Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — New Year Ushered In Without Any Special Demonstration. [ARTICLE]

New Year Ushered In Without Any Special Demonstration.

The new year was ushered in in Rensselaer with no particular noise or pomp, and except for the closing of the city schools, the banks, and postoffice and a very few of the business houses during the artefnoon, business went on as usual. The rural mail carriers, who are given no vacation Chrfetrtias because of the extra large amount of mail to be handled at that time, took, their holiday vacation new year’s day. The day was very good except that it continued cloudy and rather dark. The mercury remained right around the 30 degree mark, where it has been for the past ten days with a variation of only a very few degrees night or day. i