It's summer, 1931! July 2nd, to be exact.
A&P stores advertise "Iced Coffee Week" on the front age of The Rockbridge County News.
The hottest day of the summer in Rockbridge County so far that year was July 1, at 94 degrees. The front page headline "Heat and Drought Continue" has this to say about local weather that summer: "Temperatures, according to the official weather bureau figures, have not been extraordinarily high, but the heat has been accompanied by an oppressive humidity which has made it more unpleasant." But in the middle west and central valley states, that summer had constant temps in the 100s. News in a Nutshell cited "The mercury on Pittsburgh streets yesterday rose to 115 [...] It is estimated that 600 horses have dropped dead from the heat in Indiana."
Among the many blurbs about the heat that year, were stories about the price of wheat in Kansas, how Virginia will handle wages, and international news about president Hoover's Moratorium of reparations.
This issue also had two interesting inclusions: one being an author's musings on the mountains and birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the other a story about the death of the last cannibal queen of the stone age.
Finally, there was a pleasant poem titled, "Happiness"
