The Mail-Journal, Volume 22, Number 44, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 October 1985 — Page 16

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DECORATED CAKES JUDGED — Winners of the decorated cake contest at Campbell’s IGA in Milford last Saturday were Tammy Cook, first place, not pictured; Jane Bess, second place, right, and Carolyn Bohnstedt, third place, left. The ghost in the pumpkin was judged number one, the chocolate bear was second and the doll in formal was third. Campbell’s awarded gift certificates of $25, sls and $lO as prizes. (Photo by Glen Long)

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DONNA POLLEN has agreed to serve as director of the old fashioned band. Said band is being formed to provide special music for the coming Milford Sesquicentennial Anyone interested in playing in the band should contact her at 658-9595 evenings or should contact her husband, Randy, at 594-5787 during the day. Even persons who play instruments and are willing to play in the band but do not have an instrument are urged to call. She will have some instruments available. WE MISSED it but hope to be able to get out to Jim Sumpter’s home before his Halloween decoration is taken down. As we understand it, the decoration is drawing all sorts of attention with people coming from miles around to view it. Bob Cline says it’s really something to see.

The Kaiser family held a birthday party last week in honor of Kirk Kaiser’s fifth birthday. He is the son of the Greg Kaisers and the grandson of the Richard Kaisers. During the evening the Kaiser families and the Wes Bells enjoyed a hayride and viewed the Sumpter’s lighted Halloween display. THERE IS a rumor around town to the fact that Carl Shearer has resigned his position as minister of the Christian Church and is leaving the area the first of the year. However, no official announcement has been made on this to date. MR. AND Mrs. Robert Hoerr of r 2 were in Peoria, 111., over the weekend to attend the 90th birthday reception of Robert’s father, John C. Hoerr. They were accompanied by their grandson, Scott Pelath of Michigan City. Hoerr is a former Milford resident.

OBSERVATION: GOSHEN College has provided us with the following information, written by Lois Landis Kurowski. It is very fitting for the season which is upon us Charlie Brown of “Peanuts” fame may be helping to change the way English children celebrate Halloween, a Goshen College professor believes. Spurred by “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and other American influences, English children are beginning to go trick-or-treating at Halloween time, said Ervin Beck, a Goshen College professor of English. That’s what he found while researching folklore at the University of Sheffield, England, in 1981. “Mischief Night,” Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5) and All Saints* Day (Nov. 1) are traditional English fall holidays, Beck said. The date of Mischief Night depends on the area, with some towns in the north of England observing it on Oct. 31, and other places on Nov. 1 or Nov. 4. Halloween _ called “All Hallows’ Eve” _ has not been a widely observed English holiday. Mischief Night and “caking,” the traditional children’s activity for All Saints’ Day, probably are the ancestors of the North America Halloween observance, Beck said. On the evening of Nov. 1, a few English children still go to neighbors’ homes and sing the “caking song* _ "Cake, cake, copper, copper.’’ In the old days, homeowners dispensed pennies to visitors _ both adults and children who promised to pray for the souls of the dead on All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2. Praying for

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souls is no longer mentioned, but pennies are still given out. Mischief Night is a night of pranks, such as stealing garden gates or knocking on doors and then running away. During the week preceding Guy Fawkes Day, children make an effigy (a “guy”) of Guy Fawkes, the conspirator executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament. They take the “guy” through their neighborhoods, ringing doorbells and asking for “a penny for the guy.” Some light their way with lanterns made from turnips. They use the money they gather to buy fireworks for the Nov. 5 observance. The holiday is celebrated by building bonfires of trash and wood and burning the “guys” on top of the bonfires The three celebrations may be merging into one long week of fun, however, because of outside influences and the regrouping of English traditions. Beck noted that the observance of Halloween seems to have become more popular since the first English broadcast of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” in 1976. He drew his conclusions from a survey he distributed to schools in Sheffield in 1981. Filled out by the children themselves, the survey questioned them about their observance of Halloween, caking, Mischief Night and Guy Fawkes Day. “Some of the English parents are quite horrified by ‘trick-or-treat,’ by children ringing people’s doorbells and demanding a treat,” Beck said. Part of their horror stems from their belief that ‘trick-or-treat’ is really just begging and part from the tradi-

tional cultural rivalry between Great Britain and the United States, he things. Such changes in traditional practices are neither good nor bad, folklorists believe. “All folklore has a function, even if the people practicing it aren’t aware of it,” Beck said. Folklorists examine children’s practices such as Halloween to see “the way it prepares them to be adults.” Both English and American fall holidays give children the chance to learn how to deal with the world by themselves. Whether a child is trick-or-treating or asking for “a penny for the guy,” the child is dealing with adults as “near-peers,” which helps children develop “personal poise and valuable skills of confrontation, persuasion and moneyhandling,” Beck said. The apparent decline of trick-or-treating in the United States and the rise of organized parties does not mean that Hallovveen id dying out, Beck said. “Usually, folklore practices that ‘die out’ surface in another form.” % Now surfacing in the United States are Halloween practices more controlled than trick-or-treating, he said. “There are more ‘haunted houses’ now, and people are putting Halloween displays in their yards.” An outstanding example is “Pumpkin Patch Fantasyland,” a farm near Ligonier, where children can go to see decorated pumpkins, Beck said. “Charlie Pumpkin,” the farm’s owner, greets visitors. Beck’s work at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language was supported by the Lilly Endowment. He is now studying Mennonite stories and folk art. _ JRS Still time to turn in family history There is still time and space for family histories to be included in the Kosciusko County Historical Society’s new history book. It costs nothing to submit a story. Everyone’s history is needed to make the project complete and successful. Stories are to be 500 words or less and accompanied by a photo, if possible. For more information and tips on writing, contact: Kenneth Haney (Jefferson Township); Charlotte Siegfried (Van Buren Township), 658-9243; Luella Longenbaugh (Turkey Creek Township); or Laurie Smith (Tippecanoe Township), 834-4356. UAW retirees meet Retirees of UAW Local 1405 met on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the home of Lewis and Fannie Yoder in Nappanee for an Amish dinner. There were 12 retirees and 13 guests with six officers present. Dixie Kehr was hostess for the meeting. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at St. Martin de Porres Church with a carry-in Thanksgiving dinner. ■ A'- * t /WflMfll «j3k jr w* I s >i|fl H f j Ijf ! 11 JOINS SALON STAFF — Creative Hair Company, 919 E. Winona Ave., Warsaw, has announced the addition of Tom Mowat to the hair care staff. Mowat is from the Syracuse area and attended Wawasee High School. He also attended Barbazon School of Fashion in Tampa, Fla., and graduated from Masters School of Cosmetology in Ft. Wayne. He joins Carol Osburn and Melisa Van Sickle on the Creative Hair Company staff. OVER 100 WATERBEDS Comforters Mattresses From $39.9S From $44.95 „ | — ~ Heaters <.. , U 3 TM $44.95 Sheets Lj.,4 „ $27.95 K? ■ Water tL***- /S" ■>" Drawer Conditioner 'L—-* 1 Pedestals $2.00 From $95.00 2 Tier Etched Mirror « Complete With Quality Mattress. Heater, Liner X Fill Kit. Water Condi tioner And Mattress Pad PHONE 457-2140