A moneymaker at the annual church social were the big milk cans of white and pink lemonade at five cents per glass. Johnny and I one year thought it would be fun to spike the pink lemonade with a quart or two of Forbes' whiskey. Mr. Forbes always kept a keg of whiskey in the cellar to be used principally at threshings, barn raising, etc. Well, the lemonade wasn't on sale very long before the pink lemonade was outselling the white by a wide margin and it wasn't very long before some of the men were a short distance away in the woods singing Auld Lang Syne.
The pink lemonade caused considerable discussion and investigation, but Johnny and I were not suspected. We were too young to play such a trick. The pink lemonade party continued to be the source of many jokes over the years and the degree of intoxication and number of glasses of pink lemonade taken by some good churchmen grew with the telling.