Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — September Has Ended. [ARTICLE]

September Has Ended.

.J-U.-i l.m my,/ I i; I The month of September, 1903 >| ended at midflight Tuesday night. It was indeed a month to be plea--santly remembered. For 4 season* of “etherial mildness” it was the 1 veal thing, or as near it as anjr month ever is, in this region. It was pre-eminently a month of sunshine; 16 days being recorded as dear, 10 as partly olesr, and only fbhr ds wholly oloudy. There was enoughrain to keep to be injurieoe nor unpleasant. The wit* two big rains, on the 13th wjtlm.l2 inches the 20th with 1.03 inches. month started iiT'with an ; enormous oom mopm ptajipeot in thalonnty, yet all very late fay the time of year and heeding a} wa r «M»aj#ta#*S Wjtamiy- The farmers’ fondest |qjfthe. month waJfuj usually warm aid tbe two alight frorte worked qo injory to t'Je crop. Thetq. wereSQdays wijtb; maximum temperature of 75 degrees or abovq and 312 with 80 or above. The warmest was 90 on the 14th. The oddest weather of the month was 35 degrees on the morning of the 18th( It was indeed a beautiful and a • beneficent month, and far indeed from realizing the turbulent weather conditions the long range! fake weather prophets frightened their dupes with at the beginning of tbe month.' A mild bdt brief excitement was caused this morning, tyy a reported osle of horse-stealing, near A bay mafe waS found missing, from the barn lot of laaao Leave], just northeast of town, and she was reported as having been stolen between one and five p. m., Wed-

nesday, while all the family was absent. It developed later however, that W, W, Reeve, mail oarrier to Valma and Pleasant Ridge had arranged with Mr. Leavel to take the mare, and when he went after her not finding anyone at home, be took the mare and wendtd hie way peacefully away. Jim Leavel, did not know of the arrangement, and when he missed the mare he jumped at the conclusion she had been stolen. ■