The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-25
WEATHER ABOUT
TO CLEAR-.-MAYBE
Some Hope Held Out to
Spooners-Farmers
Feel Better.

1t had not been forgotten altogether
by tho wnrmest thing in the world.
tho sun came out this afternoon and
smiled its How are you?" at a snow
and water soaked community.
Two or three people still contend
that there will be some summer
weather yet this season. while their
neighbOrs ave. that they are foolish,
their belief in the weather is really en-
%couraging just at this particular time
of the storm period.
Had 1t been clear last night this
Vicinity would most likely AVE been
night was cloudy with a northwest
wind blowing at a speed OF twenty.
four miles an hour. There was still
considerable snow around the edges
this morning at z o'clock. with the
thermometer registering, as low as "a
degrees above Zero-the lowest for the
tWenty-four hours ending at z o'clock.
The precipitation for the twenty-four
hours was SO inches. according to the
sity.
Rising temperature this afternoon
and the promise Of better weather in
the morning indicates that the bad
spell is about to be broken.
That winter has not come to stay is
the belief Of the park board which has
not given orders to have the benches
removed from the big, public play.
grounds. II you can keep warm by
the fires Of love, you can sit about
Grand Forks parks for many days. &C.
cording to the ruling of the board
which declares that the benches shall
not be removed until all spOoners re-
fuse to use them. The canoe season.
it is said. will also be open to spooners
until the river freezes over.
One Of the men employed at Uni
versity park called up h oar yes
terday and wanted to know il it wasn't
about time for him to be relieved. He
said that he wal just about frozen Il
He has no kick coming this afternoon.
however.
With the appearance Of the SUMS fat
face farmers in general are talking
more e~ncouragingly than they did yes
terday. They look for better weather
from now on and state that the crops
have not been greatly damaged by the
prolonged rains and snow.
q. d. Center. expert for the Better
Farming association in Grand Forks
county, said this afternoon:
THE rain before the snow was very
heavy and the snow stayed on the
shocks, melted and ran right down In.
The crops in this section cannot help
but be damaged to some extent. II
we have decent weather from now Oh
of course considerable of the grain
can be saved, but 1t will not be as good
quality as 1t would have been had not
this bad weather come. This section
seems to have got the worst of the
storm Of the past few days. We SEEM
ed to be in a pocket while other dis
tricts on every side have not been
touched nearly so hard. Even il we
do have good weather the remainder
of the week there can hardly be any
more threshing done until Friday at
the very earliest"
Wheat is down half a cent today
and arrivals Of the North Dakota
product are being bought. This in"
dicates a change for the better in the
weather. The wheat market went up
about half 81 cent yesterday on the
strength of the near-blizzard
Freeze at Devils Lake.
Devils Lake. N. D.. Sept. 25.-The
first frost of the aso came last
night. At Z o'clock this morning the
thermometer registered q degrees
above zero. This temperature estab-
fishes a new record for this time of
the year. ON September 81. 1907. the
thermometer registered Fl degrees
above.
Threshing is being resumed in this
district this afternoon. Many of the
crews had difficulty in getting the rigs
started this morning on account of tho
freeze last night. In some places the
Ing.