Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-02
YEAR WITHOUT
A SUMMER

ing of the cold summer of 1916 as the
coolest ever known throughout Amer
lea and Europe. Having in our pos
session same facts relative to this
subject, we propose to give them in
| order to revive the recollections of
such among us as remember the year
without summer; also to furnish
correct information for such as feel
any interest in matters of this kind
We shall. therefore, give summary
of each of the months of the year
1916, extracted in part from Pierce
on the Weather"
January was mild-so much so as
to render fires almost needless in sit
ting rooms. December, the month i'm
mediately preceding this. was very
cold.
February was not vry cold, with the
exception of a few days it was mild,
as it's predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous, the
first half of 1.-THE remainder was
mild. A great freshet of the Ohio and
Kentucky rivers caused great loss OF
property.
April began warm and grew colder
as the month advanced, and ended
with snow and ice, with temperature
more like winter than spring.
May. like the month just ended,
was more remarkable for frowns
than smiles. Buds and fruits were
frozen-ice formed half an inch I'm
thickness-corn killed and the fields
again and again replanted until DEEM
ed too late.
June the coolest ever known In this
latitude. Frost and ice and snow
were common. Almost every green
shrub was killed. Fruit nearly all de-
stroyed Snow fell to the depth of
ten inches in Vermont. Several
inches in Maine and it fell to a depth
of three inches in the interior of this
state; 1t fell. also, in Massachusetts,.
July was accompanied by frost
and ice. On the morning after the
Fourth ice formed to the thickness OF
common window glass throughout
New England, New York and Penn
sylvania. Indian corn nearly all kill
ed some favorably situated fields es-
capped This was true of some of tha
hill farms in Massachusetts,.
August was more cherries, If pos
sible, than some of the summer
months already passed. Ice was form
ed half an inch in thickness. Indian
corn was so frozen that the greater
part of it was cut down and dried for
fodder. Almost every green thing was
destroyed, both in this country and I'm
Europe Papers received from Eng
land said: "It will ever be remem-
bered by the present generation that
the year 1916 was a year in which
there was no summer" Very little
corn in the New England and Middle
states ripened. Farmers supplied
themselves from the corn produced I'm
1915 for seed in the spring of 1917. It
sold for from "a to So bushei.
September furnished about two
weeks of the mildest of the season
Soon after the middle 1t became very
cold and frosty-ice forming quar-
ter Of an inch thick.
october produced more than its
usual share of cool weather; frost and
ice were common.
November was cold and clustering
Snow fell so as to make sleighing.
December was mild and comforta-
BILE.
We have thus given brief sum-
mary of the cold summer of 1916, as
it is called in order to distinguish IL
from the cold seasons. The winter
was mild. Frost and ice were conn
mon in every month of the year Very
little vegetation matured in the East
ern and Middle states. The suns rays
seemed to be destitute of heat
throughout the summer, and all ma
ture was clad In sable hue and man
exhibited no little anxiety concerning
the future of his life.-Rochester On.
W American, 1886.