Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1904 — Nearly Three Rainless Weeks. [ARTICLE]

Nearly Three Rainless Weeks.

This ia the 19th day ainoe there waa any rain of measurable quantity in Rensselaer, and considerably more tnan that ainoe many parts of Jasper county had any rain of any amount. Here there was a big rain on the 27th of July., This laok of rain has beoome a very serious matter. The pastnres and meadows are drying up, and in many parts of the county the corn orop is already very badly damaged, and in some regions, north of Rensselaor it is practically ruined. The piokle orop, now one of great importance in the northern half of Jasper county, is now right on the verge of almost total failure, for want of rains. Wells and cisterns will soon begin to show the effects of the drouth. As for the dirt roads they are so deep in dust that every team that passes over them leaves a trailing oloud of dust like unto in magnitude, the smoke of a big locomotive.