Chief Askew's Diary: July 12-13, 1930

Praise the Lord! It starts to rain! In midst of heat wave, Bobby Jones triumphs again

Georgia was baking in a heat wave this weekend, with Atlanta setting an all-time record of 103 degrees on Saturday. It was so hot that some pastors in Macon, Georgia gave their male members permission to attend services in their shirtsleeves! But Newnan police Chief Askew was thrilled that Newnan got its first good rain in weeks. “Everything cooled off considerably after the rain,” he wrote in his diary on Sunday. “Very pleasant night for sleeping Sunday night, the only one we have had for 2 or 3 weeks.”

Atlantans were not too overwhelmed by the heat to celebrate their native son and golf hero Bobby Jones’s fourth straight win of the U.S. Open. Former president Calvin Coolidge wrote in support of the new tariffs, and disasters large and small blared from the front pages of the daily newspapers. Paid subscribers can read on and find echoes of today’s news in the past. Or vice versa.

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