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VOLUME V.
FLORA, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1917
NUMBER 12
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UNEXPECTED ARRI¬ VAL OF JACK FROST
Coiaevt December Weather in 20 Years Visita Clay County. "Business ss Uusual" Tem- jorarily Stalled.
Not many people who closed their Ijusiness houses and stores last Friday nlglit and went to their homes while the snow, just beginning to fall, gently dropped to the earth—not many, we say, realized that It was the commenceinent of a great storm, and that before morning the wind would be howling down from the north and that the mercury would be hunting the zero dot. But that Is just what happened, and all day Saturday and Sunday It stormed—snow, wind, and cold. Sunday morning local thermom¬ eters registered frpra H to 19 below zero, and government thermometers marked it at about 8. House plants, vegetables and fruits suffered, water mains were frozen, the light plant re¬ ceived a crack or two. and railway engines in the yards here had to go to luka to obtain water. All trains were disarranged, and delayed. The fall of snow was from "> to x inches on tlie level, but drifted badly. Weatlier records show thatthe temperature for iiunday and Monday was the lowest December fall known In Southern Ill¬ inois for 20 years. No "breali" is yet in sight, and the mercury remains to¬ day at zero with high northwest winds and snow again drifting.
dainty refreshmenls were served, af ter which the eleven couples dis¬ banded to their respective homes, de¬ claring Arlo a very entertaining hostess. Those present were: Misses Wllma and Mildred Irwin, Viola Tllton, Ada Harrison. Thelma Har¬ wood. Kathleen Meyer, Elma Gill, Margurite Kachrofske, Dorothea Bowman. Mary Watson and Aline Henry, and Messrs. Ben Beaugli, Howard Dillman,, Robert Hlggins, Leo Allen, Sailor Cogan, Charles Snyder, Hubert Smith, ,Iewel Valbert, Arlo Malinsky, Aubrey Golden and Weber Bryan.
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Arlo Entertains
A very entertaining and joyous party w'M given at the home of Arlo B. Malinsky in West Flora, last Tliursday evening In honor of Miss Thelma Harwood, who has recentlj returned from Sedalla, Mo. The psrty was composed mostly of H-S. T. H. S. pupils. Popular games land