About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1925)
t PAGE TWO A Jungle Tale of Rattlesnankes and of NORTH GEORGIA FARMER TRAILS MURDER SNAKE Diamond-Back Rattler Which Killed Neighbor’s Boy Is Snared by Davis ATLANTA, Ga., Ooct. 24 When you’re setting down the list Highest Quality Drugs at the Windsor Pharmacy JfAW I 4 Ml Let us serve you. Our Service is complete. Our Drugs are of the Highest Quality. Visit our Fountain for real Service Windsor Pharmacy Corner Lamar and Jackson Streets Special Bargains in Quality Furniture hlllb While you are visiting the Fair, be sure and visit our Store and see our wonderful values we have here. * H. CLAY MURPHEY Lamar Street Americus, Ga. lof men who have done courageous deeds, don’t forget to add the name of Charlie Davis, who lives in the little town of Fales, Ga., and who doesn’t know what the word fear j means. I In fact, it’s a little hard to tell 11 whether Charlie Davis’ stunt was (supremely brave or supremely nut- Jty. Maybe it was a little of both I anyhow, here’s what happened: ! The long-continued dry spell that i 'gripped Georgia this’ fall drove the I snakes from their customary haunts and made them a nuisance in places « they ordinarily do not fresuent The town of Fales was one of the I places thus afflicted. .. ISwSF ■ "a— MH? J '/ • -- >A - ■ jwy gXIiIEV. B 8&& ~ • : EH? ( -x p I Wv PUP A huge diamond-back rattler was lurking in the woods behind the farm of one Riley Adams, 'n the edge of town. Young Lewis Adams, 13, was tramping through the woods, came unwittingly on the rattier and was bitten in th e leg. The child was hurried to a hos pital but died in a short time And men Ctiarfie Davis came on the scene. Davis went to the spot where the boy had been bitten to take up the trail. Now you must know that by the time he got around to it the trail was two days old. But Charlie Adams is byway of being a latterday Daniel Boone, as far as the woods are concerned, and one of his hobbies is hunting rattlesnakes. So off he went. Through dense tangle under brush he went, crawling on his stomach under matted vines, squirm ing close to the thick grass so that he might follow the trail. Into dense clumps of weeds he wormed his way, supremely unconcerned by the fact that in the dry season rat tiers do not give the warning buzz tnat ordinarilp signals their pres ence, but strike without warning. Charlie Davis never knew when ne mignt come upon the deadly reptile. Any clump of under brush any rank growth of grass he lay on, might haroor it. And when the rattler strikes, no living man can dodge in time. At last Charlie Davis spied the snake in a fence corner, a scant two yardsaway. It was a monster,' six feet long, with 13 rattles and a opposition like a top sergeant of marines. DaVls drew his only weapon—a five-foot stick with a noose made of a shoe string drooping from one end. Quickly he shot the stick out, dropped th e noose over the snake's head, pulled it out—and the snake i was helpless. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER I A king snake and a rattle in combat j (above). Charlie Davis (left) and ( the rattler he caugth with a shoe , string. Back to the farm Davis bore his captive. There he incarcerated it in a box. borne of tne neighbors, anxious to see vengeance, suggested that the snake be tortured to death for the crime it had committed. But Davis said no; just leave it alone and'presently it would starve. And it Is now doing that, in its box. Examination of its fangs showed beyond doubt it was the snake that killed the boy. On the right side, of its mouth were two fangs in stead of one, and the wound in the Adams’ boy’s leg peculiarly shaped. Davis shares honors as a rattle snake nemesis, however, with a less exalted creature—towit, a big king snake, the snake that lives on rattlesnakes and is immune to their FISK TIRES FISK TIRES WELCOME To Sumter County Fair 'S I I ) if While you are taking in the 1 rfc * -mt j JMF Sumter County Fair, let '~~ ' L 1 ftO Q u * c k Service Tire Co. ’ inspect your tires and save / —Raffiwa O' W Y ou mone y on them by I JJ W® IHSR M Vulcanizing before it is too XsXk/ O/ ate - We guarantee every ~ - „ job we THAT GOOD Make us a visit while in GASOLINE ' the city - For Good Service • jSKzJ . M InnetoftHinp? I Demand • my risk I ■ ® est tires you 08,1 I ■ Xyav! buy—honest value, I FISK TIRES -~ --“ 1 I / Ask the Man Who Has His AutoExulpped with FISK TIRES Quick Service Tire Co. Lamar SL Americus, Ga. poison. A unique photograph was made at Austell, Ga., when a farmer found a rattler and a king snake locked in deadly wrestle in a field. The rattler was striking wildly and ineffectively at the bright-hued king snake, which had wrapped its powerfuul coils about the poison ious snake and was slowly crush ing the life but of it. Alter half an hour's struggle the aing snaxe triumpnea. men he proceeded to swallow the rattler, and wriggled off with a couple of rattles, for which there was no room inside protruding from his mouth. Each chicken ought to have at least eight inches of space on a roost. There should be one open nest to every eight hens, or where trapnests are used, one nest will accommo date four hens if the nests are visited every two hours. To determine if a sweet potato is ripe for picking, cut it and if the broken surface dries the potato is mature, but if the surface remains moist the crop is not ready to be dug. World wheat production so far as reported this year is 8 per cent . larger than the 1924 crop. 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