Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — Big Sleet Thirty Five Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Big Sleet Thirty Five Years Ago.

Henry Paulus was in Rensselaer today and reminded us that the big sleet, which was so destructive to life and property, was in January, 1883. Mr. Paulus says he can fix this date in his mind clearly from the following facts: His mother died, his brother was married, the school ma’am fell and broke her ankle and he nearly cut his foot off with an ax. Had the sleet this time been as ; bad as it was in 1883 people living near timber would have thought the Germans had sure broken through and were coming a million strong. The sleet now is„very bad and telephone and telegraph wires are down. The Monon is running a few trains but they must go over the road without assistance of the regular telegraphic train orders and also the block system. Many of the trains are annulled and the others are run on any time it is possible to get them through. The Milk train went south last night about midnight and passed through here at nine o’clock this morning going north. The weather, man has promised to have it fair led slightly warmer Tuesday. Ts ' / ' ' Sunday was a very unpleasant day. There was a high wind and most of the day it either snowed or sleeted. The snow has helped very much, otherwise the ice would make getting about almost impossible. A telegram received by the manager of the local telephone company from the weather bureau, Tuesday, predicted a fall of from twenty to thirty degrees in temperature. Fortunately the prediction did not make good and the thermometer stood at about twenty above zero this morning.