For the record

Columbus Republic, early 1900s

SHE WAS FEEBLE

Brookville -- Rev. E.I. LaRue went to Brookville March 28 to visit his parents, knowing his mother was very feeble but not more so than usual. Death called her at 4'clock a.m. on March 29. The funeral occurred Saturday at 10:30 o'clock.

ATTACKED BY GIANT SNAKE

Brookville -- W.J. Wood, of Aurora, who has just returned from a lumber camp at Blue Lake, Miss., brings with him the tale of a rattlesnake fight and also the tail of the rattler. The reptile crawled into Wood's tent and attacked him. It showed such fight that five shots were required to kill it. It measured 10 feet in length and bore 27 rattles and a button.

EASIER FOR TEACHERS

Brookville -- Because of difficulty in securing licensed teachers for the schools in Franklin County, the standard which has existed in the past has been waived and less difficult examinations are to be given. This was announced at the institute just closed. The small pay that is given rural teachers, 7 cents a day less than hod-carriers receive, is responsible for the small number of applicants for school positions.

CARELESS HUNTSMAN

Brookville -- Mel Holiday, 30 years old, shot himself while hunting in Possum Hollow. He picked up his shotgun by the muzzle, when it accidentally discharged, the load entering his armpit and tearing away the shoulder join. He will die.

AN ABSENT BRIDEGROOM

Brookville -- Miss Ella Roth of Covington, Ky., is alarmingly ill at the Thalheimer home, St. Peter's, and John Widmer, to whom she was to be married, is absent and cannot be located. Ten guests arrived at the little Indiana village to attend the wedding, and the bride was trying on her wedding gown when her brother, Otto Roth, told her of her lover's disappearance. She swooned and was revived with difficulty, and her condition is serious.