The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-07-26
mo SUMMER THAT z A

out the united states anu HuIOQe ds
the coolest ever known by any person
Eving.
There are persons In Northern New
York who have been in the habit 81
keeping diaries for years, and 1t Ii
from the pages OF an old diary begun
In 1910 and kept unbroken until 1874
that the following Information regard
ing the year without a summer has
been taken:
January was so mild that most per
sons allowed their fires to go out and
did not burn wood except for cooking.
There were a few cold days. but they
ruar was cold. Some days were cold
air was warm II spring like. Feb
uary was cold. Some days were colder
er than in January, but the wealth.
was about the same.
March from the first to the 9th was
inclined to be windy. It came in like
a small lion and went out like an in
nOcent sheep.
April came in warm but as the days
grew longer, the air became colder
an dthe first of May there was a
temperature like that Of winter. with
plenty of snow and ice.
In May the young buds We're frozen
dead. ice formed half an inch thick
on ponds and rivers, orr was killed.
and the cornfields were plante adgdin
and again until it became too late TO
raise a crop. By the last Of May the
trees in this climate are usually in
leaf and birds and flowers are plenti-
full.
When the last OF May arrived in
1916 everything had been killed by the
cold.
June was the coolest month Of roses
eyer witnessed in this latitude. Frost
and ice common as buttercups general
al are. Almost every green thing was
killed; all fruit was destroyed.
Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont.
There was a finch fall in the interior
of New York state, and the same in
Massachusetts,. There were only a
few moderately warm days. Every
body looked, 1onged 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 stead
lily from the north in blasts, laden with
snow and ice. Mothers knit socks OF
double thickness for their children anG
made thick mittens.
Planting and shivering was dine TO-
gether and farmers who worked OF
their taxes on the roads "
coats and mittens.
On July II there was a heavy fall
of snow.
A Vermont farmer sent a flock OF
sheep to pasture on June Is. The
morning of the 18th dawned with thu
thermometer below the freezing point
About 9 o'clock in the morning the
owner of the sheep started to lOoE
for his flock. Before leaving home he
turned and said to his wife joking
ly:
Better start the neighbors soon; it's
the middle of June and [ may get los
in the snow"
An hour after he had left home {
| terrible snow storm came up. The
| snow fell thick and fast, and, as there
| was SO much wind, the f1eecy masses
piled up in great drifts along the win
| ward side Of the fences and Out-build
ings.
Night came and the farmer had no
| been heard Of.
His wife became frightened ant
| alarmed the neighborhood. All Thu
neighbors Joined the seaching party
On the third day they found him. H,
was lying in a hollow on the hill sid
with both feet frozen; he was hal
4orro,o1 with rr0u S11+ cfi11 rs r-
Most of the sheep We're lost.
A farmer near Tewksbury, Vermont
owned a large field of corn. He bull
fires.
Nearly every night he and his ME
took turns in keeping up the fires an
watching thai the corr did &c
freeze.
The farmer vas awarded for III
t~ireless labors by having the only Gro
of corn in the region.
July came with snow and ice. D
the 4th of July ice was as thick g
window glass formed throughout Ne
Of Pennsylvania.
Indian corn which in some parts {
the east had struggled through Ma
ana June, gave up frOze and dled.
To the surprise of everybody Augu:
proved the worst month of all. A1mo'
every green thing in this count1
and Europe was blasted with frOs
Snow fell at Barnet, 80 miles frol
London, England, on August 80.
Newspapers received from Englan
stated that 1916 would be remembers
as the year in which there was n
summer.
Very little rorn ripened in New Ems
land.
There was great privation and thou!
ands of persons would have perish
ed in this country had it not been fc
the abundance of fish and wild game
-Danbury Comm News.
GOVERNOR GLENNfS NEXT NOV
ON THE SENATORSHIP
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