The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-04
Resolutions on Various Subjects
Adopted This Morning.
Reception Was Delightful Fea-
ture Last Evening.
Lecture BY Or. Burton Will
Occur Tonight.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
At the morning business meeting of
the Minnesota Library association, Miss
Gratia Countryman of Minneapolis was
chosen president; Miss Maud Van Buren,
of Owatonna, vice president; Miss LYDIA
Poirier of Duluth, secretary; and Miss
Alice NJ. Farr of the Mankato normal,
treasurer. The appointment of the exc
cutive and other committees was left
in the hands of the president. The exc
cutive committee will choose the next
place of meeting. Invitations have been
received from Red Wing, Austin and
Duluth.
Resolutions were adopted expressing
the appreciation of the visitors for the
happy time they have enjoyed in the
city, especially the use of the beautiful
Mankato public library building for the
sessions, both business and social; also
for the hospitable reception and delight
full entertainment they received from the
people of the city; thanking the citizens
and the library board for their courtesy /;
commencing the excellent work of the
state library commission, especially in
the matter of securing the annual ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the work of
the commission and the circulation of
travelling public libraries; urging upon
the state legislature the passage of appro-
pirate laws for the distribution of state
public documents among the various pub
lie libraries; and favoring the enactment
of laws that will authorize county COM
missioner boards to appropriate money
for the circulation of library books over
the country at large, and which will au-
thorize town boards to appropriate
money for the circulation of library
books within the town.
Last evening the library building was
all lit up and was in its glory, as the
public was being received in honor of
the meeting of the librarians. When the
gathering was at its largest, fully five
hundred people were there. Several
pieces of the Concordia orchestra fur
nished beautiful music from time to
time. Ladies of the Episcopal church
had been engaged to provide and serve
refreshments and they executed this
duty in the most effective maner imagin-
able. The rooms were beautifully
adorned with flowers and with work of
art that the pens, pencils and brushes of
the cleverest hands and eyes of all the
school children in the city have pro-
duced during the past two years.
Literary features of Yesterday after
moons and this mornings sessions were
as follows: discussion of the County
Extension Plan" by Miss Maud Van
Buren, of Owatonna and Miss Clara Bald
win of St Paul; Reading for Children,
a paper by Miss A. R. kits of Fergus
Falls, read by Miss Farr of the Mankato
normal; report of committee on State
Documents" delivered by E. A. Nelson
state librarian; Report on A. L. A
Meeting at st. Louis" by Mrs. Flora C
Conner of Austin; "How to Conduct a
Library on $1,000 Year." c. X. Ben
nett, library trustee at Owatonna; "Se
lection of Books" Prof. j. j. Dow, Fari
bault library trustee; Buying OF
Books" III. w. Wilson, Minneapolis
Renting Collections" Miss Josephine
Cloud, st. Peter; discussion on Care of a
Library Building" led by E. j. Stearns
This afternoon the visitors were tax
en- out riding about the city in carriages
and automobiles by a number of Manka
to's most public spirited citizens. The
weather was ideal and the outing was
indeed delightful.
The public library will be closed this
evening from 1880 to $3.50 on account OF
DR.. Richard Burton's lecture and will
be opened from $3.50 to o'clock.