Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — Coldest Place In the Country. [ARTICLE]

Coldest Place In the Country.

The Republican has often had occasion in the past to note the fact that Rensselaer and surrounding oouatry had escaped the worst part of severe storms or other extreme weather that visited other places, but in regard to the sudden and surprisingly cold “snap” that was experienced here the night of Tuesday, Feb. sth and the morning of the 6th, the conditions are reversed. And it is a fact, surprising though it seems, that Rensselaer was pretty nearly the coldest place on the continent south of the arotic regions, that night. The government weather bureau’s report of temperatures for Wednesday morning, mentions only three places where it was below zero. Morebead, Minn., was the coldest, 16 below. St. Paul, 10 below, Helena Mont, 6. Even way up in Assiniaboia, Canada, only 8 below was reported. At Chicago, where it is usually much colder than here . it was only at zero. And there is no mistake aJ>out . the low temperature here. Every out-of-doors thermometer told the same story, and the government thermometer at the Halleck telephone exchange confirmed it.