Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — Saved His Life. [ARTICLE]

Saved His Life.

Gregory, S. D. —Struck by the fangs of a rattlesnake, while on a load of hay, Carl Hoblit, employed on the farm of Benjamin Bailey, saved his life by his presence' of mind. Immediately after the fangs had penetrated his arm he cut open the wound with a pocketknlfe and then sucked out the poison.