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Volume V-.
.Number 7
Des Moines, Iowa, July, 1900.
Iowa :N"ationat
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( - - - -DES MOINES, IOWA
H . S. BU TLE R,
HARRY T. BLACKBUR N,
V-Pres.
Cashi er.
G . A. DISSM0RE, Ass' t Cashi e r.
Capital $100,000.00.
Solicits Accounts of Banks and Bankers and
extends to depositors every facility consistent with conservative banking. Designated reserve agent for National Banks.
DIRECTORS:
Homer A. Miller,
H. S. Butler,
E . K . Butl er,
N. T . Guernsey,
B . F . Kauffman,
Geo. A. Diss more,
E. H. Hunter,.
Frederick Field .
C. W . Johns ton,
H. T. Black burn .
DEPOSITS.
July 14, 1899 ........... .................$493 ,022 63
July 13, 1900 ............................... 955,5!8 31
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GEO. E . PEARSALL, CASHIER.
GEO. COOPER. ASS'T CASHIER
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DAVENPORT, lOWA.
Marquette Building, CHICAGO, ILL.
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w UNDIVIDED PROFITS,
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j DEPOSITS, - - - 2,842,000.00 j
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2ND VICE-PRESIDENT .
CASHIER.
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Ass' T. CAsHrnR.
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ANTHONY 5URDICK, President.
LOUIS HALLE:R, Vice-Presidmt.
HE:NRY C. STRUCK, JR., Cashier.
OlTO L. LADE:N5E:RGE:R Teller.
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EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS
]AMES B. F ORGAN,
President.
GEORGE D. BOULTON,
Vice-President.
RICHARD T. STREET,
Cashier.
H OLMES HO GE,
Assistant Cashier.
l"RANK E. BROWN,
Assistant Cashier.
CHARLES N. G ILLETT,
Assistan t Cashier.
E MILE K. BOISOT,
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FRANK 0. WETMORE,
CAPITAL,
B. F. EDWARDS, Cashier.
C. L . MERRILL, Asst. Cashier.
W I TH CAPITAL , SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF
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J.C. VAN BLARCOM, Vice-Pres,
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J. G . ROUNDS, President Citizens National Bank. Des Moines, Iowa .
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S O'DONNELL. President Citizens National Bank. New Philadelphia, O .
WM. A GRAHAM, Cashier Citizens Bank, Sidney, Ohio,
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F M. KUDD, Cashier L Rudd & Sons Bank. Bronson, Michigan.
M. D. WAGNER, President _Hur~n Coun~y Bank, Sand Be ach, Michigan .
JNO. W. FAXON, Ass't Cashier F1r:;t National Bank, Chattanooga, Tenn
G . R . MOORE, President State Bank, Jackson, Minn .
WM. WARNOCK, Banker, Almyr, Ontario, Canada.
JOHN H . LEATHERS, Cashier L ouisvill~ Banking Co ., Louisville, Ky.
C. F . SMITH, Cashier First National Bank, McGregor , Texas .
W. L. MOYER, Cashier Marcus Daily Bank, Butte, Montana.
A. E SPAULDING, Cashier .\insworth Savm~s Bank, Ainsworth, Iowa.
EDWIN GOODALL, Hackemack, N. J
F ELGORE , Cashier Bank of Winchester, Kansas.
f D GEKL :\CH . Cashier First National Bank. Chester, Illinois
L P HILLYER, Cashier American National BanK:, Macon, Ga.
CHAS H. MOO KE , Assistant Cashier National Bank of Commerce, Kansas, City_. Mo .
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VOLUME V.
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NUMBER
DES MOINES, IOWA, JULY, 1900.
PER ANNUM,
. THE NORTHWESTERN BANKER,
PUBLISHED BY
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SINGLE COPIES,
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increase over 1894 of 77,329; the savings bank
depositors have increased from 28, 1~04, to 53,208.
While the number of depositors incr"eased more than
77,000, the aver.ige deposits grew from $369 to $405.
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to declare that the
money question is settled. So long as Bryan's DemoA monthly Bankers' Journal , devoted to the interests of bankers in the
cratic party is pledged to the 16 to I heresy the silNorthwest.
ver question will remain a menacing factor in busiAll communications and news items of local interest to bankers in the
territory are requested .
ness, impairing credit and destroying values. The
Entered at Des Moines, Iowa, as second class Matter.
country is more seriously threatened now than in
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1896. Then the declaration for 16 to I was the declaration of a fenzied faction of the convention, after
one of the most emotional outbursts in convention
EDITORIAL.
history. Allowances were made for the excitement.
