Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1909 — ’TWAS AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS. [ARTICLE]

’TWAS AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS.

Snow Friday Night Covered Everything With a Thick Mantle of White. Christmas day 1909 was the most ideal Christmas day we have had in many years. It was just like we see pictured in story books and read about in all the Christmas stories. The snow which started falling Friday afternoon kept steadily at'it all night long, mildly, without a breath of wind to blow tne light flakes from where they had fallen, and Saturday morning everything was covered with a mantle of whit*. The trees, fences,, buildings and everything covered with the pure* light flakes, presented a picture such as is seldom seen in this section of the country on Christmas day, and while tha trains were late and everyone was kept busy for a time in breaking oaths through the nearly one foot of “the beautiful," It was a glad Christmas morning to everyone in Rensselaer. The snow fall of Friday night, fallen, with the few inches • on the ground when that came, makes most excellent sleighing and the heaviest snow we have had for boom years.