Harris County Public Library Scrapbook (1941-1948)

C.W«4i «сДе^. Su-v- 4 ~ 24 ~ у у Bookmobile to Be Laid Up for Repair I - Зо-о-^ ya^'4 ^ T w ’ Book Reviewers Plan Annual Guest Day Tea The Harris County Public Li¬ brary’s Bookmobile will be laid up for repairs all of the month of February, it was announced Sat¬ urday. This will necessitate the cancellation of all trips scheduled for the month. In addition to the cancellation of all trips during February the bookmobile will be unable to make a trip scheduled for Monday to the Lutheran School, Oakwood at Brough’s and the Roosevelt School. Gwen Bristow’s “Tomorrow Is Forever” will be reviewed by Mrs. Hugh Echols May 3 when Book Review club is host at its annual guest day tea at Baytown Com¬ munity house. Plans for the fete were made this morning at the regular meeting at Goose Creek branch library. Mrs. J. L. Franklin, Jr., re¬ viewed “Bonin” by Robert Stand- ish. Bookmobile Will Resume Its Regular Schedule Wednesday Atending were Mesdames W. L. Pendergraft, a guest, G. H. Ship- ley, Jr., J. N. Chatfield, L. J. Reilly, W. L. Ilfrey, О. H. Dawson, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Echols, G. A. Lillie, Lynn Hodges, and D. C. Kelly. V'Va.vx1^' THE COUGAR CRY, The Bookmobile, the Harris County traveling library, will re- : j sume its regular schedule of trips Wednesday, Librarian Reba An- jderson announced today. Mrs. Anderson explained that JUNE 9, 1944 TOMBALL LIBRARY HAS NEW BOOKS j the Bookmobile has been undergo¬ ing extensive repairs since Janu¬ ary1 31, when all trips until March 22 were cancelled. The following stops will fall on previously announced dates and .will be repeated every three I weeks. Wednesday: Channelview School, 1 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Channelview | Post Office, 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.: j 12910 Lila Lane in Woodland ’Acres, 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. | Friday: Harris County Girls’ School, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.; Almeda School, 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Foster Place Elementary School, 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. Harris County Library News The Pasadena Branch of the Library located on the corner of Vince and Broadway is open ev¬ ery week day afternoon except holidays. The month of January saw the largest circulation of books we have ever had and altho February is a short month with a ; holiday, it seems to be running a ; very close race. Over a hundred books have been brought out from the central Library in Houston in the last month. Some of them, new ones. Among which are copies of Loyd C. Douglass: “The Robe;” John Roy Carlson’s “Under Cover;” George H. Clarke’s: “New Treas¬ ury of War Poetry;” new books for small children and Juveniles. Current magazines received are Readers Digest, Better Homes and Gardens, Geographic Magazine, Popular Mechanics and the Air- 1 plane News. ~ ~ TOMBALL, TEiA^ FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944 COUGAR CRY, ~JULY 28, 1944 TOMBALL BRANCH OF THE HARRIS COUNTY public Library The Tomball Branch of the Harris County Library, open each Friday, from 2 :30 to 4 :30, is located in the City Hall. One of the interesting new books this month, DUEL IN THE SUN by Ni¬ ven Busch, is soon to be made into a movie. The story centers around the love af¬ fairs of an early Texas out¬ law, a woman whose beauty was equalled by her daring. Readers who enjoyed A- How many Tomball resi¬ dents have noticed the shel¬ ves of books in the City Hall? These four or five hundred books are availa¬ ble to any county resident free of charge because they are a part of the Harris County Public Library. The County Library is maintain¬ ed by funds appropriated j from the Genreal Fund by I the county commissioners, j Last year the budget for ! the Library provided coun¬ ty-wide library service at a rate of only 15 cents per person. The citizens of ru¬ ral Harris County have ac- TOMBALL LIBRARY BOVE SUSPICION by Helen Machines will like tne new novel by the same autnor. WHILE STILL WE LIVE has for its heroine a spunky English girl spy who aias the Poles during the Dac- tle of Warsaw. Love cap¬ tures a girl whom the Eaz.s couldn’t catch. Seldom has the mood of suspense been so well sus¬ tained as in THE VISITOR. If you liked REBECCA read this thriller without a corpse but don’t spoil your friends’ fun by telling them whether the VISITOR is the missing son or the son’s murderer. New murder stories: THE BABY IN THE ASH CAN (a lucky child he was, too!) by the author of LADY IN LILAC. THE MAN WITH THE LUMPY NOSE : Proba¬ bly the first “Who Done It” where the murderer is found by the clues in the cartoons. Watch your lines aand you’ll be ready to catch him by the time the detective is. cess to 47,253 books, 26,211 adult, 21,042 juvenile. These books are distributed through forty community I and school branches, and through 3 0 bookmobile stops. Once each month one of the trained librarians from the central office of the County Library in Hous¬ ton brings books to Tom¬ ball and takes in books which are not being read in Tomball for use in some other branch. In the Tomball Library I children of all ages can find books which they will en¬ joy. Many wise parents take advantage of the summer months b у encouraging their children to read in or¬ der that September will find