An important feature of the meeting was the discussion of the proposed library building. The office building on the court house was given to the club women by Mr. J.W. Stout for a consideration of $2,000, the sum required to move it from the square to make room for the new court house to be erected. The women will move the building to the site where the jail now stands, the commissioners (line obscured) donated the ground on which the building will stand as long as it is used for public purposes. The club proposes to convert the building, which is a very substantial structure, into a public library, a nucleus of 300 books having already been started. Every effort will be made to establish a library that will be a credit to the town and the community. Eight-five members are now enrolled n the club which made great strides during the past administration.
In thanking the club women for their co-operation and loyal support during the past two years, Mrs. Patterson said in conclusion, “Let service be our watchword for our reward in the new day will be measured by this, and let us remember that we shall not have done our duty if the fashioning of the reforms that come with the new civilization bear not the touch of our hand.”
Mrs. Hooks, the new president, asked for the same support that had been according the retiring officers setting as the goal for the club the making of the town a cleaner, healthier and lovelier community in which to live.
From the Charlotte News, Sunday morning, March 20, 1921
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