Public documents of the State of Connecticut . of our best known poets. The firstyear 525 volumes were drawn from library. The past year very littleinterest has been shown in the library. Ashford.— Archibald Babcock, who willed $3,000 to this town, was aformer resident of the town. In his will, which was dated October, 1S62,he gave to the town of Ashford $6,000, one-half to be used in establish-ing a public library and the other half for the maintenance of a band ofmusic. The interest of the $3,000 for the library had to be used for thefirst fifteen years wholly in the purchase of books, after
Public documents of the State of Connecticut . of our best known poets. The firstyear 525 volumes were drawn from library. The past year very littleinterest has been shown in the library. Ashford.— Archibald Babcock, who willed $3,000 to this town, was aformer resident of the town. In his will, which was dated October, 1S62,he gave to the town of Ashford $6,000, one-half to be used in establish-ing a public library and the other half for the maintenance of a band ofmusic. The interest of the $3,000 for the library had to be used for thefirst fifteen years wholly in the purchase of books, after that a portion ofthe interest could be used for furnishing a room and paying a use of the books is free to all the inhabitants of the town, under therules established by a library committee. One of the rules is that eachfamily in the town can have five books at a time and keep them eightweeks. Avon.— In the winter of 1883 and 84 there was formed a LiteraryClub for the study of Shakespeare and our own poets, which flourished.
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