Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1904 — Dryest Place in Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Dryest Place in Indiana.

The Indiana Weather report for June has just been issued, by Section Direotor Blythe, of Indianapolis. From the report we learn that, taking the state over, that it was not euoh a very 000 l month, as Indiana Junes go. The average was only M degrees below the normal June temperature; while it was 3.6 degrees warmer tlnm June of last year. It was not such a very dry June either; taking the state over, there was three iuohes of rain, which was only 135 inches below the normal for the month. - It is a noteworthy fact that Rensselaer, with its only .52 inches of rain, was the dryest weather bureau town in the state. And the fact is all the more remarkable beoause Rensselaer’s June two years ago, was the wettest place in the state. There was then 14.85 inohes of rain here or praotioally 30 times as muoh as there was this year. And Rensselaer was not the dryest plaoe in Jasper oounty this June, either. There was a strip of country north about 8 or 9 miles where there was praotioally no rain at all, duriug the whole month. In contrast with this, a ♦ reliable resident of west Carpenter reports 3£ inohes of rain during a single storm, two hours long, on June 20tb, and another inoh on June 29th.