Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
ELEMENTS WILL MIX
IT BAD DURING 1910
Rev. Irl r. Hicks Takes Gloomy
Look Into the Year, Predict
ing Many Bad Storms.
DEs MONIES THE CENTER
Says a Twister That Will Out Twis,
Anything That Ever Happened
Will Strike Capital-PIanets
Will War.
From the Sioux City Tribune.

rom the SlOuA Ilty lFlDuIle.
Iowa is to experience one of the
worst storms in it's history during the
coming year, according to the almanac
Of Rev. Irl r. Hicks, of st. Louis,
copies OF which ave just reached
Sioux City. rs a long n weather
f~orecaster, Rev. Mr.. Hicks tan un-
equaled. While the reverend gentle
man Is considered a Joke by scientists
and government weathe men, each
year he issues his weather ~prognosti-
cations, unconcerned at the scoffers and
unbelievers Of his theories.
Rev. Mr.. Hicks is regarded as a pes
simist, but this year his forecast is in
deed gloomy and foreboding. He says
that etwee the dates of January 27
and October 29 Des Moines will be
visited by a cyclone that will put all
former wind storms in the shade. AL
though a definite date is not desig-
mated, the St. Louis prophet declares
that in the interval mentioned Iowa
will be a seething, whirling storm cen
ter.
Starts in February.
The storm will begin in February,
when a raging blizzard is due to sweep
across the state. 1t is called a crisis
to a reactionary period" and Hicks
adds:
itii'it w ''''N' u
claim to prophetic knowledge, we again
declare that 1910 will have it's victims
of storm weather. With equal truth
and emphasis we may also repeat that
all years la them And just as
truthfully may we affirm that almost
100 per cent of loss and suffering and
death will occur within the limitations
of periodic times, defined and charted
in this almanac as storm and danger
periods. We could not afford to put
this declaration on this page, If we
were not gladly willing for thousands
to say whether the history OF our work
for 40 years justifies it."
This same storm will cause trouble
in all parts of the globe in the opinion
of Rev. Mr.. Hicks. Cyclones and tor
adde's will be in order everywhere, and
he says the loss OF life will be great.
The month of April Will furnish inter-
esting news for the papers, storms Wis
tting cities and causing wholesale de-
struction.
Planets Will Mix II.
Following these disturbances floods
will be In order, n the planets Venus,
Earth and Mercury will engage in a
triangular fight, causing storm ructions
h a will bear watching.
Fourth of July will furnish It's own
fireworks, according to Rev. Mr.. Hicks.
Due to the little scrimmage OF the
planets, there viii be severe thunder
storms during tn first three days of
the month, eliminating with a dazzling
electrical storm on the night of the
third, followed by a chilly spell on the
fourth.
Fall a Bad One.
In the fall of the year will come
storms which will do millions of dol
lar worth of damages. Concerning
this the prophet says:
within the recollection Of this storm
prophet, millions upon millions of dol
lars worth of ships and cargoes have
been destroyed and hundreds Of lives
the great northern lakes. There Is a
tendency OF fierce northwesterly gales
over all hat region, annually, In Octo-
Der and November, but this tendency
is increased when a Venus equinox falls
in these months The storm diagram
shows a Venus period central on Octo-
Der 13 and extending into November.
The Mercury period coming into force
the last week of the month, blending
with the Venus period, as already
noted, will breed storm and weather
conditions, especially on n about the
great lakes, and perhaps on the north
Atlantic seas and coasts, that ought to
put shippers and n~avigators on their
guard. We thus repeat and emphasize
the warming"
If 1910 was ushered in with a raging
blizzard it will not go out as a lamb,
for 1t will be very cold and on Christ
mas day there will be blowing a regu-
lar blizzard.