Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-03-10
IMPROVEMENT OF LIBRARY
Pertinent Suggestions on Book Do
nations by DIR. Porter

| EDITOR CENSOR: ! wish that all the
residents of this vicinity were aware of
the value of the Carnegie Library to
the boys and girls and grown ups of
Viroqua. Every time have visited it
this winter / have found a good num-
Der of young people and several older
ones reading in the warm, light, agree
able rooms. Some of these readers
came from homes not the best in the
city, and no doubt were pleased with
the change to an almost perfect envir-
onment there. The thought came to
me, can do anything to enlarge the
sphere of usefulness of our library
Reader, hope the same thought will
come to you
You and l have dozens of books we
have read and they lie on our shelves
dead property, doing no one any good
Why not give them or loan them to the
library where they will do good | am
growing old and have not long TO stay
and when | am gone who knows where
my library will go?
have lot OF old school books, 80 to
100 years old | will donate them to
the library and want others to re
theirs, II the manage ment W s.Ss.
Again let us collect all the Wisconsin
iauia" We can, not only hooks of the
past but of the present A lot of them
are out of print, and cannot be bought
The books of the old pioneers will in so
years be mighty interesting and valu-
able. Grandmother Nuzum and each
gave a volume of DR. Alfred Brunson's
Autobiography; he was one of the ear
Hest presiding elders to visit Viroqua,
and hope the clergy of Viroqua will
read them. One has notes in it made
by Rev G.. w Nuzum. Mr. Alexander
has Strong's History of Wisconsin; so
has the CENSOR editor. Let them flip
coppers to see who gives his copy to
the library. had Smiths History of
Wisconsin, 2 volumes, rare and valua-
BILE; the library got it "Have you Rev.
VIM. Haughton's SyIvicols," | asked
librarian. Miss Dahl mo, we have
not, was the answer. Yet their au-
thor was one of the best loved men that
ever lived in Vernon county. For forty
years he taught and lectured and preach
ed and gave his life for the upbuilding
of our people and yet not a copy of his
early poems is to be found in the libra
ry where he worked so faithfully dur.
ing his last years for very little pay.
Let somebody give copy of "Sylvaco-
la to the library or will have to steal
my wife's copy Ida Goe gave her. and
that will not do. DIR Chapman wrote
a book; Miles Dawson wrote another
Let us have them. Dear old DR.. Gott
wrote a Case book while in New York
hospital sixty years ago, and | believe
another while IN the U. S. army. Will
not his daughters loan those books to
the library that future medical men
may read them and admire the work
done by that scholarly pioneer doctor
of Vernon county. No doubt Col. Butt
has lot of valuable books he will give;
perhaps some he got in the army. And
how interesting will be, when another
half century has passed. the diaries
kept by soldiers in our civil war. May
be Jimmie Rogers and Henry Costing
have such diaries they will give. l
have sumo pamphlets, one is by Sylvan
us Bennett describing the Viroqna tor.
| nado. IL is prize essay on tornados.
The library can have IL. | have o. By
ron Copper's Meath the Evergreens
by the poetical founder of the ARGUS"
and have Serious Thoughts Concern
| ing Our Existence" by Chris Urdahl,
of Viroqua. and the famous cred Book"
+ of Governor Phillip. and last but not
least the Poems Of II. L. the Mt
Sterling pOetess What of Wisconsin
iania' have you TO give who read this?
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