Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1912 — LIBRARY REPORTS FINANCIAL STATUS [ARTICLE]

LIBRARY REPORTS FINANCIAL STATUS

Receipts and Expenditures as Reported to State Library Commission—Many > New Books. Until further notice the library will be closed from five to seven o’clock, the hours being from 10 a. m., to 5 p. m. and from 7 to 9 p. m. Sundays 3 to 5 p. m. The annual report submitted to the State Library Commission, shows the following facts: Income: from city $1,255.34; from township $391.36; from fines $41.26; total $1,687.96. Expenditures: books $194.20; salaries $560; care of building (heat light, janitor, repairs) $1,015; total $1,769.20. Books: volumes in library 6,389. added during year, by purchase 141, by gift 136. Periodicals: 48. Circulation: adult classes 1,350, fiction 6,257, total 7,607; juvenile classes 544, fiction 3,468, total 4,012; total classes 1894, fiction 9,725, total 11,619. Borrowers: total 1,436; added during year 84; number township borrowers 224. The board has had a new copper gutter put on the roof this summer at a cost of $615, which accounts for the large expense on the building. Gifts of periodicals and books were received during the year from the fol-i lowing: Dr. S. E. Sparling, Mrs. E. N. Loy, Mrs. King Davis, Miss Mattie Benjamin, Ernest Lamson, Henrj Smith, Jack iLarsh, Harold Nowels, Mrs. J. D. Allman and family, Marjorie Loughridge, Millard Smith, Mrs. C. G. Spitler, the D. A R. society, the Domestic Science Slub, Mrs. J. D. Martindale and others. The authors: David Tipton, Rev Krull, John Ade and Julia Levering gave copies of their works. Copies of the pamplets: A rural survey in Indiana, and a rural survey in Illinois, spoken of by Prof. Christie of Purdue in his lecture before the Teachers’ Institute, may now be seen at the labrary. Nicholas Longworth, who ran on the republican ticket in Ohio for re-elec-t, tion, probably lost his seat. Unofficial returns show his democratic opponent, Stanley Bowdle, to have received a plurality of 96 votes. Nick will probably contest. He is a son-in-law of Colonel Rooseveu.