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returned! Mrs. Htrayer reminded ' him of his prorni.se and received the following answer ’Please find ; check for $500 enclosed to help your library. When Oil City will, furmah a site, and agree through its council to maintain a libr ary r t not kN than $ar(K)0 u year Mu Carnegie will consider the subject of giving money foi the buildingI The women of tire Belles Isettle*] club raised the 111,000 to pay for * the site selected for the library'and I council by a two-thirds vote ap-| piopnatcd the required annual $lt;$.*I 000 for maintenance, and a free •; public library was assured f »r Oil City.Mr. Carnegie’s IIrat endowmentfor the building was $40,000. This sum was found to be insufficient tlt;* properly equip the building, so he gave an additional $1,000. The Belle# I^ttres club turned ovt-t the .V* , ikK) books in its library to the new library and pi dged b - if to ivf $ ion per year Pu the purchase of new htH;k s
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Oil City Derrick
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Mar 15, 1929
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