The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-08-31
PREDICTED SNOW
IN MIDSUMMER
In the Middle of June, Too, But Ma
ture Saved AImanac's Reputation.
New York Press.

The elderly man who looked like hay
seeGer entered drug store in the upper
skyScraper section and asked for copy
of James almanac. No fashionable city
pharmacy keeps anybody's almanac now,
and the pharmacy in question is fashion
able in all of its appointments. The clerk,
a recent graduate, said he had heard, In
a vague sort of way, about Jaynes
almanac, but had never seen a copy
of it.
IT'S the only almanac that ever made
the right guess on the weather" said the
hayseeder emphatically.
The clerk said something about weather
of the present day being furnished by
the government.
II wouldn't give a Jaynes' almanac for
all the governments new tangled notions
about weather between here and Kingdom
Come" announced the up-country stran-
ger.
The clerk said something about weather
why Jaynes' predictions were superior to
any other
Then you wasn't around about thirty
years ago." asked the patriarch.
II wasn't born then"
well, I'll tell you about it. The al
mana1ss of them days had the weather
historical dates, and the moons phases
and the zodiac signs opposite the day of
the week and the month. Opposite the
14th of June in the year l am talking
about this prediction was printed, Snow
When the almanac came out all the up
state farmers that had been taking
Jaynes' almanacs laughed at the pre-
diction and some of EN- wrote Doc
Jaynes telling him he had better let the
weather alone. Howsomever. Doc Jaynes
never answered the letters. The rare day
of the month set in as usual and we
went around in our shirt sleeves. On the
night of June 13 we noticed up our way
near Brockport. that the atmosphere got
chilly and we had fires. Next morning
there was snow on the ground, and we
soon heard that there was snow in sew
eral surrounding counties. Doc Jaynes
had hit the nail on the head and druv
it clean through. He was the only alma
nae maker that ever predicted snow In
June and then made it come. That's
why I'm for Jaynes.
walked out The clerk told the story TO
the boss. The boss told it to his anti
quarian friend who keeps the old book
store way down town.
We'll, he was right" said the anti
quarian 1T came about this way: The
man who furnished the copy for Jaynes
wasn't much of a writer and not a very
good speller. On one of his pages he
wrote January IA, and opposite it he
wrote SNOW 1t went to the printer. He
was tramp printer and not over correct
He set it up June IA. snow and the
proofreader. # there was any such thing
member it we'll 1t caused a good deal
of talk among the farmers, who were
always looking for weather then in the
almanacs-
"Dr. Jaynes was a friend of my father
and l heard him tell it and how he had
received number of letters about It,
But he told my father he concluded not
to answer any until after the date men
toned Then he heard that there was
snow on that date and he knew he had
made a lucky strike. After that his or
ders for patent medicine came faster than
he could make it,
The boss of the uptown pharmacy made
a remark about opportunity breaking into
some houses with a Jimmy, and went
away.