Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1915 — Spring Arrived Here Sunday At Precisely 10:51 a. m. [ARTICLE]

Spring Arrived Here Sunday At Precisely 10:51 a. m.

Sunday, March 21st, at precisely 10:51 in the forenoon, spring arrived: Soon after that we had a few snow flurries and this aroused our suspicion as to just what dear old spring will do to us before it gets through. The weather man predicted killing frosts as far south as Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida, while a dispatch from Mitchell, S. Dak., said that trains on the Milwaukee system were held up for six hours by snow drifts. Indiana seems to have fared very well for the snow flurries continued only a Short time and did not make a showing on the ground and the day for the most part was bright although the air was still quite chilly. Farmers are ready to start spring plowing and a good many have begun, but the ground is still very cold and also quite dry. A good rain is most needed right now and if a warm one occurs things will start off with a hum, for the anxious feeling is in the breasts of all industrious people and the spring-fever germ don’t seem to receive any early encouragement here. If the government experts had not announced the exact minute of the arrival of spring none of us would have known it was here, for the same weather prevails that has since the first of March. It is certainly a wonderful March and with April Ist only a week ahead we feel like handing out a little praise without the precaution of knocking on wood. Nus sed. Spring’s here and we’re off with a dash.