Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-08
An Oklahoma Snow Storm.

An Oklahoma Snow Storm
Dear Advertiser:
GAIL day the gusty north-wind bore,
The loosening drift it's breath before;
Low circling round its Southern
zone, ;5is
The sun through dazzling snow"
1t is the most soothing feeling to
wake in the morning and find the
ground white, and growing hourly
winter and whiter. 1t gives me a
sense of completion, as though had
recovered something that l had miss miss
ed unconsciously, and yet very much;
wanted.
During whirling snow storm one
looks out of, the. window and&js
somehow surprised that there issslip
sound, only quietness, and on walk
ing out in the midst of it, thunder
clap seems absolutely necessary.
Some sound from the elements would
seem appropriate to accompany this
continual downpour, but one listens
in vain. The perfect snow crystals
fall one upon another like so many
coral pclyps and like the coral, tsey
rise in huge banks, making not
islands, but mountains.
However, the snow is not an un-
mixed blessing, for it brings with t
the Oklahoma winds than which
there are no worse. They are g dis
cordant accompaniment to this per
feet scene. The campus of the school
is wind swept plan. The wind
plays the pranks of a small boy: 1t
heaps the snow so high upon the
sidewalks, that one proceeds with
graceless, uneven tread, stepping so
deep that it takes a little mental
blowing and a little physical effort
to ensure steady locomotion.
If a person with large feet has l;
made an uneven path, his tracks are are.
used as passage. Most people
have taken to the middle the
road, and there pass down the centre
of the highway. ssS
School boys and Fords horssbackz \ ' 1,
riders and vehicles OF
epsd destriafis sras. SO
zigzag route all of them bundled as
though for a private encounter with
the north wind.
No matter how firmly window
may be shut, or how well built is the
structure, the snow sifts in and
settles as though escaping the very
cold outside, of which it is part.
Across the campus and nearly to
the steps of Wilkin Hall this morning
came huge snow plow, drawn by a
horse and directed by several men.
It left behind it smooth hard, snow
paved road.
/ have wondered at how many
miles an hour the wind swept yester-
day and the day before, but am i'm
pressed with that somewhat as | am
with the temperature or number of
degrees below zero. If I am frozen
as far as feeling is concerned, a
thousand means about the same as
twenty-five.
The feeling of extreme cold takes
away ones power or desire to reason.
And as the wind might be blowing at
hundred and fifty miles an hour
more or less, but one can scarcely
walk, scarcely see or breathe or
speak and that is the end. Beyond
that l do not care.
I should think that the town people
in this prairie country would either
build chinease wall around their
village or transplant some trees to
protect themselves.
For my own part, consider it
only a part of the great adventure
of living. At least, it is vastly pre-
ferable to the enervating heat of
September, during which month /
used the energy 1 had stored up from
just such as this last year.
FLORENCE MINIS.
Tokawa, Oklahoma
March l, 1922.
Church Notice
Services in Methodist Church Sunday
Rev. G. W. M. Taylor, pastor, of