Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-15
A WINTER LIKE THIS 5i YEARS
 AGO

Dear Social Corner Sisters: First, wish to thank the one who sent me the pretty calendar. aid not see any name on the. package. but hope the sender will see this and know that I thank him or her for It.
 We have already passed into Feb rIIary. and still have no unpleasant weather. The icemen have not been able to gut up any ice. and wood in the places where they bern it-like Wisconsin--is very high. .s they can not use sleds to haul it.
 We shall probably have all the win ter we want before May, however. Fhe winter of 1S65-1S66 was just like this no snow, pleasant. sunny dGys, such as usually come in September. T- e thirteenth of February was clear and warm. There was not bit of snow. and children played in t'la streets bare e-headed, and a fire seemed to be unnecessary. That evening it began to snow, grew cold. and furious wind arose. The next day. Ihu fourteenth, the worst nlizzard tho west ever knew, ragged until sundown From two to three fees Of snow on the level had fallen and inc wind had packed it so hard that only q pick c0utd break it All east and west roads were filled to the tops Of the fences, and the snow could not De shoveled or ploughed Travel was only possible ty throwing down fences and going through fields and ga1dens. Three hundred were re- ported in Minnesota alone
 One pathetic thing Was the deatl of fourteen school children, who hat i been to spelling schoo! Tn the next district. They were all ir the bot | tom of the wagon. unde, the blankets except the oldest boy. who stocd be side the oxen. who were also froze1 standing up.
 In a large village. a teacher in th' graded school went D a neighbor'! | that evening and staid un,iI ten O. clock. He was found the next day 1 standing with one hand cn the gat of his own home.
 It was cold, w tn good sleighing. un 1 til the last week in Arr:i, and snow drifts fingered in shady places unti 1 May was well advanced. So we nee not desnair Of having winter vet.
 Dear Bob White: Where did you pe l the impression that wc have littl 1 sunshine? Why. we have many nor | sunny days than you of the east have l The air is 60 dry that there are fey clouds and we have little rain. Afte September 29 we hau two thunde showers in the night, with rain unt l morning.
 Since then, there have h"en two 0 three days of snow fTurrias. and a fe' cloudy, but not more than two week in all. And the sun is so warm throug
 the day, fire is almos. unnecessary And we have here whAc you do nc
 have - the afterglow. There is lit
 tie to interfere with the h0rlzon, ths
 for an hour after it's setting the sun light is reflected from the sky. Unt almost ten. in the long days, it is ligl enough to read and write.
 Any country without trees for hur
 dreds of miles is bare. coll and win6
 swept in winter. The prairie in Mir
 nesota where l lived whel 1 first can west was Inc same, but it is no covered with groves and wlndbreak and is more pleasant than northe1 New England. Some dty It VII ]
 the same here.
 Isn't it pleasant to be able to e light swqet, white bread, all you war 'i and not feel guilty about jt? And V are even using sugar iii our coife | now But I fear that the war is n ; over, and our troops may yet have fight.
 NORTH DAKOTA.