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Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 344-345

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Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.

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Page 344 Record of Proceedings Relating to The Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Mich., Aug. 1922.
Bills allowed Aug. 21, 1922:
#233. S. H. Aldrich book pockets — $1.50
E. K. Johnson & Sons janitors supplies — 4.55
Burt B. Wright mending 6 mos — 4.25
D. M. Beckwith spraying 5 trees — 1.65
Baker Taylor Co. 6 books — 14.29
City of Howell water — 19.62
Wagonvoord & Co. binding — 23.83
Esther Yerkes Assist-Libn — 50.00
Winnifred Brown Lib'n — 60.00
A. J. Brown Janitor — 60.00
Detroit Edison Co. [No amount listed]
Michigan S. Telephone Co. [No amount listed]
Wm McPherson & Son Invoice Bk Grass seed — 13.00
A regular meeting of the Library Board was held Aug. 28, 1922. The president, M. J. McPherson in the chair, Mr. Shields and Mrs. Huntington present. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Bills for August were signed a week ago by M. J. McPherson and Frances J. Shields. Order blank for six books 'The Book House for Children' $31.00 cash was signed by Mr. McPherson. Motion to adjourn. Carried. Mrs. W. C. Huntington Sec. per M.W.B.
Miss Esther Yerkes closed her work as Assistant Sept. 2, 1922.

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Page 345 Record of Proceedings Relating to The Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Mich., 1922.
A special meeting was held Sept. 2, '22 at the library. Members present: Mr. M. J. McPherson and Mrs. W. C. Huntington. Member absent: Frank J. Shields. It was moved and carried that Miss Brown's salary be raised from sixty to seventy five dollars per month, beginning Sept. 1st 1922.
Bills allowed Sept. 25, 1922:
#246. The Book House for Children Co. 6 bks — $31.00
Winnifred Brown Sept. salary — 75.00
Esther Yerkes 2 days work — 3.34
A. J. Brown Sept salary — 60.00
Detroit Edison Co. lights [No amount listed]
Mich. State Telephone Co ' phone — 2.88
Larkin & Krueger supplies — 4.03
Library Bureau book cards — 2.60
September 26, 1922. Library Board meeting was held. M. J. McPherson, president in chair. Mr. F. J. Shields, absent. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. It was moved and carried that the usual list of forty five magazines and papers be ordered for 1923. List submitted by librarian cost $136.00 net, regular price $143.60.
It was moved and carried that the following books be purchased:
Java Head, Hergesheimer.
This side of Paradise, Fitzgerald.
Moon Calf, Floyd Dell.
The Triumph of the Egg.
Our American, Frank.