Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1900 — Not Extra Bad, For March. [ARTICLE]

Not Extra Bad, For March.

A good old citizen whose memory must play him queer pranks sometimes, asked us Fri, if we ever remembered such bad weather so late in March. Yea, verily, we can remember seasons when the whole of March and half of April were so "bad that the present month is “etherial mildness” itself, in comparison. In fact we only need to go back a single year to find a worse March. Here, for instance, are a few sentences from an article in The Republican of March 28th, 1899: The Republican would not willingly further inflame the minds of the people against this present month of March, by dwelling upon the enormities of its conduct. Besides, who knows but within the three days that it still has to ran it may do something to redeem itself. May give us one whole day of nice weather perhaps. And here is an item from The Republican of Mar. 31st, last year: Let it be put on record that the “oldest inhabitant” does not remember so big a snow so late as the 30th of March as that which occurred yesterday. The depth of the snow-fall here was at least six inches, and had not the ground beneath been so wet as to soak the lower layers of snow and cause them to settle the depth would probably have been eight inches, or more. There was sleighing here this morning, which had not occurred before on the last day of March for many years. But the bright warm sunshine soon finished up the sleighing.