Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-28
MANY TOWNS ESTABLISHING
PUBLIC cENTERs FOR Lit
ERATURE.
ALL RECORDS BROKEN
DURING RECENT MONTHS
Eight Towns Of State Vote Since
March 2 to Establish Libraries
Taxes For Support Voted in Each
lnstance-iowa Now Has 1925 Public
Libraries.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des AIoines, July 2S.-In the period
iowa towns have voted to establish
libraries and all but two Of these are
in counties where no other public
library exists. This is the largest num-
Der of new Libraries to be established
in any one year in the history OF the
library movement in Iowa.
The new libraries voted are in the
following towns: Bedford. Taylor
county; DEBORAH, Winneshiek county;
Waukon, Allamakee county; Green
field .Adair county; Logan, Harrison
county; Malvern. Mills county; Mount
Ayr, Ringgold county, and Hamburg.
Fremont county. Garner in Hancock
county is just completing a new library
building which cost $500, and Traer,
Tana county. is building a $4,000
library. Bedford is to have $4,000
building and several of the other towns
are planning on buildings to cost from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Taxes for the support of these
libraries have been votes in these
towns of from two to five mills, the
majority Of them voting two or three
mill tax.
.5.General interest in the library move
ment is given by Miss Julia Robinson,
secretary of the library commission, as
the cause of so many new libraries be-
ing established. Many of the buildings
will be furnished by the Carnegie
fund. Sufficient taxes are being voted
to maintain first class libraries. The
tax can not however exceed Ave mills
Iowa now has 125 public libraries,
eighty eight of which have Carnegie
buildings. The average library has
from 1900 to 5000 volumes. There are
nine libraries in towns of less than 500
population and four In towns Of less
than 800 people.
Librarians generally are taking adj
vantage Of the summer school main
tanned at Iowa City which gives six
weeks course in library work.
Although the officers and board
members Of the Iowa State Horticul-
tural Society are accepting without a
contest the order Of the state executive
council to give up their rooms on the
main floor of the state house for base
ment rooms in the southeast corner OF
the building, nevertheless they are CIV
ing up these rooms with considerable
regret. The rooms have associations
and history which the older members
Of the society recall with considerable
! feeling.
The late SewaN Foster. OF Muscatine
a member of the society and public
spirited citizen Of his day donated the
wood in which the horticultural rooms
is finished This is black walnut and
catalpa and the timber came from MI.
Fosters farm. Ee had the timber
e1ot re ha$n SJ,i n
Des Moines. The society paid for the
frescoing of the walls and these were
done in designs of fruit and vineyards.
Even the wood carvings over the doors
are suggestive of horticulture. One
specially fine design is a cluster Of
grapes. Other fruits are represented
The furniture was also furnished by
the organization.
The society occupied the rooms con-
tinuously from 1885 to 1895 and then.
when the old arsenal was sold, the ad-
iutant general went into the rooms for
several years After occupying quar-
tiers in the northeast corner of the
basement for a time and then part
of what Is now the treasurers office.
the Horticultural society moved back
into It's old quarters again IN 1905
and have since used these rooms.
Members of the board said yesterday
that they were hoping that they might
have quarters IN the new office build
ing which is contemplated to be erected
some time in the future.
The state insurance department is to
have the horticultural rooms, the hor-
ticuiturai society will have the rooms
in the basement now used by the board
OF control for store rooms and the
board Of control will use the rooms
just north of their main offices now
used by the banking department and
the census department These two de-
partments will go UP stairs in the au-
ditors rooms
Compete in Sale Of chautauqua Tickets.
Special to Times Republican.
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