Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1918 — ECLIPSE OF SUN VISIBLE HERE JUNE 8TH AT 6 P. M. [ARTICLE]

ECLIPSE OF SUN VISIBLE HERE JUNE 8TH AT 6 P. M.

The greatest astronomical event of the year will be the total eclipse of the sun, which will occur on June Bth. Unfortunately, Jasper county will not be in the zone of totality. Denver wiM lie Within that zone, where the total phase will last one and a half minutes. The width of the sone or belt of totality will.be only twen-ty-six and a half miles, at Denver. Nowhere in the United States will the total eclipse last more than two mintes. The eclipse at Rensselaer will be partial. Eighty per cent of the sun will be covered by the moon. By the present legal clock the time the eclipse will begin here at 5:26 p. m. middle of eclipse at 6:30 p. m. and end at 7:23 p. m. Eclipse of the sun always come on from the west. The line of total eclipse will begin in -the ocean south of Japan. It will cross the Pacific and enter the United States at the mouth of Columbuia river and will pass through the following states: Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Florida and end at suset in the Atlantic ocean.