The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-06-07
A sUMMERLEss YEAR.
Snow and Ice In June, July and Au-
gustWinter Was Mild in 1915
But Summer Never Game at
all During the Year.


sons in northern New York who have
been in the habit Of keeping diaries
for years, and it is from the pages
of an old diary begun in 1910 and
kept unbroken until 1940 that the
following information regarding this
year without summon has been
taken.
January was so mild that most
persons allowed their fire to go out
and did not burn wood except I,r
cooking. Here were a few cold days,
but they were very few. Most of
the time the air was warm and
springlikc. February was not cold.
Some days were colder than any in
January, but the weather was about
dhc same. March from the 1st to the
18th, was inclined to be windy. 1t
came in like small lion and went
ont like very innocent sheep.
April came in warm, but as the
day grew longer, the air became cold
or, and by the first Of May there was
n temperature like that Of winter,
with plenty nf snow and ice. In
INLAY The buds were frozen dead Ice
formed half an inch thick on ponds
rnrriicldS were planted again and
again. until it became too late to
raise Il crop. By The last Of May in
This climate the trees arc usually in
leaf and birds and flowers are plcn-
tiful. When the last of May arriv-
ed in 1916 everything had been kill
ed by The cold.
June was the coldcst month of
roses ever experienced in this lati-
tudc. Frost and ice were as COM
mon as buttercupS usually are. Al
most every green thing was killed;
all fruit was destroyed Snow fell
ten inches deep in Vermont. There
was Il 7 inch fall in the interior Of
New York state. and The same in
Massachusetts. There were only a
Few moderately warm days. Every
body locked, ]nn%cd, and waited for
warm weather. but warm weather
did not come.
1t was also dry; very little rain
Tell. All summer long the wind
blew steadily from the north in
blasts, laden with SHOW and ice.
Mothers knit socks of doubIr thick
ncsS for their children, aNI made
ahick mittcns for their husbands.
Planting and shivcring were done
together, and the farmers who work.
@d on their taxes on the country
anads wore ovcrcoats and mittcns.
Nn June II there was Il heavy fall
OF SHOW. a Vermont farmer sent
Flock OF sheep to pasture on June
liz. The morning of the 18th dawned
with the thermometer below the
Freezing point About O'Clock in
thc morning the owner Of the sheep
started to look for his flock. Before
leaving home he turned to his wife
and said, jnkingly
''Bcitrr start the nci"hhors soon;
ii Is the middle Of Jurc and | may
%ct lost in the snow.'
An hour after he had left home q
terrible snowStorm came up. The
snow fell thick and fast, and as
there WAS so much wind the fIcecy
masses piled in great drifts alon.
She windward side Of the fences and
"ut-houScs. Night came and the far
mer had not been heard Of.
His wife became frightened anl
alarmed the ncighborhood. All the
1nei"hhors joined the searching par
~. On the third day they found
him. lie was lying in hollow on
the side hill with both feet frozen;
he was half covered with snow, but
alive. Most Of the sheep we're lost.
a farmer near Tewksbury, VT,
owned large field of corn. He built
fire. Nearly every night he and his
men took turns in keeping up the
dire and Watching that the corn did
not freeze. The farmer was reward
ed for his tircless labors by having
the only crop Of corn in the region.
July came in with snow and ice.
On the Fourth of July ice as thick
as window glass formed throughout
New England, New York and in
some parts of the slate of Pcnnsyl-
wanna. Indian corn which in some
parts of the cast had struggled
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