HoweEnterprise.com
October 14, 2019
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Restaurant serving spicy Chinese noodles scheduled to open in December
Howe Intermediate Top Dogs
Hana’s Café Market soon to open in the building that was most recently Stark Lane Farms.
Howe Intermediate wants to congratulate our Top Dogs of the week: Bridgette Montgomery, Riken Cross, Jack Clement, Shannon Darling, Sophie Sutton, Gavin Snapp, Giselle Alejos, Chris Torres, Efren Galicia, Dylan Villagomez, Gabriel Perez, and Taylor Steedman.. Way to go!
Learn about your antiques and collectibles with Georgia Caraway I am continuing with columns about Halloween throughout the month as I have stated before that this holiday is one of my very favorites. Howe celebrates each year with Howe-lloween and for some notion I have chosen to dress as a witch each year. Last year for some weird reason I combined a vampire (pointy teeth) with the cape of Dracula’s wife, and the traditional black clothing and pointy hat and pale blood-stained face of the witch. This combined persona did the trick and spooked several townsfolks. Including my sister, Marilyn, who was visiting from Pennsylvania. (looks like she inherited my teeth.) So how did Halloween become the favorite time of year for witches? Halloween and witches seem to go hand-in-hand. It is said that witches would gather on the nights surrounding Halloween, arriving on broomsticks to celebrate a party hosted by the devil. And that witches could change into cats. Some people believed that cats were the spirits of the dead. And black cats were especially the embodiment of these evil spirits. The original hideous image of witches—the old, ugly, hooknosed, haggard, pale to greenishfaced, cackling lady with long curved fingernails stirring her cauldron was likely a figment of the vivid imaginations of storytellers. Stories of witches stirring their bubbling brews in a large, black, iron cauldron likely stemmed from the pots that potions and poultices were made by the early healers to help the afflicted and sick. Folklore and legends about these folk healers tend to embrace incantations, amulets, spirit possession, medium intercessions with the dead, and various methods of sorcery to allevi-
ate suffering. Most women dress up as sexy or good witches, but I find it a lot more fun to display my alter-ego. But the good witch tugs at my conscience as well. Come to Howe-lloween October 26 in downtown Howe and to Howe Mercantile to see which witch will appear this year. Downtown Howe has been celebrating Howe-lloween as a community event for the last couple of years on the Saturday before the official Halloween date. It is a great coming together of the community including downtown merchants, the churches’ trunk-or -treat participation, music, and vendors. And the KHB ChiliCookoff is an added spicy bonus. Howe Mercantile is going to celebrate all day with a special storewide sale as well as a holiday market behind the store on the Cottonwood Creek Pavilion. Several of our dealers will set up tables of bargains. Our event will start at 10:00 in the morning and go all day and during the Howelloween event on Haning Street. Georgia Caraway owns and operates Howe Mercantile at 107-109 East Haning. SHOP LOCAL. LET US SHOW YOU HOWE.
