A COLD NIGHT - 13 Jan 1875

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Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 4/30/2006 at 17:22:34

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, January 13, 1875

A COLD NIGHT.-- Last Friday night was probably the coldest that we have had
in this section for many years. Early Friday morning it was snowing gently
and quite calm, but suddenly a north-west gale came sweeping over the
country, bringing chilly tidings from the ice bound north, and warning all
to prepare for still lower mercury, and perchance an increasing wind. The
snow soon began to wirl and twirl, and dance and prance around, and manifest
such a disposition to all get in through the windows and at the bottom of
the doors that an unusual demand was at once made on the housewife for rugs,
pieces of old carpet, etc., to resist its wholesale entrance into all parts
of her dominions. Throughout the day the storm raged in regular old '56 and
'57 style, and when evening came the mercury was still creeping nearer and
nearer the both of the thermometer, and marking, it is said, as low as 28
degrees below zero. Of course, the night throughout was a severe one, and
we record it as such, and patiently await the end news -- sure to come -- of
frozen families and stock in the country west and north where the people are
so poorly prepared for such severe temperature.

The standing of the thermometer on Saturday morning is given by different
parties at from 22 to 25 below zero.
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December 8, 2005
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