IDAHO FALLS — EastIdahoNews.com is looking back at what life was like during the week of Sept. 15 to Sept. 21 in east Idaho history.

1900-1925

BLACKFOOT — A woman shot a rattlesnake inside a home where children were also present, The Bingham County News reported on Sept. 21, 1911.

“Mrs. Fred Bennett, wife of the champion roper of this part of the country, is her husband’s equal in accomplishments,” the paper wrote.

Bennett was at their home in Blackfoot one evening when her husband was gone. She heard a rattling noise and looked around only to find a huge diamond rattler on the rafters of the cabin trying to slither its way down.

“The lady’s first thought was to run out and call her brother but decided that it would be dangerous to leave the children in the house with the mammoth rept

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