Show wolf bounty to keep public library going toronto Ili hungry ingry wolves ore are about to take over the maintenance of the only public library in the dominion which owes its existence to the price of a bearskin bears are neither nelt lier as profitable nor as plentiful as they used to be on st josephs Jose plis island up near sault ste allarde ALl arle where the bearskin bei irskin library nourishes flourishes the exchequer 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 alliton beach when a hunter with literary leanings sho a bear and used tile the money to buy the first books more bear hunts were organized and the library nourished lillton beach had the books and no place to put them also it had bad a J jail and no prisoners so the bearskin library was moved to the lockup though it Is a library the lockup Is still a prison the constable holds the keys as well as aa the ilaw librarian arlan every year or two a man Is arrested on the island mild and spends a night in a 9 cell lined with reading matter |