Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Hottest September Day. [ARTICLE]

Hottest September Day.

Tuesday, Sept, sth, according to the government weather bureau, was the hottest September day ever recorded in Chicago’, and no doubt it was also the hottest Sept, day ever known in Bensselear. In Chicago the maximum heat was 98 degrees, as shown by reliable government thermometers. There seems to be no strictly reliable thermometers in Rensselaer, but the average of those observed gave also about 98 degrees as the highest here. In Chicago the highest point was reached at sp. m,, but here a change for the better began about 2.30 p. m., and by five o’clock it was down several degrees. The Chicago papers name only five seasons which have had hotter days than Tuesday since records were first begun in 1870. Those days were June 19, 1872, 98, July 6, 1874,99; Aug. 4,1881, 98; July 16, 7.1887,100; Aug., 8, 1896, 98. This indicates that Tuesday was the hottest day for three years, and as hot as any since 1887; as well as breaking all September records. So far as the comparason applies to Rensselaer however we think it safe to say that there were some days in July 1897 which were fully as hot as Tneeday. You should see C. A. Roberts Buggies and road wagons before bnying. Itwillooetyou nothing to see them. At th 4 rear of Glaze-