SCORCHING!
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Monday and Tuesday the Hottest Days on Record in Earlington.
OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE WAS 106.
All Earlington thought that Thursday, July 11, was the record for high temperature for this year. That day the mercury mounted to 103. Since then 100 and 101 degrees have seemed almost mild. But Monday the valley in which nestles this model and contented mining and railroad town was a veritable bake-oven with no relief, no escape from the heat of the burnished heavens save in the caverns of the earth among the black diamonds under the surrounding picturesque hills. It is a blessing to be a busy coal miner while the sun is so intimate a neighbor. Tuesday the same high temperature was reached.
Ed J. Phillips became over-heated at his work in the St. Bernard general store where the temperature went above 100. The effect of this he did not feel until evening when he was found in a severe cramping spell in the yard at home. Next morning he was better and has since been improving.
One of our Earlington physicians, wishing to take a patient’s temperature was bewildered to find that he could not shake his mercury below 102. He understood when he found what maximum had been reached outside.
Here is the Earlington record of a continued “hot time” for more than a month:
June 15 87
16 94
17 89
18 88
19 91
20 92
21 97
22 100
23 98
24 99
25 98
26 95
27 95
28 98
29 98
30 95
July 1 92
2 98
3 95
4 95
5 92
6 93
7 90
8 84
9 88
10 97
11 103
12 96
13 93
14 94
15 100
16 99
17 94
18 92
19 97
20 98
21 101
22 106
23 106
24 103