Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1909 — DRY WEATHER CLOSES MILLS [ARTICLE]

DRY WEATHER CLOSES MILLS

Pwinsyhanla Suffering from a Prolonged Drouth. CROPS AND PASTURES RUINED Farmers Have Suffered Heavily from the Lack of Moisture—Schuylkill River at Lowest Point in Its History—Thousands of Persons Employed in Mills Are Idle Because of the Scarcity of Watter to Furnish Power—Wglls and Springs Dry. Philadelphia. Sept, 3. —Very little rain has fallen in eastern Pennsylvania for several months, and the drouth which has been thereby ere ated is in the acute stage. Crops aiid pasture fields have burned up for lack of moisture and the loss to the farmers has been heavy. A dispatch from York says the big paper mill of P. H. Glatfelter company at Spring Grove has been compelled to suspend operations because of the drouth. The works are operated by water power, and operations will not be resumed until the water supply ,s replenished by a rainfall. The dispatch adds that York county is suffering the most serious droutli within the memory of living persons. Wells and springs in the country have gone dry and supplies of water for various boroughs are becoming exhausted. The Schuylkill river is at the low est point in its history, and more than a thousand persons employed in the mills at IManayunk. a suburb of this city, : re idle because of the scarcity of water.