Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1908 — Had Real Zero Weather. [ARTICLE]

Had Real Zero Weather.

February introduced our first zero weather for the 1907-08 winter, and on Sanday morning the U. S. government thermometor, kept by L. 0. Klosterman, at St. Joseph’s College, registered a mercury contraction of 5 degrees below zero. And during Saturday night . there was a strong wind that made it seem even colder than it was. Sunday it warmed up a little but kept well below the freezing point all, day and Sunday evening it was perceptibly colder again, altfao the wind had fallen during the day and the absence of it did not produce the disagreeable conditions of the night before. Daring the night it moderated. loe was frozen to a thickness of 8 to 10 inches and the packers, ineluding Kellner, i£igelabach . and Roths are all busy/' with the tengealed harvest