Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-18
FROST HITS HIGH
SPOTS IN COUNTY
Cuts Peculiar CaperS by Causing Sc
we're Damage In Hill Sections and
Only Light in LOwlandS.
RUNS SOME GARDEN PRODUCTS
Corn Which Will Require Two More
Weeks TO Mature NithstandS En-
fectS and Is Not Spoiled.

Following a beautiful day Rock Is
land county last night was touched by
most peculiar frost which visited
damage in some parts and left others
practically untouched.
Action of the frost was strange in
that it was most severe on the hills and
on the lowlands ii was but light. en-
tirely reversing the ordinary effects Of
frost. Usually the high spots are
exempted from the severity of a frost
while the lowlands are touched more
heavily
Professor J. NJ Sherier. meteorolo-
gist of the local government weather
bureau, offers an explanation by stat
ing that there was fog noticeable in the
low spots, not dense enough. however.
to affect the hills. Fog is like clouds
in effect. On cloudy nights there are
no frosts- The fog banks perhaps save
the low lands
Damage was severe in some parts Of
the county. In South Rock Island
township alone both extremes were
noted. Along Twelfth street and west
no damage resulted. Frost was only
light. But east on the hills the damage
was heavy.
There is large amount Of garden
eL " dlJtuB ~ De UidluItu
beans, spinach. radishes. tomatoes and
lettuce. Many truck gardeners had
misgivings last night and protected
their garden stuff as best they could.
with canvas or straw coverings. 9th
ers in the bluff sections who failed to
take this precaution found much Of
their garden stuff damaged Total loss
through the frost could not be csti-
mated today.
Corn Still Saved.
Farmers interviewed said that the
frost was not heavy enough to damage
corn. Corn will not be ready for a
frost for couple of weeks yet-that
is. a frost of any extensive severity.
Yesterday was an ideal day in the
opinion of most of the city folks. The
air was filed with pep mercury get
ting no higher than 50 in the afternoon.
It went as low al 80 last night and at
this morning it was 40.
But folks who from the middle of
August look forward to the first good
frost with keen anticipation were Badly
disappointed Those who suffer hay
fever were relieved somewhat but not
cured
Robert Rexdale. president of the
Rock Island branch of the National
nay It ever dSSONidilOIis iOIdN uCGldA gu
that the frost Of last night was well
coined by the entire local branch. but
that it was not severe enough to meet
the resolutions annually adopted by
the clan.
Last nights frost was white frost.
We of the hay fever clan require a
black frost" said Mr. Rexdale But
I don't want to be quoted until | hear
from Billy Mcintyre. our delegate
to the national convention at Beaver
Island"
Still. there is nothing in sight that
looks like a cure for the hay fever suf-
ferers The weather bureau promises
fair and rising temperature Tuesday
Although 80 degrees was the lowest
temperature last night. many folks
hereabOuts were surprised when they
learned that q temperature as high as
that would bring a frost.
Professor Sherier declared that often
a frost will come when mercury is re
corded at At and As degrees-l5 and
l6 degrees above freezing point This
is attributed to other conditions. The
object on which the frost forms must
be 80 degrees or below in temperature.
Often when the air is 80 or 40 degrees
in temperature damp board and foliage
which radiate and evapoTate heat very
readily will be at freezing or below,
Tins cauSinp the frost