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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Apr 1935, p. 14

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W.'1l put as, much as $M00ini your possmpon Frindiwtin48 hou*. d thengive you as long Y, linoenvenient monthly lnstallmeuts YOU are l beral charged only for the unpaidpàrt cof,your loan, aud only for the period you keep, the oôney, so you control the cost. Inqufre about our redu'ced raies 78Cburdu 'Street Service WU..*t. 4042 Uvande. Auto, FURNUTURI& CO-MAKI loAttums Uw IN Tfui NU!S WOMUNS SHOP learned this week by Miss Amije Whitmack, librarian of the Wilmette public library. ýMen and women in many sections of the starte -are signing petitions and- rousing their neighbors, to -see the significance of -the. library 'legislation to their own communities, according to a report just received by Michael F., Gallaglier, chairman of the legis- lative committee of the Illinois Li- brary association. idpeopleare beginning to see. that libraries are ýas, important as scbools, especially to young people who can -no longer go to scbool and must.de- pend' upon the library. as their main source of education,'" said Mr.. Galla- gher after a meeting of library ex- perts from the state, called in Chicago recently. Reports were made on the progrlesade&inathe present e8wi- paign to acquaint people with the im- portance of the library buis which are expected to come up for a hearing in the appropriations committee in April. To bring library service to 2,000,000 people in the state now without it is the main purpose of House Bill No. 402, it was explained. If the bill passes, the sum of $500,000 would be appropriated each year for a two- year period from the general fund ofý Mr. '.aagner ïn commentflng UonthéV bill. "Illie legislation will not require the construction of new buildings,. or any new boards or commissions. A state-wide book service will be or- ganized trouglî exigting ibraries Normnan R. Willimu North Shore Agent State Farai Mutual Auto lusl. C. Have -me tell you how this contlnuotas pollcy plan 1 Mrs. fIEN«rC.LYTTON &SONS Sherum«an d Ch.rcb-4VANSTON thie state; Registered borrowers in Illinois in 1933 numbered nearly two hundred thousand more than the combined en- roilment of students in public scliools, normal schools and the state univer- sity, according to Mr. Gallagher. For the' eigbt cents per capita spent .on book service,«llinois citizens bor-. rowed' from their libraries approxi- mateiyý $10 per capita Wortb of books. *Two other library bis, H.B. 403 and 404, now before 'the legisiature, provide >f'or the certification of libra- rians in free tax.-supported lIibraries, it was explainied. These require future employees, Of libraries to meet- rea- sonable eduica tional requirements.* Odd-,FellowsSponsor Dance Entertainment A. T'. Sherman Lodge No. 892, 1. O.1 O0. F., wi11 give a dance and entertain- ment at its hall, 1213 Wilmette ave- nue, Wilmette, Thursday evening, April 25. There will be two big floor shows , and'the'dC4èpr faniily will pre- sent a gala bill billy show. Mrs. Cooper is the mother of Lula B3elle, WLS radio star, -and witb ber, will appear ber husband and son. The en- tertaintuent will be folloved by. a' dance which, it is said, will continue as long as anyone wants to dance. Mrs. H. A. Scribner, 717 Kent road, Kenilworth, is leaving Saturday for New York where she will spend twô weeks visiting ber sister, Mrs. Wil-. lard> Duckworth ini White Plains~ N. Y. Miss Martha Richardson of Kenil- w ortb, a senior at Simmons college in Boston, left Saturday after ber spring bolidays. She will visit in Springfield, Mass., before returning to scbool. George, Benson, Jr., 210 Mefrose avenue, Kenilworth, a freshman ait Princeton, arrived 'Saturday to spend bis spring vacation,.at bis home. ýy\>

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