Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — A Sleet Reminder. [ARTICLE]

A Sleet Reminder.

The sleet of Wednesday night and. Thursday morning was a reminded to older residents and the mind's of many of us went back almost a quarter of a century to probably the most destructive sleet that ever visited this section of the country. This was on Saturday morning, February 3rd, 1883 — twenty-four years ago next month. The sleet of (yesterday morning, though an unusually heavy one, was a light affair compared with that one when many thousands of dollars’ worth of fruit and shade trees were destroyed. Telephone wires were then almost unknow, else the property loss would have been much greater.