The Ice Man Goeth in Jan. 1917

From the January 4, 2017, MidWeek  (DeKalb County, Illinois)  "Looking Back.:

1917, 100 Years Ago.

"The warm weather of the past twenty-four hours has held up the ice making proposition and although some of the ice dealers of the city had started marking, the work was halted until colder weather comes again.

"The dairy company had started to mark the Normal (NIU's Lagoon) pond and the youngsters were sorry to lose their skating but now are glad that the warm weather halted the work of the ice man."

--CootIce