The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1908-01-18
JOKER" N GAMBLING LAW CIVIC LEAGUE IS SUGGESTED Ii
LIBRARY LEAP YEAR DANCE
Elaborate ArransemeHts BelBe Made fer
Popular Public Affair.
TICKETS WILL Be so CENTS PER PERSON

Next Thursday evening, January 20,
the ladies of the Alamogordo Public Lii
brary association will give leap year
dance at the opera house, for the bene-
fit Of the library, aud the affair prom
ises TO be the society event OF the sea-
son, as elaborate arrangements are be-
ing made for the dance.
Punch will be served during the even
ing. without charge, and later supper
will be served at nominal charge. The
price of tickets has been placed at so
cents per person.
The following ladies compose the H.
brary association and will have charge
of the affair: Mesdames H. J. Anderson,
j. r. Gilbert, s. S. Hopper, A. 2. jack
son, R. NJ. Jackson, ?. w. kirkpatrick,
H. II. Major, ]. p Riddle, G. C. Sciplo,
D NJ. Sutherland, H. W. Scofeld, w.
E. Warren.
This announcement OF a leap year
dance for the benefit of the library
brings to notice condition of affairs
that should not exist in such wide.
awake and progressive little city as Ala
mogordo and the entire population of
our town should assist in making the eff
fort very pronounced success both so.
cially and financially.
The library has been kept alive by
the unSel6sh efforts of the ladies in
charge and they have never appealed
for assistance by subscription, and have
made up any deficiencies without eOm-
plaint.
The fixed expenses of the library
amount to $22 month and the only
| fixed income is from the $40 month
that the Alamogordo Lumber company
has generously subscribed. Annual
tickets to the library are sold for the
small sum of ST. so a year and transient
come from this source has not been
what it should, and with the 1000 popu.
Iation of Alamogordo there should be at
least 500 yearly tickets taken out.
The library contains really excellent
selection OF books covering wide range
of reading good judgment having been
used in the selection Of matter. The
scientific deep thinking reader is provid.
ed for as carefully as are the children
and the light reader, and visit to the
library will surprise any citizen as to
the number and the character Of the
books on the shelves.
There is no one influence so powerful
and so far reaching in its benefits as the
reading of good books, and the man,
woman or child who thinks they can
live without books will surely awaken
to the fact, sooner or later, that they
are living in ignor ince, deteriorating in
mind and are not mentally equipped to
hold their own In business or society.
The people of Alamogordo should
take vital and continued interest in
their library, and not allow it to merely
exist by sufferance and the unseltish ef.
forts of few, but all should come for
ward with actual interest, and support
an institution that can do so much for
mutual advancement.
1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
lean wear dance on next ThuFsdav even-
ing will receive the spontaneous sup.
port of all, and by such support show
the ladies in charge of the library that
their efforts for the benefits of others
are at least appreciated. To those who
neither can or care to 60 to the dance,
it is. suggested that they buy several
tickets and tear them up, but at least
each citizen can and should support the
effort for the benefit OF the library =