LIBRARY.

The Roseville Library Association was organized April 6, 1874, under the following management: B. R. Ostrander. president; J. D. Wycoff, vice president; W. T. Gossett, secre­ tary; E. P. Emans, treasurer; G. D. Kent, J. L. Woodmansee, Geo. L. Bostwick, trustees; H. E. Aylsworth, librarian. The books were kept in H. E. Alysworth's drug store for a number of years, and then in a room over the Roseville Union Bank. The association was conducted under the above arrangement until August 15, 1896, when it was incorporated under the state laws. Then money was raised by subscription and the present brick library building was erected. Mrs. Flora A. Aylsworth donated the lot and also the pressed brick for the front of the building, which was completed at a cost of about $1,600, and opened for use September 10, 1898.

The first officers after the incorporation were: J. B. Brown, president; Mrs. E. P. Emans, vice president; Mrs. Eli Dixson, secretary; Gary J. Boyd, treasurer; W. N. Brown, Dr. E. L. iviitchell, trustees; Miss Grace Car- uthers, librarian. Mrs. J. B. Brown is now the president; Mrs. F. S. Rayburn, vice president;------------------------ , secretary; Gary J. Boyd,treasurer; Eli Dixson, R. L. McReynolds, trustees; Miss Edna J. Anderson, librarian. Tru­ man Eldridg, J. B. Brown and Mrs. Irene E. Smith have been liberal supporters of the association, and much of its success is due to them.

The room is kept open every afternoon, and also in the evening during the school terms, for the convenience of the students of the high schools. About 1,000 volumes are in the library, and all the current periodicals are kept on the tables.