Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
|Maine News Told in Paragraphs
MAINE LIBRARIES.

The Searchlight Club OF RumloFu
Falls. as a start for the $500 library
fund, will give big fair the last oil
February. 1t will be recalled that Hon.
Hugh J. Chisholm has offered $1,000 fof
| the library if the town will raise s5oo'
At the annual meeting Of the Liver
more Falls Library Association heio
Tuesday the following officers were
chosen for the ensuing year: President,
Edwin Riley; vice-president, J. +. Jel-
terds: secretary and treasurer, Mrs
Eueenia f. Foss. ]. F. Jefferda. John
II. Maxwell and J. G.. Ham were re-
elected to the trusteeship. The eX-
ecutiye committee are j. G. Ham, Dr.
G. r. Smith, Miss Gertrude Coffin, Mrs
Eugenia L. Foss and Miss Lola Jei-
ferdS.
At the annual meeting of the Paris
Public Library Association the reports
showed the association to be in good
financial condition. During the year
the running expenses We're paid, SSl.oo
was spent for new books, and the casA
balance in the treasury was Increased
somewhat. Miss Alice 3. Knight, the
efficient librarian, will continue IN that
c&pacity for another year. Officers 81
the association We're chosen as follows:
President James $. Wright; VICE
president, j. II. Bean, secretary ana
treasurer, N. Dayton Bolster; d.
lisn in Maine l793-1SS6, Ivanhoe, Dick
rectors, president OK officio, Alton 9,
Wheeler Alice r. Knight. Albert ID
Park. j. II. lSe:In.
Seventy three volumes have recent
library. North Arson, a gift from >. G.
Van Dustn, Il friend Of Ben Foster, the
New York artist, for whom the library
was named. Ninteen books have also
been given by Miss F.. f. Ford. The
total number Of volumes nov i'll the
library IS 1855.
Officers of Buck memorial library
Bucksport, have been elected as fol-
lows: President, George Blodgett; sec
retarv and treasurer, Charles G. At
kins; executive committee, Walter II
Gardiner, Parker Spofford, Richard f.
Slower: librarian, Miss Alice Gardner
The report Of the librarian showed
whole number Of volumes, jan 1st.,
1905, 4o0S; added during the year, 116;
number of people who awaited them
selves Of the use of the reading room
for the year, 1890.
The latest acquisitions to Skidompha
Free Public library, Damariscotta, in
clude the following volumes: Appleton's
Annual American Cyclopaedia for the
years 1861, 1859, 1868, 1864. 1865. 1866
1867, 1868, 1869, 1876, 1877, 1878 1879, 1890
1881 and 1885; II volumes of the knick-
erbocker Magazine from Vol. 80 to Vol
20; Eartlett's Familiar Quotations
edition Of 1856. Beautiful Joe, Lingard's
History of England e Nols.), Metho-
'lism in Maine 1793-1SSt Ivanhoe. Dick
ems Child's History of England, OLE
| Curiosity Shop and Miscellanies q
| Vol), Selections from the Literature oil
the English Language, Baptist Hymn
Writers and their Hymns, Science and
Revelation, Noble Lives. and Noblt
Deeds, Plutarchs Lives, Nurse and
Spy in the Union Army, and several
years Of the Century Magazine un-
! bound from Mrs. Milford G.. Chapman
| Portland, Maine; Legislative Record
| 1907, York Deeds, Vol. and pamphlet OF
! the papers and proceedings Of the it'll
meeting of the Maine Library ASso-
! citation from the Maine State Library
| Augusta; Off the Rocks, and In the
| South Seas from Miss Harriet Dixon
Boston NeighbCrs' from Miss Florence
| Hall, DamariScotta; Arabian Nights
| I}eulah and After Dark, from Mr.. w
| X. Hilton.