Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1920 — Broke Up the Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Broke Up the Meeting.

“Yes, it’s cold," said Smith, “btft nothing like what It waa three years ago, when the steam frpm the engines froze hard and fell on the Une in sheets.” “That wasn’t as cold as tn *87,” continued Jones, “when it froze the electricity in the telephone wires, and when the thaw came all the machines were talking as hard as they could for more than five hours.” “The coldest year that I can remember was in *94,” said Brown, “when the telegraph messengers had to hurry to keep themselves warm.” But this was too much, and, with silent looks ot the other two left the romancer to his own reflections.