Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-06

and scare people, and many other
things, and sometimes mean things.
Your friend,
Ruah Kramer, age II. :
R. R. No, Q, Batavia, Iowa
N. B.-l will give the names of the
new Juniors that l got to join the
Junior Family: Ollie Pickerell, Lois
May and Mildred May Of Batavia.
One day John was playing and he
said, Halloween
At night he went and scared peo-
pie and he saved some fire crackers
from Fourth of July. He took one and
he lit It, 1t doomed so loud that 1t
scared the people so that it made
them cry. Help"
Alden Doud, age 8.
Douds-Leando, Iowa.
| like Halloween, for we can have
lots of fun with pumpkins, making
lanterns. We scare people with them,
and do a little mischief. 1t is lots Of
fun to make the lanterns. The way
we make the lanterns, we take pump
kin and hollow 1t out, then cut eyes,
nose and mouth in it. Then we light
candle and put it in. The big boys
do the most mischief of all They take
peoples wagons and take them away
off and hide them and take gates and
hang them in trees.
Your friend,
Clarence Mccoy.
r. r. No. 8, Ottumwa.
Bertha Porter told me to write.
Well thought I would write anoth
er story to the Courier Junior, as my
last one was good one. My subject
will be Halloween.
One Halloween night crowd Of us
girls got together and thought we would
have some fun We got some pump
kins and made jack-o'-lanterns. Then
we hid behind some bushes. One of
NV friends stood up and held her jack
o'-lantern so she would look like a
man. Two of US hid in bush right
in front of her. A man came along on
horse and we scared him. The horse
ran very fast, so we went on to scare
somebody else. One Of my friends can
dies went out and we had to stop to
light it. Then we went to a house,
knocked at the door, ran out to the
gate and held our lanterns UP to scare
anybody who came to the door We
went to another house. left one of our
friends in the yard with our lanterns,
while we went to the barn, pulled the
buggy out, took it away up the road
and ran it into a ditch. We went TO
one of my friends houses, got some
corn and made some tick-tacks The
first house we came to we put one on
the window, threw some corn and then
ran. The man chased us about quar-
ter of a mile but did not catch US.
When we were on our way home we
met some boys. They said 1T was only
about nine o'clock and to go with Them
for they were going to have some fun.
So we went home, got some sheets,
dressed like ghosts and went with the
boys. We went and looked in at the
windows and scared the people. The
boys upset a swagon; got buggy, took
it about mile from the house and ran
it into ditch. We then got an old
dead pig and threw it down somebody's
WELL BY that time we were getting
hungry. We went to our friends house,
got something to eat and played some
games Then we stared out to have
some more fun. We hadn't gone very
far until we met another crowd of
girls. They said they had a whole lot
Of corn and to go with them, and we
would throw it at the windows. This
did not take us very long, and by that
time it was 10 o'clock Some thought
we would go home and sleep. AS VIC
were on our way home we met crowd
Of boys, but we did not go with them.
We went home and silent very soundly.
Lois Gibson. age 10,
Rutledge, Iowa.