Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1919 — LIGHT RAIN MONDAY EVENING [ARTICLE]

LIGHT RAIN MONDAY EVENING

Helped Some, But Many Times More Rain Is Needed. A, drizzling rain, lasting an hour or more, fell in Rensselaer Monday evening. While not nearly enoiigh, it did much good as coming at night every drop was absorbed instead of being drunk up by a hot sun. Around about a heavier rain evidently fell, judging from appearance of the skies, especially over about Remington, Goodland and Morocco. The past week was very severe on the corn and hundreds of thousands of dollars damage was done to the crop. Sunday was especially severe, a, ■hot wind prevailing all day that sucked out what little vitality there was left in the stalks on the higher ground where the greatest damage had been done. Monday was also very 'hot and the rain in the evening was a most welcome relief. We need lots of rain all through this section of the state, and now that the “ice has been broken” perhaps we anay get more soon.