Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1915 — No Shadow for the Groundhog. [ARTICLE]

No Shadow for the Groundhog.

Yesterday was a damp, cloudy and disagreeable day and, if the groundhog ventured from his winter quarters, there 'was no shadow to scare him back. After the severe fcero weather of last week there was quite a sudden rise in temperature Friday night and Saturday, and Saturday afternoon we experienced one of the worst blizzards of the winter. It was not cold, but the snow fell in sheets and some five or six inches of “the beautiful” soon covered the ground. In the evening it turned it turned to ii sleet, and Sunday to rain, raining all of Sunday night and part of Monday. Almost all the snow disappeared, but the roads were left covered with ice Monday night, when a little more rain fell, gradually turning to sleet. The sidewalks were a glare of ice yesterday morning and a damp snow fell early in the forenoon, melting almost as fast as it fell. The ice all went out of the river Monday night, and the water filled the channel to the banks yesterday morning. .