This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Swearingen Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4197 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. February 16, 1899. "February 13, 1899".-- This day closes one of the most remarkable cold snaps experienced in Fremont county in forty years. For 18 days in succession the temperature ranged from 3 to 28 degrees below zero by the government thermometer; some others registered from 2 to 5 degrees lower, the mimunum temperature averaged 12 degrees below, and the maximum only 6 above. Saturday, the 11th was the coldest, the maximum being 16 below and the minumum 28 below, making the average for that day 22 degrees below. From the best information I have at present, the weather service of Iowa has been registering lower temperature for the last 18 days than since its establishment in the state some 43 years ago, nor has there been a series of storms and cold waves covering so extensive a portion of the United States. I think our peach crop and trees are gone.--G. V. SWEARINGEN, Meteorological Observer.