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Reminiscences & Narratives of Pioneers
A RATTLESNAKE OF LOCUST STREET

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Transcribed from
the ©1920 "History of Hall County," by Buechler, Barr, and Stough

Mr. Anderson narrates that one day, before the time the block that now contains the City Hall, Bartenbach Opera House, Wolbach store, and other buildings was built up, the boys had a path zig-zagging across that block, to make a short cut to get to the U. P. eating house and depot, which were then east of the present freight house. One day Claus Eggers and a man he was working for went across here. There was then a blacksmith shop on the corner where the postoffice building in now. They started across this path, and while Claus and the old man were walking across there they came across a big rattle snake, and holy terrors! they had nothing to kill him with. The old man told Claus to keep the snake out of a hole and he would go over and get something to kill it with, which he did. On his return they killed the snake. It was a big fellow with sixteen rattles.

There are many more just as interesting reminicenses that Mr. Anderson could narrate to us and hand down to posterity, if time and space in this work permitted of their incorporation, but nevertheless Mr. Anderson's career has been one of the moulding factors in the early history of the community.