Halloween in Haigler

Well, I didn't get any email from any of you today, so decided to sit down and write a couple of memories I have about Halloween in Haigler.

We lived on a farm about 7 miles from town and very seldom came to town to Trick-or-Treat but would often be in town the next day or so and observe some of the pranks the kids had done on Halloween night.

Some of you might remember the Seventh-day Adventist Church when we were having services there. It is now the Golden Inn. We didn't have indoor plumbing, so had an "outhouse" long after no one else in town did. Of course, one of the "FUN" things for pranksters to do is tip the toilet over and they did it EVERY year!! One year, it wasn't tipped over, but set back about a foot so there was an odoriforous ambiance for a block in every direction. Of course, the idea was for someone to step off into the hole, but luckily, that didn't happen.

Another thing that would occur, was large tree trunks blocking the streets. I don't know how they got them pulled up from the river (I aways suspected that was where they came from) I'm sure they just tied a rope on them and pulled them with their "hot cars".

Then there was always the soaped windows on all the cars parked along the street. and the eggs thrown against cars and houses and stores and the sacks of dog doo on the top step of peoples porches.

Then there was the watermelon "stealing" trips into the country. My Grandpa Crabtree always had the best watermelons for miles around and the kids from town would sneak into his watermelon patch and "steal" them. The funniest part of it was that my grandpa would sit up at his house and watch them and just laugh and tell us that he had planted extras just for those guys.

What are some of your Halloween memories?