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SOO LIBRARY 25 YEARS OLD THIS SEASON
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Was built on Site of Cemetery of An Older Day
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The Carnegie Library this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary.  Escavation for the building commended in June, 1903.  In October, 1904, Miss Reid, the first librarian commenced cataloguing books but the library was not opened to the public until January, 1905.

Old timers who were here recall the thrill that went around the Sault when workmen excavated for the building uncovered the remains of bodies of soldiers buried there and forgotten.   The Armory place grounds wher the Library stands was once the Sault's cemetery abandoned when Riverside was chose as the official burying ground.   The block wher now stands the city hall was also once the burial ground of the Chippewa Indians.  It is believed that the remains of two Chippewa chiefs lie underneath the city hall.  Workemn digging trenches for water mains came across several skeletons and true to supersitition, refused to work un the "boss" hit upon the idea of "liquid refreshments".

Saturday, June 16, 1928 - The Evening News