Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — ICE-MAKING WEATHER. [ARTICLE]

ICE-MAKING WEATHER.

Mercury Hits 5 Below Zero Thursday Night. The robins song of last week has given place to zero weather since Wednesday of the present week, *■ asd yesterday morning the mercury stood at 5 below zero. Thursday morning it stood at 8 above, and a fierce shaving wind prevailed all day. The river froze over completely during the day, for the' first time this winter, afird ice on the Kresler ice pbh'd is now about a foot thick, and is “still thickening.”