The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
HOT, WET AUGUST,
SNIDER'S FORECAST
THUNDER STORMS AND HEAVY
RAINS PREDICTED. WINTER
TO BE HUMDINGER.

There are all kinds of prophets
in this old and skeptical world
seers who specialize in crops, cy-
clones, earthquakes, wars, panics,
rise and fall of governments, and
what not, but few there are, perhaps,
who can look back upon a career
equal in it's duration or to wonders
accomplished as can Prof. Albert Lee
Snider, the famous weather prognos-
ticator of Griffin, Ga.
Is Always With Us.
Many of the worlds prophets, So
called, are "here today and gone to-
morrow" but Professor Snider seems
to go on forever. And we'll for all us
mortals it's so, for when it comes to
cracking the weather nail squarely
on it's head the professor is always
right there with his prophetic ham
mer.
Few are the seasons in which he
has failed to "deliver the goods"
Weather Forecast for August.
August will be hot, wet month,
the professor tells us, but the mois-
ture will not be of the kind that will
bring cheer or hope to the anti-drys.
Congress has seen to that. There will
be many showers and thunder storms
that will end with heavy rams in
many sections of the country. How
ever, there will be some fair periods,
although the general outlook gives
evidence of much rainfall. On the
whole, the summer of 1919 will be
recorded as a very cool one, accord
ing to the professor.
The coming fall will be fairly
late one; first frost Nov. 1, with
freezing weather Nov. 7 or 8. On
Thanksgiving Day-Nov. 27, prob
ably-it will rain. These conditions,
he opines, will hold off the "overcoat
weather" until late in October, and
that sounds cheerful.
Br-r-r-r! Cold Winter Coming.
Now, the professor having dwelt
briefly on the probabilities of the re-
naming half of the summer and fol-
lowing fall, he has seen tit to give
us the benefit of his predictions as to
what we may expect the coming win
ter:
"Now I predict the next Christmas
will be a white one. | also predict
that there will be considerable snow
in Georgia, followed in north and
south by sweeping cold waves.
Later l will furnish some special
predictions concerning the next WIN
ter that will lay the weather bureau
in the shade-sure to be Simon Pure,
no-miss representations that | al
ready have in my sleeve. Watch for
them. If they bear the name of Snl-
der they are genuine; all others are
limitations and fakes"
In a recent humorous speech in
congress Representative William
Schley Howard declared that Profess
sor Snider could take a goosebone
and a slippery elm stick and come
nearer than the regular weather bu-
reau with all it's expensive equip
ment."
A Native of Georgia.
Prof. Albert Lee Snider was born
in Molena, Ca, in 1871; went with
his parents to Griffin in 1872. His
mother was a weather prophet be-
fore him and started him in this line
of work when he was II years old.
At first he made some errors in his
predictions, he acknowledges, but
with his long experience and years
of study Professor Snider is said to
have won recognition as being the
"bees short and long-range weather
forccaster in the country" His pre-
dictions are not guess work, he in
forms us, but are based on the moon
and other planets after thirty-five
wears Of observations, during which
period he claims to have discovered
astronomical secrets that are proba-
bly unknown to any other living man.
It is to this secret knowledge of the
planets and their signs that he owes
his remarkable success as weather
pro,,ket. which success has made him
fa-,ous, especially throughout the
South Atlantic and Gulf states, where
The lens are said to go to roost and
roo~ters proclaim new day accord
iag to the professors monthly time
schedules.