Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — RAIN FOR NEXT SIX SUNDAYS [ARTICLE]

RAIN FOR NEXT SIX SUNDAYS

According to Old Adage About “Rain on Easter Sunday.” March ended, as it came in, in very beautiful weather—the most remarkable March that old-timers ever recall. There was- not one real oldfashioned March day during the entire month, and the good weather not only made' it possible for the corn left in the fields to be husked out, but it dried out the corn wonderfully and hundreds of thousands of bushels were thereby saved that would have been a total loss with a typical March. It also 'enabled the farmers to catch up with their work after getting their corn out, and oats sowing is ipractically over or will be this week. And the oats were put in with the ground in splendid condition, too. A prominent farmer said to us Monday, in fact, that he never saw oats sown 7-ljder such favorable conditions before.

It is an old “sign” that if it rains on Easter it will rain on the succeeding six Sundays, and we got a few nice “April showers” Sunday evening and during the night that were much needed and started all kinds of vegetation to growing nicely. There was considerable lightning during the night, and a tree on College avenue, near the W. H. Parkinson residence, was struck and split up by one of the Bolts. Both Monday and yesterday were fine bright days, with the mercury up in the neighborhood of 70 degrees.