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OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE CORNHUSKER STAFF

Gathered from the scattered records of the business managers, and published with the hope of quelling the preposterous perturbations of the prattling populace and with the view of putting the quietus of those indefinite rumors that persist in existing.

EXPENDITURES
Binding for Cornhusker	$19.21
Engraving for the Cornhusker	34.78
Printing for the Cornhusker	11.11
Office fixtures--mostly Morris chairs and dining tables	950.25
Morning's morning for staff	300.00
Premium of life insurance for School Life editor	94.16
Traveling expenses for Sam to Dorchester Thanksgiving	171.07
Bail for Swab morning after game	500.00
Refreshments for staff--Poteet absent	105.00
Refreshments for staff--Poteet present	327.00
Comb and brush for Snyder before staff picture	.15
Laughing gas for Updegraft	8.25
For prevention of competition from Jackson	300.00
Butlers, chambermaids, valets and stenographers	2,325.00
Hush money for Ernie Graves	.95
Drugs to smooth editor-in-chief's debiliments	16.50
Stamps for business correspondence	04
Peppers, gingers and other invigorating stimuli for staff	320.00
Dress suit and false face and basket for Poteet	87.00
Upde for compiling this statement	04
Vig's endowment fund for pool halls	3,000.00
Y. M. C. A., student directories	1.50
Stamps for Mack's private correspondence	12.62
Drays hired to carry off near-literature	159.00
Purchase of perpetual motion machine to get writeups in the Rag	5,000.00
Trips to Havelock and Omaha (for advertisements)	759.00
Street car tickets	1,300.00
TOTAL	$??,???.??

RECEIPTS
From regular advertising	$12,000.00
From organizations	.37
From Betas and Silver Lynx--Hush money	15.00
From Snyder-Fowler Publicity Bureau	200.00
From Westberg for photos published	10.00
From B. S. Hill--Special advertisements for White Elephants	113.16
From will and estate of Irwin and Kavan	.98
From Beede and Robertson for flattering write-ups	75.00
From sale of books	1,000.00
From unsold books purchased by Basket Stores	116.23
TOTAL	$??,???.??
Deficit? Of course! - - - To hear Mike talk.

FRATERNITY MINUTES No. 5

DETLA (sic) CHI

Meeting called to order. Minutes of last meeting read and burned. Atheists club holds its weekly discussion. Sorensen makes his favorite speech on cigarets (sic). Head of house committee reprimanded for negligence. Loud calls of "question! question!" from all members. Meeting adjourned.

(Signed) H. UPDEGRAFF

FRATERNITY MINUTES No. 6

DELTA TAU DELTA

Meeting called to order by Brother Irwin. Theta Nu Epsilon roll call taken. Brother Schwab absent. Vote of indignation taken that Freshman-Sophomore scrap should have been held on the front porch. Question raised as to where Brother Helzer had been to get in the house at six o'clock on Sunday morning.

(Signed) PAT MCGURK

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