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Officers
S. M. Barker, President.
R. W. Furnas, Secretary.
L. A. Kent, Treasurer.

Board of Managers
Ed. McIntire, Chr.,
E. N. Grennell,
M. Dunham,
H. R. Nicodemus,
J. R. Dinsmore.

State Board of Agriculture
State Fair held at Lincoln, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889.
1886, Sept. 10th to 17th.

Secretary's Office.

Brownville, Nebraska, 4/15 1886.

Prof. Chas E. Bessey,
Dear Ind. College,
Lincoln, Neb.

Dear Sir:

Referring to yours 12[th?] I am
in a sorry condition to suggest
anything just now. My wife has
been very ill since 18th Feby, requiring
my hourly attention day &
night. I have had but two
nights unbroken rest since
the date named, that when called to
[?] and Lincoln last mo.
she will never recover. All
we can do is to make her
comfortable as possible. She is
perfectly helpless, cannot turn
over in bed without assistance,
she was taken with comgestive chill,
followed by pneumonia, and again
by complete paralysis of the whole