Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — We Still Get a “Little Rain” Occasionally. [ARTICLE]

We Still Get a “Little Rain” Occasionally.

Evidently all the clouds were not drained out dry by the Republican and Bull Moose conventions in Chicago last week, for at about noon Wednesday a very heavy shower fell in Rensselaer and vicinity, the rainfall being three-fourths of an inch. The writer was in Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon and a heavy rain came there about 4 o’clock. It had rained all the way along between Indianapolis and Rensselaer about the same as it had here but down in that vicinity it looked as though the rain did not come amiss, as it was much dryer from Monticello south than in this vicinity. Judging from what could be seen from the train corn is looking little if any better down toward Indianapolis. An occasional fairly good field of wheat was seen but oats looked no better there than here. The corn fields were quite free from weeds but the ground is quite lumpy, and several farmers were observed rolling their fields.