Big Book Drive for Next Week Campaign Launched
A nationwide effort to collect two million books for soldiers and sailors is organized by the American Library Association. In Big Horn County the drive runs the week of March 18 with librarian Mrs. C L VanDevender coordinating. Private collections will donate books to circulating libraries for camps and ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library War Service
American Library Association
America
Big Horn County
C. L. VanDevender
Basin State Bank Report of March 4 1918
Basins Wyoming bank reports assets totaling 469 551 74 with loans 386 424 82 and deposits 361 361 53. Capital 50 000 surplus 5 000 and profits 3 190 21. Liabilities include deposits 273 906 86 notes none bills none due national banks 25 874 11 and due state banks none. Notary public certifies accuracy by H H Hime cashier March 11 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basin State Bank
Basin
Wyoming
Million Dollar Book Fund Drives Wartime Library Aid
A fund exceeding 1.5 million dollars funds book purchases, building construction, and service administration. Over 500,000 books donated, sorted, and shipped to camps and ships. 100,000 non fiction volumes bought for camp libraries. 33 Carnegie funded library buildings plus a Great Lakes project aided by a gift. Librarians staff camps. hundreds more volunteer. thousands of branch libraries and deposit stations established. Delivery trucks, dispatch office, and interlibrary loans support rapid service to soldiers and naval personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Corporation
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Knights of Columbus
France
Pay Me Five Part Jewel Feature at Rex Theatre
Jewel Productions brings the five part Pay Me to the Rex theatre with Claire Dufrey as Nita and Evelyn Selbie as Hendriks. Miss Dufrey, a Spanish actress with two years in Jewel, has starred in Director De Grasse's films. Miss Selbie, noted for winning an automobile race award in Universal City, appears as Marta's mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Dufrey
Nita
Jewel
Rex Theatre
Miss Dufrey
Jewel Productions, Inc
Mary
de Grasse
Evelyn Selbie
Hendriks
Marta
Dorothy Philps
Miss Selbie
Universal City
Cal
Los Angeles
Universalites
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LEE Motor Company
Basin Lumber & Supply Co
Hardware Coal Builders Supplies
Basin, Wyoming
F. J. Driscoll
Mgr
Herefords
Elk Horn Live Stock Co
Lou Blakesley
Ell
First National Bank
Basin Basin, Wyoming
Member
Federal Reserve System
Arthur K. Lee
S. Skovgard
Ed Carothers
J. C. Stewart
W. C. May
James A. Lee
F. C. Emerson
John McFayden
Arbert T
John Luman
John Seaman His
State OF
Big Horn
H. H. Hime
Drew Prugh
Yoon
Frank A. Wise
E. J. Sullivan
Homer T. Lamb
Directora
Million Dollar Book Fund
Mon
North Beach
Ed Corfighd
Conrad Fatland
A. U. Kimbro
Anderson
Emerson Brantingham
J. W. Agee
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