Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1903 — Ten Inches of Snow. [ARTICLE]

Ten Inches of Snow.

The snow which began here Saturday afternoon and continued all of Saturday night, and until about 5 o’clock Sunday morning, was far the largest snow that has visited this immediate region so far this winter. Its average depth, as carefully measured in several places, Sunday morning was a little more than ten inches. It equalled in depth the entire snowfall of either December or January. As it came with little ,or no wind, it lay where it fell, and thus has not caused the inconvenience it would had there been a drifting wind. Though the snow was sufficiently dry to not pack as it fell it still contained a good deal of water, equalling, when melted to a rainfall of .90 of any inch. The big snow did not catch our vigilant city marshal napping, and long before was heard the first waking call of "Chanticleer,” the cook, bad gone forth his call of "shan’t I clear” the walks, and by four o’clock he had his assistants, Fletcher and Watson out with their horse snow shovels, and by sun-up all the most frequently traveled walks in town, were well cleared, and by 10 o’clock, the walks were opened all over town, from the remotest dug out in Rabbits’ town, to the latest sooner’s shack in New Oklahoma. The snow made fine sleighing, as soon as the roads were well broken, but sleighing here in February is always of very un certain duration.