Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR [ARTICLE]

LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR

SUN RISING AT 4:15, OLD TIME, OR 5:15 BY OUR CLOCKS, AND SETTING AT 7:29 OLD TIME, OR 8:29 BY OUR CLOCKS. * Summer is here, but whether it is Ihe earliest or the latest summer Rensselaer has ever had and at what time it arrived you can figure out for yourself. Ordinarily summer arrives precisely at midnight June 22, but you’ll remember we turned our clocks ahead an hour recently, so this will give you an opportunity or figuring that summer really began at 11 p. m. on June 21, and thereby broke all speed records. On the other hand, if you are conservative you will .figure summer really didn’t begin when the hands of the clock pointed to 11, but when they reached 1 a. m., so that old Summer is a laggard, by the clock, at least. Take your pick. Incidentally this is the longest day of the year, the sun rising at 4:15, old time, or 5:15 by our clocks, and setting at 7:29 old time, or 8t29 by our clocks. There’s a chance for some more figuring, and if we ever go back to did time you j can boast of that June day when you saw the sun in the heavens at 8:29 p. m. by a veracious time piece.