Ed Diggs Kills Adder in the Snow, 1919

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Feb. 20, 1919

Snake in Snow

Ed Diggs, colored, who works with R.J. Meacham on E.N. Ingram’s place, killed a large adder on Feb. 10^th while the two-inch snow was on the ground. The snow had melted close to a stump and his snakeship had come forth for a sun bath.