WILLIAM GLEASON,

manufacture* of fllaehinists Tools,

OFFICE, BROUIN'S RACE,

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DEAR JIM, -'

YOU FAILED TO ENCLOSE THE PRI CE -LIST; YOU BETTER HUSTLE

AROUND AND FIND IT OR SOME BARBARIAT '-'ILL BE COMING UPON IT AND THEN

"WAT AN AWFUL FATE WILL AWAIT YOU IF THROUGH YOU THIS TREMENDOUS SEC

RET OF THE ORDER IS DISCLOSED.

YOUR FRIEND WARIER HAS TTJRNEp UP, -WHY

DID' NT YOU WARN ME HE HAD ALREADY REACHED TOWN ATD WOULD BE LIABLE

TO CALL AT ANY MOMENT.? HE CAME SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN I SSASiJHZ EX

PECTING ANY CALLERS, -MY HAIR WAS DISHEWELLED AS USUAL* THERE WERE SEy

ERAM SHADES OF COAL DUST AID MACHINE GREASE ON MY FACE AND I HAD

TAKEN OFF MY SHOES TO DRY MY LITTLE "*ET FEET. OTHERWISE I WAS LOOK

ING FINE. fflTH HIS USUAL THOUGH FULNESS AIDREW .SK40"rED MR WARNER

RIGHT IN THE FRONT PARLOR SO THAT I JlVjIT HAVE A.TY CHANCE TO ESCAPE

THROUGH THE WINDOW. HOWEVER I DON' T FEEL AS BADLY AS I MIGHT FOR

I SEE MR. WARNER HAS A GREAT BIG SPLOTCH ON HIS LIGHT DERBY A FB HE

CAN'T BE VERY PARTICULAR OR HE WOULD' NT WEAR IT. AFTER I HAD EM

BRACED HIM TENDERLY AND t0LD HIM I WOULD BE A SISTER t0 HIM, I RETIRED

TO WASH MY FACE AND PUT ON A TEA GOWN. WE GOT 0 1 LIKE A HOUSE ON

FIRE,-HE TOLD ME '^HaT A GREaT BOX HE IS AND HO-/ HARD YOU S^/DY AID

VARIOUS OTHER lNTE.REST>Ilffi THINGS. HE GAME LAST fTlGHT TO a EUCHRE

PARTY OP -HE nAw; cyiy AT qi.tr HOUSE. THE P.TY WAS CO ISlDERA JE

OF A "FIZZLE1 EVERY SEPARATE MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZATION WANTS TO

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RUN IT AFTER A LITTLE PLAT OF HlS OTT, -THE RESULT Is EVERY BODY

KICKS LIKE STEERS' AND MY PEACEFUL SOUL HAS BEEN ACCORDINGLY SO

ROILED UP1 THAT I HAVE RESIGNED. PRETTY NEARLY EVERYBODY ELSE HAS

RESIGNED TOO EXCEPT THE AOYCE' S AID LI IXIE MC"TAGGART, NOW IF ONLY

THEY WOULD RESIGN,WE COULD STARTU P A NEW ONE WITHOUT THEM AFTER THE

PLAN OF THE BETA THET' S AID PERHAPS IT WOULD BE A SUCCESS. I EX

PECTED ARCHIE LAST NIGHT WHEN I WOULD HAVE INTRODUCED HIM TO WARNER

BUT ARCHIE BID' NT COME. FRANK fUGENT WAS DOWN THIS MORNING TO FIND

OUT YOUR ADDRESS. HE WON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO FOR A COUPLE OF

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WEEKS SO I GAVE HIM A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION TO WARNER AID HE SAID

HE'D SEE HIM TO-DAY.

BUSINESS SEEMS TO BE BOOMING AS PER. AGREEMENT,

INQUIRIES ARE THICK AND ORDERS ARE NUMERCl.rs SO'

THAT ON THE NILE I

AM GLAD I SUPPORTED HARRISON. IF I DON'T HEAR FROM YOU BY PRIDAY

I will ORDER THE PIN OF BROWN WITH THE PEARLS AND EMERALDS.

MOTHER HAS HAD HER TOOTH FIXED AID IS ALL READY TO ASTONISH

THE NATIVES THERE. MABEL HEBARD WHO WAS VlSITNfc ME, HAS HEARD

THROUGH HER BROTHER THAT YOU HAVE GONE DELTA U. AND SHE REQUESTS ME

TO FORWARD HER CONGRATULATIONS. I MET MISS TRI^ MARX AND HSE

HAD HEARD OF IT THROUGH STEPHANIE AND SEND HERS ALONG TOO. ABOUT

A BUSHEL OR TWO OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGING ME -NTH MESSAGES

OF LOVE AND RESPECT TO YOU BUT I CAN'T STOP TO ENUMERATE THEM.

OUR LATEST LUMINARY ISMISS LILLIAN MC'GRAW, -SHE IS A NIECE

OF THE CORNELL MOGRAW>S AND SPENDS ALL HER VACATIONS DOWN IN ITHACA.

SHE IS VERY BEWITCHING AID SHE AND GRACE HALL ARE GREAT CtftJMS ATD

HAVE TURNED THE

HEA|kS OP HALF THE BOYS IN TOWN,

LOVINGLY,KATE GLEASON