Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS.

Wisconsin Set a Good Example in Providing a Traveling Library. The good example set by Wisconsin in providing her soldiers with a traveling library has been imitated by Buffalo. The plan adopted by the latter city is much the same as that in vogue in Wisconsin. Each company is to be given a library of from fifteen to eighteen volumes, incased in a weather-proof box, and the companies will exchange libraries periodically. The work is to be done at

the library, but the reading matter is to be furnished by the people, as also the money needed for cases, transportation, etc. In addition to the bound volumes, It is hoped to send large Quantities of paper-bound volumes, magazines and illustrated newspapers, to be distributed without the requirement of returning them to the company libraries.

READING MATTER PASSED ALONG.