Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — ZERO WEATHER STILL HERE [ARTICLE]

ZERO WEATHER STILL HERE

While we had a couple of days this week—Wednesday and Thursday—in ■which the mercury did not reach the zero mark, Thursday night again put the kibosh on the quick silver and it huddled close to the bulb, thermometers in t°wn registering ten below yesterday morning, and the new thermometer out at St. Joseph college registering one degree tower. This is the coldest point reached this winter. White some of the ice men in neighboring towns have been busily engaged in packing their storage houses for next summer’s business, the unexpected zero wave of last week caught our local dealers wholly unprepared and with no •water whatever in their ice pond. Work was started, however, of filling the pond, a gasoline engine and pump being used for the purpose. but it is a big job to fill it and it is possible that warmer weather will come before the work is completed and the ice made.