ANNUAL MEETING AT NEVADA. 339 



FRIDAY, DECEMBER JTU, 7 P. M. 



Meeting called to order by the President. 



The opera house was packed from pit to gallery, Friday night, to 

 witness the closing exercises of the State Horticultural Society. 



The regular order of business was agreeably interspersed with musi- 

 cal and literary exercises of a highly creditable character. After prayer 

 by Rev. Mr. Hines, of lola, Kansas, the committee on obituaries, through 

 its chairman, Mr. Holman, reported the death of Z. F. Ragan, of Inde- 

 pendence, at the age of 71; of W. M. Hopkins, of Springfield, at the age 

 of 72. The report was biographical, and paid a glowing tribute to 

 to the life, character and public services of the deceased. 



The following letter and report was received : 



St. Louis, Mo., December 5, 1888. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary Mo. State Horticultural Society, Nevada, 

 Missouri : 



Dear Sir — I regret the necessity of informing you that I cannot at- 

 tend your present meeting. I have been very ill during the past three 

 weeks, and my physician advises me not to risk undertaking a trip to 

 Nevada at the present time. 



Prof. Niphcr has sent you some copies of a paper in the Missouri 

 Weather Services. Will you kindly distribute them among the mem- 

 bers of your society ? The paper includes about all that can be said in 

 favor of the system of state weather services. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



G. A. WEBER, 

 Ass't. Sug't. Sig. Corps, and Dir. Mo. W. S. 



