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Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 4, 1895.
P.GREY MEEK, - - - Fomos
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For State Treasurer.
BENJAMIN F. MYERS, of Harrisburg.
For Judges of Superior Court,
HARMON YERKES, of Bucks county.
J. S. MOOREHEAD, of Westmoreland Co.
C. H. NOYES, of Warren county.
P. P. SMITH, of Lackawanna county.
OLIVER P. BECHTEL, of Schuylkill, Co.
CHRISTOPHER MAGEE, of Allegheny Co
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Prothonotary.—W, F. SMITH,
"of Penn Twp.
For District Attorney—W. J. SINGER,
of Bellefonte.
A Satisfactory Appointment.
The announcement that Joy Hax-
iLToN Esq., of State College, had been
appointed Deputy Secretary of Agricul
ture by Governor HasTINGs was a de-
lighttul surprise to that gentleman’s
many friends in this county. It had
not been known that he was an aspi
rant for gubernatorial favor, else there
would doubtless have been some mani-
festation of approval on the part of the
peopie of Centre connty, where his fit*
ness for such a position is so well
known.
The office to which Mr. HamiLToN
was appointed, on Tuesday, was creat-
ed by act of assembly approved March
13th, 1895, and carries with it a salary
of £3,000 per annum ; the term of of-
fice being four years. In addition to
the deputyship the office of Director
of Farmers’ Institutes devolves upon
Mr. Hamirtoxn and it will be his duty
‘to arrange them in such manner as
to time and places ot holding as to se-
cure the greatest economy and efficien-
cy of service, and to this end he shall
in each county where such institutes
are to be held, confer and advise with
the local member of the State Board
of Agriculture, together with represen-
tatives duly appointed by each county
agricultural, horticultural and other
like ‘organizations with reference to the
appointments of speakers and other
local arrangements.”
The eelection of Mr. HaMiLToN is a
most judicious one indeed: His pecul-
iar fltness for the office will readily
be realized when it is known that he
is a practical agriculturist, in addition
to being a man of great refinement and
intelligence. He was one of the origi-
nal members to organize the State
Board of Agriculture and the new de-
partment of the state government
would be moet ably handled were he
the only man upon whom its duties
devolve.
A pleasant feature of the appoint.
ment is the fact that his will be an of-
fice without appointive power, thus re-
lieving him of the annoyance that will
be occasioned by the scramble for
clerkships in the uew department. It
was not the intention of the adminis:
tration to lose hold of any of the offi-
cesit created toetrengthen itself, but
the day when they could be of use to
the “Combine” is past and everyone
will be glad to know that this one po-
sition, at least, was not made subser-
viedt to the personal aggrandizement
f the Governor. The appointment is
a wise one. Satisfactory in every res
pect and it will give to the new Depart-
ment of Agriculture the untiring work
of an intelligent, christian gentleman.
There is one man, however who will
not be much pleased with the an-
nouncement. He is GERorGE HuTcHIN-
soN, of Warriors-mark, ex-Sergeant-
at-arms of the House. His disappoint-
ment will not be because of any per-
eonal feeling against the fortunate ap-
pointee, but because an effectual end
has been put to his own ambition to
be the Deputy. What encouragement
Mr. HurcHinsoN had from the ap-
pointive power is best known to him
self, but there sre many of his friends
who will wonder at the way in which
he has been turned down to take what-
ever of comfort he can from a place on
the Cotton States Exposition commis-
gion. Mr, HUTCHINSON is a prominent
Republican worker in Huntingdon
county whose successes are the source
of much gratification to a strong fol-
lowing. He would have made a popu-
lar official and been an ornament w
the department,
——The cereal crop for 1895 will be
the largest on record in this country.
Though prices are low they are not as
low as they were two years ago, under
Republican rule. The farming classes
certainly have no ground for complaint
under existing circumstances.
——1If ABe MILLER comes around
telling you that you ought to support
an old soldier ask him to show you his
war record.
