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Show BINGHAM LIBRARY IS GROWINGINPOPULARITY A noticeable feature of the reading public, especially among the young people and the students, Is the popularity popu-larity of the Bingham free library. It Is now an established 'institution and Is affording much pleasure and benefit bene-fit to the camp. Since it was opened it has' grown rapidly and now it Is stocked with a large number of valuable valu-able books. And the books are being read by many people and is doing much good In extending knowledge. It took along time and much hard work to get the library sitarted and .. one of the pioneer workers was B. E. Willis, formerly manager of the local ' branch of the J. C. Penney company. Mr. Willis commenced the work in. 1917 and at that time it was difficult to create much interest, but he kept working and through the co-operation of The Press-Bulletin public attention was called to the great need of such an Institution. And from this start the work was kept up and was established estab-lished last year shortly after Mr. Willis Wil-lis left Bingham for his new place of business in Illinois. |