White Bluffs Opens Its First Public Library
After years of planning, the Woman's Club establishes a public space for books in a local store.
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For several years, the Woman's Club of White Bluffs has planned for a public library. That reality has now arrived: C. C. Coleman has built a neat set of shelves, and Mrs. C. B. Luhmann has provided space for them in her store with convenient lighting. Many citizens have donated books to create a permanent collection, and the state traveling library has provided a generous long-term loan of fiction, history, and agricultural texts. The library will be open every Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m., with Mrs. M. S. Meeks serving as librarian.
“We are happy to announce that on March 1st, our library is ready for service.”
The establishment of a library by a local Woman’s Club reflects the era's civic activism where women’s organizations filled critical gaps in public services that municipal governments had yet to formalize.
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