Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — A GILLAM TP., SNAKE STORY. [ARTICLE]

A GILLAM TP., SNAKE STORY.

While making hay the other day on his farm in Gillum tp., Mr. Mead Rayburn picked up something that at first glance looked like a bunch of worms. Closer inspection, however, revealed the fact that they were little snakeand rattlesnakes at that. This led Mr. Reyburn and one of his helpers to look for the mother Snake and sure enough there she was, not far away, her head sticking out of a hole in the ground, watching their proceedings keenly. The helper ran his pitchfork through the old snake and when he pulled forth it was found that ft wa** almost three feet Jr>ng and

had five rattles and a button. Later in the day they found another bunch of six little snakes. As*Mr. Revburn is a total abstainer, this must be taken as a true snake story. But it is a puzzler how those snakes got into that exemplary township of Gilam.—Medaryville Advertiser.