Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — Cold Weather Down South [ARTICLE]

Cold Weather Down South

Once in every 10 or 15 years a hard cold wave slips down in‘o Folorida (and knocks out the orange business for years to come. Such a storm visited that region last week, the big storm of the Atlantic coast having ex'ended that far down. B. F. Fendig’s relatives at Brunswick Ga. writes him th .t it was only four decrees ab>ve zro ther J , and at Tampa Fla. 22 degre e. Either temper, ature is said to be enough to finish the orange trees. The people there bu'ld big smoky fires in the r orange groves when they bear of a cold norther aiming their way, but prcbablyit would b, unavailing against as co'd weather as that abov 1 mentioned