The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-01-05
PRICES MORE STEADY PIES At AUCTION
Easy and Effective Method OF
Raising the Wind"
For the Unsophlstieated, Writer ~
New York Evening Post Explains
the Procedure.

When a district school board In MIS-
souri, finds itself shy Of funds to put III
a furnace or start a library needeu l"
bring the institution up to the approved
school standard there is an untalllhs
resource in an energetic n pretty
Young school teacher: q pie supper
Some call 'em pie SOcials or pie recep-
tons. It's all the same thing.
Three pie suppers were advertised
for the same night In one Of the horth
Missouri papers recently, n ID the
Stone district, one at Tewell school
and another at Ely schOol-"Every-
body invited-no charge for IN
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 u
simply be an ~uninteresting subject, a
'wallfower," as lonely as a man from
the country on Broadway. True, II
costs you nothing to get in-not a pen
ny But once In you're expected to take
part in the proceedings, which mean
the bidding.
"Oh, we'll, 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 whs made the pie stands by the
a%uctiOneer while he is crying the sale.
1t would take an aw-ully contracted
soul to bid only % cents for a pie
when the pretty maker, in her best bib
anG tucker, Ia standing near, her blue
y e fixed steadily on the bidder. Shed
feel that you weren't very anxious to
eat that pie with her, which Is the re-
ward of successful craftsmanship at
the auction.
The open season for pie raids" be-
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 10 what a pie may
cost you. If the creator of the pie hap
pens to be the belle of the neighbOr-
hood her production may bring from
SIS to $40.
The Grand View Consolidated high
school, in northwest Macon county,
%liquidated In two months a $500 debt
for a new piano. The salesman mad
offered the school six months time.
He couldn't understand how the bill
tad been discounted so quickly.
I'VE sold pies" smiled the teacher.
"But it would take a carload Of pies
to raise $400," the salesman said.
"Not the way We sell EN-" explained
the teacher.
When a country teacher wants to
start something she invites a lot OF
town boys out to her school. The fur
comes when the town boys and the
country boys get to bucking each
other.
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 off all the pretty girls pies were
bid In by all the town boys, who sal
down with the piemakers and had
good time. The country boys silently
withdrew, leaving the field to theil
hated rivals. They felt that the tow
boys were poachers and decided t.
"clean up on them" SO about midnigh'
they swung red lanterns across thu
roadway; when the town boys cam
honking along they slowed up for thu
danger signal, and were greeted by
drumtire Of tomatoes, potatoes, eggs
carrots and other dainties, tossed theil
way by husky arms. The town boy
never made q return trip to Owl Creel
pie socials. p
The homemade country pie doesn'
recognize the lunch stand variety as Il
its class. There is no lack Of material
on the farm to build a pie to It's prOpe
height and flavor, and when ready 70
auction Ii In q work Of art and "eat
good" m IT, fellows say who get II
In some eases mother acts as the nd
yisory counsel. since her reputation |
at stake rs well a her daughters, an
she 10 reckless Of expenditure