Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — Weather Service for Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Weather Service for Jasper County.

The public spirited and enterprising publishers of the Indiana Farmer lately announced that they had made arrangements with the National Signal Service Department for sending out 100 telegrams every morning, from Indianapolis, for the benefit of Indiana agriculture, provided they could secure persons to co-operate with them, and cause the proper flags to be displayed daily. In addition to the flags, local agents are to be supplied with a lArgb quantity of blank weather bulletins/which are to be filled out every morning, with predictions of weather for 24 hours, and delivered free to all farmers and others who will call for them. The Republican man was not willing to have Jasper county left out in this, promising seheme, and therefore applied and received the agency for this locality, and we therefore have the pleasure to announce to the farmers of the county and to the residents of the town, that weather signals will so be proudly floating from the battlemental towers of Rensselaer, or some other elevated point, and also that weather bulletins will be furnished each day to all farmers who choose to call for them. We expect to begin to receive the dispatches in a short time. Further particulars will be given next week. We may add that there is no money and mighty little honor for us in this matter. Neither is there any politics, and democrats, green - backers and prohibitionists who cull for weather bulletins will receive just as good weather and just as much of it, as the straightest Republicans.