~=Do0 you read the WATCHMAN,
- ——When we think of ABE MILLER
and the way he has heaped his bla- |
tant vituperations on the Democrats,
everywhere, we are reminded of WiLL |
CARLETON’ pointed words, :
Boys flying kites pull in their white-winged i
birds, i
But we can’t do ¢o when we are flying words’
Just so with MiLLEr. He would
like to recall many of the vile epithets |
with which he has abused Democrats, |
in the past, now that he wants their
votes, but we trust everyone will have
the manhood to pay the loud-mouthed
candidate his just deserts.
—1It scems that every time the Cuban
rebels and the Spanish troops have an
engagement the same generals are killed.
Olmsted's Opinion.
Each Voter is Entitled to Vote for Seven Can-
didates for Superior Court Judges.
HarrisBurg, Oct. 1.—M. E. Olm-
sted, Esq, of this city, one of the State’s
most prominent constitutional lawyers,
recently submitted an opinion to a
well known Republican, who asked, in
which he says that every voter is enti-
tled to vote for seven candidates for su-
perior court judges, instead of six, as
the recent law creating the court pro-
vides. Mr. Olmsted says the constitu-
tion provides for the minority represen:
tation in the election of supreme judges,
county commissioners and county au-
ditors only. As to all other elective
offices the constitutional provision is
that every male citizen 21 years of age
possessing certain qualifications, “shall
be entitled to vote at all elections.”
i{e says: This right is conferred
absolutely and without condition, but
the act of 1895, establishing the new
superior court, attempls to limit it hy
declaring that, although seven judges
are to be eleeted, no.elector may vote
for more than six candidates upon one
ballot for the said office. This limita-
tion is in derogation of the voter's con-
stitutional right and privilege. His
right ‘to vote at all elections, is incom-
plete if he may not vote for as many
offices as are to be filled, or as many
persons as are to be elected. If the
Legislature has the power to enact that
he may vote for six only, it has equal
power to restrict his vote to five, four,
two or one of the candidates, or it may
declare that, where two or more com-
mon pleas judges are to be elected, or
two, three or four representatives are
to be chosen, no elector shall vote for
more than one, .
“No matter how wise the principal
of minority representation may be, it
cannot be enforced if contrary to the
letter and spirit of the constitution, and
if, as is apparently the case, the act of
1895 seeks to qualify, limit and re-
strain the right of suffrage which the
constitution bas, in plain terms, con-
ferred without any limitation whatever
then to that extent the act of 1895
must fall.
“I am of the opinion that each quali-
fied elector has the constitutional right
to vote for seven candidates and that
his ballot cannot lawfully be thrown
out because containing more than six
names.”
Williams Named for Governor.
Worcester, Mass.,, Oct. 2.—The
Democratic state convention was held
here to-day. The following ticket was
nominated: Governor, George F. Wil-
liams, of Dedham : lieutenant gover-
nor, James S. Grinnell, of Greenfield ;
for secretary of state, Edward J. Flinn,
of Boston ; treasurer, Eben S, Stevens,
of Sudbury ; auditor, Alfred C. Whit-
ney, of Boston; attorney general,
Henry F. Hurlburt, of Lynn.
The platform congratulates the
manufacturing 1nterests of Massachu-
setts on the successfull operation of the
present tariff ; denounces the afforts of
the Republican party to reopen the
tariff question for the purpose of re-
storing the abominations of the Me-
Kinley act; demands the maintenance
of the existing gold standard of value
and that the government shall keep all
its obligations at all times redeemable
in gold.
Where the Fight May Come Off.
