The daily sentinel., 1913-11-06
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(By ADELINE ii. SPERRI.)
Halloween at the School House.

Jolly pumpkin heads, sending
forth radiance from eyes, nose and
mouth, lighted the way upstairs at
the schoolhouse last Thursday night.
Upstairs little hob-goblins, tiny
ghosts. tall and stately ghosts and
wickedlooking witches fitted here
and there in the grewsome light sent
forth from jack o. lanterns, black
cat and witch lamp shades. An old
fortune teller in her tent brewed her
potions and read palms. A pro-
gram replete with fairy tales and
gobble-un stories interspersed with
pretty songs sung by childish voices
sweet as a chorus of meadow larks
proved n source of real enjoyment.
Then followed refreshments, typical
of Halloween. doughnuts and ap
pies, served by pretty girls who had
DOTTED their ghostly attire. Mr.. Cal
loway made a pleasant and charac-
teristic speech and wound up by ask
ling everyone present to come for
ward, and meet the faculty. At this
there, was q; rbflF for emore light"
and when the lights were turned on
and thes Young school teachers stood
forth we were all more than grateful
to the friendly and curious spirit who
demanded the illumination. The af-
( fair was entirely the inspiration and
the work of Mr.. Galloway and Miss
Ethel Elliott and was gotten up for
the purpose of bringing the parents
and the school teachers together in
a social way Mr.. Galloway and Miss
Elliott are to be congratulated on
the success of the affair and It is to
be hoped that this is only the be-
ginning of many more of a like ma
ture.
A crowd of jolly young people en-
joyed a weiner roast at the river Fri
day night. Roy Cool and Claude Nc
Collum were hosts of the affair.
Mrs. Merrill Brooks Wolfe re-
turned from her eastern trip Satur-
/ day noon.
The practical joker who cut and
slashed the tires of an automobile
which stood in front of the school
house last Thursday night has the
perverted sense of humor which
rightfully belongs to cattle of that
| ilk. Such an inordinate sense of
humor, such keenness OF wit is to be
found only in the makeup of yokels
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youth sitting on soap boxes, whit
ting and employing the fragment of
grey matter which was accidently
left in their composition by con-
cocting just such escapades. 1t GER
tainly must be side splitting thing
to willfully destroy valuable proper
ty. One can fancy the perpetrator of
such joke fairly doubled up with
unholy mirth over his own irresist-
ible funniness. Such wanton wit re-
minds me of an incident of my own
childhood. / had a little playmate
who had very little sunshine in her
life in the way of presents and things
of that sort which 20 such long way
toward making childhood happy and
the approach of Christmas was not
| looked forward to by her with the
usual joyousness of little folks, for
too often had Santa Claus passed her
by and left her stocking empty. How
ever. with the undying hope of child
hood she had again hung up her
stocking, only one. on this Christ
mas eve l so well remember. and on
Christmas morning early she was
awakened by her Uncle Sid" her
stepmother's brother. Get up little
girl" said Uncle Sid. Santa Claus
brought you something this time for
/ felt it in your stocking!" Climb