Bear Cubs Captured in Jones County to be Trained as Pets, Oct. 2, 1926

Bears Roaming the Woods

Trenton, N.C., Oct. 2 (AP)—Bears are roaming the woods of Jones County in unprecedented numbers, according to reports emanating form the Comfort section, southwest of here.

One party headed by Joseph Hill went out this week and captured nine of the buins, it has been learned here. The captured bears were all said to be cubs and weighed less than 100 pounds each.

They were brought into town and some of them are being trained as pets.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Oct. 2, 1926

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