Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-21
WEATHER IN IOWA DURING JUNE
NOT JUST WHAT IT APPEARS
IT. 70 HAVE BEEN.
FALL UP TO JUNE 10
SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE
Month Away Below Normal As to TEN.
perature, Cold Weather Being Es'
istina Menace to Corn crop-Prem-
Use. TO Be One Of Coolest Junes on
Record.
Special to neutrality-suspicious..

Des Moines, June 21.-Altho June
wet month the records at the Des
MONIES office of the Iowa weather ana
crop service show that up 10 the night
OF June is, the rainfall for the month
was seven hundredths OF an inch below
normal June is usually wet month
in this state, especially up TO the END
Of the month After that date. accord
ing to the local weather records rain
fall is not so prevalent. Since Jan. J.,
however, there has been an excess
above normal of 4.34 inches in rainfall
at this point Much of this excess came
in the month of May which showed an
excess OF 3.65 inches above a normal
May
June to date is away below normal
as TO temperature, the record for the
month up to June 10 showing that the
temperature has averaged four degrees
lower than normal every day of the
month up to the 18th. or a total of
seventy five degrees below normal. The
month of May also showed a daily ay-
erage temperature of four degrees be-
low normal or 1873 degrees for the en-
tire month.
Unless the latter half of June warns
up perceptibly, this year will record
one of the coolest Junes since the To-
cal weather bureau was established in
1879. The average temperature up TO
June 10 has been 64.S degrees. June
1902 and 1903 show the lowest records
sine 1879 for June temperature. both
of the years showing an average June
temperature of Sc degrees.
dition Of the soil Is seriously affecting
the corn crop over the state. Quite
little corn was not planted when the
wet weather came on. Some already
planted has been killed by water stand
ing in the fields and in some cases was
washed out by heavy rains. All over
the state it has been too cold for corn
to grow much. 1t is the opinion Of DR..
.,happel that not a few fields intended
Tor corn @t:ll have to be used for some
other crop. Small grains and grasses
are doing we'll
Techntcalit,es do not go with the
iowa supreme court. One Phil Schell
sought to escape punishment on con-
viction in Marion county on the theory
that there was no such crime defined
in the code as assault with intent to
commit larceny from the person" and
anyway 1t is not an included and less
err crime In that of assault with intent
to commit robbery. But the court held
against him on both things. The court
held that It is included An intent to
rob Is an intent to commit larceny
from the person by force and violence.
Robbery includes violence Of putting in
fear. There may be larceny from the
person without such fear or violence.
or there may be an assault with in
tent TO commit such larceny without
violence or putting in fear And be-
sides while the crime is not specifcal
" mentioned. II IS covered by some
general sections of the code. Probably
there has been no other instance Of a
conviction for Just that particular
crime.
One Of the papers on the program
for the county attorneys meeting in
Fort Dodge this week is by the county
attorney OF Linn county in favor Of