The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-08-14

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that there has been an addition of
354 books made to the number Of
volumes in the library, 13 of which
were purchased during the year
and 341 donated. This makes
total of 1890 volumes now in the
libary, divided into classes approx
imately as follows:
Fiction
Adult fiction, 1874 volumes;
juvenile fiction and non-fiction,
2,430 volumes; eight sets of En-
cyclopaedias, 152 volumes; Apple
toms Cyclopaedias of American
Biography 7 volumes; two vol
umes of the Worlds Best Litera-
ture devoted to biography; indiv-
idual Biography, 1919 volumes;
Who's Who in America, 2 volumes;
Who's Who Among North Ameri-
can Authors, volumes; Webster's
International Dictionaries, cop
les, and also many unclassified
books.
History
American History, 83 volumes;
History of the World, 30 volumes;
Nations of the World, 100 volumes;
and Histories Of Foreign Coun-
tries, 142 volumes.
American Poetry
Works of Carey, Emerson, Field,
Harte, Holmes, Lanier, Riley,
Stedman, Poe, Longfellow, Whit
tier, James Russell Lowell, Amy
Lowell, Emily Dickinson and Wat
Whitman.
English Poetry
Works of Robert Browning, FL
izabeth Browning, Burns, Byron,
Eliot, Stevenson, Wordsworth,
Shakespeare, Inglelow, Macauley,
Meredith, Keats, Milton, Moore,
Pope, Shelley and Tenneson.
Literature
Worlds Best Literature, 46 vol
umes; Outlines of American Lit
erature, John Drinkwater, 2 vol
umes; American authors, complete
sets of Bran, the Iconoclast, Mark
Twain, Emerson, Richard Harding
Davis, Bret Harte, 0. Henry, Roe
and Collins. French authors, COM
plete sets, Dumas, DeMaupassant,
Balzac, Hugo and French classics.
English authors, coplete sets: Jane
Austin, Marion Crawford, Charles
Dickens, Ainsworth, Eliot and
Scott.
Useful Arts
Encyclopaedia of Carpentry, 2!
sets; Cyclopaedia of Engineering,
2 sets; Miscellaneous, 5 volumes;
and Business Methods, % volumes.
Fine Arts
Outline of Art, Sir William Or
pen, 3 volumes; Music, SO volumes;
Sculpture, 3 volumes; Etiquette,
2 volumes; Philosophy, 81 vol
umes; Sociology and Economics,
40 volumes; Astronomy, vol
umes; Natural History, Zoology, |
Geology, Mineralogy, AZ volumes;
Books on Religion, 244 volumes;
History of the Art of Writing, 2
volumes; Drama, 23 volumes, In
ternational Short Stories, 80 vol
umes; Masterpieces of Eloquence,
rs volumes, and Mythology, AZ
volumes.
The report shows an increase Of
II subscribers over that of last
year, there were, however, 159 new
subscribers listed but 142 of the
cd names were removed from the
list.
There was a total of 1912 vol
umes of adult and juvenile fiction
loaned and 6,151 volumes of nom
fiction during the year making
total of 24,923 volumes loaned DUR
ing the year, and as the library
was open to the public 298 days, the
average daily circulation was "a
volumes. The circulation Of adult
fiction volumes loaned for the year
has shown decrease while the
adult non-fiction volumes show an
increase of 1854 volumes over
that of the year before.
The library also has a large as
sortment of current magazines on
file.
Books and magazines have been
donated during the year by the
following persons: Elmer Bowler,
Mrs. Matte Browne, Mrs. F.
Schmidt, Mrs. Maye A. Johnson, H.
B. Field, Red Lodge Drug Co.,
Model Drug Store, Ina MARTHA,
Mrs. Frank Durant, Bert Normile,
Gaynell Loughney, DR.. S. M. Sou
lers, Mae Hotchkiss, Edwin and
Iilda Mlekush, Mrs. John Whalen,
ST., Mrs. John G. Skinner, Mrs.
Mary J. Johnson, Mrs. F. Schmidt,
irene Maxi, Mrs. George Heading
ON, Rauha Saastamoinen, Mrs.
George Atherton, Mrs. G. C. Bow
en-, Mrs. E. M. Adams, Mrs. Lorin
American Legion Auxi- '
larry, Mrs. A. G. Slovenian, Mrs.
Melvin Webb, Mrs. G. R. Schmidt, ;
Mrs. Harry Gearhart, Mrs. Theo-
lore Cruel, Rev. Thomas Starkle,
Mrs. H. V. Cartwright, Mrs. Chas. {