9-15-1896 Tuesday The Roanoke Times

OLD FLOYD COUNTY
T. R. Tanner has just returned from a business trip through the free state
of Floyd. He said the people up there have quit working on the roads
entirely, and it is the next thing to impossible to drive over them. Mr.
Tanner succeeded in breaking down a brand new wagon, but he brought back to
his Roanoke friends a mountain rattler that contained nineteen rattles and
was unusually large in rattles. Acording to Mr. Tanner Floyd is up to date
in bad roads, good water, rattle-snakes, and moonshine.