Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — The Glacial Period in New England. [ARTICLE]

The Glacial Period in New England.

While It la found that the glacial flow la tbe region of what la now the Connecticut valley was directly aouth--ward (as we know by the glacial scratches and striae on the upper surfaces of ledgee decently denuded of soil, and by tralna of boulder*), It waa eastward, or at least east by southeast, over the region bordering on Massa chusett* bay. The geologists find evidence also that the forward edge of the glacier extended some flfty or more miles beyond tbe present coast line. George* Ranks and tbe sands of Cape Cod are the abiding visible record of the gladler disposition that went on not far away.

As a man gets along in years, he finds more comfort In a woman who would make a mustard plaster for him than in one who would die for bim.