Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1915 — FORMER COLD RECORDS BROKEN [ARTICLE]

FORMER COLD RECORDS BROKEN

Mercury Dropped to J 35 Below Zero Saturday Night, the Lowest for Many Years. The lowest temperature recorded here in a great many years was that Saturday night, when the government thermometer at Joseph’s college, dropped to 25 below zero. It is nearly always several degrees colder out at the college than in Rensselaer, where the thermometers registered as low as 22 below Sunday morning. This is the lowest point reached here, to our knowledge, in a great many years, ' and seems to have been a Tecord-breaker all through this section of the state. The blizzard beginning Thursday night continued all day Friday and some six or eight inches of snow fell here, while at points further south the .fall was still heavier, over a foot being reported at Indianapolis. Saturday morning the mercury had dropped to six below zero, and the cold during the day was perhaps the most penetrating we have Experienced this winter. A rising temperature came Sunday, and Monday morning the college thermometer registered 7 above zero, but at night it dropped down again and registered 1.5 below yesterday morning.