Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — REAL WINTER WEATHER HERE [ARTICLE]

REAL WINTER WEATHER HERE

Mercury 8 Below Zero Yesterday Morning, and Still to Continue. ■ ■ 1 Old Boreas swooped down from the north Wednesday evening and sent the mercury hustling down the tube until It reached about 5 degrees above zero. This was the eoldest it had reached this and Thursday morning everyone was shivering and thinking it certainly was down below zero. However, it brightened up during the day 'and was quite pleasant, but cold. Thursday night the indications were very favorable for the mercury to run below the cypher, . and at 7 o’clock yesterday morning the thermometer in front of The Democrat office registered 8 below — a keen cold morning, the kind that puts /vim into red-blooded people and the shivers into the agqd. "Fair today; continued low temperature” is -the prophecy for Saturday. Considerable ice was floating down the river yesterday, • it, not having been cold long enough for the river to freeze over, and at noon this was forming a gorge just squt?. of the cemetery. * At 1 p. m., yesterday the mercury registered 2 below in the khade.