[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Star
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 90, no. 265, p. 4, col. 2
Seen and Heard in
Our Neighborhood
By Dick Greene
EXTREMES OF cold or boat often bring up the question about the lowest or the highest temperatures ever recorded hereabouts.
January of 1918 and 1936 have the honor for the coldest. I was uncertain of the date or dates for 1918 and so said in Our Neighborhood. Since then two folks have come forward with the report that the bitterest weather was on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 11 and 12, 1918. Readings as low as 25 below zero were reported. Ethan Boldrey and Lee Parker called to supply the dates.
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FROM YORKTOWN L. D. Williamson writes that during the severe weather of 1918 he was employed at Hemingray Glass Co., now Kimble Division of Owens Illinois.
"I lived on East Memorial two blocks from the Hemingray plant and I walked to work and frosted my face" he writes, "At that time Hemingray manufactured glass insulators for telephone companies. The glass in the tanks was so cold that we could not get it out. The plant was shut down until Monday."
ON JAN. 23, 1936, the official reading in Muncie was 20 below zero.
The year 1936 also was an extremely hot one and temperatures of 100 degrees and upwards were recorded officially several times.The top was 109 degrees on July 11 and 14. Shucks! That's hot.