The Newtown bee., 1899-05-05
WAITE RTOWN.
THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.


The regular meeting of the Watertowr
Library Association took place at thu
library building, Monday evening, Apri
ID, when the followir e officers wert
elected, and reports Of officers read:
Buell. Heminway, president; Charles
w. Bidwell, secretary; Merritt Hemin
| way, treasurer; Truman T. Baldwin
auditor; Howard M. Hickox, flnancia
agent; executive committee, Buell. Hem
inway, G. M. Noble, FL. M. Hickox, I. G
Hotchkiss; trustees for three years, LIE
man w. Cutler, G, N. Noble. Paid fol-
books and magazines, $403 rs; othel
expenses, including repairs and fixtures
$727.79; standing fund, 10000. Miss
Nancy Bronson was appointed librarian
and Miss Jennie M. Smith assistant. The
following Is the report of Librarian Miss
Bronson:
The librarian presents the thirty fourth
annual report OF the work in the library
for the year ending April "A, 1899
The number of volumes at this date il
8,274, including duplicates; added during
the year, 264; by purchase, 1888; by gift
81. By gift SO pamphlets, and four peri
odicals have also been given. Number
of periodicals taken is 81; 40 volumes Of
magazines have been bound; 81 ole
BOOKS have been rebound; u volumes
condemned or worn out; eight destroyed
on account of scarlet fever; three books
not accounted for; four magazines anC
four papers lost; one book damaged anC
paid for. The library has been closed
to borrowers one day for grip and bliz
zard, and four days on account Of scarle
fever. Circulation of books by subjects
as follows: History 587, biography 1866
travels and description 662, English liter
ature 491, bound magazines 497, foreign
| literature 50, arts, useful and fine, 1879
philOlogy &c. natural science 222, phiIos
ophy Is, theology 81, fiction 6, 489, mol
| fiction 3,216, total 9,7O5. Periodicals
2 ,480; new cards during the year, rs
number of cards used about 635; creates
number of books given out was on Jan
uary II, 1853; the least on March %, "a
daily average, 103.
Gifts to the library for the year ending
April "a, 1899:
DR. Lindsley-Twentieth Report of tn
Connecticut State Board of Health.
bon r. z. DeForest-Two volume
Official Records of Union and Confeder
ate Nsvies in the War OF the Rebellion
series /, Vol and Vol7.
Rev c. B. Ford-One book, sin Hi
Steps,"
B. 81. Mattoon-Four volumes Cor
necticut State Register and Manual, 1884,
'95, '97 and '98.
B. Ell. Nation, Three volumes Cor
necticut Board of Agriculture, 1894, g
and '96.
Loring Farnham, One volume, A Del
ert Drama.
Mrs G. F. Palmer, One volume, Ii
ebriety.
United States government, Two vo
umes, Report of Commissioners of Ed'
cation, 1896, '97.
Benjamin Def. Curtis, One copy, oil
edition Of Trumbull's McFtngal, or
copy Of Illustrations to the same.
Benjamin Def. Curtis, One copy {
Connecticut Annual Register Tor 1910.
Benjamin Def. Curtis, One volun
Barber'a Historical Collections of Co
uecticut.
S. W. Cutler, One volume Connectic
! Register and Annual for 1884.
United States government, Que vo1un
Fourteenth Annual Report of Civil Ser
ice Commission, 1897.
Samuel B. Horne, Two volumes, r
ports of Bureau of Labor Statistics
b Connecticut, 1897, 98.
D. Il. Olmstead, One volume, T
Protestant Faith on Salvation by Bell
U. S. government, Three volume
Z Smithsonian Reports.
So u. S. government, Twelfth Annr
Report of Interstate Commerce.
L. w. Cutler, Old Book Domee
Medicine, 1884.
Gen Hawley, Statistical Atlas OF U.
A., Eleventh Census.