Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1913 — Do You Know What Oceurred Feb. 3rd, Thirty Years Ago? [ARTICLE]

Do You Know What Oceurred Feb. 3rd, Thirty Years Ago?

John O’Connor, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, and now a resident of Kniman, is the best chronological calendar we know of. Monday he asked the reporter for The Republican if he knew what happened thirty years ago that day and when answered negatively, he stated that Jt was the great sleet storm, which practically all who were old enough to know anything at that time will recall. That was before the days of telephones in the smaller cities and towns and consequently the greatest damage here was the destruction of fruit and forest trees. In the early morning there was a constant crashing of fallen limbs. The t dorm was much more Periods than t.be recent one here and also worse ttjan the one that occurred here th,rfie years ago.