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Democratic Watchman, January 8, 1915, page 8
A HARD, DRY WINTER
"It was just one month yesterday since cold weather set in and during that month we have had the coldest weather and more of it than ever experienced in this county in the month of December. In Bellefonte there have been six or eight mornings when the thermometer was below zero and its extreme lowest was eighteen degrees below. Other places in the county reported twenty-four below. The first snow that fell is still on the ground, and upon the streets of Bellefonte and on the public roads it is packed into solid ice. Sleighing is of course, very good.
The extreme and, prolonged cold weather has frozen up most of the small streams in the county and on the larger streams ice has frozen to such a thickness as to greatly diminish the water supply. At Roopsburg Spring creek is so low, that C. Y. Wagner has not power to operate his mill more than one-third of the time. This is the case with most of the mills in Centre county dependent upon water power, while one or more have been compelled to close entirely until a freshet comes and fills up the streams. Wells which have never gone dry are now dry, and lucky is the farmer who has a big cistern to depend upon as their supply is not yet exhausted. Some weather prophets are predicting a January thaw with a milder winter thereafter, and possibly the beginning of it was on Wednesday when we had a fine rain."
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