SAN An~toNIO, Tex., October 2.—
Charles Campbell, a business man of
this city, to-day received a telegram
from President Dan Stuart, of the
Florida Athletic club, stating that if
the railroads interested in having the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight take place
at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, would stand
the expense of enlarging the bull fight
arena at that place he would favorably
consider pulling the fight off there if it
cannot be had at Dallas. Campbell is
the owner of a concession for prize
fighting in Nuevo Laredo, which he
obtained a few days ago from the state
of Tamaulipas, Mexico. He returned
yesterday from Dallas, where he had
a conference with President Stuart,
and made the proposition for the fight
to take place at Nuevo Laredo before
the Florida club. The matter is now
in the hands of the International and
Great Northern and Mexican National
railroads.
Cuba's Bloody War.
The Insurgents Suffer a Bad Defeat.—A Force
of Fifteen Hundred Routed by Spanish Cav-
alry and Infantry.--Not a Very Bloody En-
gagement.
Havana, Sept. 30.—Information has
been received that Lieutenant Colonel
Rubin, with a force of infantry and
cavalry, has routed and dispersed a
force of 1,500 rebels, under General
Serafino Sanchez, at Las Veras, in the
Santi Spiritus district, of Santa Clara
province. Forty rebels are reported
killed and a !arge number wounded.
Among the wounded are General
Sanchez and Ruperto Pina, The gov-
ernment troops took four prisoners.
The loss on the government side is
eleven wounded, including Lieutenant
Colonel Rubin whose wound is slight.
| the neighborhood. He entered Tus-
The New Deputy Secretary of Agricul- ?
ture.
The newly appointed Deputy Secre- |
tary of Agriculture was born in Juniata
county in 1843, and spent his earlier
years on his father’s farm near Thomp.
sontown. His preparatory education
was obtained from the public schools of :
carora academy in 1856, and then went
to Airy View academy from 1857 to
1860. At the breaking out of the war
he was a member of a cothpany of light
horse cavalry, commanded by Colonel
J. Patterson. Tha company offered its
services to the Stato the day that Fort
Sumpter was fired on, and was probably
the first company in Pennsylvania to
be accepted. They were, however, not
taken into active service until July 23,
1661, when they were sworn into the
service of the State and became Com-
pany A of the First Pennsylvania Re-
serve cavalry. He served with his regi.
ment in the Army of the Potomac dur-
ing all of its campaigns up to Septem-
ber 13, 1864, when he was discharged
with his regiment by reason of expira-
tion of term of enlistment. He was
promoted from the ranks to sergeant,
orderly sergeant gnd sergeant major,
and at the date of his discharge was’
acting as adjutant of his regiment.
He is now a member of the Union Vet.
eran Legion, Post No. 59, and’is also
treasurer of the Veteran club of Centre
county. Atthe close of the war, in 1865,
he entered The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege as a student, and in January, 1866,
was elected by the trustees to the super-
intendency of the college farm. In 1869,
he resigned this position and re-entered
college, and took up the course of cleri-
cal study together with spacial work in
natural science, with the purposa of
fitting himself for the protessorship of
Agriculture. Upon graduation, in 1871,
he was at once elected professor of Agri-
culture and given charge of the main
college farm, and so of the three experi-
mental farms, one at the college, one in
Indiana county, and the other in Ches-
ter county. These he conducted for
over nine years at the time teaching
agricultural science to classes in the col-
leges. For two years he was military
instructor and had charge of the corps
of cadets in discipline and drill. He
resigned his professorship in 1880, ow-
ing to breakdown in health, but still
retained the treasurership and business
management of the college with which
he had been entrusted in 1874. In 1887
he was elected a member of the board
of trustees and served for several years
as chairman of the executive commit-
tee. Professor Hamilton was one of the
orinal members that organized the State
Board of Agriculture, was 8 member for
two terms, but declined a third election
on account of the precarious condition
of his health. He was one of the nomi-
nees of the Republican party of the
county for the legislature in 1892, and
suffered the fate of all of the other can-
didates on the ticket. In 1875 he was
married to Elizabeth Thompson, of
this county, and they have one
daughter living. Professor Hamilton is
an elder in the Presbyterian church. is
interested in Sabbath school and in
Christian Endeavor, and Christian asso-
ciation work. He also takes an active
interest in local government and is now
serving his second term as supervisor of
the roads of his township.
