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The free library opened its doors in its fine new quarters on Monday. ‘There were many visitors who ex pressed themselves well pleased with the equipment of the library. The newspapers and periodicals had not arrived but are expected the latter part of the week. The library contains 1,400 volumes, which is an excellent showing. There are books for old and young in history, travel, biography, science, useful arts, sociology, fine arts, literature and fiction, together with many Scandinavian and German books for the adult population who cannot read English easily. The library will be open from 2 to Sand from 7 to 9 p.m. on week ‘days, and the reading room will be open from 2 to 6 Sunday afternoons. Our citizens are cordially invited to visit the library and to spend pleas ant hours reading the books and periodicals. Comfortable chairs have been provided. Parents are urged to visit the library to see the books provided for the children. It is hoped that every person in Marsh field, old and young, may provide himself with a library card upon which he’may draw from the library’s treasures. ‘The library board has made pro vision so that the farmers in the surrounding country who trade at Marshfield may also enjoy the priv ilege free of any charge and it is hoped that many will avail theim selves of the opportunity. It is the desire of the library board and the librarian to make the library a veritable center of public education and public happiness in the com munity, and no effort will be spared to this end. Miss L. E. Stearns, organizer for the Wisconsin Free Library Co mmission, spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the library. Miss Stearns stated that the rooms and equipment provided were second to none in the northern part of the state and might easily serve as a model for some of the older com munities. Miss Stearns visited the schools to talk with, the children concerning the proper care of the books, order and quiet in the library and urged upon the scholars the reading of something other than, fiction.
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Marshfield Times
Marshfield, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Oct 25, 1901
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