Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — FORTY DEGREES OF FREEZING [ARTICLE]

FORTY DEGREES OF FREEZING

The low temperature record for the winter made Monday night and Tuesday morning, did not last long, and was knock edclear out Tuesday night and Wednesday morning All day Tuesday the temperature remained way below the freezing point, the highest reached being 15 degrees, or 17 below freezing. As. night came on the mercury fell rapidly, and continued the downward course until 7 o’clock next morniDg when the low point of S' below zero was reached. This was the lowest point reached .at any time during the night, also; This 8 below was 4 lower than Mondaynight. It is also just 40 degrees below the freezing point. The extreme cold has been very welcome to the local ice packers, who were beginning to fear that the mild weather would continue all winter and that they would get no ice.