The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-03

levy and the future Of the library was
secure.
About this time several changes in
the library board were made Mrs.
Rhodes became the member from the
Chautauqua club. and Mrs. j. E. Bali
was elected BY the Acorn club to take
the place of Mrs. wenner who resign
cd
I'VE now accepted Mr. Gafney's Of
fer and proceeded to furnish the room.
The secretary of the territory. Hon
w. NJ. Jenkins, gave us permission to
use the furniture and carpet used by
the legislature. The ladies of the
Christian church donated one book
case. the lumbermen donated lumber
for eight more and Mr.. Brickner and
Mr.. Cotton made them Through the
kindness of Mr.. Chrisen and Mr.. wal
lace our room was neatly papered at
small cost We expended SO in get.
ting the room ready for use, which
amount was paid by the Federation.
"We moved into our new quarters in
March. 1901, and on April 7. Miss Mar
garet Rees became our librarian and
after May lst the library has been
kept open daily except Mondays and
legal holidays.
"The periodicals. for the reading
room were all donated except six mag
azfnes which we're paid for out of the
library fund. Ten magazines we're do
mated by the womens' clubs and by
individuals. four dailies were given
and Prof r. A. Gaffney contributed
ten territorial newspapers.
"In April we had 1000 catalogues
printed. Through the kindness of the
business men who advertised with us.
we had sufficient money left after pay
ing for the printing to pay the Hbrar-
isn's salary for two months. The mon
e. together with the membership dues
and fines paid all expenses of the IL
brary up to January 1, 1902, when we
issued the first warrants on the fund
provided by the city.
The new library board appointed
by Mayor Bali and confirmed by the
council August Ist was as follows:
Mrs. o. X. r'egan.
MRS. w. l.. Rhodes.
Miss Sarah Paine.
Mrs U. c. Guss.
Mr.. F.. B. Lille
"Mr Robert Ramsay.
"On September H. a joint meeting
OF the old and new boards was held
a. the library
"on September 25th, in accordance
with the resolution passed by the city
Federation. at called meeting Sep
tember 18th, the library BOARD trans
ferred the library to the city of Guth-
rie.
"The cash receipts up TO this time
amounted to s1.555.31 and the dis
bursements to S1,275.11 leaving a bal
ance in the treasury of $279.90 which
was turned over to the new board to
be used as a book fund. This sum in
cludes the $65.75 which was the pro
ceeds of the Federation lecture course,
"The new board organized October
4 Mrs. U. c. Guss was elected presi-
dent. Mr.. Robert Ramsay. vice presi-
dent; Mrs o. r. Fegan. secretary.
Mrs Fegan resigned and Miss Sarah
Paine was elected to fill the place.
"On October 29th. again through
Mr.. Ramsay, we received the promise
of 500 900 from Mr. Carnegie for Il
brary building. and the Guthrie Com
mercial club agreed to procure the
site.
For weeks alter receiving this good
ncws. the board studied plans, held
meetings and consultations with the
architect. We made every effort to
plan the largest and best building pos
sible to be had for that amount OF
money and on February 3, 1902, the
plans Of Architect Bennett were final
ly adopted. When the contractors
bids were opened not one was found
to be within our limit. Mr.. Ramsay
then sent plans and specifications to
fgether with a photograph Of the pro
posed building to Mr.. Carnegie and ex
planned the situation to him. In a few
days we received word that Ms Car
negie was willing to give us an ad
ditional $1,000 if the city would in
crease the yearly amount for its sup
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