Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1908 — BEASTLY HOLIDAY WEATHER. [ARTICLE]

BEASTLY HOLIDAY WEATHER.

The weather the past week has been anything but desirable for the holiday trade. Warm, cloudy, some little rain, just enough to make the roads and streets muddy, is the sort apportioned to this section of the country. As a result the holiday trade thus far has been very poor. Of course if we get cooler and more pleasant weather next week trade will be very brisk, but it seems that people don’t do much buying when the weather is so disagreeable as that of this week. And the merchant who expected a good holidays trade is not the only one to complain of this sort of weather. The dressed poultry shippers all' over the country have been hit hard again. They were caught on their Thanksgiving shipments In precisely the same way, the weather turning warm after they shipped their stuff, and hundreds of tons of dressed poultry reached its destination La a almost rotten condition. A great many shippers lost a lot of money then, and now they catch it again.