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Mrs. Preston Johnston (above) is the chairman of Friends Of The
Fayette Library, a. group which is being formed in the interest of the

 

 

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new Fayette. county branch of the Lexington Public Library.
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Mrs. Johnston Heads
New Library Group

Mrs. Preston Johnston is chairman
of Friends of the Fayette Library,
a group that is being formed in the
interest of the new Fayette branch
of the Lexington Public ‘Library
which is sponsored by the Fayette
Community Council, the Fayette
county board of education, the Lex-
ington Public Library and the WPA.

Members, to date, of the group
are Mrs. Johnston, chairman, Mrs.
Arch L. Hamilton, Mrs. Cecil Can-
trill, Mrs. J. H. Graves, Mrs. Virgil
Steed. Mrs Robert Meyers, Miss
Josephine Simpson, Mrs. Edward
Wilder, Mrs. Thomas R. Underwood,
Mrs. W. D. Blanding, Mrs. Rodes
Estill, Miss Frances Field Coleman,
Mrs. John H. Roser, Miss Susie Dar—
naby, Mrs. Halley Lisle, Mrs. James
Park, Mrs. Barckley Storey, Mrs.
James M. Todd, Mrs. Joe McDowell,
Mrs. Ben F. Crimm, Mrs- Piatt
Steele, Mrs. Herschel Weil, Miss
Elizabeth Daingerfield, Mrs. Scott
Breckinridge, Mrs. Higgins Lewis
,and Mrs. Robert Lee Stout. '
‘f The Fayette branch of the Lex-~
ington Public Library, which is the
first one of its kind in the United
States, has just completed its first
month of existence with a circula-
tion of 1141 books and magazines.

Seven centers have been opened
in the rural schools and churches oi
the county and in the Fayette coun-
ty courthouse. Mrs. Hammond Du-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. gan is supervising librarian.