Posted by stew - Sat, Dec 20, 2008

Gazette & Courier - Monday, August 2, 1875
Northfield Farms

While Wallace Morgan and Alfred Severance were mowing, the dog found a rattle snake [i.e. rattlesnake] in the brush on the Popple Mountain road and they got a pole and killed it. It had 3 rattles. And when they got started for home, they found another which they killed, and that had 11 rattles.
 

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