Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-19
A Commendablc Enterprise.

~ NoutttISittdDit IIutCiDitsts
The ladies of the Columbian Club,
of Audubon, have started project
which deserves and will doubtless meet
with the hearty cooperation of all our
progressive business men. Namely,
the opening of public library and
free reading room in our little city.
Their plans have so far matured that
they presented the matter to the
Knights of Pythias at their regular
meeting last Tuesday night, through
]. A. Nash, requesting the use of the
parlor belonging to the lodge. The
Knights at once unanimously voted
them the free use of their parlor for
one year, and Furthermore promised
them their hearty endorsement and
support TO successfully establish and
maintain this library and reading room
il will require constant endeavor and
earnest thought on the part of the
club, and the encouragement and assis-
lance of our business men. We do not
think we need point out the benefit
our town would deriye from such an
undertaking, and wa are sure our citi-
zens will do all in their power to aid
them to carry out their project.
With our perfect electric light sys-
tenn, our thorough and progressive
schools, our churches and improve
ments of all kinds that our citizens
spend thousands of dollars on annual
ly, the one thing needful is q good IL
brary and free reading room, that
everyone who so desires can have the
benefit. The farmer who has an hours
leisure in town, the school children
who need and can have good reference
books, the business man who can drop
In little while before supper, the
reading public who can with little
outlay secure the best current litera-
ture, and the young man and woman
who will here find open way to spend
u good and profitable evening.
They have already had promised them
u great many books, the best magazines
and some daily newspapers, free of
charge, but they will need funds to
open their room, and they have plan
ned ways and means Of securing these
AS soon rs the prolracted meetings,
now being held in our churches are
closed, they will give IN entertainment
in the knights of Pythias lodge room,
to which every one who will spare vol
umo or more from their private librar-
les, will be requested to bring them as
contribution. They will also give an
entertainment In the opera house to
procure funds to purchase the carpet
and stove now in the paror, and other
necessary furniture. They mean to
open the rooms from three o'clock y. M,
keeping them open until ten o'clock mt
night, one night of each week excepted.
They have already in view a most ell,
cient and thorough librarian, and every
thing will be made as far rs possible to
conform to the rules of u city library.
They will only ask subscriptions enough
to enable them to put on their shelves
II few of the absolutely necessary books,
such as u good encyclopedia, u diction-
AIRY and few of the standard works.
They hope to secure enough books at
their sociable to make very good
showing. The books will DO rented out
by the week for u small sum to those
who wish to take them to their homes,
the revenue thus gained to be applied
to purchasing new books, but the best
m agazines aud daily newspapers and
the library itself will always be on the
table for the free use of every one.
The heroic effort on the part of the
Columbian club to establish this enter
prise, thus endeayoring to create in the
minds Of cur young people a desire for
u better and purer class of literature,
should meet with hearty and substan-
tial response from every man, woman
and child that has the best interests of
Audubon at heart.
TRUDE.