The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-04

EhSiahus
The year 1916 was known Throughout
the United States and Europe as the cold
est ever experienced by any person thel
living. There are persons i'm northern
New York who have been I'm the habit o
keeping diaries for years, and 10 is from
the pages of an old diary, begun in 1871
and kept unbroken until 1910, that TIT
following information regarding this yea
without summer has been taken:
January was so mild that most person.
allowed their fires TO go out and did not
burn wood except for cooking There were
a few cool days, but they were very few
Most of the time the air was warm and
springlike. February was not cold Some
days were colder than any in January, but
the weather was about the same. March,
from the LIST to the 9th, was inclined to be
windy. It came i'm like n small lion and
went out like n very innocent sheep.
April came in warm, but as the days
grew longer the air became colder, and by
the LIST of May there was "A temperature
like that of winter, with plenty of snow
and ice. In May the young buds were
frozen dead, ice formed half an inch thick
on ponds and rivers corn was killed, and
the cornfields were planted again and
again, until it became too late to raise
crop. BY the last of May in this climate
the trees are usually in leaf and birds and
flowers are plentiful. When the last of
May arrived in 1916, everything had been
killed by the cold.
June was the coolest month of roses ever
experienced in this latitude Frost and ice
were as common as buttercups usually are.
Almost every green thing was killed. All
fruit was destroyed Snow fell ten inches
deep in Vermont. There was seven inch
snowfall in Maine, three inch fall in the
interior of New York state and the same
in Massachusetts. There were only few
moderately warm days. Every body looked,
longed and waited for warm weather, but
warm weather did not come. 1t was also
dry; very little rain fell. All summer long
the wind blew steadily from the north in
blasts laden with snow and ice. Mothers
knit socks of double thickness for their
children and made thick mittens. Plant |
Ing and shivering were done together. and |
the farmers who worked out their taxes on |
the country roads wore overcoats and nit |
tens. On June II there was heavy fall of |
snow. Vermont farmer sent a flock of |
sheep to pasture on June IS. The morning
OF the 18th dawned with the thermometer
below the freezing point. At about 8 !
O'Clock in the morning the owner of the
sheep started To look up his flock Before
leaving home he turned to his wife and
said jokingly:
Better start the neighbors soon. It's
the middle OF June, and may get lost in
the snow. -
An hour after he left home terrible
canh up. The snow fell thick
and fast and as there was so much wind
the 1leccy masses piled i'm great drifts along
the wlndward side of the fences and out
buildings Night came, and the farmer
had not been heard of His wife bCcumc
frightened and alarmed the ncighborhood. !
All the ncighbors joined the searching
party. On the third CGy they found him
he was lying in n hollow on Il side hill.
with both feet from. He WIS H.. II covered
with snow, but alive Most of the sheen
were lost
A farmer near Tewksbury, Vt, owned
large field of corn. He built fires around
he field 60 Keep off the frost. Nearly every
llght nc and his men took turns in keep.
ng up the fires and watching that the corn
lid not freeze. Inc farmer was reward, Il
or his tirciCss lubors by having the ONLY
rop of corn in The region. !
july came in with ice and snow. on
he ourth OF JAY ice "a thick as window
lass fo"iAcd throughout New Engllnd.
,ew ork urd ii some parts Of the STATE :
/ PennSylvani3. Indian cora. which in :
ONE I;rtS OF the east had struggled ,
trough Nay and Juno, gave up, froze !
MI died. v
To the surprise Of everybody August .
royed the worst month of all. Almost ;
very green thing i'm this country and En- u
)pe was blasted with frost. Snow fell nj
arnet, 30 miles from London, on Aug. 30
ewspapers received from England stated
nat 1916 would be remembered bv the cx n
ing generation as the year i'm which Fl
lere was no summer. Very little corn :
pened IN New England. There was great C,
'lVatlon, and thousands of persons would Fl
ave persisted i'm this country had il not il
zen Tor the abundance of fish and wild W
imc. !,
In direct contrast with 1916 appears the ta
ar 1878, when there was no winter r.
lptaln Daniel Lyon, who died some wears is
20 In burlington, VT, used to relate his H.
Iperience in 1928. He was a walking m
encyclopedia of local events. He said: II n
new ouJ one season when winter was nj p
ost Ike summer. the winter of 1928 I n,
as running the steamboat General Green n
tween Burlington, VT, and Port Kent 7,
"a Plattsburg, n. Y, and during the n
ar there was not IA bit of ice in the whole r
ke from one end to the other The old of
IKE Champaign Steamboat COMPANY he
uled out the steamboats, Phoenix and ov
ngress, and hardly bit of ice appeared r.
Shelburne bay, near Burlington. during an
e winter "a
lhe Phoenix had u new engine builtin or
bany, and the whole outfit had 20 be fr,
'ried from that city To Shclburnc barbor I'M
teams through the mud. At Middle. A,
~, VI, the mud was more than a foot
p. The Phoenix was rebuilt and reodv
launch by Jan. 10. Jan. Is was the dav
ed for the launching and took over n di,
GO party from Burlington ON the Gen tb
l Green. The sun was shining with
warmth of July day. The women tiy
o sat on deck raised their parasols. s.
W York Sun. an
Children's Terrors.