io6 State Horticultural Society. 



June 30, Telegram 65 



Expenses L. A. Goodman and Assistant. . 12 00 



Warrant No. 594 145 07 



Total disbursements $i,i93 67 



Balance in Mississippi Valley Trust Company, $1,263.27, with 

 interest for 1904 and until date at 2 per cent per 

 annum $37 90 



Total $1,301 17 



Mr. President : We, your Committee on Finance, beg to report that 

 we have examined the vouchers, bills and accounts of the Treasurer 

 and find them correct. 



H. S. Wayman, 

 (Signed) S. Y. Thornton, 



R. T. Kingsbury. 



It was moved and carried that these reports be received and adopted. 



OBITUARY. 



The death of one of our best, strongest and most energetic workers, 

 Mr. F. H. Speakman, came so suddenly and unexpectedly that very few 

 were at all aware even of his sickness, to say nothing of his death. 



Going as a representative of our Society, in his last official duty, to 

 the annual meeting of the Arkansas State Meeting, he there represented 

 in his own practical way the interests of the fruit growers of our State, 

 and gave earnest, intelligent instruction and information to all who had 

 opportunity to meet him, and especially to the Arkansas State Society as 

 a whole, in his public address before them. 



Little then did we think that this man, the strongest, most vigorous 

 and healthy of us all, would be the first to fall before the grim destroyer. 

 At that meeting he caught a slight cold, which was increased on a 

 trip to St. Louis, and added to while at his daily duties in his orchards 

 the next day after his return, and on that coldest day of the winter, 

 while visiting the orchards in a business way. His extreme good health 

 and strength, which was so noticeable to every one who knew him, was 

 the only hope that his friends had that he could possibly wear out the 

 disease. Pneumonia set in and for more than seven weeks he was racked 

 by pain and suffering even until the end, on March 24, 1905. 



