Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1905 — The Winter of 1842-3. [ARTICLE]

The Winter of 1842-3.

One who olaims to know says that for long and severe winters that of 1842-3 eclipsed anything in the history of northern Indiana, there baiDg severe cald weather from early in November until the first week in the following April, the snow on the fourth day of that month being two feet deep in LiPorte. Such long continued and intensely oold weather was mo«e than the formers had made preparations for and with the cold weather and the scarcity of food, the loss of stcck was simply frightful. The township elections were held on April sth, 1843, and the voters were hauled to the polls in bob sleds.— Laporie Hearld