Intense Heat Has Damaged Crops; Need Rain Badly
June 22, 1933 - Three days and three nights of intense heat that literally "baked" this region, broke Monday morning about 7 o'clock when a cool breeze came up and sent temperatures down to 85 degrees.
Highest temperatures were reached Sunday when the thermometer reached - and stayed - at 106 for the larger part of the day.
The U. S. weather bureau thermometer recorded 102 degrees on Friday, 103 on Saturday and 106 on Sunday. During Saturday night the lowest temperature was 72, with the air warm and stifling on all three nights of the heat wave.
The grain crop has been damaged, but weather during the next few days will determine the amount of damage. Early estimates have placed the heat damage at 30 percent, even with an early rain. Crops in this region had been the most promising in years, more than making up their late start.
Oats and barley, in an advanced shot blade stage, have suffered most from the heat; while wheat has more of a chance of recovery under favorable weather. The heat tends to shorten the straw.
A light rain and overcast skies early this morning promised some relief for the fields. Monday's rain brought only a light sprinkle in the Carrington region. Sykeston had a heavy rain but it covered only a narrow area with farmers both north and south of the town reporting the rain missed them except for a heavy sprinkle. The rain extended as far east as Dover, and missed Brantford, with reports of a good rain north of Brantford. Brantford did not get the heavy rain that hit Carrington during the firemen's convention and crops there are badly burned and very brown, according to Mrs. Alf Dahl.
Railroad men report that crops along the Goodrich-Hurdsfield district, well soaked by rain, look very good. There was no rain Monday east of here, it was reported at Carrington.
The heat forced the grain crops in every section of the state and over much of this territory the straw will be short and yields reduced. In the northern part of the state where there has been more rain the damage is lighter. Some of the southern counties report an almost complete crop loss. Counties worst hit are in the section just south of Bismarck.
Monday's rain brought light showers to scattered areas in the south central sections. Fessenden had .12 inches of rain and Jamestown .06. A strong wind that hit northwest North Dakota that afternoon tipped over a few buildings in the Minot region.
January 12, 1888: "Terrible blizzard. " Many people lost their lives.
1899: Northern Pacific Railroad extends from Cooperstown to McHenry.
1902: January 14-17, severe blizzard rages with heavy loss in county (stock).
February 9, 1933 - One of the worst storms in ten years struck North Dakota late Sunday, combining a bad blizzard with temperatures that have already held around 30 below zero for two days. The storm broke about dusk Sunday evening when a strong wind whipped the air full of loose snow and a bad blizzard lasted until Monday night. The wind subsided during the night, but at daybreak Tuesday morning the thermometer had dropped to 34 degrees below zero. During the day the air warmed to 14 degrees below zero. The blizzard broke again early Wednesday morning and the day remained bitterly cold, 32 to 14 below zero, with the snow-filled air whipped with a strong wind.
The roads are blocked for automobile traffic, on most routes, until they are cleared by snow plows. The county snow plow went out Tuesday morning to open the Cooperstown state road east from Carrington and was left on the highway Tuesday night when the second storm broke. Work will begin again on No. 7 as soon as the storm ends. Then the county plow goes to work on No. 20 then will open the county roads. State snow plows are expected here from both Jamestown and Devils Lake to open up the north and south highways, as soon as the storm ends.
Rural mail carriers at the Carrington post office cancelled their delivery trips both Monday and yesterday. All four carriers made the full trip Tuesday. City carriers have been making full deliveries daily.
Trains are running one to three hours late.
A few cars of travelers went thru Carrington Tuesday, but no auto travel was attempted on Monday or Wednesday. The storm was blinding outside the city limits.
Winnipeg reported 44 degrees below zero on Monday, with points further north in Canada reporting 50 below.
Blizzards whistled up from Texas and Oklahoma and crippled air, rail and highway traffic.
Over the Rockies intense cold prevailed. Crop experts expressed fear of damage to unprotected winter wheat in the Kansas-Nebraska fields. Livestock wintering on the south-western ranges were imperiled.
The northwest had the coldest weather in several years - 55 degrees below at Moran, Wyoming; 41 below at Bemidji, Minnesota; 32 below in Idaho; 46 below in Eveleth, Minnesota.
The nearest approach to this week's weather in recent years is January 8, 1930, when Carrington temperatures hit 29 below zero.
Carrington homes were victims of frozen water pipes during Monday and Tuesday nights. Several cautious householders kept their cold water faucets running during the night and woke in the morning to find their hot water pipes frozen.
Seed Loan Office Opens For
County Farmers Saturday
Swinton Chairman of Loan Committee;
G. S. Stephanson in Charge of District
MUST CUT CASH CROP ACREAGE 30 PERCENT
Settlement and Ask For New Loan
March 16, 1933 - The receiving of applications or the new government seed loans will begin tomorrow at Carrington, with the set-up for handling the Foster County loans completed this week. Carrington will have the only loan office in Foster County.
G.S. Stephanson of Minneapolis, a local field inspector for the crop production loan office, is directing the work here.
W.H. Swinton has been appointed chairman of the Foster County committee handling the loan applications, and the Swinton office will be county headquarters for the loans. Other members of the Foster County loan committee are Willie Roaldson and C. W. Hensel.
Mr. Stephanson and Mr. Swinton will be in Devils Lake tomorrow (Friday) attending a meeting of field inspectors and county chairmen. No applications or loans will be handled on Friday, but the work will yet underway on Saturday.
Only those who can not get loans elsewhere will be given government loans. The maximum loan is $300, and if the borrower is in arrears on as many as two earlier loans, the maximum for 1933, is $100. Interest is 5 1/2 percent and the loans are due October 31, 1933. The borrower must reduce his acreage of cash crops 30 percent under last year.
Four Contest Plays Are Given Saturday
$40 Added to County Student Loan Fund
From Admission Tickets
March 16, 1933 - The All-Organization play contest held in Juanita Saturday was well attended and the big audience enjoyed the four plays that were presented. The gate receipts amounted to $40.75, and this money goes into the Foster County student loan fund.
"Friday for Luck" the play directed by James Clancy of the Eastman P. T.A., was presented in the afternoon. The following people took part in the play: Eddie Klemstein, Alfred Klemstein, Leonard Anderson, Lillian Klemstein.
"Sod", directed by Miss Irva Deehr of the Grace City P. T.A., was the first play presented in the evening. The characters were: Fred Melgaard, Olga Aelgaard, Edna Skei and George Skei.
"The Teeth of a Gift Horse", directed by Miss Anna Thorsgaard of the Glenfield R.N.A., was the second play presented in the evening. The characters were: Helen Johnson, Carl Johnson, Mrs. Cole, Ira Sharpe, Esther Tuura and Mrs. O. E. Knudtson.
Source: Glenfield History 1886 – 1987 Page 67