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Dates in Our History

Social Library, Town Hall 1792

Shrewsbury Free Public Library 1872

Jubal Howe Memorial Library 1903

Artemas Ward Annex 1925

NUMBER OF READERS: 5,047

Adult Department 4,200

Juvenile Department 847

There are about 52,000 volumes in the Library, 3,000 volumes in the

Schools.

Two DEPOSIT STATIONS:

Edgemere Market, Edgemere

Fire Station, Harrington Avenue, Fairlawn

LIBRARY HOURS:

Main Library - 1-8 P.M.

Juvenile Department - 12-6 P.M.

Edgemere Market - Store Hours

Fire Station - Tuesday and Friday -'- 7-8 P.M.

The Library hopes in the future as in the past to provide such additional

services as the growing community requires.



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Program

PRESIDING MR. LESTER HUNTER

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

GUEST SPEAKER MRS. MARION T. RUDKIN

Tea in the Artemas Ward Room.

The new planting in front of the library is dedicated to our guest of

honor, Dr. Myrtle Smith, secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1926

to 1953.

Library Staff

Librarian Gertrude E. Robson

Assistants Mrs. Philip Wilder, Avis M. Kemp

Children's Librarian Mrs. Olive G. Nason

Assistant Mrs. Gladys E. Pratt

Custodian Belton S. Wall

Board of Trustees

Lester Hunter, Chairman

S. Erwin Bacon, Mabel Jacobsen

John F. Britton, Ernest A. Larrabee

Herbert M. Carleton, Clara Lerner

Edith Dean, Rev. Edward W. Lynch