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Show Library then contained about 8,000 volumes which has about doubled in size since then. There are many such interesting interest-ing stories and,, too, the pictures and advertisements are in some w cases most amusing. LIBRARY BOOK CORNER NOTES SPRAGUE BRANCH At this inventory time of the year, last years magazines are taken off the shelves and added to the already large collection of back numbers in storage in the basement of the building. This moving brought to light some old bound copies of Sugar House papers, predecessors of the present pre-sent Sugar House Bulletin. There are the Sugar Times and the East Salt Lake Times. They contain interesting articles articles interesting in-teresting at that and even more interesting now in the light of developments in Sugar House since then. As an example of this is the story of our Sprague Library building the first part of which is told in the Times of January 1924, just 17 years ago. A special committee had been appointed ap-pointed by the Business Men's League to circulate a petition to ask the Salt Lake City Commission Commis-sion to provide a large enough space to house the Library which was then situated on 21st South just west of 11th East. The |