Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — NO RAIN SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER. [ARTICLE]

NO RAIN SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER.

In a letter a few days ago to a friend here, Charles Robinson, formerly of Rensselaer, writes from Horse Butte, So. Dak., where he is conducting a country store and postoffice, and among other things, says: It is awful dry here; haven’t had any rain since last September until today and it only rained enough to wet down about '1 \x inches. None of our corn has come up yet. It would look nice to see a corn field once more. We haven’t any gar.den at all, the onion sets that we put In the ground in March are just the same as when we set tuem out. . Everybody is moving out of here and taking their stock. There is no hay to cut to speak of, but I am going to try to cut some tomorrow; don’t know how I will make it. Hay is $lO a ton here and not very good at that. Don’t know whether I will be back this winter or not. I will if they discontinue the postoffice.