The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-01-16
CIVIC CLUB


 fore the Civic Club last Saturday afternoon and told of his intention to take an Indian band from vari- ous towns of Southeastern Alaska to the Congress which will be held in Vancouver, B. c. next month. The members of the band, with the exception of those who join it at ketchikan, will meet here and will give concert in the Gym on Feb. 10th, and small admission fee will be asked to help defray the costs of the trip. The 36 bandsmen will each pay a share in the expense; Staff-Captain Acton has been prom ised some financial assistance, and the rest he must provide. It is for this reason that he was anxious to get the endorsement of the Civic Club as we'll as the Commercial Club, as much publicity as possible being necessary to the success of the band concert. It will be the first time that an Alaska Indian band has appeared in Vancouver and the Territory will get a great amount of publicity of that visit and subsequent visits to New West minister, Victoria and Seattle.
 Following Staff-Captain Acton's departure from the club meeting, it was decided to give every possible aid in the publicity work for the coming concert and the secretary was instructed to advise him that the club would provide dodgers for the event and certain other adver- Using.
 The library report for December showed that the holidays had in- terIerred greatly with reading, only 146 books and 51 magazines having been issued and $40 received in cash. Steps were taken to send a list of the receipts and expendi- lures of the library since May to the Governors office for the re- fund which was provided for lib-  raries at the last Legislative ses- sion.
 The secretary, Mrs. Frank Adams, made an interesting report of the clubs work for the past calendar year showing S1 new books pur- chased, 20 magazines subscribed for, 1715 books and 1036 maga- zines taken from the lending lib- rary. $71.60 received in cash, $36.- 65 received in the Women's Forum advertising campaign to be used for Alaska books, benches which are used on the street during the sum- mer months repaired and painted by the Recreation Committee, ar ticles of incorporation taken out by the club, a Labor Day dance given for the library and a card party for the benefit of the Wran- gell General Hospital. In addition to this and the regular monthly meetings of the club, the library board consisting of Mrs. Gurr, Mrs. Adams and Mrs Mason have held regular meetings to order books and attend to such other duties as come under their supervision, the club receiving the reports of the actual work of the library from L.. B. Chisholm.
 A number of members took ad- vantage of the reduction in club dues offered those who pay for a year at a time For the benefit of those who are paid up to some month during the year but not up to next January, it was stated that it is the desire of the officers that all dues expire during the same month, viz, at the end of the cal endar year, and that members whose dues expire before that will receive | the same reduction by paying up for the balance of the year.
 The following books have been received at the library: The Gate less Barrier, by Lucas Malet, The Blower of Bubbles by Arthur Bev" erly Baxter, Windlestraws by Phyl- | lis Bottome and Swan Song by John | GalsWorthy.