Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1902 — A Cold Christmas. [ARTICLE]

A Cold Christmas.

Without consulting the records and merely given as a matter of general recollection we think it safe to say that not for a considerable number of years have we bad as severe Christmas weather as was experienced here. It was very decidedly oold and also very decidedly windy, whioh makes a tough combination wherever you find it. The lowest temperature, Wednesday night, was two above zero. All day Thursday it did not get higher than 8 above. Thursday night and next morning, it was two above. It was the coldest of the winter exdlpt on the Bth when it was two below, but it was much worse weather now than then, because this time it was windy and then it was calm.