FREDERICKTOWN — I was casting about for something spooky to write about for the season, especially since I didn’t have a big series to run this October, but I didn’t find much when I perused newspaper reports from a century ago in Knox County.
Turns out that Halloween then wasn’t much different from now, except perhaps in scope.
Editors complained about the overflow of tacky Halloween decorations in the Mount Vernon stores, and the social columns reported costume parties and haunted house displays.
One such display was set up by some Mount Vernon teachers for their students. It involved students climbing up a ladder and into a second-story window of the teacher’s house…