Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-17
MAINE LIBRARIES.

MISS EllZdDC Hyde has resigned as
! assistant librarian at the Freeport H.
brary and Miss Pearl Libby has been
appointed to the place.
The private library of the late Joseph
E. Merrill, donor of the public library,
has been removed from Fairlawn,
| Newton, Mass. to Yarmouth, and plac-
ed in the trustees room at Merrill Me-
mortal Library building.
During the last week the Pierce IL
| brary has"had placed on it's shelves ~
new books, % of these are books for
boys and We're the gift of Mrs. G. c.
Barker. \ collection of reports of the
different state departments, which
should be Of interest to many, has also
been received.
New officers of the Kennebec Free
Library Association are: Walter l..
Dane. president; Charles w. Goodnow,
ce-president, Fred p. Hall, secretary
treasurer: Herbert f. Brigham. audi
| tor; Miss Ella A. Clark. librarian for
one year; Henry r. Curtis. Henry j..
Andrews, William E. Barry. Frank A
Parsons. trustees for three years New
members We're elected as follows: Miss
| '1Voi SID L Ill SOIiS, \. w
wood. Rev. +. l.. Cam and Philip An
drews.
| The Brown Memorial library at East
Baldwin has just been completed and
opened to the public The building is
3oN2O feet 1t contains vestibule, hall.
| reading and delivery rooms. Among
| those who have' contributed books are
Mrs. j L.. Come and Mrs. Mary Wood
man of Cambridgc; j. S. Richardson,
Boston; NJ. h. Murcf. Bemis, N. H.
Mrs. Nancy /. Harmon. California
| Hon. Amos l.. Allen and Hon. William
p. Frye of Washington. d. c.
| West Paris Public Library Association
held it's annual business meeting re-
Gently and the reports showed a cash
balance on hand of over $3.50 and over
$50 volumes in tie library. AS Mr.
| White needs the space in his pharmacy
where the library is located it was vo-
| ted To see if u place could be secured
| for the library. Officers We're elected as
| follows: President. Mr. Clarence G
Morton; vice president. Mrs. Elva f.
Locke; secretary. Miss Jennie NJ
Brown; treasurer, Mrs. F f. Wheeler:
trustees. +. D. Stlwcll, H. H. Ward
we'll l.. G. Bates
| The names OF the new books lust re-
ceived at the South Portland Publ,
Library are as follows: Lucy of the
stars by Frederick Palmer. "Breakers
Ahead" by Maynard Barbour. THE
Wayfarers" by Mary Stewart Cutting.
THE Car of Destiny" by c. ~ and A
NJ. Williamson. 1.-The Chief Legatec" by
a ISfhorit,a NJ
| by Hamlin Garland Tho Lure of the
Mask" by Harold Macgrath, THE
| Evaneei" by z. Phillips Oppenheim.
1.-The Leven of Lcve" by Carrie Louise
Burnham, ''Rosalind at Red Gate" by
Meredith Nicholson. "Buchanan's Wife,
by Justice Miles Forman. 1.-THE Lions
share" by Octave Thapet. "a Favcrite
of Fortune, or In the Land of the
Great White Car" by st. George Rath-
bone. 1.-The Chinese Juggler for Gran
des Plot" by SyIvanus Cobb. Jr, THE
Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allan
and His Green Mountain Boys by John
DeMorgan.
The circulation of books and maya
zines at the Baxter memorial library,
Gorham. during April was as follows:
Fiction. ?91 volumes; current mag
azines. 49,; bound magazines, A.
travel. A.; biography. Sc; history,
Is; literature. Is; sociology IL:
| natural science. II; religion, 10 fine
arts. :; useful arts. 4; philosophy, /
total. 13t9 volumes The latest donors
of books are the follows: Miss Frances
Plaisted. one volume; Miss Gladys D.
Whitney. two volumes. the Maine State
library. IL books and pamphlets, and
Mrs. Mary T.. Waterhouse who has pre-
scented hcurd volume of the Philadel-
phia Repository for the year 1902
Through the courtesy of Hon. William
P. Frye this library has become a de
pository for all publications issued bv
the United states geological survey.