The Hopson District School in Salisbury gave an exhibit with their teacher Miss Mang presiding - students read poems, including Barbara Winkleman with "How The Leaves Come Down" and a __ on display weighing 48 pounds!
The rural schools of the town of Herkimer held an October exhibit at the East Herkimer schoolhouse. Ernest Nielsen won the prize for the __ pumpkin and best pumpkin pie, Edna Crill for the best candy.
Like a scene out of a Halloween movie - William Woster __ from the Utica State Hospital and made his way to the Starkweather family home near Jordanville where he threatened to shoot someone. Sheriff Cress was notified and a hospital attendant came and took him back.
The Pollyanna class of the Baptist church in Herkimer gave a Halloween frolic where you could fish in a pond, have your fortune told, and visit a Mystery Room that would make you shiver in your __.
Parties for __ were highlights of the paper. Miss Margaret Miller of Maple Grove Ave. in Herkimer was given a Halloween masquerade party by her 12 young friends. Prizes were won by Helen Endres, Elizabeth Shippingrover, Thelma Judson and David Miller. Margaret (1905-1988) later married Maurice Luther and they had 2 children, Mary and Edward.
Halloween __ can be traced back to 1920 when Pennsylvania-based company Beistle Company introduced a hair-raising line of party goods that helped popularize the tradition.
There is only a full __ on Halloween three or four times per century. This year will be the first in 19 years to have one. The last time was in 2001, and before that it was 1955.
The "Evening Times" wrote of Halloween - "a festival to be feared by every honest householder who owns a gate or a movable piece of property... mahogany front doors are the targets for cabbage stumps and __."
The fine weather ended Halloween weekend in Herkimer - the hills were white with __. In fact, Poland had seen their first storm of the season a week before! Yes, it's on its way, folks!
The top Halloween candy today, before M&Ms, Snickers and Reese's.
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The "Telegram-Record" claimed __ damaged playground equipment on Halloween night - of the male and female variety. They tore down the back stop on the ballfield on the Steuben St. playground. Hint: Did they use their broom?
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McRorie of Jacksonburg held a Halloween Social at their farm home for their daughter Adeline with 25 of her young friends. The leader of the Little Falls Military __, George Bennett (1878-1951), even favored them with a cornet solo with his daughter Florence accompanying him.
At the Halloween party at the Fairfield schoolhouse, the children wore __ during the exercises which caused much excitement, as they were not known until they removed them.
This state produces up to five times more pumpkins than any other state - 500 million pounds annually!
In the 1920s, pranks had become the Halloween activity of choice which may have led to the widespread adoption of an organized, community-based trick-or-__ tradition in the 1930s.
Halloween is the country’s second largest commercial holiday after __.
Ruth A. Enos of Middleville gave a Halloween party on October 25. It was also the anniversary of her __ - a great time of year to celebrate! Two years later Ruth married Raymond Neely and they had a son Ward.
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