Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-05

i little pen psdture Of their city among
the hills on the ever restless river:
whose people exsH plified In their life
the steadfAstness Of the hills and, the
ftlreiess energy Of the river. IA city of
u, 900 people, having eight railroads and
Boosting OF good schools and q college.
On the part OF the library board we
were invited to visit Rivereide to see.
as was PRETTY raid. how near Sioux
! City was to nature, where hill and!
woodland In the autumnal colors looked:
down upon the Sioux
+ President johnston responded with a
few pleasing remarks and introduced
Miss Alice Tyler, secretary of the state
library commission, who spoke Of her
work. This was the treat of the even
ing. "A pleasant, self possessed lady,
whose gray hair only makes her face
look younger, whose CHEEKY smile
brings encouragement and whose
hearty hand shake would put soul into
an automatum. She spoke of various
commissions and their work, compared
the growth OF library commissions dur
ing the past ten years; told what
methods of carrying out the work were
used in various states; gave the con-
ditions governing the work. such as
character OF the population occupa-
ton. nationality, size, character of the
schools, relations as regards other
| literary interests, such as wo,nen's
clubs, p. E. o.. societies Chautauquua
circles etc; number, size and service
OF libraries already in existence and
then spoke OF their hopes and plans. SO
vast and yet SO possible with that
courageous woman a the head that /
did not wonder to hear gentleman on
passing out gay, We'll, that secretary
knows what there is to be done and
intends to do it, Mrs. Towner of
Corning. followed with a few words or
how they We're helping along the work
With pictures, while Mrs. Norris. of
Grinnell; Miss Jessie Thayer. of Bur-
| lington, and Mr.. Johnson Brigham. all
| commissioners. gave short. earnest
talks on the plans of work MAPPED out
| for the winter. President Johnston
called this evening session the love
! feast Of the convention.
1 Friday morning the first thing in or
der was the election of new officers,
and while waiting for the report of the
nominating committee. Miss Agnes
Robertson. county superintendent OF
| Cherokee county, was called to tell of
| her work with Libraries in the county
4 schools for to Miss Robertson belongs
the credit of being superintendent of a
4 county where there is a library in every
school house, ranging in numbers from
! SIX books, the lowest. to 200. the high
est. The committee coming in cut short
Miss Robertsons remarks
The officers We're elected as follows:
Mr.. a. p. Fleming, of Des Moines
president; Judge Wakefield. of Sioux
4 City vice president; Miss Harriet Nc
4 crory. of Cedar Rapids. secretary
Mr.. Fleming then gave paper or
The Library in Politics. He gave the
/. credit to the library of being as dear to
the heart of the people az the schools
and the churches and showed. the in
justice to the library and the commun-
lily when librarians who have become
familiar with the work and the people
were turned out on account of a change
4 of officials or to pay some politiea
4 debt. But what is politics il right,
defined! In it's shortest definition it i.
the theory and practice of obtaining
the ends of civil society as perfectly a.
Il possible. This hardly defines the poll
4 tics of municipal libraries Municipa
i libraries are the result of request