--- 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: 12 number: 4 published: 1909-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Hon. Reed Smoot Re-Elected Senator; Notable Birthdays," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 4 (February 1909): 321.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1204unse 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: improvementera1204unse start_page: 321 end_page: 321 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1204unse publication_year: 1909 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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Hon. Reed Smoot Re-Elected Senator; Notable Birthdays HON. REED SMOOT RE-ELECTED SENATOR. The Republican Legislative caucus on the 18th of January, chose Senator Reed Smoot by acclamation to succeed himself as United States Senator. On the following day the Senate and the House unanimously elected him. Hou. Carl A. Badger making the nominating speech in the Senate, and Hon. John H. Wootton in the House. On Wednesday, January 20, the Joint Assembly ratified the election, and President Gardner and Speaker Robinson signed his certificate of election, declaring him legally Senator from Utah. There are only two Democrats in the Legislature and these, Hon. David H. Morris and Fletcher B. HammDnd, voted for Hon. Wm. H. King. The re-election of Senator Smoot is a fitting tribute to his ability, and his careful labors for Utah, and will meet with enthusiastic approval throughout the state. NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS. Some great literary men first saw the light of day a hundred years ago: Among them, Edgar Allen Poe, January 19; Alfred Tennyson, August 6; Oliver Wendell Holmes, August 29; and then there were the great statesmen, William Ewart Gladstone, December 29; and Abraham Lincoln, Febrnary 12. In the preliminary programs, and as topics for special occasions, members of the Y. M. M. I. A. will find these characters suitable subjects for consideration and study. In this connection, on page 116 in the Junior Manual, a number of 19th century literary men of England and America are named. In several of the dates wrong figures have crept in. Let the boys in the Junior class verify and correct them.