Lois Johnson the nine year-old daughter of Dr. A. J. Johnson, was bitten by a ground rattlesnake when she was picking "wooly" berries near the home of a friend some distance from Baxley. Doctors did not reach her until two hours after the snake bit her. Her condition was considered serious about four days; she is improving rapidly now from the effects of the poison which her system absorbed before treatment was administered. She was with a group of small friends who were riding and stopped to gather a handful of the low-bush berries, when she reached out to gather the first berries she was bitten by the serpent.

Baxley News Banner 9 June 1921

Submitted by Sharon Broward Davis