inthe the isu issue which is copiously illus by b means menns of photographs photograph photo and drawings s inthe Announcements of the winners winner in ithe the Rock Garden contest are also Osden given civen Mrs Mr A M Barker of Oc Os- Os den len won fir t prize Mrs s Homman Holman Chipman of American Fork second see see- ec ond Mr John E Lach Lath of Salt Lake third Mrs Vernessa M Nagle Parker L L t M Winon LO Loean an I C Crittenden O Ogden den and anti Mrs Mr B Smidt Salt Lake nor honor 1 able mention New ew departures in the magazine mag zine c are arc a a long lone poem The poem The Echo Cai Can Can- Canyon Canyon yon von War by Mrs Irs Ruth May 1 Fox President of the Y V J L M I A of o othe i I f the L D S Church and a n paN page pas i of book reviews The poem deals deala with that interesting moment in Utah history when word was received recci bv by L Brigham Bl r-h r m Young Youn that John Johni seas sea's s 's Arm Army was at the gates crates of the th e great reat Salt Lake Valley |