Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1903 — Storm Didn’t Catch the Pickles Badly. [ARTICLE]

Storm Didn’t Catch the Pickles Badly.

• - Vineß of all kinds were totally obliterated along the traok of Wednesday’s big hail storm; and melons, ononmbers, tomatoes, squashes, end pumpkins are a oomplete loss. This would have been worse had the big piokle regions of the northern part of the county caught it worse. As it was the loss there is not so extensive as first reported. Thus instead of 100 acres of the pickels being cut up, around Fair Oaks, later estimates plaoe it only BO acres. There are or were about 200 acres in that crop around Fair Oaks. The storm did not begin far enough north to oatoh the pickles around Virgie, Eniman, DeMotte and other northern places.