Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — July. [ARTICLE]

July.

July was originally the fifth month of the Roman year. In the Alban calendar it had a complement of 38 days, which was’reduced to 31 and then to 80, and' it stood- thus tor many centuries. ▲t length Julius Caesar restored it to 81. He felt a personal interest in July, as it was his natal month. After the death of this great law-giver and reformer .Marc Antony changed the namo from Qulntills to July, in honor of Caesar’s family name, in eider to note that as the sun was most potent at this time so was Caesar the mqst powerful potentate who had ever lived. Our Saxon ancestors called July “Hey Mona th” because they usually moved their hay at that period of the year.— Chicago Journal.