Halloween

Halloween has never been one of my favorite holidays, When I was young we had sacks of corn kernels we got from my grandmother;s farm and threw at neighbor's windows to frighten them and had parties at school but did have refreshments. I started dating my husband after a Halloween party at our church. I think our five children enjoyed them and the school parties had improved but I still think of it as a mean Holliday where you just try to scare people, I do not care much for TV around this time and on Halloween night I like to turn off my lights in the front of the house and retire and read in the back part. My husband Ray had me enter a contest at the Municipal Auditorum and I won twenty five cents in prize money. I gave the name of one of my girl friends when they asked me my name and she made me give her 13cents of my prize money (a Quarter). Ray won first prize and had a dollar. His mother use to follow him around hiding behind trees when he went out as a child and he got arrested one time.He lived on the South end of Topeka they lived and where there were outhouses which the older boys pushed over and he lived at the end of the trolley line and the older boys knocked off the wire of the trolley and he was the one caught and taken to the Topeka Police station. Since his mother was hiding behind a tree and saw what happened she was able to go bail him out. They did not have a car and I always wondered how they got to the police station.