Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1914 — Winter Makes Entry With Supply of “The Beautiful.” [ARTICLE]

Winter Makes Entry With Supply of “The Beautiful.”

Winter, which up to Friday night seemed a long distance aWay, made its entry on the theatre of action Monday with a cold rain that turned into snow. The mercury fell to freezing and the snow clung -to the trees and finally after a process of melting as it touched the ground it began to hold form and an inch or more of heavy snow cbvered the ground, while the trees, many of them in full leaf, were arrayed in a gown of heavy white. Some of the limbs gave way beneath the weight and a few trees were broken down. There was a strong wind during part of the " day, blowing from the northwest and the storm which struck Rensselaer seems, according to dispatches, to have extended from the northeast to southwest. Lafayette was missed, as also was Reynolds, but there was snow at Fowler, Oxford and places further south and west. And the snow was mueh heavier northeast of here. It Was quite a spell of winter and caused the starting of furnaces and baseburners that had not been fired before this iall.