Show LITTLE IS AWAKENED I I I Former Resident Pr Presents Library LITHOPOLIS 0 O. O Feb 1 The The Little Town That Never Grew Up Lithopolis isolated from the ordinary commerce of man man without gas or Water water wa Wa- ter tel and so financially poor that it wa-I wa is necessary to pay for electric current by popular subscription is bustling I II I with new life Ute and hope Its citizens who long have en endured endured endured en- en dured the scorn of their bigger neigh neigh- Winchester which has schools and other things are are preparing preparing ing inS to return return such disparagement ment in kind kind all all because the simple appeal of their quiet village bridged the gap of years rears i In t the hearts heart's of one who played I as a a. ch child ld In the leafy lanes that surround surround sur- sur round it Lithopolis is preparing for recognition and a certain modicum of fame The story centers around Mrs Mabel Mabel Ma- Ma bel ael Jones New York author and musician whose father tather Adam W W. Is head of a New York pub pub- lishing house Her father and mother moth moth- er were born here and the latter Is buried in n the Lithopolis cemetery Mrs Jones is Js presenting a memorial library to the people of Lithopolis and Bloom township in addition she may mayI finance the erection of a high school I and had in mind other civic improve improve- ments With her husband Richard J. J Jones she has completed a preliminary survey survey survey sur sur- vey for the library which will be known as the memorial li library li- li has purchased a a. tract of land landon on Columbus street here the here the only street street and and employed an architect Present plans call for the dedicatory I address to ba bs made next fall hv by Edwin Markham poet a osa cl close iri friend d of both th Mr and Mrs Jones In 1903 Mrs Jones Jones then Mabel was paying her annual summer visit to Lithopolis She had read a a. magazine story by O. O Henry and was struck with witt the beauty of it Sho wrote to O. O Henrys Henry's publishers and the note was forwarded to him Thus was started a chain of oi correspondence corre- corre between O. O Henry and Mabel Mabel Mabel Ma Ma- bel The erection of the library is expected ex expected expected ex- ex to link closer the part Ohio played In the unfolding of O. O Henrys Henry's genius |