Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — Got the Better of March Now [ARTICLE]

Got the Better of March Now

Last Wednesday March 16th, was _the middle day of March, and one day after the end' of the ground hog winter- It was also four days before the Spring Equinox, when we are bound to have spring whether or no, and also weather or no. Maroh, so far, has let us

off pretty easy, even it we have had a few spells of pretty cold weather and some rather raw deals in the way of storms; and though the ground hog revealed the true animus of his nature by a venomous parting kick in the shape of a six inch fail of enow, and about a six inch fall of mercury. But thisi' last aot of malioo on the ground hog’s part oan be largely overlooked, because of, on •'the whole, quite conspicuous failure be has made in his previously proclaimed intentions of queering the whole bunoh of weather from Feb ruary 2nd, to Maroh Isth. For as a point of faot, the ground hog winter was the best six weeks of weather, all in one stretch, wq have bad since the middle of November.