Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1918 — OLD MAN WINTER PASSES IN HIS CHECK SPRING ARRIVES [ARTICLE]

OLD MAN WINTER PASSES IN HIS CHECK SPRING ARRIVES

Were you up early this morning to see if you could hear the blithesome song of the robin, the busy bee, the call of the ice man and the departing wail of winter? For promptly at 4:26 this morning Old Man ‘Winter, he of the stern countenance and- the heavy white beard was put to flight and the little child of Spring came riding in to take up the duties just relinquished by the grim visaged old man. According to the old-time school primer “the sun crosses the equator on March-21 and starts on its journey toward the north/’ _

The proposed interstate basketball game between Mount Pleasant, la.; and Lebanon, of this state, for the western crown, has practically been given up. The Lebanon athletic directors say the season has been a strenuous one and that their team is not in condition for such a contest. v