Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1920 — MERCURY STOOD AT 14 BELOW LAST NIGHT [ARTICLE]

MERCURY STOOD AT 14 BELOW LAST NIGHT

The predicted cold wave arrived ■in all its fury Monday and the twenty-four hours ending at five o’clock this Tuesday morning found the mercury in the government thermometer at St. Joseph college standing at fourteen degrees below zero, the first time during the present winter that the zero mark has been reached. The previous low mark was six above, which was registered Sunday. The present cold wave is quite general, extending over the middle west and central states to the east gulf states. A heavy fall of snow is also reported in practiially every northern state. It seems that real winter has arrived at last.