Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-26

Prof W. r. Foster, whose weekly
weather bulletins have attracted mucn
attention. is in a very versatile mooo
this week. Not content with predict
ing a great hot wave, and cloudbursts
in several places, location not given,
he takes shot at the United states
weather bureau, advises farmers 10
hold on to their corn, and propounds
new question from out of the realms
Of science. This question, he says, IS
the only important one after all. II IL,
''Why do the etheric atoms untsse
You can search him.
This weeks bulletin follows In III
Last bulletin gave forecasts OF DIS
turbance to cross contenent Il 10 20,
warm wave 10 to "a, cool wave 70 TO
27. Next disturbance will reach Pa.
cific coast about rs, cross west OF
Rockies country by close of n, great
central valleys % to 80, eastern states
July 1. Warm wave will cross west
Of Rockies about 26, great General val
legs %, eastern states 80. Cool wave
will cross west of Rockies about 20,
great central valleys July l, eastern
states 8.
'This disturbance will bring relief
from a long period of unusually cool
weather and the rains will diminish in
places where they have been excessive,
resulting in drouth. Last days OF
June a great high temperature wave
will be over the middle west and Will
cover the eastern states few days
later.
Dangerous Storms.
,r,{11 rnod
June % to 80 and severe storm smay
be expected; rainfall will concentrate
into few places where the cloud
burst variety will prevail. Look out
for dangerous storms.
about and Immediately following
June % a disturbance will move from
the middle northwest into Texas,
reaching Cincinnati and Washington a
few days later; following it will come
cool wave the last part Of which will
suddenly change to the great high tenn,
perature wave described above.
"Next bulletin, dated June 80, Will
give a general forecast Of July wealth
er, of which the crop weather will be
Of the highest importance. Better see
that bulletin before you sell corn.
will try to locate the July drouth.
= Science Notes.
GAIL space-and to it there is no lin
2, It's full Of very fine matter called
to the ether. The particles Of ether arr
50 endowed with that natural law which
9. causes them to seek union with eacl
r, other and therefore they are constant
II ly uniting. When united the ethe
"a atoms occupy less space and therefor
| AZ
lie were it not that the pressure cause
= the surrounding ether atoms to NOV
8. in and fill up the vacuum. This inWar
ia movement is the origin OF motion, tn
10 starting point Of all mineral, vegetable
~ animal and planetary life. In that II
is. itiative Of motion lies the origin of a.
n. things in chemistry, magnetism, ms
T. teorology. This knowledge leave
only one great mystery-'Why do tn
no etheric atoms unite?'
u give months ago l advised farmer
10 Ia not to sell corn. Middle Of April r.
Mt newed that advice and June IL tn
at price Of corn had advanced 10 cents
bushel in the two months then past.
ay pays to make these bulletins vol
ne guide.
J. IN beginning Oct 1, 1905, I have fu
~, nished seven u S. weather bureau pr
Nv fessors my monthly weather charts
It, advance. They have severely crit
cised my January and March char
Of but the other five months they ha'
m not noticed publicly. Why? The ~
EEK months not noticed were good. VIII
- must be said Of scientists who persi
81 being so manifestly unfair and unjus
,ka Place my work and that Of the weat
of er bureau proposed long range fol
c. casts fairly before the public"
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