Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — COPIOUS RAINS FELL THURSDAY [ARTICLE]

COPIOUS RAINS FELL THURSDAY

Drought Broken by General Rains Both Afternoon and Night. Several showers Of rain came Thursday afternoon and evening in the vicinity of Rensselaer, followed by a general rain about midnight in which nearly an inch of water fell, breaking -the drought, which had reached a stage where rain was needed badly for oats and pasture, also for garden truck and potatoes. The latter rain was accompanied by considerable lightning and a heavy wind, but aside from blowing down a few cherry trees and breaking off branches of shade trees, knocking down the wheat and oats to some extent, no particular damage is reported Ijere. R. D. Thompson, in whose agency insurance was carried by Alfred Lowman, now of near Hebron, was informed that Lowman’s barn had been struck by lightning and two cows killed. The barn was not set on fire, however.