Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1913 — BOOT TOO TIGHT, SNAKE IN IT [ARTICLE]

BOOT TOO TIGHT, SNAKE IN IT

After Returning to Farmhouse From Feeding Chickens Woman Makes Unpleasant Discovery. Junction City, Kan. —Mrs. Grover Filby, wife of a farmer near Skiddy, raises ducks. Mrs. Filby also has a pair of rubber boots that she wears when attending to her charges. When not in use the boots are left lying on the porch. In the morning, when Mrs. Filby slipped them on, she noticed that one of them wgs rather tight, but did not pull it off to Investigate, as she supposed that the children had stuffed paper or rags into the toe, as a joke on her. She' looked after the ducks and returning to the house, pulled off the boots. From the tight one dropped a snake. \ . Mrs. Filby has no recollection of how large the serpent was or its kind.