Saturday, 20 April 2019

Halloween 1921 in PEI


Nov. 4th, 1921

A story appeared in the Charlottetown Guardian reporting many pranks had occurred in Summerside on Halloween in 1921.

According to the paper, culverts were uprooted, gates were removed, and the placed in the most unlikely places, fences were knocked down, verandah seats were placed in the center of sidewalks, and truck carts were run up onto private lawns.

The most ludicrous prank of all that Halloween night in Summerside involved a pig and a car. The car of a well known Summerside man had the misfortune of having pranksters place a dead dressed pig in the car and attached it to the steering wheel by ropes with the pig’s forelegs which also held an empty beer bottle.

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