Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — The Long Looked For Rain. [ARTICLE]

The Long Looked For Rain.

The rain which so many farmers have been looking for so long and anxiously, at last came, Tuesday night in good measure. The entire rainfall, as shown by the official rain guage of the local U. S. weather bureau station was just .80 of an inoh. Not such a very, large rain, but it came slow and steady, and every drop went into the ground. In some parts of the county it ' v was not much needed, but in other and the larger portion of the county, it was very badly needed. Thus in a region a mile north of Rensselaer there had been only 5 minutes rain since the Ist of June. About 7or 8 miles north, up about Barney Comer’s place, there had been no rain at all for 30 days. The rain was general and evidently extended all over Jasper oounty, and probably a good deal further. That and what oame that afternoon will make an abundanoe of rain for all present needs,