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1951
May 18, 1851
Pillar To Post
Of course you have been saving
things all year for the Library Auc-
tion, things that will bring a good
price on the block, things some-
body else will be glad to buy and
use, things you no longer neéd but
with years of good wear in them.
Maybe some of the new folks who
have recently moved to the Back
Mountain don’t know about the
Library.
The library is a community
affair. Very few libraries are sup-
ported entirely by an interested
community without direct aid from
the tax-payer.
Our library is unusually well
stocked. It sends books around to
the public schools in the Back
Mountain. It has a thriving book
cub whose members pay dues
enough each year to finance abook
apiece. These books are kept for a
reasonable length of time for ex-
clusive use of book club members,
then placed on the shelves for reg-
ular circulation. This assures a
constant stream of the latest books
for general circulation, and these
books do not come out of funds
realized from the annual auction.
But children’s books are in con-
stant need of replacement; the li-
brary has a paid staff as well as
occasional volunteer help, it needs
heat in the winter, grass-cutting in
the summer, repairs all the year
round.
And recently the library has pur-
chased another building next door
to it, and is remodeling it for expan-
sion and much needed space.
All of this costs money.
It is the Library Auction that
furnishes the money.
You’ll have more fun, when you
come to the Auction, if you have
contributed something. Seeing your
own gift on the auction block is
like seeing your first-grader mount-
ing the platform for his first public
appearance.
June 8, 1951
This year’s Library Auction will
have as special attractions a rose-
wood melodeon in perfect working
condition, and a small sized corner
cupboard for dishes.
LL LL
Don’t Let Those Barking Dogs Bite
Into Your Fun
A folding camp chair will take the
weight off your feet at the Back
Mountain Library Auction next
Friday and Saturday.
You will want to spend the eve-
ning as well as the day, and that
folding chair is worth its weight in
gold before midnight.
July 13, 1951
Perfect Weather Prevails
For Fifth Annual Auction
The only thing that was lacking
to make the announced goal of ten
thousand dollars an actuality, was
the time. There was enough mer-
chandise, both old and new, antique
and modern, but not enough time
to get it over the block.
Some lesser antiques were
marked and placed on the trestle
table for direct sale Monday night.
20th ANNUAL
Back Mountain Library
AUCTION!!!
AT FERNBROOK
DALLAS, PA.
We wish you continued SUCCESS
Andrew F. Roan, Inc.
Memorial Highway
July 20, 1951
Safety Valve
A new project was launched suc-
cessfully. The Book Stall cameinto
being and is destined to be an im-
portant factor in the future of the
Auction and the Library.
We accumulated about five thou-
sand books. From these three hun-
dred and fifty were selected to go
on Library shelves. They had an
actual cash value of $350.
Incidentally, if you give us credit
for that—there is your $10,000
goal nearly reached.
Then we cleared $317.45.
Of more value than the books
and the cash is the service the
Book Stall is destined to give to
the community and to the Libr-
ary.
Ruth A. LeGrand
1952
July 11, 1952
Biggest Auction Opens Thursday
Pillar To Post
Gus DeRemer’s horse will be on
hand for rides for the children.
And there’ll be plenty of things for
them to guy. Joe Peterson hasbeen
rounding up comic books as his
special project Every time he
brings in a collection he sits down
and starts to catch up on his litera-
ture.
July 18, 1952
Off to a slowstart Thursday night
because ofthreatening weather, and
definitely in competition with the
Republican Natinal Convention
Friday afternoon and evening, the
Sixth Annual Library Auction
crashed through to a spectacular
ending Monday night establishing
a record gross of more than $10,-
300.
July 25, 1952
Barnyard Notes
“Confidentially, brother, I'm
glad this Auctionis over foranother
year” someone whispered to me out
of the shadows as I went down to
close the chicken coop Saturday
night.
Looking back over my shoulder
I saw the speaker. It was the Barn.
Settling back on his haunches he
was shivering as though a chill
were running up and down his
frame. “I’ve got a splitting head-
ache,” he confined, “and I’m as
gaunt as though I'd been on a
bender for a month. My sides ache.
My timbers are sore. I'm jittery
and wobbly.”
“I'm all bound around with bunt-
ing and pennants and my mouth
tastes as though Napoleon’s army
had marched through. Wherehave
I been?”
I straightened him out on that.
“No,” says I, “You’ve just gone
through the Sixth Library Auc-
tion.” Then he began to regain his
equilibrium.
“So it wasn’t Napoleon’s Army
after all. It was that guy Berti and
Floyd Harris. I remember.”
I suggested a bag of lime or a
sack of cement might settle his
stomach and he seemed pleased
with my solicitude. ‘And the Dodge
and the Plymouth,” he added, ‘I
think Icouldhandlethem. But Lord
deliver me, Icouldn’t digestanother
chair or marbletoptablefora year.
Shiver my shingles if I know
whether I can ever take another Li-
brary Auction.”
HALL'S PHARMACY
wishes continued
SUCCESS
to the AUCTION
on ils
20th YEAR
Shavertown Highway Intersection
Registered Pharmacists on Duty at All Times
J. J. Fedock—E. W. Hall—L. J. Elliott
Open Daily and Sunday 8 A.M. to 10 P.M.