Putnam patriot., 1910-10-21
Miss Larued Praises October

uSonderful are the October days, | soft and hay, with scent of burning | leaves in the air while corn and pump ktns hold court in sunny fields. What gives more suggestion of cheer and honest friendliness Of hearth-iires and
 ruddy October joys, than a red.eheeked
 apple? It rebukes depression, cordial
 ly endorses bravery, and with sturdy
 heartiness gives out an aromn so home
 like and genuine that all seems better worth living. Dear, cheerful, friend.
 ly, red apple. How many pleasant
 thoughts you have brought Into aftiii-
 cial, busy irrilated days"
 Thus wrote one familiar with New England rural life. My records show the October mean for the fifty yeafs-- 1892 -lAIl--to be 49.s degrees, and by decades. ls52.ls6l, an.ai ls62.ls7l, sa.o; | ls32-lssi. 50.9: lss2.lsol, 4s.Ii lso2- i9oi, bo.a. The warmest October was Al t degrees in is79, and the coldest, | i2.s in 1868. The maximum point, So | degrees, on the ist, in 1881, and the | lowest, 20 ,degfees in 1888, lsf9, and | lss8. Six of my fifty oetobers exceed cd so degrees, while three failed to 1 reach to. Genial 1879 was distinguish | ed by absence of storm and abundance l Of sunshine--onls four days remaining | cloudy throug bout. Five days rising l above sa degrees would nave given a | normally high record, but we're conn- | terbaIaneed by q cold snap and freeze
 90 on the s3th and 2nth the mercury
 sinking to so, giving range oi o4 de gfees--the highest autamnai range in | my record. fae colerlng og the leaves
 was of unusual btitlianey and feag
 continuance in the absence ot frost aud l high ~ind.
 October. ises, reversed these condi- l tions with but fourteen faif days and
 thirteen stormy. The iall te 70 de
 grees on the sith wns noted as the lowest point then reached in october,
 hut has been pafalleled ia later years. Snow fell on the isth and the s2d,
 Slight snowfalls in thts month are not unusual, My earliest k thus recorded,
 'soetoeer 3, lsse. Partly fair, rough, snow squalls, horrid. Shows cover l Ing the ground are recorded on the 10th in 1882 and ls54. In issio, "oeto- 1 ber l4. Something like a regular
 snow storm with high wind,' A sue
 cession of light snows occurred be-
 tween the s7th and seth, in 1859.
 X moist, heavy snow covered the ] ground te the depth ef several inches
 on October Ia, 1878, and remained through the following day. "A cold | snewstorm, October g, is9i. com- pletes my record of noteworthy octo- Der snows, From records preceding my own term of observation l have 'siTas. October a9. Showed all day, very cold.a "Isso. October so, A te- dious snow storm. snow fell a foot deep in some places.,' "lssl, October a. First snow fell and to such depth
 that in some towns they went to town
 meeting in sleighs. Western hills
 white with snow, and very cold"
 In looking over my notes l am sur
 prised to find that l took record of any
 especially remarkable storm in octo-
 Der, either exceptionally destructive or connected with public events. Some violent storms reported by New Eng land weather shs<rvers wsre len seven as thts statien and it is sstAu< to note the diflcrent developelsnsA Am cha. AAosaous secslons, vts.; .sSte1m q oe- tohes to il In isas, 'TAk seeun iw~ . sypaSais Wsst Inaia ksstisGsss and rsssmbied In many ways tho ssvsse | sosrm of August lass and followed nsArly the sams path. High norsheass |