A HEAVY SNOW STORM IN JUNE
That is What is Said to Have Oc
cured in 1816,/the Year With
out a Summer
The Journal man has heard
many old citizens say that the
weather this spring has been the
coldest the.v ever knew, and" per
haps it is, but investigation shows
that this is not the first cold spring
the country ever experienced.
There has been several cold,
backward springs, but it seems
that the year 1816 broke all re
cords and is known as the year
without a summer. It is said that
water froze in ponds that year on
the fourth of July as far south as
Virginia and there was three in
ches of snow in New York. Several
times during May ice froze an
inch thick in the New England
states. Very little crops of kind
were made that year and it is said
that in many places seed corn sold
as high as $5 a bushel the next
spring.
A Little Rock man claims to
have a paper published in Albany,
N. Y., in 1854 which contains the
following interview with Ames
Winchester, then ninety years old,
concerning the weather of the year
1816:
i uvea in Vermont wnere tnat
memorable season was at its very
worse, as in the New England
states that June snow fell five
inches deep,” he said. “In New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jer
sey it was nowhere deeper than
three inches. In Vermont the
great snow of June IT was ten
inches on the level. Snow fell
several times during that month
and ice froze every day. In fact
there was snow and ice in every
month of 1810.
“The snow storm of June IT
was one of the severest I every
saw, even in the depth of winter
in'that locality of severe snows. An
uncle of mine had some sheep in a
back pasture lot. To get to the
lot he had to go through a piece of
woods for nearly a mile. The big
storm began about noon and he
started after dinner for the sheep
pasture to fix up some sort of a
shelter. The storm increased in
fury and when night set in my
uncle had not returned. A search
ing party was organized and look
ed through the woods all night.
The men searched all the next day
and the next night and on the. fore
noon of the third day they found
my uncle frozen to death beneath
the snow a mile from the sheep
pasture, in almost an opposite di
rection from home.
“The wind during dune, July
and August was continuously from
the north, and it blew fiercely and
and cold. Farmers wore heavy
overcoats and mittens while about
their work. There was but little
use of planting anything. July
was colder than .June and August
was colder than July. There was
a heavy snowstorm on August 30.
The whole summer was as bleak
and dreary as November. The
first two weeks of September
brought the first real warm weath
er there had been during the sum
mer. On September 15 the cold
weather returned suddenly. The
cold increased until winter return
ed and it may be said that in Ver
mont at least, the year 1818 had
neither spring, summer nor au
tumn.”
“THE BLUES"—CAUSE AND CURE
Some Suggestions That Hay Help
You if You are Subject to
Unpleasant Reflections.
To The Newark Journal
Did you ever hear one say that
they had “the Blues?” Yes, no
doubt, you have heard this ex
pression a thousand times, or
more.
What a#e “the Blues?” Well,
I am advised by students of hu
man nature, and by personal ob
servation, that they consist of a
variety of defects, such as a dis
satisfied, revolting and uncompro
mising disposition; a set of torpid
digestive organs, or other un
healthy physicial conditions; or a
lack of nerve and will power to
undergo severe losses or disap
pointment without giving away to
one’s feeling.
oucn a scare or mina or syimoras
in a child indicate a lack of proper
training and attention by its
parents; in young men and women
it indicates many nonsensical ec
centricities of a very serious and 1
dangerous form; in middle aged J
men and woman, it indicates de
fects in their mental or physical
conditions which, unless subdued,
may impair or overbalance their
usefulness; and in the aged and
infirm ones, indicates the truthful
ness and beauty of the statements
I of Shakespeare, when he said that
man’s life consists of seven ages,
the last, like the first, being child
hood.
We think that the so-called blues
show a lack of true nerve, a dis
position to shirk the stern and real i
duties and hardships of a well
| spent life, or a light sentimental
Idispositon, which should be avoid-j
ed as much as possible.
As a relief or cure for these!
imaginary troubles, we wish to
suggest that you quietly retreat to
some pleasant scene and there seri
ously meditate and reason for a
time on the following subjects:
Who am I? What am I? What
opportunities have I had to be use
ful and happy? What opportuni- j
ties are theie still before me to be
useful and happy? Are my troubles
and conditions real or imaginary?
If my troubles are real, are there'
not noble and commendable ways
by which I can dispose of them,
and still be useful and happy?
And does it better my condition,
or relieve my troubles, to give
way to rayifeelings in this manner?
