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...village only 50 miles from Times Square. The villagers and commuters like its quiet, colonial atmosphere, are glad that their town is not growing by leaps & bounds. One of the things they like best is the small, one-story stone building on a peaceful street called the Pequot Library. There, among thrillers and romances, Southporters could find row after row of ancient, leatherbound volumes mostly describing life in colonial times. The old books had been there for years, and people enjoyed browsing through them, though few of them seemed to give the old books much serious thought...
Auctions for the Ladies. The Pequot Library Association knew that the old books were the gifts of two wealthy Southport ladies, Mrs. Virginia Monroe and Mrs. Mary Wakeman. Mrs. Monroe, who donated the library, which opened in 1893, made it her hobby to collect interesting old books for its shelves. A third Southport resident in love with Americana was the Rev. William H. Holman, pastor of the town's Congregational Church. Pastor Holman made it his business to read over rare-book bibliographies and go to auctions for the ladies. His own records show that in 25 years...
...Pequot's directors thought it best not to ballyhoo the collection: if the books were known to be worth $15,000, someone might steal them. Librarian Edna...
Werrey picked out a few of the oldest-looking items and locked them in her vault; the rest were left standing on Pequot's shelves for the people of Southport to enjoy. Then, after the war, inflation hit Southport and the library began having money troubles...
...tagged have been hooked). Richard Lavesque, nine-year-old polio victim, walked from his home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches of prizes, including 104 cases of Pepsi-Cola...