The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-10-31
HALLOWEEN As
IT USED TO BE
Old-time Franks Recalled to
Mind By Passing of Freak
Day.
HOW COLLEGE BOYS BEHAVED.
Man.-Handled Marshal and
Wouldn't Let the Firemen
Use Hvdrants.
HOW COLLEGE BOYS BEHAVED.

TACK! AIN IL ORD! I'm gettln,
fixed up for Halloween best you
ever saw"
This was what boy was over
heard to tell friend of his own
age several days ago. The first
speaker recently came to Redwood
Falls from the city and the boy he
addressed replied:
why. kid. you don't know what
it is to have good time. Here we
used to have a big Hallowe'en-a
regular time. Say, we would steal
all the gates. ring every doorbell
along the streets, take wagons and
carts out in the middle Of the street
and believe me, we had some fun.
Small Town Kids Get Most Fun.
Il guess it is true that the kids in
small town get the most fun out
of Halloween" said a Chicago
salesman at the Kahler House last
week, who was born in small town
and lived there for a number of
years. 'Hallowe'e doesn't seem
to have the meaning in the:city that it
does in smaller places. | will not
deny that the Chicago idea is the
better.
THE most conservative manner
of having fun was the usual one of
dressing up in masquerade cos
tunes, throwing corn at windows,
ringing doorbells and running tick
tacks on windows. These tick-tacks
were made by notching the edges of
spool and running them across
window with piece Of string. They
made an awful racket.
Would Steal WAGONS.
Then some of the older crowd
would steal wagons and carts and
everything else loose and pile them
up in the street. tip over an old
building. perhaps, get cannon and
shoot it most of the night and other
wise make the evening hideous with
their noise. OF course, they all ran
in different crowds.
The fellows that were going
with girls that is, the high school
crowd and boys of that age, usually
had the girls come out for the even
ing and would have a deer hunt
The girls would leave their homes,
congregate at the home Of one of
the bunch and hide. The boys
knew only vaguely where the girls
were to be and often passed most of
the evening hunting them.
Then Game the Dance.
When they were found dance
or party usually filled the rest of
the night. And lastly came the
crowd of old bachelors and fellows
that really ought to have known
better. They would build obstruc-
tons on the little public square that
would take hours to tear apart. One
crowd would get at the end of the
street about midnight and shoot.
The old town marshal, who was so
fat he could scarcely walk, would
waddle down to stop the noise,
when another crowd at the other
end of the street would start shoot
ing.
Town Marshal Got Busy.
II think the greatest thing that |
ever witnessed. though. on Hallow-
cen was at a little college town.
We had town marshal who was
serving his first term and he decided
that Halloween was going to be a
quiet one in the town. He appoint
ed a number of deputies and early
in the evening they came up to the
campus to watch things start. They
were not to wait long. as bunch
of fellows had hidden in room
during the day and shortly after
dark came marching out on the fire
escape with all of the college band
instruments. They paraded to the
presidents home and gave sere-
made.
They Did a Few Things.
ION the return to the college
about 10 o'clock the boys carried
away all of the signs and bicycle
racks along the street. A hand
cart left standing in front of a
laundry was found pulled up to the
top Of the fiagpole the next morn
ing. The football team had played
one of tha large colleges and was