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Show IT SHOW, IT ! HBEWLi mm- Xew Year's Weather Causes People o Have Defiant Keeling Keel-ing Toward Coal Man. While the weather at this New Year's time cannot lie said lo bo seasonable, it is nevertheless mighty pleasant. In fact, tt 1h so pleasant that the fear of the coal man Is no longer abnormal, and people are beginning to .speculate on what the toe man will do to them. The Icy sidewalks of Friduyl gave way Sii,tiird:iy before a warm breeze and a winner rain, what Is called a welcome ehlnook In the northern rountry. The prediction for" this Sunday Is thut there will be rain or snow, but the Indications are that It will be no colder, ami that the voracious maw of the conl stove will not be exorbitantly exacting In Its demands. The warmest point reached by the thermometer ther-mometer on New Year's day was fn.. and the. coldest -14, making a mean of IS, which is certainly balmy. The record of thn day's doings of the InslvumcntH at tho weather bureau Is told in the following: Record at local office. United States weather bureau, for twenty-four hours ending at f p. in. todays Temperature at 6 p. m.. 41; maximum temperature. f3; minimum temperature, rj; mean temperature.' -IS. which Ik 10 degrees above normal. Total excess since the 1st of the montli. 10 degrees. Precipitation at fi p. in., none: total precipitation since 1st of the month, .02 inch, which Is .02 Inch below normal. Total since January 1. .02 inch, which is .02 Inch below jiormal. Relative humidity. humid-ity. 78. " , |