Show ASKS FOR INCREASE City Does Not Feel Able to feet j Mound Tort Port Plea Pica Whether Ogden city will provide 30 So O additional per month for or the Mound Fort library maintenance or orthe orthe orthe the library will be closed for or lack of proper funds was 33 a question placed be before be- be before before fore the city commissioners this morn morn- rooming mornIng mornIng ing by a committee composed of Jo Jo- Joseph Joseph Joseph seph Barker Mrs F. F 1 Harpster and an Mrs Harry Wright That there Were Is lit Ut little lit lit- little tle possibility of ot the appropriation be being be- be beIng being ing Increased even this amount was stated slated by Mayor Browning and the commissioners who at the same time Indicated that they considered the li library U- U library work of Importance A peti peU- petition petition tion regarding the increase signed by many prominent residents of ot the Mound Fort district was filed with the commission and Dd will be formally considered tomorrow The committee in to a brief statement given to The Standard Examiner said The library has hes been In operation oper Uon some nine years ears and was established first In a schoolroom After Arter soliciting funds good front fro natured citizens and coal cOllI from all the coal companies we managed to rent rooms In the Minerva Shaw home From time to time we have asked the different city administrations for financial aid ald We feel gratified from the simple fact that the young chil chil- children children children dren are able to acquire the reading habit which they would probably not do without such an Institution During the last year books were circulated nearly of these were junior books It would be a n source of ot deep re regret re- re regret regret gret to all the people north of the bridge If the library because of Insufficient insufficient insufficient bunds were ere to be crippled to the point of ot falling to serve all the fine young people who for a number of years have found in It a source of inspiration for good and an Incentive to systematic reading |