Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1901 — Had a Magnificent Rain. [ARTICLE]

Had a Magnificent Rain.

Although the region around Rensselaer and Jasper county generally, has been more favored than most places in the state, and the entire central part of the country, for that matter, still it was after a practically solid drouth of just 20 days, and when the need of rain had becpme very urgent, that the drouth was ended by a good shower, about 6 o’clock p. m., Saturday. Sinoe Sunday evening, July 28th, just 20days before, there bad been no rain at all here except a few sprinkles too light to even “lay the dust.’’ The rain that began July 28th, was a good one and just an inch of water fell, but that jain was local in its extent, and did not include even the whole of Jasper county. The present rains, 'which have been more or less continuous ever since Saturday evening have been quite general in scope, and are the result of the late great storms on the Gulf of Mexico.

The rain-fall this time, up to 12 o’clock this today, was only a very little less than two inches and it came in such easy installments that none of it was wasted by running into the ditches, the hnngry earth taking it all in and asking for more. This rain will do all the good that any amount of rain could do to the corn and potatoes, and garden stuff, It will also give a good start to pastures, but will need to be followed by more ere long to keep the grass growing, as the pasture land was previously so thoroughly dried out. The filling up of cisterns also is not the least among the good results of this fine rain.