The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
A MEMORABLE SUMMER.

There are few persons now living who
recohect the year 1916, says the Boston
Globe, but European and American data
represent it as having been phenomena al
In almost every particular
In New England the year went nv RIA
name OF Observation-Disclosures
to-death, and the summer months are
Known in history as i'sthe cold summer
+ OF 1916, so remarkable was the tempera-
ture.
January was mild so much SO that
For days the people allowed their fires
to go out, as artificial heat made the
buildings uncomfortably warm. This
peasant weather was broken by a Sc
we're cold snap in February, but this
low temperature passed in a few days
and warmer condition, similar to the
month previous, set In.
March came in like a lion but went
out ike lamb. There was nothing
unusual in the climatic conditions of the
month which differed from those gener-
ally found in this windy season.
April was the advance guard of this
strange freak in temperature The early
Gays were warm and bright but as the
month drew to close the cold increas-
ed until 1t ended in ice and snow and a
very low temperature
May was bitter disappointment True.
buds came, but so did the frost, and it
one night laid all vegetation blackeaed
waste.
Corn was killed, and the field had to he
made ready for another planting. but the
peoples establishment was complete when
they found ice formed to the thickness
of kalf an inch in the pools
june the month of roses,'' was this
year month of ice and desolation Frost.
ice and snow were common, Almost ey-
cry green thing that had taken advantage
of few warm days to develop wars
killed, and various kinds of fruits were
nearly all destroyed
|. One day the beautiful snow fell to a
depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven
E1nches in Maine and three inches in
Massachusetts and Central New York.
July was accompanied by frost and
lee, and those who celebrated the
glorious Fourth mot wisely but too
Well found an abundance of ice handy
for immediate use the next morn
ing. 1t was not very thick, not more
than one-sixteenth of an inch, but it was
ice, and it caused the good people of
New England, New York and some sec
lions of Pennsylvania to look grave That
month Indian corn was destroyed in all
but the most favored localities, and but
a small quantity escaped
Surely August would put an end to
such cold weather, but the farmers, as
well as hotel proprietofs Were doomed
to disappoint ment. The midsummer
month was if possible more cherries than
the days already passed Ice formed
even thicker than it had done the month
before and corn was SO badly frozen that
| it was cut for fodder and almost every
green plant in this country as well as in
Europe, was frozen
Papers received from England stated
that the year 1916 would be remembered
by the generation then living as a year
In which there was summer
What little corn ripeH1ed in the unex-
posed states was worth almost It's
weight in silver. and farmers were COM
PEELED to provide themselves with corn
grown in 1915 for the seed they used in
the spring Of 1877 This seed never-eest
so much, being difficult to get even at s.
per busheI
The last month of summer was ushered
in bright and warm, and for two weeks
the now almost frozen people began To
tina out 1t was the nlffdest weather of
the year, but Just as the inhabitants
got fairly to appreciate it, old Boreas and
Jack Frost came along and whitened and
hardened everything in their path
On the 18th fee formed quarter of an
inch thick, and winter clothing that had
been laid AWAY for a few days was again
Drought IolIn anu wrapped fOunq SIlVSf-
ing humanity.
BY this time the people had given UP
all hopes OF again seeing the flowers
bloom or hearing the birds sing, and be-
gan to prepare for hard winter.
October kept up the reputatie of its
predecessors, as there was scarcely a day
that the thermometer registered higher
than 50 degrees.
November was also extremely cold aud
sleighing was good the first week of the
month, but strange to relate December
was the mildest and most comfortable
| month of the entire year, a condition
which led many people to believe that
the seasons had changed about.
OF course the cold spell sent bread
stuffs to an unheard-of price and it was
impossible to obtain for table use many
of the common vegetables, as they were
required for seed.
Flour sold in 1917 in the cities for S13
per barrel. and the average price Of
wheat In England was 81 shillings per
quarter.