Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Thinks Germans After Him. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Germans After Him.

Very much bewhiskered, Seymore Hickman appeared in town Wednesday afternoon after the big blizzard. Seymore has been working at Lewis Whicker’s for some time where with Charles Penwright they have been doing some carpenter work for Mr. Whicker’s land lord and Dr. Smalley. Seymore reports the finding of two sticks of dynamite neatly tucked away in the structure of an old barn which the above workmen were razing. The dynamite had several feet of fuse attached and Seymore could think of no one else the Germans were after but himself. The dynamite was carefully removed and is still held as evidence of the truthfulness of Seymore’s statement. Seymore was full of weird reports that day and told us of the finding of peculiar species of snake during one of the coidtE* days of the recent Hazard. He says that apparently .it must have come out of a brush pile near the premises, which when once out started in search of warmer climes. When seen it could be traced in the snow a distance of some sixty feet, and was still very active despite-the extreme cold. Seymore says it measures a little less than five feet in length, was big around accordingly. It was of a very peculiar hue of color and Mr. Hickman could not say to what family of snakes it belonged.—Mt. Ayr Tribune.