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Weimer, George- 19040306- Roulette, newspaper- A Famous Woodsman is Dead

A Famous Woodsman Dead
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George Weimer Walked 70 Miles In the Forest in a Day-Ran Down a Deer..
ROULETTE, Pa., March 6.-George Weimer,.
aged 90, died last Monday on his farm.
near this place, where he had lived for.
seventy years. He was the last of the.
pioneer woodsmen and raftsmen of the.
Allegheny and Susquehanna headwaters,.
and was famous aa a pedestrian and runner.
in his early days..
Once, being on a rafting trip down the.
river, he walked from Jersey Shore to.
Roulette, 70 miles, between breakfast and.
early bedtime, or in about 17 hours, over a.
rough and hilly wilderness road, with a.
stop of only an hour for rest and refreshment.
during the entire journey. The.
reason he made it, he always explained.
by saying:.
"I had always called on my girl that.
night of the week, and I wasn't going to.
let a little matter of 70 miles fool me out.
of it that night.".
The girl he travelled so far to see was.
the daughter of Burrill Lyman of Roulette,.
and she soon afterward became his.
wife..
Laroy Lyman of Roulette shot at a deer.
in the hills back of that place one day,.
and called t e Weimer to fetch one of his.
dogs. The dog would not follow the deer's.
track, and Weimer himself took after the.
HAM*.
When Weimer started the dog took the.
track and went ahead and overtook the.
deer, a buck. The deer fought the dog.
and scared it eo that when Weimer came.
up it would only keep at its heels, the deer.
having started on again..
Weimer followed the deer over ridges,.
down hollows, across streams and through.
swamps and tangled thickets, giving it.
no rest, and at last drove it into t h e open.
and toward the Allegheny River..
The deer at last entered a field that lay.
between the woods and the river. There.
Weimer caught it. Lyman's shot' had.
not hit it..
The dog came lagging and panting in.
a few minutes afterward and lay down.
in a fence corner, tired out.. Weimer cut.
the deer's throat and carried the carcass.
nearly a mile t o a farmhouse. He had.
run the deer, as near as could be calculated.
b y t h e turnings and twistings of the.
course, not lees than 11 miles. Leaving.
the deer at the farm t o be called for, he.
over the hills, 7 miles. He arrived there.
an hour ahead of ms dog..
Weimer, when he married and settled.
on the farm, worked in the woods or on.
the river in the winter. When he rafted.
down the Susquehanna the rafts were, as.
a rule, run t o Columbia, about 200 miles..
The return trip could be made by stage.
and canal, but Weimer always walked it,.
thus, he declared, saving both time and money..

The New York Sun, March 1904.

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The New York Sun March 1904
?1904 ?Roulette, PA

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