the children ready to do bet¬ ter work in school because of improved reading abili¬ ty. Adult readers can find books such as mysteries and l love stories which will en- 1 able them to escape for a few hours from the worries of everyday life. For those who want to learn how to do things the Library has been able to secure techni¬ cal books on such subjects as welding, radio, aviation, and first aid. F’or people I w’ho want to know about the j war and to follow through j reading the experiences of ! their loved ones in the ser- | vice there are many up-to- \ date books. Any book not at present in Tomball may be secured by filling out a request slip with the name or subject of the book. Citizens о f Tomball, Huff smith, and the sur¬ rounding territory may ob¬ tain books from the Tom¬ ball Library by giving their names and addresses to the librarian in the City Hall. Children are asked to have their parents sign their cards. Out-of-county or j temporary residents of the I community may have books j by putting up a deposit which will be returned when | they are ready to stop us¬ ing the Tomball Library. Books may be kept for two wppVc nnd renewed once. The Tomball Library cir¬ culated twice as many books in June as in May. Eighty books were added to the Tomball collection on July 22. Among them are a num¬ ber of books just received from the publishers. Canal Town by Samuel Hopkins Adams is the most interesting novel added to the Tomball Library this month. Canal Town is the story of a young doctor’s struggle in 1820 against ma¬ laria, dysentery, and ignor¬ ance in Palmyra, New York. During this period little was known about medicine. Or¬ thodox doctors still consid¬ ered blood-letting necessary in many diseases. Even the most recent graduate of a medical school found it ad¬ visable to keep a can of leeches in his office. Anes¬ thesia and germs were un¬ known. Malaria was thought to be lurking in the night air or in the marshes. Only the young doctor and a gyp¬ sy woman suspected that mosquitoes, not fog, carried the disease. The young doc¬ tor’s determined efforts to clean up Palmyra angered the leading citizens, even though epidemics almost stopped the building of the Erie Canal. Suit was brought against the doctor and he lost his license to practice medicine. Through all his troubles to his final triumph, the doctor’s most loyal sup¬ porter was a young girl who was as willful and uncon¬ ventional, though not as sel¬ fish, as Scarlett O’Hara, Canal Town is a novel which makes yesterday’s scandals and problems seem as vivid as today’s. _ Felly Library Gets Mew Books I nil tw A variety of new books haw V€ just been received by the p.ii, J • branch of the Harris County pub T lie library, it was announced clay by Mrs. Frieda Stern, librnr In the fiction group are a stit ring romance of the days of at tiaders, Captain Ebony,” th Hamilton Cochran, and an out in standing novel of the year, Stood the Wind for France,’ it m' Daily Son 7-12-44 Thirty New Books In Goose Creek Library Thirty new books were received at the Goose Creek branch of the Harris County public library this week, Mrs. С. T. Shewell, librar¬ ian, said today. Included in the group are “Homeward the Heart,” a best seller, “A Mocking Bird Is Sing¬ ing,” and Grace Moore's biogra¬ phy, "You're Only Human Once.” “Ten Ycdrs in Japan,” non-fiction, which has been very much in de¬ mand in the library, also is avail- blc, Mrs. Shewell said. Those who wish to read the new books may leave their appli- 1 cations for them now, Mrs. She¬ well said. _ H. E. Bates. Others are “Breath re Upon These," an appealing hi) от; man interest novel by Ludwi u Lewisohn; “Air Mission to A Riers." a story of action and У venture by Frederick Nelson Я M ton; “What Became of Anna B r}, ton.” by the author of “The PuJ R Came,” Louis Bromfield. J A story of Texas is “Duel in Й ПИ Sun,” by Niven Busch; “ВШ so Glory" by Rosamond DuJardiil -yy an absorbing romance. An bila A ions story of a close,t skeletoi found in "Ezra and Me” by H; Persons Taber. Those to whom stories of west rfppcal will enjoy “Courj Stout.” "No Range is Free" “Wilderness Trek,” a novel Australia, by Zane Gray. Also there are many mysl stories such as "So Much Bio by Zelda Popkin and “The ,\i Ш with the Lumpy Nose!" ‘by l.aj be ronoe Larier. Several non-fiction books on ai T ga venture, travel, politics; books! 111 recreation, information and )| it! tory were received, Mrs. Stff said. There also are a numi of new books for children. ■ Library hours are from 3 (ж th p.m. each day except Sunday.! fc Ц cc Daily Son 8-25-44 J Ly _ _ Book Review Club Hears Mrs. Armendt пул 1 a m tl d, Jj w “Canal Town” by Samuel loins was reviewed by Mrs. Aimendt Wednesday mon when Book Review club metl Goose Creek branch library! P Attending were Mesda Charles K. Scott, J. R. Read. C. Burkett, W. T. Ilfrey of H| ton, Hal Woodall, guests; Jl ’ Franklin, Jr., W. K. Puderbai 9] A. . F. Lockhart, D. C. Kelly, I Trenekmann, W. L. Ilfrey, G| • H. Shipley, Thomas H. Halej “ B. Franklin, .Bynum Turner, 1 th Chatfield, and Hugh Echols.l th - - - - 4 w: pc CO fl] В va al of ra of ci; Fines of five cents a weekj are charged if the books are * kept out overtime. ' In Tomball Mrs. Hardy Gilliam is the volunteer li- brarian. Why not £0 to the City Hall some Friday af- ' ternoon between 2:30 and 4:30 and let Mrs. Gilliam show you some of the good books in the Tomball Li- ■bvary?