A chilly autumn wind brushed leaves to the ground as dusk arrived last Monday, making conditions optimal for trick-or-treating. In the busiest - and spookiest - of Lovelock's neighborhoods, some treaters estimated that as many as 500 costumed youngsters came a-calling. At 410 14th St., Odie Monteith had transformed his front yard into an eerie landscape, complete with a tented passageway containing bony and bruised characters, a tombstone-filled graveyard bounded by picket fence and iron gate, carved and glowing pumpkins, sound effects and fog machine. "It gets more elaborate each year," sighed Monteith.[[In-content Ad]]
