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Show Weather Matters. In order to check the chestnutty prognostications prognos-tications of the "oldest inhabitant" and prevent pre-vent his telling you that "the hottest day in his time was in '57" or anything of that sort, just refer him to the following from the weather bureau: The warmest August was that of 1S7S with a temperature of 7S.40. The coldest was that of 1SS4 with an average of 72.70. The hottest day in any August for eighteen years was in 1875, August 6, w hen the mercury marked 101". The coolest was August 31, 18S0, when the mercury was at 41'. The wind blew the hardest in August 9, 1870, when the rate was forty-four miles an hour. - . a . |