Refused to be Arbitrator.
The Huntingdon-Mifflin Deadlock Brightens
Democratic Chances.
HARRISBURG, Oct. 1.—Judge Biddle,
of Carlisle, was to-day selected as the
arbitrator between Judge McKnight
Williamson, of Huntingdon, and H, I.
Culbertson, of Mifflin, Republican can-
didates for judge of the court of com-
mon pleas in the Huntingdon-Mifflin
district. The contestants met in Lew-
istown to-day, and then adjourned to
this city after having taken the two
hundred and seventy-third ballot.
Judge Williamson argued that he
had been appointed judge by Governor
Hastings in pursuance of recent legis.
lation, and Mr. Culbertson contended
that Huntingdon had already more
than its share of judicial honors by
the appointment of Judge Orlady to
the Superior court bench. After hear-
ing both contestants Judge Biddle an-
nounced that he would make no decis-
ion at all, and would no longer be con-
sidered as arbitrator. The result will
be that both the Republican candi-
dates, Culbertson and Williamson will
remain in the field. Unless one of
thew "withdraws the chances for the
election of the Democratic candidate,
J. N. Bailey, are very good.
Prize Fighting Bill Passed.
It Was Adopted by Both the House aud Senale of
Texas on Wednesday. !
AvustIN, Tex.,, Oct. 2.—The anti-
prize fight bill, with emergency clause,
was passed by the Senate this afternoon
by a vote of 27 to 1. The emergency
bill passed the House this afternoon by
an almost unanimous vote.
Made a Ten Per Cent Advance.
Norristown, Pa., October 2.—The
Norristown Hosiery company, employ-
ing 200 bands, has advanced the wag-
es of its employes ten per cent. The
firm is compelled to run double turn
and has enough orders ahead to last
six months.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
~——John Romig, of Snydertown, has
a pumpkin that weighs 120 lbs.
——The State convention of the
county commissioners is in session at
Meadville this week.
——Dr. Tobin recently operated on
Dennis Gallagher for an abscess on his
left side. It was successful.
——Mr. C. O. Peterson is reported
a3 intending starting a bakery and can-
dy manufactory at Lemont.
——H. H. Meyer, of Milesburg, who
is employed at Lloydsville has been
moved to Bellwood to work.
——A squirrel supper was given the
patrons of the Brant house, on Monday
evening, by proprietor Henry Yeager.
——Such weather as we have been
| having lately is enough to make any-
one long to be out of doors all the time.
——A Jack-o-lantern social was a
novel entertainment given by the Mill
i Hall Y. P. S. C. E. on Tuesday even-
| ing.
——1Irvin Hahne, of Lock Haven,
has been elected president of the State
firemen’s association by the Reading
convention.
——The first game of the Lock Hav-
en—Demorest base-ball championship
series ended in a tie after eleven inuings
bad been played.
——Hunter Swartz, aged 4 years
died at the home of his father, ‘John
Swartz, in Milesburg, last Friday night
and was buried on Sund ay.
——Mrs. Henry Shuler died, on
Monday morning, at her home near
Clintondale.’ Decased was 69 years old
and was buried on Wednesday.
A valuable sorrel mare, the prop-
erty of John Barnes Sr. of Philipsburg,
fell on a street over there, on Monday,
breaking a fore leg and necessitating
ber being killed.
——The old foundry buildings, at
the foot of Race street, for years occu-
pied by the Jenkins & Lingle firm,
have all been torn down and carted
AWAY.
——The great increase in the number
of students at the Bellefonte Academy
has necessitated moving the primary
department of that institution into a
larger room.
——We are glad to announce that
Adeline, youngest daughter of ex-sher-
if D. W. Woodring, who has been so
seriously ill, is better and hopes of her
recovery are entertained.
——A night blooming cereus, the
property of Mrs. Fred Weaver, of Lock
Haven, made a change in its schedule
and came into flower Sunday morning
and staid in bloom until noon.
