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Mail Tribune 100, Sept. 26, 1922 By Alissa Corman Sep 26, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Sept. 26, 1922 RAIN BREAKS THE LONG DROUGHT OF OVER SIX MONTHS Hail, hail, the gang was all here, when the rain began to fall this morning, ending the unusually long summer drought. And how that gang did act! The wetness was so unusual and unexpected hardly anyone knew the proper thing to do, including the local weather chronicler who was so completely flabbergasted that he hung out the fair weather sign. As a general rule the people welcomed the long absent downpour, except the fruit and vegetable growers who had picking and harvesting to do. Housewives, when the rain first started up gently this morning made a rush for the clothes lines to bring in the garments still hanging out, or hurried out to pick their ripe tomatoes. There was a grand scurrying around at many a home to get things into the dry. The school children began to hunt up their overshoes and umbrellas, as did the heads of the families. This morning’s rain brought out a lot of overcoats and umbrellas and caused motorists to find a number of heretofore undiscovered holes in the tops of their cars. There were many falls of horses on the rain soaked pavements, as well as by pedestrians — who went sloshing along over the slippery and cigarette stub floating sidewalks until what always goes after pride happened. Local bootleggers were in a quandary, as they feared so much leaking by nature would have a tendency to do away with parched throats and thus hurt business. Altogether, everyone felt a little foolish. It seemed so absurd to boil all water before drinking it and yet take all these thousands of welcomed gallons of water as they came from the sky. Local sportsmen are rejoicing in the fact that both fishing and hunting will be improved. The old hunters state that the rain will drive the deer from the brush and that they will not re-enter the brush until it becomes dry again, as they have thin coat at this time of year. But independent of what thoughts today’s rain caused in us, here are a few statistics of interest. It was the first real fall of rain since June 10th last, when twenty-hundredths of an inch fell. No rain fell at all in July, and during the month of August, there was only a trace of rain, and that on the 21st. The weather bureau predicts rain for tonight and tomorrow. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]