Show the snake J G conch who lives a mile south of foz postoffice Post office has brought us what is probably the smallest snake ever captured in ray county it was caught about two weeks ago by his stepson theodore jackson and is of the blacksnake species it is only three inches in length and at the thickest part of its body is only three sixteenths of an inch in circumference it is a perfectly form ed reptile but with an extra large head mr jackson accidentally killed it by spilling a few drops of petroleum on it this snake could not teach school or plow corn like some of his fouad in colonel jim dentone dentons Den tons neighborhood but mr jackson ia enst as proud of his find as the colonel ever was over any of his discoveries richmond mo conservator |