——The 70th birthday of Rev. J. B;
Soule, the popular Bald Eagle valley,
Baptists minister, was made the occa-
sion of a happy party at the home of
‘W. B. Johnson, at Eagleville, recently.
——The Lock Haven trust and safe
deposit company hes just purchased
$25,000 worth of bonds, issued by that
city, to refund an expiring issue of 6 per.
cents. The new bonds will bear 4 per:
cent.
. ——The Burglar, next Wednesday
night, will doubtless attract a large au-
dience. The play is a beautiful one,
adapted from Irances Hodgson Bur-
nett’s pretty story, Editha’s Burglar.
——We are glad to announce that
Dr. Geo. W. Atherton, president of The
Pennsylvania State College, whose con -
dition had alarmed his many friends,
is im@roving and his speedy recovery is
looked for.
——The Coleville musicians who
joined Washburn’s circus here some
that they are all well and having a
good time. They are down in West
Yirginia now,
——Tuesday the state department
chartered the Clearfield light, heat and
power company, of Clearfleld ; capital
$50,00. A. F. Boynton, Harry E.
Kratzer, Henry B. Powell, George S.
Hughes, J. E, Powell, directors.
——A writer in the Tyrone Herald
speaks very highly of the hospitable
people of Half-moon valley. He says
that one can look out of the back win-
dow of John B. Mattern’s home and see
Buffalo Run down through the valley.
——The family of Richard Hall, of
Milesburg, has been sorely afflicted late-
ly. First he had typhoid fever, then
his wife was stricken with stomach
trouble and now his son Charles has a
broken arm, the result of a fall on the
railroad. :
——Mr, and Mrs. Harry Cooke, well
known in this place, have given up
house-keeping at Woodland, Clearfield
county, and are now located at the Con-
tinental hotel in Philipsburg. Harry's
new coal operations are near the latter
place.
Mrs. Hannah Van Dyke, of Lock
Haven, was in this place, on Wednes-
day, on her way to Potters Mills to
attend the wedding of Rev. A. D. Potts,
of Pleasant Unity, Pa., and Miss Agnes
McCoy, of that place. The wedding
was solemnized yesterday.
——At a recent meeting of the Phil-
ipsburg board of health it was resolved
that hereafter no child that has been ill
with a contagious disease shall be al-
lowed to attend public school until ten
days after the attending physician has
granted a certificate of recovery.
——James Chambers, the Punxsu-
tawney horseman who fell from a
fourth story window of the St. James
hotel in Pittsburg, the other night, and
was killed was not the James Cham-
bers who lived here some time ago and
is now driving Hal Pointer, the famous
pacing horse. :
week ago have written to their friends’
——Walter W. Bayard, eldest son of
Col. George Bayard of this place, is
now the head of a Baltimore drug com-
pany.
——Bellefonte has an ordinance pro-
hibiting it, so why don’t the police
keep young boys off the streets at night ?
It is really a shame that such a rabble
of noisy, pestiferous youngsters, as are
to be found nightly on our streets,
should be tolerated.
——Wahile assisting at 8 barn raising
near Centre Furnace, on Tuesday after-
noon, John Hoy slipped and fell with a
plank prop in his hands. The plank,
falling across hi§ breast, broke three of
his ribs. It was some time before he re-
gained consciousness.
——DMre. J. A. Aikens has just re-
turned from an extended trip through
eastern cities, with a selection of the
latest in capes, coats and suits. Call
and keep in the front. You must see
the imported Golf cape. It wears.
Prices to suit the times.
——A Hughesville boy,a son of hard.
ware merchant Kelly of that place, was
impailed on the fence surrounding the
public school grounds Monday after-
noon. The fence was of iron, with sharp
pickets, and one, penetrating hisleg, sev-
ered an artery which caused him to
bleed to death.
