Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — WINTER IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS [ARTICLE]

WINTER IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Uncle John Foresman visited the Reporter office on Wednesday. Some of the people who say they never saw the like of this weather have short memories, he said. in the winter of ’B4 and ’BS we had as much snow as this and for weeks the roads were blocked most Of the time. Every day for over a week he scooped a road to the cattle pens to feed the cattle. Dug the snow away from the shock fodder and cut it loose from the ground with a hoe. But in the days gone by he had seen worse road blockades than that. In the spring of ’76 or ’77 it was so wet that even a horse would mire down on the prairie, and he and Matt Carr, who lived at that time just east of Foresman, walked to Goodland and divided a 50-pound sack of flour between them 1 and carried it home, a distance of eight miles. They had to keep to the east and come along the county line road. At first they moved along rapidly, but after awhile the rests became morje frequent and - finally reaching home was one of the most pleasant events of his We.— Brook Reporter.