FOURTH OF OF JULY

Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?
Here some of the questions often asked when applying for
citizenship. How many can you answer?
1. How many stripes are there on the U.S. flag?
2. Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court today?
3. In what year was the Constitution written?
4. What is guaranteed by the First Amendment?
5. How many Supreme Court justices are there?
7. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
8. What are the 13 original states?
9. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death"? Come to the library to find answers. WE JUST RECEIVED ““WE THE PEOPLE BOOKSHELF. There are BOOKs, DVD’s, CD’s about being “CREATED EQUAL” in this bookshelf. Just in time for the 4th of July

SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Catch the Reading Bug! Come sign up for our summer reading program anytime the library is open. Anyone under 18 will get to pick a book that they will be able to take home at the end of our program by reading this summer. Summer storytime starts this Thursday the 19th at 10:30.The Library is having a contest to Create a Bug, stop by and pick up the rules and have the bugs turned in by June 30.

SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Summer Reading is finally here! Catch the Reading Bug and Metamorphosis @ the library, are our themes this year. What do the words butterflies, honeybees, grasshoppers and fireflies have in common? They refer to bugs, and each is a _______ word. Visit the library and check out some interesting books. Look for compound words in your summer reading. Get ready and join us for our kick-off party on Tuesday, June 10 at 10:00 at the park.

OLD SCHOOL RECORDS

Picture of the Newton Rock School built in 1873 with an 1892 addition.
In 1871 Franlin W Young buildt a good size log house in which the first school was taught by Elizabeth Annie Griffin.
In 1873 a new school house was built. It was 23 x42 feet/ erected on the east side of the public square.The people taxed themselves 3 percent for three years to raise means for its construction..
The library has records of the school in Newton from 1875 including 1886 , Also 1891/1892. These are great genalogy tools as they list students and parents for this peiod of time. We have one copy that can be checked out .
From some notes: The Newton School was "to begin and close at the pleasure of the trustees."and teachers signed contracts without knowing how long the school was to be run. The minutes of March 19, 1897, state that the, "Nest question how long shal the prymary School be kept up it was agree to keep it up as long as there are puble anough for 2 Schooles and mony will hol out"
Late in 1896 the two teachers were each given about the equivalent of two months, salary because, as the record reads,
they were"in need of som paiment "

Poem by Helen Parsons

Don’t steal this book my honest lad,
For fifte cents it cost my dad,
And when you die the Lord will say,
Who stold that book away,
And you will say, I do not no,
And he will cast you down below,

By Helen Parsons, she wrote this poem in one of her grammar books while going to the Newton Elementary School bewteen 1876-1880
Helens family was one of the early families in Newton.

WE THE PEOPLE BOOKSHELF

WE JUST RECEIVED THE FOOLOWING BOOKS DUE TO A GRANT FROM “WE THE PEOPLE BOOKSHELF called CREATED EQUAL” Please thank your congressmen for supporting this program·
Joseph,Nez Percé Chief 1840-1904.·
The ugly duckling /Hans Christian Andersen·
Saturnalia / Paul Fleischman·
Pink and Say /$cPatricia Polacco.·
Flores para Algernon, Daniel Keyes (In English also)·
Saturnalia /Paul Fleischman.·
Amistad /David Pesci.·
Lincoln : photobiography /Russell Freedman.·
Elijah of Buxton /Christopher Paul Curtis.·
Abigail Adams :witness to a revolution /Natalie S. Bober.·
Breaking through /Francisco Jiménez (also in Spanish)·
Lyddie /Katherine Paterson. ( also in Spanish)·
The Gettysburg address / Abraham Lincoln ; illustrated by Michael McCurdy ; foreword by Garry Wills.·
Abraham Lincoln, the writer : treasury of his greatest speeches ·
Many thousand gone :African Americans from slavery to freedom / Virginia Hamilton ; illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.·
Freedom walkers :the story of the Montgomery bus boycott /Russell Freedman·
Give me liberty! :the story of the Declaration of Independence / Russell Freedman.
We also received as part of this collection do two DVD about President Lincoln and two CD ROMS about Lincoln. CD ROMS have pictures and articles that can be copied. A Great school resource.

Love Your Library” During National Library Week

What has more cardholders than VISA, more outlets than McDonald’s and
moves more items daily than FED EX? Your local library! Let’s face
it reading is HOT!
Libraries are a real bargain - every dollar invested in Utah’s
libraries generates economic returns and provides numerous resources for
Utah residents including access to the Internet for many citizens who do
not own computers.