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Howe Mercantile is ready for Howe -lloween and Fall. Isn’t Howelloween the perfect name for the Georgia Caraway Chamber and the Downtown Howe celebration of this holiday? In the last 5 years Howe has acknowledged this holiday in ways that allow children and adults to have fun with this spooky night and promotes safety for everyone. This year Howelloween falls on Saturday October 24th for the citywide event. There are going to be more than 70 vendors on Haning and O’Connell Streets.

Although there are pagan connotations and religious opposition to Halloween, those issues evolved from customs dating back to the Celts, a tribal people who lived more than 2 millennia ago. The Celts held a Harvest Festival on October 31, Samhain, their most important religious holiday. Celts celebrated with dancing, bonfires, and feasting. Families honored their ancestors by preparing food and drink to make sure their “spiritual relatives (ghosts)” who walked among them that night were content and did not cause any harm. Some Celts donned costumes and masks to disguise themselves from evil-minded creatures.

Invading Roman armies brought their own harvest festival and fused their celebration with Samhain. The British brought their beliefs to American in the form of All Saints’ (All Hallows) Day on November 1 and began to celebrate the day before as Hallows’ Eve or Even. With time this changed to October 31 and came to be known as Halloween.

It is fun to decorate your home with Halloween and Fall décor. Howe Mercantile has Amishmade cloth orange pumpkins that look great stacked in a bowl and other bowl stuffers—so cute!!. Pumpkins are part of the Thanksgiving holiday as well, so all of these decorative items can carry over through Thanksgiving until you are ready to decorate for Christmas. Yikes—is it really only 70 days until Christmas?

Plan to dress up and bring your costume-clad children and grandchildren to downtown for Howelloween. There will be vendors giving out candy and other treats, entertainment, FUMC’s trunk or treat, and Howe Mercantile will be open with some special sales to start the three-month Holiday season off right.

A special feature will be Bucky (Wayne Carlisle) and his Howemade goat milk soap from Bucky’s Goat Farm. He may even bring a goat or two.

Come see us at Howe Mercantile, located in beautiful downtown Howe, Texas. Open Thursday –Saturday from 11-7 pm. Next door to HM is Don’s Smokehouse where you can pick up some Jerky or fantastic meat products to cook at home. There are two great restaurants right across the street, Abby’s and Gabrielas’, famous for homecooked meals. A terrific Chinese restaurant, Hana’s Café and Market, is located right behind them. And Palio’s Pizza is right down the street. Make a day and night of it, eating and shopping. Let Us Show You Howe.

REMEMBER HOWELLOWEEN ON OCTOBER 24 FROM 2 UNTIL 8 PM. COME DOWNTOWN AND CELEBRATE SAFE TRICK OR TREATING WITH YOUR CHILDREN. DRESS FOR THE OCCASION.

"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living. We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts

Freshman Mahlon Walker (78), called up three weeks ago, got his first start and played the entire game on both sides of the ball. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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For the third week in a row, Howe played a fantastic first quarter and found themselves down 6-0 after the first. The Bulldogs faced a 4th down at the Commerce 24 yard line to open the game, but a pass from Haley went through the hands of intended receiver Ryan Hough at the first down marker and Howe turned the ball over on downs. Howe forced Commerce to punt on their first possession, but Tiger quarterback J’Den Wilson showed why he was the best athlete on the field when he guided a 6-play, 61-yard drive and ran it in from the six yard line to give Commerce the 6-0 lead after a 2point conversion failed.

With freshman Cooper Jones out of the game due to having his eye poked the week before, Kevin Flores handled the punting chores for the evening, and he was busy. Commerce drove 61 yards on their next possession and scored on the first play of the second quarter when a Wilson pass was nearly intercepted by Bulldog safety Joey Hymel, but went through his hands and into the lap of Tiger receiver Ashton Seale who took it the 34 yards needed for the score. After successful PAT by Edgar Castillo, Howe trailed 13-0 with 11:53 left in the second.

Howe’s next possession ended on a fumble when Tiger nose tackle Corjohnta Dunbar knocked it loose from Haley who had scrambled to the Howe 44 yard line. The Tigers capitalized by going 7 -plays and 44 yards to make it 200 on a 19-yard scamper by Xzayveion Basham with 7:52 remaining in the second quarter.

The Bulldogs put together an outstanding drive that took 6:34 off the clock. Howe used the Iformation for the majority of the drive and faced a 4th-and-7 at the Commerce 36 yard line. Hough caught a pass from Haley at the 15 yard line to extend the drive, but Howe was unable to move from there and turned the ball over on downs.

Commerce took it at their own 21 yard line and drove the distance needed on seven plays and scored on a 36-yard pass from Wilson to Seale. Howe entered the halftime locker room trailing 28-0.

The Tigers opened the second half with a 5-play, 48-yard drive that ended on a 20-yard run by speeder sophomore Kendrick Greer to make it 35-0 with 8:35 left in the third.

Howe punted on all possessions in the second half except for an interception by Marcus Garcia on a Kaleb McNutt pass in the fourth quarter.

Commerce drive 2-play, 22 yards to make it 42-0 on an 18-yard Wilson to De’Shawn Jackson pass with 5:24 left in the third. They later added a 5-play, 37yard drive to make it 49-0 when Greer scored from the 14 with :20 left in the third.

Howe put together a fantastic drive of 15 plays, 68 yards and took nearly seven minutes off the clock guided by backup quarterback McNutt. But the drive ended on an interception.

Howe will host Mineola Friday. It’s only the second time the two teams have met. The first was in the regional championship at Royce City ISD Stadium where Howe lost 21-7 to the eventual state champions. Howe hasn’t reached the playoffs since and has gone 7-30 since that game.

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