——Mr. and Mrs. John Noll, of
north Allegheny street, will celebrate
the 25th anniversary of their marriage
on Saturday, October 5th. A number
of their friends will be with them on
that occasion to wish them many years
of happiness and prosperity.
——The foot ball game at State
College, last Saturday, between Gettys-
burg and State, resulted in a victory for
the latter, after 30minutes play. Score
48 to 0. State will play Cornell at Ithica,
N. Y., tomorrow. Bucknell University,
of Lewisburg, was beaten by the U. of
P. at Philadelphia, on Wednesday, by
the score of 40 to 0.
——Judge Love handed down his
finding, on Wednesday, in the cases of
appeals from the assessed valuation of
several propertiesin town. The county
commissioners, having constituted them-
selves a board of revision, raised the val-
uation of the properties in qaestion.
The court reduced the valuation of the
McBride property, corner of Bishop and
Allegheny street, from $4,000 to $3,200.
The Brockerhoff House was reduced
from $35,000 to $33,000 and the house
occupied by William Grauer, on Spring
street, was reduced from $2,000 to $1,-
500.
——Elsewhere in this week’s issue
will be found the notice of a meeting of
the lot holders of the Bellefonte ceme-
tery association, at the office of Beaver
& Dale, in Bellefonte, on Saturday, Oc-
teber 12th, at 4 o'clock p. m. The cor-
poration, having been deprived of its
president by the death of E. C. Humes,
is unable to make title for lots which
are now sold and which are to be sold
in the future, and persons wishing to
purchase lots are unable to get deeds for
the same, as no ore is authorized to sign
transfers. It is very important that the
persons interested in the cemetery asso-
ciation and owning lots therein attend
the meeting above advertised, in order
that officers may be elected and the
affairs of the association generally looked
into. It is to be hoped that the meet-
ing will be a full one and that all per-
sons interested will make it a point to
be present at that time.
A PEDAGOGUE AND A BEAR,—The
Altoona Times tells of am encounter a
Birmingham school teacher had with &
bear, a few days ago, as follows :
Mr. E. E. Enyart, of Spruce Creek,
pedagogue of the Birmingham school,
while on the mountain near Spruce
Creek searching for grapes, was sudden-
ly confronted by a large black bear,
who disputed Mr. E.’s right to carry a
double-barreled shotgun with shells
loaded with no other than squirrel shot.
The encounter, as our hero relates it, is
as follows . “I was seated on a big
square rock looking up a hickory tree
for grapes, when something drew my
attention out through the woods above
the road which runs along near the top
of the mountain, where I spied a bear.
I thought, ‘Darn you, you’ve got me
foul this time, for I’ve nothing but
squirrel shot in my gun.” He disap-
peared, but soon reappeared right below
the road with his front paws up against
a tree, a8 if looking for grapes too. He
got the scent of me, got down and came
towards me in the middle of the road
and stood on his hind feet and
in pugilistic manner, gestured with his
feet. Well boys, I gave him one round
planting him below the chin and upset.
ting him, but he was up in a jiffy, and I
discharged the other barrel and made
for a sapling. By Joe, boys, you ought
to have seen me cooning that sapling
while bruin was scratching off my pant
legs at the suspender bands, It was a
bear scratch. The old ‘black scamp re-
treated after I had fired four shots, but
no signs of blood were visible on him.”
Mr. E. has prepared shells with buck-
shot and has been practicing on trees
ever since.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.— Following is
the list of marriage licenses granted by
orphans’ court clerk, G. W. Rumber-
ger, during the past week :
E. I. Walker, of Boggs township,
and Mary M. Leister, Mexico, Juniata
county.
Harry T. Gruver and Elizabeth M.
Rupert, both of Howard.
Harry McClellan, of Milesburg, and
Nancy Jane Reed, of Coleville.
Joe Simolks and Mary Lutter, both of
Clarence,
0 of Howard, and
Annie over, of Roland.
Harry V. Hile and Rosa Jean Twit-
meyer, of Pleasant Gap.
