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Date	1903/05/27
Organization name	Wayne County Public Library
Industry Sector	Information > Libraries and Archives
Year	1903
Newspaper title	Wooster Republican
Page number	3
Article title	School Board Takes Over the Wooster Public Library

Wooster Republican May 27, 1903 Page 3, column 5

SCHOOL BOARD TAKES OVER THE WOOSTER PUBLIC LIBRARY

At Once Appoints Old Board Library Trustees and Prepares to Accept Carnegie’s Offer

As was stated in the Republican on Thursday the steps preliminary to accepting the offer of Andrew Carnegie for the building and maintaining of a free public library in Wooster were taken on Wednesday evening. The last legislature passed a law which gives boards of education the power to levy a small tax for the purpose of supporting free public libraries and after a consultation with the trustees of the Wooster Free Library Association it was decided to act under this law. The trustees of the free library association at the meeting Wednesday evening adopted the following resolution:

Resolved, that it is the sense f the board of trustees of the Wooster Free Library association that they transfer to the board of education of Wooster, the library entire and all effects and property of every kind now held by them, including lease f rooms occupied by the association, provided that said board of education proceeds at once t act and operate under “An Act, Authorizing boards of education to provide library privileges for city, village and special school districts, passed October [unreadable] 1902, by the legislature of Ohio.

James Mullins, President, H.D. Stauffer, secretary

BOARD ACTS

The members of the board of education [unreadable] John C. Schultz and Dr. George W. Ryall, at a meeting held on Thursday evening passed the following resolution prepared by City Solicitor H. H. Hubbell. The resolution is as follows:

Resolved. By the board of education of the Wooster City school district, that it is deemed advisable and hereby is determined by the said board of education to establish and maintain a public library free to all the inhabitants of the said school district.

That said board of education or a board of library trustees that may be appointed by the said board of education shall Purchase a site for a free library building, erect a suitable library building thereon and maintain the same in a manner as provided in the aforesaid act of the legislature.

After adoption of this resolution the board of education appointed all of the former members of the trustees of the Wooster Free Library association as the board of trustees of the Library association for terms as follows: Seven Years. James Mullins; six years A. D. Metz: five years, Charles Haupert; four years Geo. J. Schwartz; three years, W. O. Beebe; two years F. W. Miller; one year, Rev. H. d. Stauffer.

There is much speculation as to where the library shall be located Some say that it is as good as settled that it will be on the old Quinby opera house lot, others that it is to be on the Larwill lot on North Market stree. Many taxpayers are urging the use of the No. 3 school house lot, corner Larwill and Walnut streets, arguing that the site is as god as either the other two, ‘the same distance from the square as the Quinby lot, but possessing the advantage that if this lot is chosen that there need be no expenditure for a site, which in view of the city’s heavy indebtedness, should cut a figure.

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