Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1902 — Zero Weather Is Here. [ARTICLE]

Zero Weather Is Here.

The many people who have been prophesying a warm winter may now have to revise their predictions, Anyhow the weather we are having how is conclusive evidence that the winter has not lost its grip yet. by any means. Sunday was a oold one, with a temperature down to 12 degrees early in the morning, and not getting above 16 degrees all day, but that was only a precursor of wfiat was to follow, for it grew steadily colder all night, and at |seven o’olock on Monday morning, the U. S. minimum thermometer stood just at zero. But it was still growing oolder and a half hour later it was two degrees below zero. ' This was its lowest mark for the night and after that it olimbed slowly up for a few degrees, until at two p. m. it reached 10 above zero, which was its highest mark for the day. None Such Mince Mpat like mother used to make for 8o at John Egers, ?■ ----- -- *