Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1914 — Icy Weather But No Ice. [ARTICLE]

Icy Weather But No Ice.

Since the last issue of The Democrat we have been having some real zero weather, buit notwithstanding this Kresler’s ice pond has not frozen only partly over, and the river is 9 only frozen at the edges. Just w r hy this is so, no one seems to be able to explain A Perhaps in the case of the river the current has been a little too swift—it seems somewhat more swift since the dredging on west has progressed so far—but with the ice pond it is different. A tile drain runs into the pond, and the ground being so full of water no doubt keeps! this flowing quite a stream con- 1 stantly therein, and may have had something to do with preventing the 1 water from freezing, although the; same drain has emptied into thej pond in previous years when the' pond has frozen over with less cold "weather than we have had recently.' The mercury registered 6 degrees, above zero Saturday morning by the' government thermometer at St. Joseph’s college: (5 below Sunday morning; 11 below Monday morn-; ing. That is, the lowest point registered during the preceeding 24 hours was that given above. Sometime during Sunday night the lowest ! point w-as reached, as it was above zero a few degrees at daylight.