Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1905 — Weather We Used to Have. [ARTICLE]

Weather We Used to Have.

The following from the Crown Point Star is enough to make lhe cold chills chase up end down a fellow’s spinal column: “Twenty eight years ago this spring February was to warm that fence posts were set, grass "c me up so that cattle p eked aroutd the marshes and the frogs sarg for two weeks. On March 4 it was 10 degrees below zero with a.deg on each side of the sun. The stb. on Monday President Rutte’fird B. Hayes wa« inaugurated, Teams were driven across the Kankikee marsh on the newly made ice after the first of April.”