Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — ONE HAIN TOO MANY HERE [ARTICLE]

ONE HAIN TOO MANY HERE

We got a very heavy rain in this section of the state Tuesday night, which raised the water in the river several feet, to the highest point reached this season, but yet not out of its banks. Until this rain the ground had absorbed what water had fallen recently, but this was a little too much and in many placed parts of fields were covered with water. The Democrat was informed yesterday that no damage has as yet resulted to the h ndreds of acres of onions in the district, the Pinkamink ditch not having overflowed thus far. Some rain fell again Thursday night, but it was reported to have been quite light north of town. The writer was over to Kentland Thursday afternoon and in that vicinity they seemed to have gotten much more rain than here. Water was standing in many fields and the corn nor oats do not look as well over there as here, the oats not being as good a color and the corn is not as high and the fields seem more weedy than with us. Down in central parts of the state they have been getting lots 'of rain, streams and rivers are out of their banks and much damage has been done to growing crops.