The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-04
YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER.
Snow And Ice Prevailed In June, July
 And August In fS16.


 Danbury (Conn.) News
 The year 1916 was known through out the United States and Europe as the coldest ever experienced by any person then living. There are persons in Northern New York who have been years, and 1t Is from the pages of an old diary begun in 1910 and kept up unbroken until 1S40. that the following g information 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 few cold days, but they were very few. Most of the time the ruary was not cold. Some days were colder than any in January, but the weather was about the same. March, from the 1st to the 9th, was inclined to be windy. It came in like small lion and went out like a very innocent sheep.
 April came in warm, but Sas the days grew longer, the air became colder and by the first of May there was a tenn perature like that of winter. with plenty of snow and ice. In May the young buds were frozen dead, ice formed half an inch thick on ponds cornfelds were planted again and again, until 1t becameytoo late to raise a crop By the last of May in this climate the trees are usually in leaf
 
 When the last of May arrived in 1916 everything had been killed by the cold.
 June was the coldest month of roses Frost and ice were as common as but tercups usually are. Almost every green thing was killed; all fruit was destroyed. Snow fell ten inches in the same in Massachusetts. There were only few moderately warm days Everybody looked, longed. and waited for warm weather. but warm weather did not come.
 It was also dry; very little rain fell All summer long the wind blew stead fly from the North in blasts, laden | with snow and ice. Mothers knit socks and made thick mittens. Planting ant shivering were done together. and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the country roads wore overcoats On June IT there was heavy fal of snow. A Vermont farmer sent q l flock of sheep to pasture on June 16 | The morning of the 17th dawned witt the thermometer below the freezing | point. About 9 o'clock in the mornins the owner of the sheep started to look | for his flock. Before leaving home h, turned to his wife and said, jokingly:
 Better start the neighbors soon; it. the middle of June and I 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 l was so much wind the fleecy masse. l piled in great drifts along the wind ward side of the fences and outbuild ings. Night came and the farmer hac not been heard of.
 His wife became frightened anc alarmed the neighborhood All tn, l neighbors joined the searching party 1 Or. the third day they found him. He wa | lying in a hallow on the side of q hil l with both feet frozen: he was half GOV | cred with snow, but alive. Most of tn, i sheep were lost.
 A farmer near Tewksbury, Vt | fires. Nearly every night he and hi men took turns in keeping up the fir | and watching that the corn did no | freeze The farmer was rewarded fo l his tireless 1abors by having the onl. i crop in the region.
 July came In with snow and ice. Or | the 4th of July -ce as thick as win l dow glass formed throughout New Eng ! land, New York and in some parts o the State of Pennsylvania. Indian corn | which in some parts of the East ha | struggled through May and June gay up, froZe and died.
 To the surprise of everybody, Au gust proved the worst month of all Almost every green thing in thi | country and Europe was blasted wit frost, Snow fell at Barnet, thirt miles from London, England. on Au New England stated that 1916 woul be remembered by the existing genera ton as the year in which there wa no summer. Very little ..orn ripene in New England There was grea privatton, and thousands of person would have perished in this count" had it not been for the abundance Q TD