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mass, and after five discharges the bear was dead. It 

 weighed 175 pounds. 



Olean residents will have an opportunity to obtain 

 bear meat tomorrow. The animal is hanging from 

 hooks in the Adolph Ahrens meat market, at 801 

 West State Street, and it will be cut up and sold, it 

 was said. The skin is fine, soft and silky, and one of 

 the most valuable ever taken around here. (1921.) 

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More from Jake Zimmerman 



Under date of February 9, 1921, "Jake" Zimmer- 

 man sends four more bear stories and other valuable 

 information, as follows : 



Bear Story No. 1 



About September, 1862, David Zimmerman, the 

 noted hunter, had taken some sheep to raise on the 

 shares from a man by name of 'Squire John Price, 

 and one night, while he (Mr. Zimmerman) was sound 

 asleep a bear came into his yard and took one of his 

 nice sheep and dragged it out the road and up along 

 the fence into the brush and covered it up with leaves 

 and sticks. Mr. Zimmerman often heard that a bear 

 would come back for the balance of his kill about 

 4 o'clock P. M., but David had borrowed a clover seed 

 cradle for that day only and he thought the bear 

 would' not come till after dark on account of him cut- 

 ting clover seed just inside of the field from where 

 the bear had 'to come for !his meat. W'hen Mr. Zim- 



