A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the August 24, 1916 edition of the newspaper.
Bristol Library Will Move To Larger Spot
The members of the library committee of the Bristol Free Library have decided to rent the entire front of the Blackwood home, corner of Radcliffe and Walnut streets, a portion of which house Is the present home of the institution.
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At the present time the library has two rooms and the hall, with a side entrance. With this new arrangement, beside the present quarter, there will be two rooms upstairs, two downstairs on the first floor and several rooms in the basement.
The library committee, comprising Eugene A. Barrett, Armand V. Morris and Minot J. Hill, made the decision after considerable deliberation.
The rooms upstairs in front of the house will be rented to Miss Mary Rogers, librarian, who will use them as apartments.
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One of the rooms on the first floor will be made into a smoking room.
Complete plans for the use of the additional rooms have not as yet been made.
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Eventually, it is believed that the library will be made into a community center in every way possible, and the present policy of the directors tends to bear out this statement.
No announcement as to the opening of the library has been made, and it is believed that the place will remain closed as long as the baby plague makes progress In Bristol.
(The “baby plague” is a reference to what is now known as the 1916 polio outbreak. Numerous kids were injured and some died in Bucks County.)
An advertisement from the April 30, 1920 edition of the Bristol Daily Courier:
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