The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-01-19
Pies At AUCTION
Easy and Effective Method Of
"Raising the Wind"
For the Unsophistieated,. Writer In
New York Evening Post Explains
80 the Procedure. 80 -

When a district school board in Mis-
souri, finds itself shy Of funds to put in
a furnace or start q library needed to
bring the institution up to the approved
school standard there tsT an unfailing
resource In an energetic and pretty
young school teacher: a "pie supper"
Some call 'em pie soclals or pie recep-
tons. It's all the same thing.
Three pie snppers were advertised
for the same night in one of the north
Missouri papers recently, one in the
Stone district. one ut Jewell school
and another at Ely sclioel-"Every-
body invited-no charge for admis-
SION" so ran the announcement, says
Edgar White In. the New York Evening
Post. But never make the mistake Of
going to such an event without your
pocket or check book. II you do. you'll
simply be an uninteresting subject,
'wallflower," as lonely as a man from
the country on Broadway. True, it
costs you nothing to get in-not a pen
ny! But once in you're expected to take
part In the proceedings, which means
the bidding. .. IS
."Oh, well, that won't cost much-a
pie is a pie. A quarter ought to let me
out" - -.
But pie social pies don't sell for any
such insignificant sum-, You see, the
girl who made the pie stands BY the
auctioneer while he is crying the sale.
It would take nm awfully contracted
soul to bill only 25 cents for a pie
when the pretty maker, in her best bib
and tucker, is standing near, her blue
eyes fixed steadily on the bidder. She'd
feel that you weren't very anxious to
eat that pie with her, which is the re-
ward Of successful craftsmanship at
the auction. ~. a. ..,...- -...
The open season for "pie raids bo-
gins about the time autumn starts
painting the forests, and keeps on I'M
til, all the ready cash Of the lovelorn
youngsters Is in the school treasury.
There's no limit to what q pie may
cost you, II the creator Of the pie hap
pens to be the belle Of the neighbor-
hood her production may bring from
SIS to $40. r. T.. t' ''
The Grand View Consolidated high
school, in northwest Macon county,
liquidated in two months q $500 debt
for a new, piano. The salesman had
offered the: school six months time.
He couldn't understand how the bill
had been discounted so quickly.
I'VE sold pies" smiled the teacher.
.#"But 1t would take a carload Of pies
to raise. $780," the salesman said.
a'"Not the way we sell EN- explained
the teacher. ss. Z. &
+ When q country teacher wants to
start something she invites lot Of
town boys out to her school. The fun
comes. when the town boys and the
country boys set to bucking each
other. .-@ p 20. y
One night a lot Of town boys went
out from Linneus to Owl Greek school.
Each Of them had a big roll In his
pocket and when the auction was
pulled of MI the pretty girls pies were
bid in by all the town boys, who sat
uUWu Wilt LIN QxCMeahOASF SuO33E IuN u
good time. Tie country boys silently
withdrew, leaving the field to their
hated rivals. They felt that the town
boys were poachers and decided to
"clean up on them" 50 about midnight
they swung red lanterns across the
roadway; when the town boys came
honking along they slowed up for the
danger s!gnnl, and we're greeted BY q
drulnflre Of tomatoes potatoes, eggs,
carrots aud other dainties, tossed their
way by husky arms. The town boys
never made a return trip to Owl Greek
pie. s0cials.
The homemade country pie doesn't
recognize the lunch stand variety as in
Its class. There Is no lack OF niaterials
on the farm to build a pie to its proper
height and flavor, and when ready for
auction 1t ii a work Of art and '.eats
good" as the fellows say who get.i
III some cases lnothereact as the nd
visory COUNSEL since her reputation is
ut stake as welt as her daughters, and
she Is reckless Of expenditure.
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