Big pigs, gassy water and near-record cold
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Editor’s note We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.
This week in 1875, the Highland Weekly News reported temperatures plummeted to 10 degrees below zero, causing “frosted fingers, noses and ears in town and vicinity, but nothing of a very serious nature.”
The paper reported on a “remarkable elopement case” in which a local married woman went off in reckless abandon with another man, then returned “very penitent, and very anxious to be restored to her old place. The result was a reconciliation.”