Howard Parsons, of Patton Twp.,
Mifflin county.
Rev. A. D. Potts, of Pleasant Unity,
Westmoreland county, and Agnes Mc-
Coy, of Potters Mills.
THE FALL OPENING AT THE GLOBE.
—On last Thursday the Globe dry
goods and millinery company held
their first fall opening.
Unfortunately for the management
the day was inauspicious, as rain fell
nearly the entire day. It made it, how-
ever,{doubly pleasant for those who did
call, as they escaped the crowd and jam
which made their opening last spring
such a decided success. The large store
was comfortably filled all day with de-
lighted visitors, examining the many
novelties these progressive merchants
had arranged for their inspection.
The millinery exhibit was the finest
ever shown in town, and far exceed-
ed the spring display. Over 100 fine
bonnets and hats were shown, many of
which were imported. The opening
was intended only for a display of their
really fine millinery, and although no
one was asked to purchase, still enough
orders were taken to keep their corps of
milliners busy for several weeks. The
large patronage which Katz & Co., al-
ready enjoy, although their business is
comparatively new, is but a fitting rec-
ompense for the liberality and enterprise
which they display.
FosTER PREDICTS GREAT STORMS. —
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm wave to cross the continent from
25th to 29th, and the next will reach the
Pacific coast about the 30th, cross the
west of Rockies country by close of Oc-
tober 1st, the great central valleys 2nd
to 4th, and the eastern States about the
5th. This disturbance will be of very
considerable energy, and following it
the cool wave will bring very low tem-
peratures. The warm wave will cross
the west of Rockies country about Sept.
30th, the great central valleys Oct. 2nd,
and eastern States 4th. Cool wave will
cross the west of Rockies country about
Oct. 3rd, great central valleys 5th, and
eastern States 7th.
The second disturbance of October
will reach the Pacific coast about the
6th, cross the west of Rockies country
by close of 7th, great central valleys 8th
to 10th, eastern States 11th. Warm wave
will cross the west of Ruckies country
about 6th, great central valleys 8th and
eastern States 10th. Cool wave will cross
west of Rockies country about 9th, great
central valleys 11th, eastern States 13th.
The first half of October will be very
stormy, average rainfall will gradually
decrease from 1st to middle, and increase
from middle to last part of the month.
From 8th to 16th will be the period of
highest average temperature in the great
central valleys. Further west the high
temperature will occur a little earlier,
and further east a little later. The week
of greatest extreme of temperature will
occur from 13th to 19th, and during this
period the greatest storms of the month
will occur. The week following the 15th
will be notable for killing frosts unusu-
ally far southward.
October will be nearly average in
temperature when we put the tempera-
ture of the whole United States for the
whole month together. Draw a line
from Winnepeg down the Mississippi
river to its mouth and the country east
of that line will average below and west
of that line above the usual normals.
Some very severe changes in tempera-
ture will occur, particularly near the
middle of the month, but taking the:
averages of each locality for the whole
month no great extremes in these aver-
ages will occur anywhere in the United
States. The coldest monthly averages
from Chicago to Cincinnati and from
Cincinnati to Boston.
Rainfalls of October will be nearly
the reverse of the temperatures. Defi-
ciency will occur generally north and
west of the Obio river and west of the
Mississippi, and excesses south and east
of the Mississippi. No very great ex-
tremes in the monthly averages of rain-
fall are expected, and in large portions
of the country the precipitation for the
month will be near normal.
The average weather conditions of
October for the whole country promise
well for crops, very favorable for fall
. sown grain and the maturing of the cot-
ton crop. Injury to cotton by Septem-
ber dry weather may not be entirely
remedied, but late frosts and an increase
in rainfall will make a better crop than
the conditions at the close of September
seem to indicate.
The first half of October will be no-
‘ table for dangerous storms which will
probably culminate in great destruction
not far from the 16th.
and Amanda Brindle, of Lewistown, .
for October appear to lie along the lines.
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