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Charles Killbuck

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  WWII Book Drive
  21 April 2012 11:13 AM | No Comments

  I was looking through the February 18, 1943 issue of the Farmer Hub and found this article.  Frances Guscott, the Holmes County Librarian at the time, was strongly urging (that’s...

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  2012 Grave Adventures Spring Tour
  31 March 2012 2:28 PM | No Comments

  Grave Adventures Spring Cemetery Tour Saturday, May 12th beginning at 11:45 am Join the Holmes County Library Ladies on their second tour of some of Holmes County’s most interesting cemeteries. The...

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  Saltillo
  29 March 2012 6:12 PM | No Comments

  Three journalists from Saltillo, Mexico came to do research about the Holmes County Saltillo.  They are working on a documentary about all of the Saltillos in the United States.  When...

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  Doughty Valley Happenings
  28 February 2012 6:02 PM | No Comments

  Doughty Valley Happenings by Eli A. Yoder describes the founding of Becks Mills and surrounding area.  Along with the factual accounts of the area, there are several personal stories to...

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  Old Library Records
  21 December 2011 2:49 PM | No Comments

  I am going through library records from the 1930′s-1960′s.  It is interesting to see what was going on at the library back then.  Many of the board reports were written...

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