Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — LOCAL WEATHER AND CROP CONDITIONS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL WEATHER AND CROP CONDITIONS

After several days of beautiful spring weather with the thermometer registering above 70 each day, we got a little change in the program yesterday morning, when a rather cold, drizzling rain set in. However, it gradually became warmer and at 2 p. m. the mercury had risen to 45 degrees. The rain started the grass nicely, the ground having become quite warm with the several days’ sunshine, and lawns are as green and pretty almost as in May, while the buds on the shade trees have started to such an extent that a few days more of 70 degree temperature would start out the leaves. Thursday, the first day of spring according to the almanac, was perhaps the brightest and warmest day we have had, and many people begun garden making. Scores of Rensselaer people have their gardens plowed already and are going to get in on the ground floor in giving old H. C. of L. a rap in the short ribs. Wheat wintered well and is coming on nicely, and with no serious back-sets promises to make arecord crop in Jasper county. The weather prophecy for today fe “Fair.”