History of Madison County

West Jefferson Book Society

From History of Madison County, W. H. Beers & Co, Chicago, 1883

Page 644

This society was organized in the spring of 1875, besides which there was a branch society consisting of twenty-five members. The main society bound itself to supply $400 worth of serial reading matter. The object of the society was to encourage a taste in the community for good reading, believing that, if such a taste is once established, it will do more to cultivate, refine and civilize mankind than all that spasmodic reformers can accomplish. Unfortunately, the society was of short life, and in August, 1875, Mat Stutson bought the books and put them in his circulating library.

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