Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1916 — Monticello Has Fine Ice Crop Already This Winter. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Has Fine Ice Crop Already This Winter.

The ice harvest at Morrticello is on and it will only be a matter of a few days if the cqld weather remains, until the ice houses of that city are packed. The ice that is now being harvested is seven inches thick, which is not bad, but before the harvest is oyer it is expected „hat the tee will be ten inches thick, The Monticello owner figures that it is safer to put up ice” when it can be had even if it is not so thick as might be had. The Monticello owner feels pretty good over having the worries ever at so early a season. It is probable that Messrs. White and Lee, of this city, could have had some ice also, but the ice pond was -hot filled with wated. Pumping started early this week and the pond is being filled and the next cold weather that comes along .rill mean some ice. It is probable that White and Lee would have had some ice by now if the pond had been filled earlier, but they were anticipating no such cold weather this early,