Putnam patriot., 1910-10-21

gales and heavy rains prevailed along the South Atlantic coastn This storm brought us one rainy night and morning and high gust of wind. A parallel storm of even greater severity occurred October 10. 1894. Timely warnings sent from the weather bu- reau prevented much loss of shipping. My record gives "10th. Rain "a. m. Hard storm, high wind and cleared late. Wonderful sunset" A great rain storm October i2i4, 1895, WAS re- markable for amount of rain and une- qual distribution, some stations re. porting fall of more than seven inch es. My report shows .showers.. on those days; one "hard raino at night, but nothing extraordinary. "A ! tropical hurricanen bringing tremen- lous seas in Boston harbor October 2l, lseI, gave no sign at my inland sta ton. Our later Octobers have mani fested great eqaanimity of dis position, that of 1899 declining to furnish impe- tus for the International Yacht con- test
 The "Indian Summer often falls in this month. Even in cold and wet oetobefs we are favored with some of those cool, clear, calm days, congenial to the season so dear to cyclists, game seekers, and nut -pickers.
 Chestnutting ,ies with,huckleberry- ing inyouthful favor. The ideal chest nutting day comes in the last part of the month, after the frost has opened the burrs and brisk wind does the shaking: when you find fresh treas ures every time you circle the tree and bring 10 light hidden deposits from under coNerin. leaves The colofing in October varies much from year to year. Whether this variation is eeea- stoned by drought or wet seems diili cult to determine, though excessive dfyness is certainly detrimental. The red years are the most gorgeous, when even haeklehefry bushes assume d i deep crimson. This rich eoloring on
 hills and pastures is very effective and hs no means common. In other wears ! yellow is all the rage. In the less i vivid season of lsas, soft shades of brown and yellow predominated. i Freaks of eolofing sometimes appear, iso6, oak trees in deep green sported wrealhs of crimson, which to young 1 Ffeesoilers in their first enthusiasm be- tokened the victory of their chosen candidate. The most remarable effect of color 1 have ever seen was after the afternoon snowfall, October Il, ls9o, the sun coming out in golden splendor through masses of blue black clouds upod white earth and trees of every imaginable hue. In fact II was too bizarre and unnatural To be quite agreeable. The year that l remember As most destitute of color was in isSl, when the extreme cold and freeze of the 5lh and eth killed the leaves of all forest trees and they shriveled and fell without change of hue. As the result of my own experience 1 lind The color ing more brilliant tn ahsence of severe frost. My last Octoher-lsOi-eave mean temperature of ts.s desrces, slightly above the avsraxe, made up q follows: Ta.m., Sa.s dsGrses; 2p. u., SS.s: SD. m., <s.s. Maximum, S2 on the llth | and the ssd. Minimum, ,so oa the ssh. l Fais days st, pessly cloudy 1. cloudy 1 ps sass5ny as Rna ssat tn aness cs less QNnntlly en &v>e tays, bas only two dsys wsss blnAssly' 'sainy shsoasheat. The s0sally slouds on she eth brought | ,llasssss = snow and hall. Ths seth | vss anoshes ill-sse1sioasd day with fseasa splss. Tne lstA gave ssov In parts ef Ceanessieas. bus nes sasugh