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Show Fountains on Streets Bubble 'Spring Is Near' Weather Man Agrees; States Balmy Days Will Soon Be Here. THE placing In commission yesterday yester-day of tho sanitary public drinking drink-ing fountains throughout the business district was a welcome reminder that spring r aurcly at hand, and that the appearance of the robins in the city and county building park a week or two bko was not a bluff. J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist fur the local weather bureau, also gives assurance assur-ance that spring is not far distant, and he does not besHate to sav that HI. Patrick's clay will surely usher in halmv days which will be the forerunner o! summer. February was a normal month, says Mr. Alter, and Murch being normal, as i under all calculations it should be. the temperature on .St. Patrick s day will be about -VI degree above zuro, or Fpring temperature. The mean hi?h. temperature during February was 3:i.f,; mean low temperature, tempera-ture, 2:1.2, ami the average for tho month was 31.4. The precipitation was rrac-tieally rrac-tieally normal. |