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upper and lower thirds white
blanks and tile papers Can
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a given job and you dont have to paint
so often You get a full gallon for every
gallon you buy and honesty in quality
and quantity is the most satisfactory
paint to buy
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In the summer of 1902 after the failure of the auditorium project
Miss Rache Berry former principal of our high school and C H
Meeker along with a few other citizens concluded that a public
forces were joined and
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library was a neccessary
money solicited from our businessmen The response was generous
and 500 in cash was obtained for immediate use and 500 more
was subscribed to be paid monthly for a period of six months
When matters reached this stage the mayor and city council ap
pointed a board of directors and voted the two mill tax allowed by
law for the support of public libraries The board consisted of the
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George Willetts Jr Sylvester Cordeal and Miss Rache Berry The
board elected Miss Berry president Mr Bingham vice president
Mrs Cordeal secretary
Lists of books were selected and ordered The county commis
sioners were induced to allow the board the use of a room in the
basement of the court house for temporary quarters Messes Meeker
and Cullen the committee on supplies procured the necessary
cards blank books cases etc Many citizens aided the enterprise
bv donations of books some old some new but all acceptable at
that time Judge J S LeHew loaned about a hundred volumes
and a case to contain them for a period of two years or until called
for Many magazines were donated and by using patent binders
there were about volumes of bound magazines ana a rooi b
index to facilitate their use
Miss Millie Elbert was the first librarian Thus equipped the
library was formally opened to the public on September 10th 1902
and turned over to the mayor and city council -
The first yearly report from the library showed 1310 books 77
magazines an encyclopedia of 24 volumes a Bible Websters dic
tionary besides 20 monthly magazines and six daily and weekly
newspapers
The number of visitors from September 10th 1902 to May 31st
1003 was 20720 Number of books loaned 12208
In addition to the books in the local library the State Library
association sends a box of books every three months and these
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Andrew Carnagie the great library giver has made a gift of
10 000 to the people ol McCook for a library building The
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Avenue just immediately south of the splendid stone Methodist
church and the future superb Carnegie library building how awaits
the report of the architect when work will be prosecuted vigorous
ly and during the summer it is confidently expected the library
will be housed in its own well appointed and handsome structure
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books are loaned to the public on the same conditions and terms as
those belonging to the McCook library
of the library 2500 books and
There are now on the shelves
bound magazines an achievement of which the city may well De
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McCook is the county seat of Red Willow county and the just
nHHe of all southwest Nebraska Red Willow county has a
Jation of about 1 5000and its growth is steady and healthful Here
is located the 20000 court house built by tne generous people ot
this city a handsome well appointed structure equipped in a mod
ern way and offering every convenience to the people in the trans
action of their county business
As A General Market
McCook affords the best market for produce of any place be
tween Denver and Lincoln The great majority of its citizens be
ing employed in the various departments of the railroad service or
engaged in the mercantile business or the practice of the professions
they have little opportunity for producing the many articles of daily
diet such as vegetables of all sorts poultry and the many cereals
which in one form or another enter into the western bill of fare
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Truck farming poultry farming dairying and suchlike are very
nrnfitahle and are beinsr quite well attended to and much of the
Droduct finds a remunerative
mining districts of the west
market in the mountainous
McCook Has
Bank deposits approximating 750000
Twenty miles of water mains
Voted 10000 bonds for a main sewer
Voted 32000 bonds for the swellest high school building m
Western Nebraska
Plans preparing for a 10000 Carnegie Free Fublic Library
building
A wide awake Commercial Club of nearly- ioomembers
A population of 4000
A 20000 court house