Pinckney County Fair — Pie Tent
Methodist Ladies' Auxiliary · Tally & Receipts · Aug 17–19, 1962
Run by Mrs. Esther Halloran (Pres.), assisted by Ruby Lemke, Inez Boyce, Anna Quist.
Sales: 10¢ a slice, three for 25¢. All receipts to the Auxiliary's mission fund.
Pies entered, Wednesday 4 p.m. judging
- E. Halloran — peach (fruit) · blue
- R. Lemke — sour cherry lattice (fruit) · red
- I. Boyce — buttermilk (custard) · blue
- A. Quist — coconut cream (cream) · white
- D. Petrie — sweet potato (custard) · entered, no place
- M. Brun (sister of A. Brun, of St. Louis) — chess (custard) · entered, no place
- J. Lowry (wife of H. Lowry, carousel) — pecan (nut) · blue, sole entry in category
- six others, names on the back
Slice tally, by day
- Wed Aug 17 · 184 slices · $18.40 · counted by R. Lemke
- Thu Aug 18 · 221 slices · $22.10 · counted by I. Boyce
- Fri Aug 19 · 146 slices · $14.60 · counted by E. Halloran
Standing accounts (slips, settled Saturday a.m.)
- F. Petrie — 4 slices peach across the run, paid Sat a.m.
- H. Lowry, carousel — 2 slices Wed (peach); 2 slices Thu (cherry lattice); slip marked PAID THU EVE in pencil by R. Lemke; nothing entered Friday.
- A. Brun, St. Louis — no slip; visitor, ate one slice of his sister's chess pie Wed at 5 p.m., gone by Thursday morning per E.H.
- the man from Cedar Rapids — 1 slice peach, Fri afternoon, paid cash, did not give name (E.H.'s note).
Lost-and-found, returned Sat a.m. to F. Petrie at the Society office
- one carnival apron, denim, with the initials H. L. embroidered at the hem.
- one small carving knife, two-inch blade, wood handle, found Friday at 5:50 p.m. inside the empty pie pan no. 7 (Halloran's peach). Washed by Anna Quist before anyone thought to ask whose it was.
— Esther Halloran, for the Methodist Ladies' Auxiliary, Pinckney, Iowa.