Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1907 — COLD WEATHER AND “SOME” SNOW IN NORTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

COLD WEATHER AND “SOME” SNOW IN NORTH DAKOTA.

While Jasper county people are enjoying this pleasant, bracing weather with scarcely enough snow to whiten the ground, some of their old neighbors and friends who have moved to North Dakota are seeing a little too much winter for comfort. A letter from Ransom county, written Jan. 28—but which did not leave Lisbon until the 30th, because trains can run only semi-occasionally—states no mail had been received there until a day or two before for ten days. The town was out of sugar and some other necessities for several days because freight trains could not get through the snow drifts. The week of Jan. 13 to 19 the mercury stood as follows: Monday, 14 below zero. Tuesday, 8 “ “ Wednesday, 30 “ “ Thursday, 20 “ “ Friday, 17 The snow is said to be deeper than for ten years, and some of the country people are playing the Santa Claus act to feed their stock, —as they did then —going down through the barn roofs because they cannot get the doors open for the high drifts packed against them. In some instances fuel was running low and no doubt there is considerable suffering in cases where people were unprepared.