Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — PRAYERS OFFERED [ARTICLE]

PRAYERS OFFERED

In Indiana Churches For Recession of Swollen Streams. Hazelton, Ind., July 17.—tAt all churches located in the bottom lands of the Wabash, White and Patoka Rivers prayers were offered to-day in’ the hope that the great rises which the streams have experienced t'he past week will subside and thus avoid disaster to the wheat and corn crops. “ ; Conditions are similar to those which preceded the 'historic freshet of the summer of 1876. White River rose two feet to<Jay and is over the fourteen-foot stage. - . The Wabash River rose five feet yesterday and already is out of its banks.