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Show Miss Sprague Feted On Her Birthday Miss Joanna Sprague who spent most of her life among the book shelves as a librarian observed her 95th birthday Thursday with many good wishes, flowers, gifts, a birthday cake . . . and many new books to read, j The woman for whom the Sprague Spra-gue Branch of the public library in Sugar House was named, believes be-lieves there is much to enjoy in life even at 95 if you keep alert to the world about you and are able to read the newspapers and good books. She is an avid reader of fiction stories but also enjoys biography and poetry. "I like to read books of all types, if they are well-written and not the trashy type," she commented. com-mented. Miss Sprague, who lives at 29 So. State St., spent her birthday with a small celebration with many ma-ny of her friends calling on her durine the afternoon. ParticiDat- ing in the event were a niece, Mrs. Elon Gilbert of Yakima, Washington Wa-shington and a nephew, Hollister Sprague of Seattle, Washington. Both made the trip to Salt Lake' City for the occasion. Miss Sprague started working j in the Salt Lake City Library j when it was founded in 1898. Five years later she was appointed as j head librarian, serving in that capacity ca-pacity until her retirement in 1940. She was born in Madison, Wis., in September of 1862, a daughter1 of Ezra Thompson and Helen Crandall Sprague. She came toi Salt Lake City with her family . when she was 13 years of age. |