IK r 1 r ' I i Volume 8 3' :5 t - i i y I' ; pg W .JRlSld FT WfZ,y JOURNAL OF CHEERFUL COMMENT LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 11, 1911 Feast of Fads and Statistics Omaha, Nebr., July 31st, 1911. IVill Maupin's Weekb Lincoln, Nebr. My dear Mr. Maupin: I am Just in receipt of your issue, Number 1 9 although it has only been in my bands twenty-four hours from "kiver to iver twice over. Such a compendium tersely and intelligently gotten up, and such an intel lectual feast of facts and statistics I will venture to say was never published before in this glorious commonwealth. I hasten to congratulate you on your splendid suc- You demonstrated beyond question that Nebraska is the finest waffle on the of the I have 28th inst, and read every word cess. griddle, and that milk ard honey ooze from her staves, the volume being too strong and overwhelming for the faucet and bunghole. I am sure our friends in the effete east must have had something to conjure over when this splendid publication was placed before them. I am to make, it my text book, and as I intend visiting several conventions in the near future, my princi pal object being the boosting of the state of my adoption and love, I will unload as often as the opportunity affords, some of these paralyzing facts and statistics of which your issue is so generously loaded. I admire the typographical getup of the edition. The printing is clear and distinct The ads are splendidly arranged. The entire production is a splendid credit to yourself and your printery Again congratulating you, I am, Yours truly, William Kennedy. rV .4-3 1 orieal BCmo, j-y j Number 21