
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 29, 1993                   TAG: 9304290486
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-12   EDITION: METRO 
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SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY PRAISED FOR SERVICE

The Salem Public Library has been honored by its founders for long service to the community.

The Salem Woman's Club presented a plaque, recognizing the library's service since 1921 to the library during a recent ceremony.

Linnae Hedgbeth, president of the Salem Woman's Club, presented the plaque to Salem City Manager Randy Smith and Janice Augustine, director of the library.

Norwood C. Middleton, a Salem historian, said the library had its beginning when the women's club was the driving force behind getting a small area of the Roanoke College library designated for use by the public.

Salem acquired the library's present site - in Younger Park on Main Street - in 1935 from William T. Younger, who was Salem's mayor for 20 years.

The library's building doubled its size in a $970,000 expansion in 1991.

by CNB