Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-01 | Page 4 | The First Snow

THE FIRST SNOW People who went home after the theatre Friday Priday night remember the big moon and the fair skies with their galaxy of stars The air aJr was One line and the night breeze Just added to the perfume that drifted down from the mountains And they woke in the gray of the dawn with a shiver at Inadequate covering coveting and the startle s of ot windows rattling and doors slamming And they rose roseto roseto to look out at a slanting hurrying blanket of ot snow It was the first of the season It comes at the close of the finest summer and fall that people from other states ever have known and the most delightful that even Utah has seen Been in inmany Inmany inmany many years jears The season has been peculiar very very ver dry until nearly the middle of July and then an abnormal fall of rain through the remainder of ot that month and the beginning of September Then there was fair weather again not even eyen seriously disturbed by the usual con conference conference conference ference rain in October Excepting the spatter of ot showers when the President was here at Liberty park every avery public assembly has been favored with fair fairweather fairweather fairweather weather The days have been so beautiful the nights have been so balmy and serene the whole earth has seemed so kindly and so good that the year will wUl be graciously remembered And the first snow simply accentuates the glory of ot the blessings we have enjoyed