Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1908 — A Stormy June is Predicted by Professor Hicks. [ARTICLE]

A Stormy June is Predicted by Professor Hicks.

June is to be the month of frequent storm periods, according ft> the prediction of Rev. Irl R. Hicks, the St. Louis weather prophet. The periods, according to Rev. Mr. Hicks, will occur from the 4th to the 9th, to the 14th, the 15th, to the 19th, the 22d to the 24th and 27th to the month of July 2d. ~~ - ' “The reactionary storms of the last. May period will disappear in the east about June 1,” says the Hicks prophecy, leaving behind them two or three days of fair, cooler weather. By the 4th and sth the barometer will be falling in the west, with rising temperature "and growing storm clouds During the 6th to 9th these conditions will moxg, eastward, growing in extent and force.” Accompanying the reactidUaty dtorm period of the 12th to the 14th, says the prophecy, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions will occur in numerous parts of the earth. The June solistice, it is perdicted, will bring heavy local rains, but atmospheric conditions will not allow a general distribution of normal rains over the country. More seismic convulsions and volcanic eruptions are prophesied for the storm period at the end of the month, reaching a general crisis within three days of June 28th.