Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1915 — First Heavy Frost of Fall Occurred Tuesday Night. [ARTICLE]

First Heavy Frost of Fall Occurred Tuesday Night.

The first heavy frost, in fact, the first frost sufficient to kill vegetation of the tenderest kind occurred Tuesday night, when there was not only a frost but a slight freeze. Corn had a fine opportunity to mature this year and fortunately it did, for the wet and cool summer had very much delayed its development. All over the county silo filling has been in progress for the past ten days or two weeks and soon husking will start. Potato digging is also an order of the time and before many days the shade trees will begin to cast their leaves to the ground and if Rensselaer keeps up its neat appearance every property owner will have to be on the job both early and late. So October has behaved very admirably and we can probably count on some fine Indian summer for a while.