Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — River Highest For Many Years. [ARTICLE]

River Highest For Many Years.

• The Iroquois river continued to rise rapidly all day Monday and by next morning was up to the extrema, high water mark for many years, except perhaps as the result of ice gorges in the winter. That morning the water was about two feet deep on the grade at the south end of the Kannal street or creamery bridge; and the old creamery building is entirely surrounded. The laundry building is surrounded, and has fully 2 feet of water in front. 8 >me of our river expertrt, such as Joe Sharp and Wm Powers, say the river was several inches higher in May, 1892; others, like Frank Meyer and Ike Glazabrook dispute this and say it is higher now. Anyhow May 1892 was a very wet month. No weather records were kept here then, but in The Republican ,of the first week in Jun? of that year, the opinion is expressed that there were 10 or 12 inches of rainfallduring the month then just ended. But as the offi cial records show that June of this year had practically 14 inches of rainfall, it is fair to conclude that this is a wetter season than was the spring of ten year ago.