Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — An Ice Delivery In Carpenter [ARTICLE]

An Ice Delivery In Carpenter

Last Saturday the south end of Jasper oounty was visited by a pretty lively hail storm, and which seems to have been the first b ginnings of a storm that worked considerable havoc in several counties further east. In this oounty it seems not to have lasted long enough to do any damage. I-i eome plaoes over that way, it wa9 a remarkable storm, and had it been in quantity to mntoh its quality it would have been very destructive,

Thus ex-surveyor L S. A'ter sends a description of the hail that fell in tne neighborhood, and from the description, the storm might better be called an ioe delivery than a hail-storm. The hail-stones were big jagged chunks of ioe. and in size approximate the typical blocks of ioe the wioked city ioe men deliver [.to their customers in hot weather, as depioted in the humorous oar toons. There was about only one ohunk fell to every square rod of surface, and they averaged from two to three inches in their longest diameter; and some reeidents deolared they measured some that were four inches “from tip to tip.” Mr. Alter accompanies his ac ocuut with an outline drawing of one of the ioe blocks that fell on his place, of about the average size and it is fully three inches in diameter.