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* -.WH-ITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1990, PAGE 7 PAGE'SEVEN- Halloween Nights I have known. By Bill Swan. Urban residents may not realize it, but Halloween surely is a rural event. Oh, you won t behieve that tonight when you peer out to see the goblins and Peter Pans out panhandling on your street. But you'fl hear their cry: "Trick or treat, trick or treat, Give us something good to eat."1)U ie 4O The treat part mostý kids today realize. Tonight any tot M X E O may be worth her weight in candy kisses and bubblegum. In 1 E B F R fact, what they are performing resembles more the old, YOtI CAN GO TO simple, urban, greedy "Sheli Out." Ne /0 Looks like lootinsiIEA 7E Kids know the game: rush up to the door, hold open the MICI4AEL WILSON ON -ME GST bag, wait for the doorperson to deposit something, anything, in the dark, and then rush off to the next house. Wisely, parents lurk behind trees and parked cars, policing the whole affair. As it should be. Right and proper. Right-o. But few kids today would now how to respond if any household called their bluff. KIDS:_____________________________ __ "Trick or treat, trick or treat, "Give us something good to eat." HOUSEHOLDER: I "Sorry, kids, inmfresh out of treats. "Guess youll just have to give me your best trick." So today, what're the kids going to do? Soap your windows? Snap the aeriah off your car? Not, we hope, with Mom lurking across the street. Beyond which, I maintain, there could be little response. pIAoneer tradition Fry, fifty years, ago, in rural Ontario - and back then both Oshawa and Whitby came danined close to qualifying - kids knew what trick meant, and none had heard about hookers. Hookers were invented years later, in cities. Halloween fun began in the pioneer days of rural Ontario. In rural areas, the hast of %October marked the end of polite autumn. Ini less than two months, winter wilh have settled in, we1l be past Christmas. If you haven't got your yard tidied Up now, it may be too late. Let's put this another way. Up to Halloween night is early autumn. After Halloween is late autumn. Late autumn signals the first serlous snow, the first sharp, biting cold, the signal of freezing up. Oh, maybe you wilh be hucky, get a few soft days. But anything out-of-doors that needs to be done had better be done in early autumn. ..... .. . Store lawn furntureEARD'S TAXIS, BROCK STREET NORTH, 1946 Early autumn is the time for raking leaves, digging Three generations of the Heard family operated a taxi and cartage business from the gardens, planting bulbs, storing the sandbox toys, tucking building now owned by Johnvince Foods, at Brock and Elm Streets, fromn 1910 to 1970. The away ali the hast vestiges of summer. If you haven't stored business was founded by Joseph Heard and carried on by bis son Dick and grandson, "Bud" the lawn furniture by now, tomorrow the cushions on the Heard, who retired from the taxi business in 1978. Whitby Archives photo lawn'furniture may be frozen to the chair until April. In pioneer Ontario, the same philosophy dictated the order My foriebng rik.h ihtIpukdaeunpo George Brooks bas been elected president of the United Rubber Workers at Dunlop Tire Ltd. the end of the exhaust Pipe of Maurice Allen's Morris Minor. e A and P food store is selling round steak for 73 cents a pound. The Morris Minor was the Firefly of nineteen fifty. A few minutes later Maurice camne out, jumped in his car and tried to start it. No luck. 125 YEARS AGO Would we give him a push, he asked. estwhevre from the Thursday, October 2d, 1865 edition of the Would we ever! Five of us placed shoulders ta whatever w could find and hurled the little vehicle down th*ansre An exhibition is planned by the Mechanics' Institute in November. of te vllae attenmils anhou. d A grand shooting match will be held today at Thomas Totterdle's botel in Port Whitby. Bang! Maurice popped the clutch. The car hurched The north half of Glen Dbu Farmn on the third concession is being offéed for sale at Touhed exhauprssure hurled the offending turnip from the Black's Hotel on Nov. 4. The xhaut p* The Whitby stearo grist mill bas failed for want of proper machinery and a competent exhaust pipe like a cannon ball, catching me squarely on the manager. * ., right knee. 1 limped for days. __________________________________ ~2y9oul4 calf th________________________