There were 4,391 books loaned by the public library in April. . Thirty-four new readers' cards were issued. Mrs. Elizabeth Klotz presented seven volumes of historical and religious books.The following new books were added: Some famous Americanschools, Adams; Mary Tudor, queen of France, Brown; George Eliot's poetry and other studies, Cleveland; An American cruiser in the east, Ford; Christianity and commerce, Paradise; The Jews in America, Peters; To Europe on a stretcher, Potter; Presidential papers and state papers, Taft; War and peace, Tolstoy; Trade unionism and labor problems, Commons; Wild woods and waterways, Covert; Humanly speaking, Crothers; Great English painters, Downman; Including Finigan, by Gil-lilan; Handbook of art in our country, Women's clubs; Scientific sales management, Hoyt; Philosophy, what is it, Jevons; Historic Indiana, Levering; Manners and social usages; Cathedral churches of England, Pratt; The sun, Sampson; The story of Free Masonry, Sibley; Millais and others, Baldry; The foundations of character, Shand; Major prophets of today, Slosson; Indiana miscellany, Smith; The Greek art, Weir.—Young People's Books— Spinning wheel stories, Alcott; Palmer Cox's fairy book; The scarecrow and the tin man, Denslow; Merry Lips, Dix; The golden goblin, Dunham; My story book, Fenn; Story of Robin Hood and his merry men, Finnemore; Grim’s fairy tales; Uncle Remus, his songs and sayings, Harris; Fairy tales a child can read and act, Nixon; Boys of St. Timothy, Pier; Five minute stories, Richards; Sea stories, St. Nicholas; RobinHood, his book, Tappan; Book of nursery rhymes, Welsh.—Rental List—Billie's mother, Skrine; Land of promise, Mangham; The rise of Jennie Cushing, Watts; The night wind's promise, Vanardy; Little Sir Gala-had, Gray; The return of Tarzan,Burroughs; The key to yesterday, Buck; The secret of the reef, Bind-ioss; The turmoil, Tarkington; The rose garden husband, Widdemier; Amarilly of Clothes Line alley, Ma-nayes; The Vachell; The valley of fear, Doyle; Who goes there, Chambers; The raft, Dawson; The siren of the snows, Shaw.pafeequithetheBIRT SMITIH GETS CONTRACT.Zionsville Man to Receive $3,375 for Construction of Hill Road.The county commissioners of Boone, Hamilton and Marion counties, in joint session here Friday afternoon, let the contract for the H. E. Hill gravel road between the three counties to Birt Smith, of Zionsville, whose bid of $3,375 was the lowest of eight submitted. The road is 8,477 feet in length. Other bids were as follows: John Fulwider, $3,264; Jackson Bros., $3,460; William McCarthy, $3,800; Swope Miller, $3,679; Pat Shahan, $3,687; Neese Seaman, $3,478; Frank Bowers, $6,750.BAND CONCERTS ASSURED.Series of Sixteen Open-Air ProgramsWill Bo Given.The Business Men's Association, the city council and the Lebanon band have come to an agreement whereby Lebanon will have open-air band concerts again this summer. The association pays the band $500 andthe city council $300. Sixteen concerts are to be given, and the band is to donate its services on Memorial Day.Apleatrialcomrepraccomadt the $13,1 recor sente Jucl impre ing sc with i have taken, for th who wquired said t bondsn relievei becaust was re cause t placed : cease tlt;are tothat he sentenceAslSwails Opens New Restaurant.John Swails Saturdav onenetl hisProsecmunk, Itter to G of April that a sc be effect* reparatioi sentences prosecuto settlement that the and justk done. Hlt; the govern accounts.The gov April 20, c tho nrosecti