The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-01
HALLOWE'ENERS
al IHE NORMAL
GREAT TIME ENJoYED BY STU
DENTS AND SOME EXCITE
MENT ABoUNDED.

From all reports " mE6hl bS 1pA6Su
that mere was either avery tame time
tp about the Normal saturday night or
hat other extreme BORDERING on helm
GUS crime. Nevertheless it seems that
there was something doing" When
three hundred students conjure their
brains and ingenufties in preparation
for n good time there's going to be
some kind of a time. Early in tae
eyeninE the masqueraders began to ar
rive ut the gymnasium which had been
fixed up a la street carnival for the
occasion. Upon entering each arrival
taken in hand by an Initiation
committee and given several degrees
including the rafting Of dry bones in
the clock tower, and ouch convention
aNties. When everybody had so A.
rived there was music md a general
iamboree. one could consult several
fortune tellers in their weird AMI mys-
tic tents or take a long stroll into the
distant orners of the gym with some
body eise's girl and never be n tie
wiser. There was a grand march"
some informal Virginia reels and one
thing and another, which served to
show that for originality and practical
sense of humor nobody has anything
on" the students. Everybody was
there from the dancing pickantnny to
the president OF a modern normal
school. There was more than a few
surprises when the time came to un-
cover.
Everybody seemed to come through
in pretty good shape except one visit,
ing masquerader who was sent upon
by a bunch of husEtes and rather
roughly introduced into a tub of wet
water which was supposed to have
been an innocent apple pond. There
wasn't much water nor costume which
was not displaced. The boys seem
to have got in wrong as the other visit
tors in masquerade feel sighted that
they were passed by when favors were
going around; then some of the girls
think that's no way to treat a guest,
anyhow. Perhaps some of the super,
'fluous spirit from the campus made
its way inside, for there was some
thing on outside. Avery small army
of Fairmont school boys had laid siege
to the old Normal and the defending
forces headed by a member OF tine fac
Iulty were given an interesting half
hour. According to International law
apples should have been the only
ammunition. when brick bats came
into evidence it became necessary to
capture the leaders Of the attacking
and escort them In the direction
of peace. There were no casualties
except a cracked window pane from a
stray shot.
In the meantime an auxiliary force
made a flank attack on the %unprotect'
ed woman's hall and captured a chair
from the reception parlors (tlis will
be a serious loss to the girls unless
|r~epIaced.)
AS a result of the excitement, there
was some talk of arrests to be made,
etc. AS it is easy to go a little toa
far On the last night in October an
other kind of law will doubtless he in
evidence.
The imps of Halloween surely
out in force on the South Side. Even
the trolley current could not refrain
from celebrating and for a short time
Fairmont avenue was the scene OF a
pyrotechnfcal display owing to a brok-
en- line. Two policemen and several
citizens Were kept busy for some time
keeping pedestrians and traffic out of
danger.
FaIrmont does not let many real
holidays PISS uncelebrated.