Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1916 — Year Without a Summer Was 1816. [ARTICLE]

Year Without a Summer Was 1816.

The year 1816, which was the birthday of Indiana, the 100th anniversary of which we are going to celebrate in White county in October with a big three day affair, including a pageant, was knowin throughout the United States as a year without a summer. So far there has been a striking resemblance between that year and this, and we are wondering whether or not history is going to repeat. January of 1916 was unusually mild during the greater portion of the month, and January of 1816 was so very mild that most people would have let their furnaces go out had they possessed any. February was only occasionally colder. March and April coaxed the buds and flowers out, and May was a winter month, with ice and snow. By the end of May everything .perishable had been killed by the eold, and the young leaves had been striped from the trees. June was as cold as May. Both snow and ice were common throughout the month -all over the com belt and after having . lanted com two or three times the farmers threw u ptheir hands. Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont. The following .winter was the hardest the people of the United States had ever known. One had to have a stockade around one’s smokehouse. —Monticello Journal.