Larchwood Leader
Larchwood, Lyon County, Iowa
November 5, 1902
The McGilvra home last Saturday evening was the scene of a very
pleasant social event, it being a Halloween party given by
Messers Ole Syverson, L.M. Lewis, John Cauley and Roy
McGilvra. About thirty-five guests were present and the
evening was spent in a manner usual for the occasion, most of the
old Halloween tricks were tried and some new ways of reading the
future were indulged in. Dr. Lewis as ghost and a corpse
was a decided success, several musical selections were rendered
by Misses Swann, Hogan, Peile and Mr. Seward which were much
enjoyed. A fine lunch of ice cream cake nuts and fruit were
served with the hosts as waiters. The party was a decided
success and a demonstration that the young men know how to
entertain as well as the ladies and that the ladies much lood to
their laurels. The party broke up just in time not to break
the Sabbath. The out of town guests were the Misses Peile of Rock
Rapids and Miss Close of Inwood.
Halloween night was celebrated by more than one, as evidence by
results seen on our streets Sunday morning. All loose
machinery, wagons, buggies, etc. were hauled on main street and
left there. Nearly all the small out buildings were tipped
over. OF course, this was fun for the boys, but if they had
to put everything back it would not be so funny. We don't
believe in making mountains out of mole hills but the tipping
over buildings was wrong and could have been prevented by extra
police force.