The following month a library on the upper story was opened to the public; contributions of select, inoffensive reading materials were accepted.

After the building was constructed Mrs. Scudder had difficulty paying the property's mortgage and received limited assistance from local benefactors.

She tried to alleviate the local "tramp situation" by providing food and lodging to transients in exchange for tickets that they received while performing odd jobs in the community.

Mrs. Scudder reported, "Yet without salary or promise of support from any human, the faithful workers are found ministering in jail, hospital, county house, homes of the sick and sorrowing, or wherever they are called, esteeming it a joy to be as their Master, going about doing good."

The building remained closed for several more years before undergoing further renovations (including the removal of its stage) and reopening in the late Nineties as Q's Billiards.

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