 More
than 10 auctioneers were used to work the
event, which covers acreage on the west side
of the community center, north of the
railroad tracks along Route 54.
Continuing the tradition, the auctioneers
do not charge for this local fundraiser for
this small community of only 100 people. The
sale has as many as 1,000 buyers or more
from all over the Midwest.
One of the best deals is the traditional
breakfast of either pancakes and sausage or
biscuits and sausage gravy for only $5.50,
which includes the drink ($3 for children).
The biscuits are made from scratch.
Tickets are color-coded to speed up the
serving line. Last year, 2,200 biscuits were
prepared, but that was not quite enough.
This year, 2,400 biscuits were ready for the
crowd.
The breakfast is served in the basement
of the 1941 former one-room schoolhouse,
which is now the town's community center.
Upstairs, where the main schoolroom once
was, there was a bake sale. The community
center is available for rental during the
year.
Outside, the large sale featured
tractors, planters, wagons, trailers,
sprayers, cultivators, large augers, shop
tools and equipment, hunting and fishing
equipment, pumps, boats, furniture, windows,
doors, and hundreds of miscellaneous
household, business and farm items -- which
soon became treasures for bargain hunters.
An item of interest to collectors was a
gentleman selling his collection of nearly
100 duck decoys.
Parking was along both sides of east-west
Route 54, on all the streets of Lake Fork
village and along both sides of Primm Road
to the north. Police volunteers directed
traffic.
The weather was clear and sunny, although
cold in the early going, but that didn't
keep Lake Fork from chalking up another
successful annual auction.
[By PHIL
BERTONI] |
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