Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — GET MORE COAL; COLD TO TARRY [ARTICLE]

GET MORE COAL; COLD TO TARRY

MAY BE NEAR ZERO, WEATHER MAN SAYS—WAS 5 BELOW AT 7 A. M. .You might as well prepare to put that extra shovel full of coal into the furnace as the first cold wave of the season which reached Rensselaer Wednesday night and which forced the temperature down to 5 below zero at 7 a. m. today, is going to stay for several days, according to Joseph Hiller, meteorologist, at the United States weather bureau at St. Joseph college. Zero weather prevails throughout lowa and states west. In the northwest temperatures of from 2Q to 30 degrees below are reported. These temperatures are not unusual for this time of the year and the weather bureau head says that ho extremely cold weather is looked for at the present time.