The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-10-28
f I'LL OF 70 WI
Sank Centre People Feast on Lus-
CiOuS ChiChen Pie
AT METHODIST CHURCH
Men of Congregation Furnish Mater
idI and Wait on Table and
Public Does the Rest

There was an appreciable falling off
in the visible supply of chic kens last
week, due to the fact that the men OF
the Methodist Episcopal church of
Sauk Centre gave chicken pie sup
per. Where the poultry that furnish
ed the toothsome "filling" for the
various pies that made the piece re-
sistance on the attractive bill
of fare, came from, deponept sayeth
not, but enough feathered creatures
must have yielded up their sweet
young lives to have effected recog-
nizable reduction in the census of the
cock and the cut-cut-ca-
dah-cut population in this section of
the universe.
The idea of chicken pie repast, SO
''The Little Brides Say, originated
and found permanent lodgment in the
prolific brain of the hustling pastor
of the church, who, when he isn't
doing anything else, is devising ways
and means to promote the financial
welfare of Methodism in the metro
polls of "Franklin county. Judging
from the fertility of resources which
the Reverend John Thomas Brabner
daily developes, one might conclude
that he evolves many of his ideas
during his sleeping as well as during
his waking hours. Be that as it may,
Pastor Smith inoculated the men of
his congregation with the chicken pie
microbe, and they did the rest.
The event was pulled off in the
church parlors on Thursday evening
and 50 successful was it that the gate
receipts, when counted, aggregated
ss54 tso in good coin Of the realm No
particular rules governed the contest,
each participant pursuing a ''catch as
catch CAM policy and managing to
catch great sutficiency of pie and ac-
compartments.
1t is secret whether the men of
the church actually made the numer-
Gus pies or not; they furnished the
chickens, and somebody framed them
(the chickens, not the mem up into
pies of varying sizes, all of which were
the result of the highest culinary art.
Asked where he got the chickens for
the pies he furnished, one prominent
disciple of Wesley winked the other
eye. Questioned closely as to whether
he grew them or robbed his neighbors'
roosts, the same gentleman declined
to answer on the ground that he
might possibly incriminate himself.
A corps of male walters under DR..
III. F. Hennemann as chief, served
the guests. The popular doctor man
aged things just as easy as he extracts
a refractory molar; in fact, his duties
were, like his dentistry, painless Ito
HIMSELF. This does not mean that the
guests suffered pain at the feast; on
the contrary, they all enjoyed them
selves and went away with a full sem
sation in their individual interior de-
partments.
The doctor handled his corps of
gentlemanly walters like a veteran.
L. S. Bishop was on hand clad in a
white coat, and saw that none Of the
people at his table wanted for any,
thing. Geo. Butler wore his custo-
mary smile, white coat and other
raiment and ''hustled" chicken pie
for the guests in great style. The
tall and Apollolike form OF Geo.
O'Gara was much in evidence.
Georges training at his depot lunch
counter put him right in the swim.
A. E. Lyman had on white coat,
his smile and the skating rink on the
top of his head. He ''hustled grub"
in great shape. Ed Evans wasn't Sc
cond to any of the bunch. Ed didn't
make much fuss about it but arrived
first, last and all the time. He was
also arrayed in white. w. Barnett's
efforts to supply the sinner man" OF
the patrons of the feast were reward
ed with success all the time. Hewore
a white coat. George Rice, too, was
one of the chief hustlers at the func-
tion ana the way he supplied the
wants of those at his table was worth
making a note of. e. E. Compton Is
used to running boarding house,
hence waiting on table came as easy
to him as breathing. He wasn't one
of the "white wings" of the walters
squad, but he 'sgot there" just the
same. His main effort was directed to
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