Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1904 — Some Nineteen Year Old Weather Items. [ARTICLE]

Some Nineteen Year Old Weather Items.

The following are extracts or icondensations ofWterns from the files of The Bxpublioak, of Feb? ruary, 1885. Feb. 12 We have beard from “The Oldest Inhabitant,” in fact several of them and they are unanimeus in pronouncing the present winter these vereetthey ever knew. Squire Lewis of Jordan tp., says all bis old neighbors agree on thifeverdiot. Jonathan Peacock who had then lived in the county 25 years, said he had seen as severe winters in eastern New York, but never in Indiana. Feb. 19. Stephen Ferrell, deputy sheriff of Benton, was fr<z-m to death trying to go from Oxford to Templeton, a distance of two miles. I For more than two weeks the ‘ railroad has carried no freight, and the prospects of a grocery famine arc imminent. The coal supply is also running very low. The Monon management after herculean efforts bed just succeeded in getting the road open, when i another two days’ blizzird, Sunday and Monday, filled the outs all up again, leaving matters in worse shape than ever. There bad been no tiain of any kind since Saturday. and none expected befoie Toured ay or Friday. Nine engines and 200 men were working to clear the road between Rensselaer and St. Johns. Feb. 25. Country people who come to town, and town people, who go into the country, continue to tell amazing stories of thadepth of the snow, and the condition of the roads. J T. Randle went north 12 or 14 miles, and reports that for miles in i stretch, the roads are toll to the tops of the fences with snow, and in places the beaten roads went right over the tops oi higl fences. March 5. A week of moderately warm weather, without rain had carried off most of the snow, without very high water.