Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1913 — THINKS RATTLERS WILL PAY [ARTICLE]

THINKS RATTLERS WILL PAY

Mt Union Man Most Sanguine as to Their Poison —Will Also Bell Their Hides. Huntington, Pa.—Lawrence N. Crum, proprietor of a grocery at Mount Union, has started a rattlesnake farm, and he says that during the coming winter he will realise as large a profit from tbe rattlers as he will from hfs store. About a week ago, while out on the mountains, he succeeded in capturing a dozen of the venomous reptiles, and since that time he has been Aeglng them oa exhibition in his store window. The number of snakes has Increased to 20, and now Crum has constructed a den and will raise them. The main profit Is made from the poison, which is takes from the rattlers at short intervals. He will also sell the hides.