Little whippersnappers!

October 31, 1931 - The usual Saturday work of getting my clothes in shape for another week of school.  We all went to bed early this evening.
November 1, 1931 - Mayme and Alice and Mrs. Hall came in to church today.  A class of young folks was confirmed and the Lord's Supper was given.  I went home with Mayme after church.  Tonite Lloyd, Mayme, K.C. and I went to the show at Norfolk.  It was Lowell and Hardy in some kind of prison picture.  It was funny.  Mayme's schoolhouse is a wreck after last nite, and from what I hear mine wasn't forgotten.
November 2, 1931 - It was rather chilly today but it got warmer this afternoon.  I forgot my raincoat yesterday in all the hurry.  I stayed up pretty late this evening correcting examination papers.  I also wrote a letter to Mother asking if I could spend this next weekend with Mayme.

I wonder how terribly the schoolchildren treated their schoolhouses.  I wouldn't have thought that country kids would bother to go to their school to do mischief on Halloween.  Surely going to town to trick-or-treat would be more fun.  But then again, you weren't likely to get caught causing mischief out in the country with no one there at night.

There's K.C. again.  Any guesses as to who that was?

Lowell and Hardy?- Surely she meant Laurel and Hardy.  I found one movie from 1931 that involved those two and prison, Pardon Us.  Here's a summary.  I must say written out like that it doesn't sound overly funny but I bet it was.

     It is prohibition, and beer barons Laurel and Hardy are sent to prison for concocting their own home brew. They are put in a cell with "Tiger" Long, the roughest, toughest and meanest of all inmates. Stan has a loose tooth that causes him to emit a razzberry at the end of every sentence; the inmate interprets this as a coolly defiant attitude and is impressed — nobody else ever stood up to him like that. He and Stan and Ollie become fast friends.
     Laurel & Hardy are also assigned to attend prison school with James Finlayson being the teacher. The vaudeville routine that follows ends with a spitball meant for somebody else hitting the teacher in the face and the boys wind up in solitary. There is a sustained scene of the bleak cells with the unseen boys conversing through the walls.
     The prison authorities decide to send Laurel to the prison dentist to have the offending tooth pulled, but the dentist is incompetent and the procedure goes awry.
After a prison break, the boys escape to a cotton plantation, where they hide out undetected, in blackface. The boys sing "Lazy Moon". When they attempt to repair the warden's car, they are discovered and are sent back to prison. Tricked by a prison guard into calling off a hunger strike by being promised a thanksgiving-style feast, they go to the mess hall, only to be served the usual drab fare. Laurel causes a disturbance by protesting the absence of the feast, but is threatened by the guards. Soon after, as guns are being passed around under the tables, Laurel sets off his gun and causes an uproar. They inadvertently break up the prison riot and the grateful warden issues them a pardon.Laurel inadvertently "razzes" the warden and their exit from the prison has to be a very fast one.

I found a photo of the movie poster, but I liked this photo better.