The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1907-06-21

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The rear 1916 was known throughou
the Upited States and Europe as tbs
coolest ever experienced BY any person
then living. There are persons In north.
fern New York who have been In the
habit OF keeping diaries for years, and 4
il from the pages Of an old diary begun
Ia 1910 and kept up unbroken until 1S4C
that the following information regarding
this year without summer has been
taken:
January was 20 mild that most persons
allowed their lires to 50 out and did not
burn wood except for cooking. There were
Ii tsw cosd days, but they were very few.
Most Of the time the Air was warm and
IsprIngIike. February was not cold. Some
ldays we're colder than any In January,
but the weather. was about the same.
March. from the LIT to the 9th, was In
ciined O. be kindly. II came il like .
small lion and went out like Z very limo
cent sheep.
| April came In warm, but A. the days
KreH longer the air became colder. and
lby the first Of May there WAS ! temper
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snow and Ice. III May the young buds
lssere frosen dead, lee formed half an Inch
thick On ponds and rivers. corn was
Iktled. and Tie cornhelds were planted
aRain and again, until Il became too iate
10 rnixe crop.
81 the last u May Ii this climate the
Itrees are usually Ii Leaf and birds and
aoWers are plentiful. When the last of
Nay arrived ID 1916 everything Rad been
lkiIIed BIZ ~ cold.
Iune Was the coolest month 81 rosea
lercr experienced ii this latitude. Frosk
mud In wese q common ~ shufeercups
Usually m. Almost every Kreen thing
MS killed ia fruit was destroyed snow
sell Ten Inches deep III Vermont. There
NAs seven-inch fall n the interior Of
New ferk State. and the same II Mas
saehusetts. There we're only few mod
eratels warm days. Everybody looked.
IionKed, ana waited for warm weather.
but warn weather did not come.
/ Il Nas also dry very little rain tell.
All summer long The wind blew steadily
lfrom the meth ID hlasfs. laden VITA snow
Iand Iee Mothers knit socks cf double
thickness for their children. and madf
lthiek mittenN Planting and ahiyerine
we're done together. and the farmers who
worked mt, their &axcs on tAe cSnntry
roads wpre ovcreeats and mittsns.
On June II there was heavy fall Of
SNOW. 4 Vermont farmer sent flock 81
sheep 10 pasture on June 10. The morn
ling III th< 18th dawned with ths Their
mometef below the freezing point. About
t o'clock Ii the morning The owner 81
1.-The sheep started 10 lock fer his flock.
Bffore leaving home be turned u bio
Mife and Md. jokinKly:
/ 4Heftec start the neighbcrs soon: IL
the Middle Ut June, and ! may get lost
| ii The snow.'
An hour after be had left home q ter
rise snow storm cafne m, The snow fell
ltiaIek and inst. aid as there Was 10 much
find the feecy masses piled Ii great
Idrifts along the wlndwnrd side Of the
fences aud onthuildInss. Night came and
The farmer had not been heard Of.
| His wife became frightened and alarm
Ied the neiKhhorhood All the neighbors
yoined The searching party. On the third
day they found him. He was lying In d
hollow On the side hill with both feet
lfr0xez; be was half covered with snow,
but alive. Most of the sheep were lost.
| July came III with snow and Ice. On
the FourtH Of July leo AZ thick ~ win
dow glass formed throughout New Eng
land. New York, and Ia some parts Of
| the State Of Pennsylvania. Indian corn.
which ii some parts Of the East had
struggled through May and june. rave
Iup froxe and died.
~ the surprise Of everybody. August
proved the worst month Of ALL Almost
every green thing in this country and
| Europe was blasted with frost.
Snow fell 1t Barnet. thirty miles from
London. England on Aug. 30. Newspar
| PEERS received from England stated that
l1s16 would be remembered by the exist
inr generation as the ycar in which there
WAS Mo summer.
Very little corn ripened In New Eng
land. There was great privafion. and
thousands 81 persons would have persisted
| la this country had II NOT been for the
abundance 81 fish and wild game Dan
bury tConn.) News.