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Show Wolf Bounty to Keep Public Library Going Toronto. Hungry wolves are about - to take over the maintenance mainte-nance of the only public library in the Dominion which owes its existence exist-ence to the price of a bearskin. Bears are neither as profitable nor as plentiful as they used to be on St. Joseph's Island, up near Sault Ste. Marie, where the bearskin bear-skin library flourishes. The exchequer ex-chequer of the library has run low and the library board has Issued a call for volunteers to join In a wolf hunt, pool the $20 bounty paid for every wolf killed on the island and buy more books. The library was formed at the village of Hilton Beach when a hunter with literary leanings shot a bear and used the money to buy the first books. More bear hunts were organized and the library flourished. Hilton Beach had the books and no place to put them. Also it had a jail and nor- prisoners. So the bearskin library was moved to the lockup and still is the only public library behind the bars. Thougli It Is a library, the lockup lock-up is still a prison. The constable holds the keys as well ns the librarian. li-brarian. Every year or two a man Is arrested on the island and spends a night In a cell lined with reading matter. |