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Show Opening of Free Public Library To further the cause of the Free Public Library, the committee in charge gave an entertainment Monday Mon-day evening in the Library rooms at the Armory.1 A goodly portion of the leading citizens of Mount Pleasant who are interested in this good cause availed themselves of this, opportunity opportu-nity and assembled at the Library to help the work along. The ladies in charge desired to have the men who were present voice their sentiments in relation to the library, Short talks were made by Pres. C. N. Lund, Mayor James W. Anderson, Prof. C. L. Johns, P. M. Nielson, John H. Seely, F. C. Jensen, Daniel Rasmussen, H. Le-Roy Le-Roy Nielson and others. All of whom highly commended the work done by the ladies of the Home Culture club and the Twentieth Century Club who have had the work in hand so far. Mr.-. Ferdinand Ericksen told in short what the two clubs had done and how they had been assisted assist-ed by the Armory Hall Company and the Library Committee of Company D, also the City Officials and the good citizens of Mount Pleasant. One year ago there was no sizns of a Public Reading room for the young people of this city. Grass grew where now a large building standi on a quiet spot in our city with a room furnished with fine furniture, a nice rug on the floor, beautiful pictures on the walls, and a choice collection of good books. Everything to make it pleasant for one to go and spend profitable hours with the best of auihors. The Library will be open from 3 o'clock till 5 in the afternoons and 7:30 til 10 o'clock in the evenings. Ladies will be there to wait on the public during these hours and anyone any-one may have the privilege of taking tak-ing a bock to their homes for a period of two weeks if they desire, after which they must be returned. The tim3 is now at hand when Mount Pleasant is very much in need of a Public Reading Room and greater great-er steps should be taken in this direction. It ought to appeal to the citizens of Mount Pleasant to encourage en-courage those who are working for this cause. The City itself should step forward and do more than they have already done in this regard. $50.00 was appropriated at the beginning be-ginning by the city officials, but Mount Pleasant is becoming an educational edu-cational centre and should have a better Public Library for the benefit bene-fit of those who are searching for information,, and a place for the young to learn to love good books. |