This organization continued for a number of years.  In May, 1897, the Fortnightly Club, one of the two ladies' Literary Clubs in the village, voted to sponsor a public library and in 1898 a Traveling State Library was established in the store [which in the 1950's was] owned by George L. Rogers.  The next year the University Extension Library was established in the same location and remained there for several years until it was moved to the Town Hall.  On November 13, 1908, a Free Library and Reading Room was established and Willard S. Augsbury was elected President of the organization.  He retained that position until his death in 1938.  This library was located in the Hoyt block.  In 1916 Mr. George Nelson Crosby, a former resident of the village, offered to give the village a library if a suitable location could be found and the Town would vote $400 in taxes every year toward its upkeep.  The townspeople agreed willingly to the taxes and the trustees of the Antwerp Free Library arranged the purchase and removal of the Foster House.  As their great contribution to this endeavor, Frank J. Baumert, Willard S. Augsbury, and Frank A. Augsbury purchased the Hoyt block which adjoined the Foster property and this was added to the library site, making a beautiful setting for the library building.  As the village derived its name from Antwerp, Belgium, the design of the building was made of Flemish architecture.  The walls are of red brick, with light stone trimming.  The building is one story with a large, well-lighted basement [which in the 1950's was] used as a grade school room.  The library room proper is pleasant and ideal for its purpose.  The library was dedicated on July 9, 1919, in the presence of George Nelson Crosby and his wife.  A greater gift could not have been made to this village.  As was well said at the dedication service by Attorney Fred K. Felshaw, 'There is only one measure of worth and that Christ gave us 2,000 years ago.  That is service.  In the splendid gift from Mr. Crosby we have typified the most excellent service to mankind.'  In 1921 Willard S. Augsbury established the Mary Ellis Memorial Fund with a gift of $5,000 for the Crosby Library