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Show LIBRARY DAY ON the day the Cedar Carnegie Library was dedicated, dedi-cated, Dr. Middleton told the people of Cedar City that they had acquired a priceless asset. The past six years have helped to confirm that statement. state-ment. The good the library is doing is not affected by wars, famines nor panics. Its wealth is available to the poorest without price. A multitude can testify to the benefit they have derived from its aid. It is especially helpful to students of the college who need a wider field for research than the college library affords. af-fords. It is also more useful in being open until nine each evening when other sources of information are closed. There is a movement on foot to honor the birthday birth-day of the library, which is the seventeenth day of October. The ceremony of' its dedication was most impressive and was witnessed by two thousand people. peo-ple. It has been just as useful as was expected by its enthusiastic founders, and the move to show appreciation ap-preciation of its usefulness should be backed by all the people. It is today just what Dr. Middleton called it six years ago a priceless asset. Prof. Howard R. Driggs, now a national figure in education, gave the dedicatory serraon, and Mayhew H. Dalley offered the prayer. State Superintendent A. C. Mathcson and Dr. Middleton were the other speakers on that occasion. W. H. Leigh, then mayor of Cedar City, was master of ceremonies. That is in part the history of the services with which the library was started out on its career of usefulness. Do not forget its birthday, October 1 7th. ( x) |