In March 1913, the Your Town City Council asked some women of the Ladies Literary Society to start a library. Members of the Ladies Literary Society were wives of leading Your Town business and professional men, these ladies would be the official group in charge of the library. The first library was housed in a classroom in the Baptist Church. The women rented the room for $12 a year, started with 800 books and $140 for the first year. The library operated with the money from the Library Association and the money the women were able to raise from fund-raising entertainment and lectures. There were also some funds coming for the Township Board. In 1919, when the war ended, Your Town added onto the Township Hall and a room for the library was created on the north side of the building. Soon the book collection grew to 4,500 volumes, and the need for increased library services and larger facilities became greater. Later, when the U.S. built the new post office in 1958, this same building became the Your Town Library. Before long, this building was too small for all the books and a proposal was passed to build a building in the north part of Your Town, which is the library we have today.
