Winter Meeting. 197 



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Dec. 26 Telephone, 40; express, 70, 70 i .80 



Rubber bands i . 40 



Salary of Secretary for Dec 66.66 



Salary of Typewriter for Dec. .• 20.00 



Warrant No. 545 89.86 



Total , $1,544.98 



RECEIPTS. 



May 30 Balance on hand $450.81 



June Memberships by W. G. Gano 11 .00 



June Cash from State treasury- 757-84 



Nov. Cash from State treasury 480.29 



1903 Membership by L. A. Goodman 34- 00 



Dec. meeting Membership by AV. G. Gano.... 52.00 



Total $1,785.94 



Total expenses 1,544.98 



Balance , $240.96 



Of the above amount $238.84 was paid out of the funds in the hands 

 of the society. 



The s'ociety also has on deposit in the Mississippi Valley Trust Co. 

 at St. Louis $992.62 and accrued interest. 



We, your Committee on Finance, have examined the report of the 



Treasurer together with the vouchers and bills, and find all correct as 



reported. 



(Signed) T. H. Todd, New Franklin, 



Henry Schnell, Glasgow, 

 W. T. Flournoy, Marionville. 

 Note. — The bills paid after the meeting were ordered by the Execu- 

 tice Committee. 



Secretary. 



REPORT OF SECRETARY L. A. GOODMAN. 



Our society and its work are still the admiration of our State 

 workers, and our sister States and their workers, and it has become such 

 because of the enthusiasm of our fruit growers and their determination 

 to make it the best that can be made ; not the best that they could do, but 

 better than they could do, namely the best that could be done by any- 

 one. There is a great difference in doing the "best you can do" or doing 



