THE TRUSTEES OF THE 
 
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 HAZLETON 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 INVITE YOU TO ATTEND 
 
 THE PRESENTATION AND DEDICATION EXERCISES 
 
 O F THE 
 
 MARKLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 AT HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 AT TWO O’CLOCK ON 
 
 THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER THIRD 
 
 NINETEEN HUNDRED TWELVE 
 
“IN LOVING MEMORY 
 O F 
 
 GEORGE BUSHAR MARKLE and EMILY ROBISON MARKLE 
 
 THIS LIBRARY 
 WAS PRESENTED A. D. 1912 
 TO THE 
 
 CITY OF HAZLETON 
 
 BY THEIR SON, JOHN MARKLE” 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 in 2017 with funding from 
 
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates 
 
 https://archive.org/details/programofpresentOOhazl 
 
PROGRAM 
 
 CHAIRMAN, PROF. D. A. HARMAN 
 
 INVOCATION. . . . . REV. AUGUST ROHRIG 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH . . . MRS. W. C. GAYLEY 
 
 PRESENTATION OF LIBRARY ON BEHALF 
 
 OF JOHN MARKLE . . . GEORGE F. BAER, ESQ. 
 
 TRANSFER OF LIBRARY PROPERTY TO 
 THE HAZLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 ASSOCIATION ..... JOHN MARKLE 
 
 ACCEPTANCE OF LIBRARY ON BEHALF OF 
 THE HAZLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 ASSOCIATION . . . JOHN H. BIGELOW, ESQ. 
 
 DEDICATION . . . L. O. EMMERICH, ESQ. 
 
 RECEPTION 
 
 TO MR. AND MRS. JOHN MARKLE 
 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 HAZLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 
 
 President, David A. Harman 
 
 Vice-President, James E. Roderick 
 
 Treasurer, E. 
 
 L. Bullock 
 
 Secretary, 
 
 C. J. Kirschner 
 
 JOHN H. BIGELOW, ESQ. 
 
 DAVID A. HARMAN 
 
 FRANK P. BOYLE, ESQ. 
 
 ED W. F. JAMES 
 
 E. L. BULLOCK 
 
 T . D . JONES 
 
 WM. H. DAVIES 
 
 C. J. KIRSCHNER 
 
 W. A. DIESROTH 
 
 ALVAN MARKLE 
 
 JOHN R. DYSON, M.D. 
 
 I. P. PARDEE 
 
 L. O. EMMERICH, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN B. PRICE 
 
 JOSEPH B. GABRIO 
 
 JAMES E. RODERICK 
 
 WM. C. GAYLEY, M.D. 
 
 THOS. E. SAMUELS 
 
 JAS. P. GORMAN, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN R. SHARPLESS, ESQ. 
 
 N. C. 
 
 YOST 
 
 MANAGERS OF LIBRARY 
 
 President, L. O. Emmerich, Esq. 
 
 Vice-President, Wm. C. Gayle y, M.D 
 Secretary, D. T. Evans 
 
 Treasurer, Thos. E. Samuels 
 
 JOHN H. BIGELOW, ESQ. 
 
 WM. BACHMAN 
 
 L. O. EMMERICH, ESQ. 
 
 H. E. B I T N E R, M.D. 
 
 JOSEPH B. GABRIO 
 
 D. T. EVANS 
 
 WM. C. GAYLEY, M.D. 
 
 D. A. HARM AN 
 
 THOS. E. SAMUELS 
 
 JNO. KEMP, ESQ.