After studying over these ques
tions thoroughly, you will say,
“How foolish and silly i have
been,” and you will then, no
boubt, laugh at your own stupid
ity and silliness, and thereupon
take a renewed start in the right
direction, with firm resolutions to
never again fall into such a dangr
erous frame of mind, and which
| will lead you to success and vic
j tory if you hold up firmly.
SUNSHINK.
BEAT UP AN OFFICER
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
L. A. Britton of Lonoke county ;
was set upon by six armed men a
mile and a half from Hamson’s
school hous^ in Lonoke county
Thursday evening, pulled from j
the buggy in which he was riding I
and forced to enter the woods with
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his captors, where he was stripped
and given a severe lashing with a
heavy strap. Britton was en route
to Hamson’s school house where
he was to prosecute a man in the
J. P. court for bootlegging whis
key.
GUARDIAN’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as guardian of Kirk
Vaughan, James Vaughan, Maud
Allen and Hugh Vaughan, minors,
will, at the next term of the Probate
Court of Independence county, apply
for an order to sell the following real
estate situated in the county of Inde
pendence and state of Arkansas, to
wit:
Part of the east half of the N.-E.
qtr. Sec. 22, Twp. 13, N. It. f> W.; be
ginning at the quarter corner of Secs.
22 and 23 and tuning north 483 links
to begining corner; thence north 539
links, thence west 272, thence north
300 links, thence west 565. thence east
of south to Frank Wright’s southwest
corner, thence north 483, thence east
450 links to place of beginning, con
taining four acres.
Given this 30th day of May, 1907.
LIZZIE VAUGHAN, Guardian.
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that I will
attend in person, or by deputy, at the
usual voting places in the various
j townships in Independence county,
Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a
list of the real and personal property
of each resident of said township
and the per capita tax of such as are
liable to pay the same for the year of
1907, on the day and dates specified
below:
Salado township, Salado, Friday,
June 14.
Washington township, Calaway’s
Store, Monday and Tuesday, June 17
and 18.
Cushman township, Cushman, Wed
nesday and Thursday, June 19 and 20.
Jefferson township, J. P. Montgom
ery’s Store, Friday, June 21.
Ashley township, Brewer’s School
House, Saturday, June 22.
! Barren township, Gray’s Store,
Monday and Tuesday, June 24 and 25.
Black River township, Charlotte,
Wednesday, June 20.
Black River township, Walnut
Grove, Thursday, June 27.
Black River township, Cord, Friday,
June 28.
Logan township, Logan School
iur-wwv.
House, Saturday, June 29.
( .ainsboro township, Mooretield,
Monday, July 1
Gainsboro township. Ham’s School
House, Tuesday, July 2.
Gainsboro tewnship, Sharp, Wed
nesday, July
Hi^ Bottom township, Newark,
1 burs day, Friday and Saturday, July
4, 5 and <i.
Magness township, Magness, Mon
day, July 8.
White ltiver township, Sulphur
Bock, luesday and Wednesday, July
9 and 10.
Ruddell township, Ba t e s v i 1 l e *
Ihursday, i riday and Saturday, July
11, 12 and 13. n
And at my office in the court house**
at Batesvilie July 15 to 25, after which
time all persons failing to assess will
be subject to penalty.
son°wilThav^tSeS hl person- Each Per
son will have toswear to his or her
^ 0110,1 person will iS
district &h?T,-number of scll0°l
furnish'list t1 dlrectors will please
on first day of assm£5ft.at precinCt
Indenendp ^Well, Assessor,
independence County, Arkansas.
List your property the Herder
son Real Estate Company.
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Fire! Fire! Fire!
$25,000 WORTH OF
General Merchandise
Slightly Damaged by Water and Smoke
-Consisting of
Dry Goods, Clothing
Boots, Shoes
Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Groceries, Hardware, Plows, Sad=
dlery, 50 Moline Cultivators, 50
McCormick Mowers and Rakes
ALL WILL BE PLACED ON SALEHS®
SALE COMMENCED SATURDAY JUNE 1
AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL ALL IS SOLD
REMEMBER!! NOTHING WILL BE RESERVED!! All
8 Must Be Sold. Here is your chance for BARGAINS. This M
I Sale is for CASH ONLY. NO GOODS CHARGED. The in- «
If surance company’s loss will be your gain.
Come One, Come All!
MERMAN SCHOTT
BATESVILLE ARKANSAS