The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-16
YEAR in WHICH COLD
LASTED ALL SUMMER
Snow and Ice Prevailed ll' the
Months OF June. July and
august, 1916.
JANUARY TOO WARM FOR FIRE.
Vermonter Was Lost i'll a Biz
gard Oil June 18TH, and Had
Both Feet Frozen.

Fires in June and tho continuance
Ear into the summer of wintry wealth
er has led to much COMMENT rms
however. is not the only year III witch
re have had cold weather in the sum.
mer months. This fact is borne out
BY tho following from the DanhurS
(Conn) News:
The year 1916 was known through
out the United States and Europe as
the coolest ever experienced ~ any
person then living. There arc persona |
In Northern New York who have been
In the habit Of keeping diaries for
years. and 1t is from the pages of an
old diary begun IN 1910 and, kept up
unbroken until 1910 that the following
Information regarding this year with
out summer has been taken:
January was so mild tina. most per-
sons allowed their fires to go out ana
did not burn Mood except for cook
Ing. There We're a few cold days, but
they were very few. Most Of the time
the air was warm and springlike. Feb
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 6th was inclined to |
be windy. 1t came in like small lion
and went out like a very innocent
sheep.
April came in warm, but as the days
grew longer, the air became colder,
and by the list of May there was a
temperature 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 andE
rivers, corn was killed. and the corn.
fields were planted again and again
until 1t became too late to raise crop.
BY the last Of May in this climate the
trees are usually in leaf and birds and
flowers are plentiful. When the last
of May arrived in 1916 everything had
been killed by the cold
Juno was the coolest month of roses
ever experienced in this latitude.
Frost ana ice were as common as but
tercups usually are. Almost every
green thing was killed; all fruit was
destroyed. Snow fell ten inches deep
in Vermont. There was u even-inch
fall in the interior of New York State
and the same in Massachusetts There
We're only few moderately warm
days. Everybody looked songed 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 kniA
socks of double thickness for their
schildren, and made thick mittens.
Planting and shivering We're done to-
gether, and the farmers who worked
out their taxes on the country roads
wore overcoats and mittens.
On June 18th there was a heavy fall
of snow. A Vermont farmer sent
flock of sheep to pasture on June 18th.
The morning of tho nth dawned with
the Thermometer below the freezing
point. About 8 o'clock in tho morn
ing the owner of the sheep started to
look for his flock. Before leaving
homo he turned to his Wife and said,
,aokngly:
"a Better start the neighbors soon
It's the middle of June, and l may get
lost in the snow
An hour after he had left home a
terrible snowstorm came UP. The snow
fell thick and fast, and, as, there was
so much wind, the fleecy masses piled
In great drifts along the windward
4 side OF the fences and outbuildings.
Night came, and the farmer had not
been heard of.
His wife became frightened and
alarmed the neghborhood. All the
neighbors Joined the searching party.
On the third day they found him. lie
hill with both feet frozen; he was
half covered with snow, but alive.
Most Of the sheep were lost.
farnleS. near Tewksbury, VT. owned
a largo, field .of'corn He built fires
Nearly every might he and his men
took turns In keeping up the fire and
watching that the corn did not freeze
Tho farmer was rewarded for his tire
less labors by having tho only crop
OF corn in the region.
July came in with snow and ice
On the ith of July ice as thick as
window glass formed throughout New
England, New York and in some parts
of the State of Pennsylvania Indian
corn. which In some parts of the East
had struggled through May and June,
gave up. froze and died.
To the surprise of everybody, August
proved the worst month of all. AL
most every green thing in this country
and Europe was blasted with frost
Snow fell a Barnet, thirty miles from
London, England, on August 3Oth
Newspapers received from England
sated that 1876 would be remembered
by the existing generation as the yea,
in which there was no summer VERY
little corn ripened in New England,
There was great privation, and thou
sands Of persons would have perishc,
in this country had It not been for tn
abundance OF fish and wild game.
Richmonder Gets Degree.
Mr.. J. Garwood O'keeffe, OF Rich
mond, was graduated from Steven