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Show n (EDITOR'S NOTE: These are the stories written by Rich County students in the merchant's sponsored contest. Next contest should be better, since some students did not get word of the contest until it was too late. Here are the top three judged in the two divisions. Pictures of the winners are to follow next week.) 34th - 123- - EMILE JOHNSON green pumpkin WILLI5 MICHTLE JOHNSON 23- - the STEPHANIE DISHMAN MARIANNE LILLYWHITE to carry, so their mother brought it in then, they carved it then afterwards the mother scooped out the seeds and made some pumpkin places- - OLD ROCK' STORE, SWEETWATER RESORT, JOHNSON READY MIX, AND BONNEVILLE REALTY. 2nd places- - 0r all they for heaVy 1st stayed rushed out of the house to get it but it was too so ELLIS Sponsors were: foot. PARNELL'S, HEATING, SHERIFF GARY OGILV1E, & RICH COUNTY STORE. 3rd places- DEE'S StPER SERVICE, MAVERICK STORE, STATE FARM INSURANCE, - TOMMY them i ir a Wait Once upon is bat. JOHNSON a time there was name was Tommy, loved to fly around and scare by Stephanie Dlshman people and kids one night it Halloween he was out flyIt was My and the kids were wasn't hen he went to scare ing. at their last day of school. and Susie they w ere the The vine on the pumkin riant Sally two prettiest girls in school. was coming out of the ground. They weren't even scared! They As the weeks went by the pumlookat that funny bat pkin plant grew and grew. just said arodnd.' Later that night Finally it was the end of June flying was in his barn Tommy and the pumpkin popped out. sitting he corner said The little pumpkin was very they weren't even scarecd of me. I wonder happy to see the world. His even scared, why they're mother, the vine, told him all oh. now i know said Tommy. The about Halloween. "T,hen Hallome ugly made witch get her ween comes", said the vine, how meanest but witch she's the "you will be very big and you Ch what in the whole country. will le nicked" . The little do just then Harvey pumpkin asked, "what does picked should mean". The vine said "it means the skeleton came in, "whats the matter boy','he said, " i you will be seperated from me you clear over in the forever". The little .pumpkin " could hear corner boy, "uit win happen after other me groaning asked, "I boy". won't, boy',' that"? The vine told him all calling said the skeleton, you just did the rest. The little pumpkin oh well", said the skeleton. was very exited. As the months w itch made me The went by the pumpkin. got larger ugly now the and larger. It became Halloween kids and people are not scared of me anymore, they Just make day. The pumpkin was picked, carved and set out on the porch fun ofa me now. Listen, we will make net and then when she with a candle in him. After comes through by our barn then that night the pumpkin had many we will throw the net on her and adventures.- - He lived to be will get her and they did. And great pumpkin. they made her get Tommy cute 2nd pi ace again. A HALLOWEEN STORY He T,T nt i'll : - "-- hat LILLYWHITE , Once upon v , time there was little green pumpkin growing in the pumpkin patch hidden under a big leaf, and nobody 1 a It ws there. little Any wy the st HALLO WEFN by a knew said treat", the witch said, a pi ac e TERESA rILLIS there "ps witch, gobbljn, bat, ghost, Once upon a time' and the plant pumpkin. a They castle and every preen pumpkin grew bigger lived In And. Halloween something would as petting every day. it closer and closer to Halloween. happen. -- Finally Hallovreen night came. All the children came out to pet the pumpkins to carve them. So thet took all of them except nipht the witch gobblln, bat, ghost and the One Halloween , giant pumpkin went treating. trick or they burn't work" and up. 3rd place THE RAT by FMILIE BELL'S INC. MARIANNE lucky rabbit So foot didn't pie. MALCOM PLUMBING & by my "Then vre'11 be safe',' Until one night cold frost came in", so they came in and the and flattened the leaf on the witch said "there is your treat" oumpkln. Anyway one of the kidsand she threw them into her looked out the window and said pot and the nice witch said to "look there's another pumpkin" the giant pumpkin, "your rabbit grade winners TARA i've got because green pumpkin the witch. little leaf they knocked, that covered wicked witch came to very very so the the door, they all said, "trick little little pumpkin "Come lust there. TERESA 6th left', said, "its too creepy. "We'll be okay", said the giant pumpkin, for the under the big 5-- 1- grade dinners re've gone to 3? places the bat theres one house Second Place The Helping Frcg Halloween by Michelle Johnson Once upon a time there was a little green front that always liked hopping through tthe pumpkin patches at Halloween time. Onetime he was hopping through a patch, and he heard someone crying, he wondered where the crying was coming from. He coming from thought he heard went So he over ththe right. ere to look. And sure enough theee was a poor little pumpkin-crying. Well, he went over and asked him why he was crying. He said, "because I want on Halto be a loween night, and I'm too little, so nobody will pick me. On it jack-o-lant- ern the frog said, "Don't cry, find someone to pick you," so he went over to the market So I'll and he saw a little crying. boy over there and He went him what was wrong. wanted a He asked said he and jack-o-lante- rn, couldn't find that he could lift. So the little frog said "come here I'll show you something." The frog took the little boy to the little pumpkin patch and the little boy jumped for joy when he saw the one he little pumpkin. Sure enough, th- ere sat the cutest jack-o-lant-- em you ever saw on the porch of the little boy's house with a frog croaking happily nearby. Third Place HALLOWEEN By NIGHT Tara Ellis I was given adare by my friends to walk through the graveyard on Halloween night, and of course, I took it. I knew they had something planned, but I didn't know what. I tried and I tried to get them to tell me what they were up to. It's Saturday, day after tom- Halloween, and I still hadn't found out what they were up to. Oh well, I'd soon find out. ck The day is here and orrow is it's Its to put six-o-clo- and on time my costume and go trick or treatI would go ing at (Continued on Page Six) nine-o-clo- ck, |