The usual midsummer dullness has reached the The conservatives bolted. They controlled the party
banks of the Northwest with the re.suit that there is machinery 'in the important states. But this year it
very little demand for money even at the prevalent is different. After four years of calm deliberation,
low rates. Many savings banks are refusing additional the Demo-Pop. party specifically re-affirms its devotion to free silver. The convention was united and
deposits.
harmonious. The party goes into the campaign
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with control of the party machinery of every state,
The indications are that banker Gilbertson will be
with
splendid organiza!ion, and with a Luge and rapnominated for the Iowa State Treasuryship with but
idly
growing
campaign· fund. By drawing attention
little opposition. His banking experience makes
away
from
the
main issue they hope to win. The
him especially well fitted for the position. 1
campaign may not be as spectacular as in '96 but
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it will be more effective. The friends of sound
The majority of banl<s in the Northwest are owned money and national honor have a greater fight on
by farmers, men who have gained a competence in than in 1896. It is foolish to belittle the contest or
farming and stock raising and who have invested a be drawn away from the main issue. Free silver
part of their surplus earnings in bank stock in their means repudiation and national disgrace. The conhome town. The "money power" oft he Northwest test of '96 showed that the business men of the
is the farmer and he has been growing in power at a
country counted national integrity above party sucmost remarkable rate during the last few years.
cess. Let them not this year be led away by the
imperialist fetish, which, though an important issue,
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In I 894 the total deposits of Iowa's statement is of little importance in comparison with the farbanks were $38,710,980. Last year they were $73,798,- reaching and disastrous effect the simple election of
487. The national banks had risen from $16,754,41 I candidates pledged to free silver would have
to $29,071,376; state from $9,130,164 to $18,358,151; upon the business and industrial conditions of the
loan and trust from $1,033,492 to $4,2 11,852, and sav- present time. Among working men, as well as busiings from $11,792,913 to $22,156,908. In Iowa the ness men, regardless of party, the great question to
wage earners and farmers use the state banks and decide is whether they desire a change from existsavings banks more than the national banks. It will ing conditions to the doubt, demoralization, contracbe noticed that the combined accounts of the state tion, and ruin that would follow the election of a
and savings banks in 1894 exceeded those of the ' candidate whose hobby is free silver. If the gold
national banks by only $4,000,000. 'In 1899 the ex- standard is to continue the believers in honesty in
cess was more than $11,000,000. The number of business, must-, this year, bury free silver so deep
bank depositors in the state for 1899 was 182,101, an that even the Peerles's can not find the corpse.
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his scholarly and comprehensive address on, "The
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the highest honors of the class of 1874.
In his earlier years before entering upon his chosen
profession of the law, he was a teacher and was later
engaged in editorial work. But his chosen profession
was law and he went into it as he went to college,
determined to succeed. That was more than twenty
years ago and he has long since come to prominence
in that profession, until now he is recognized as one
of the keenest, most scholarly, and prominent lawyers
of the state. Not less high in his standing as a man.
In Council Bluffs, his home, his superior qualities of
mind and heart have won him a· loyal and enthusiasti~ following. These · have placed him before the
Republicans of Iowa as eminently qualified for the
position of Attorney General for the state.
The suggestion has been enthusiastically endorsed
by Republicans all over the state and especially
those on the western slope where Mr. Sims is best
known and his abilities appreciated. Certain it is no
man in Iowa would bring to the office more ability in
July, 1900.
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the law, a higher character, or a more painstaking
official.
We like to note the success of a man who has come
up to prominence through the force of his ·o wn ability.
There is fine inspiration in the history of such a man
and the kind that is very much needed to-day The
political demagogue may talk until he is black in the
face about the dollar being preferred to the man, but
the boy who has pluck and determination and a
willingness to work hard will continue to climb up
the ladder of prqminence, as has the Honorable
Jacob Sims of Council Bluffs.
THE MINNESOTA BA.NK~RS CONVENTION.
The eleventh annual convention of the Minnesota
Bankers Association was called to order June 19th
at Winona by president A A. Crane of Minneapolis .
'After prayer by Rev. L. L. West, captain S. R.
Van Sant, a prominent politician_ and candidate for
governor, gave a brief but cordial welcome which
was responded to by Mr. Crane, preliminary to his
presidential address.
Atter giving a brief history of the association Mr.
Crane called attention to the remarkable growth in
membership experienced during the past year, over
100 members having been added since the last convention, making a total present membership of 262.
The president then gave a review of the present
·f inancial and industrial conditions. - He said: The
prospects at present are the best they have been for
years. There is a general feeling of prosperity and
security throughout the country. Sound money is
thoroughly established, and the silver craze is at an
. end. The financial vexations have been practically
removed from the political field. The labor question
is the mqst disturbing feature in the business world
to-day. Prosperous times, as well ~s periods of
depression are productive of strikes.
There is a general movement among the institutions
of 'learning along lines practical and commercial.
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the ordinary business man has gained through
costly experience, sometimes through failure and
loss
The movement toward the adoption of the uniform
negotiable instrument law is gaining impetus.
In
1890 it became operative in ten s ates. The present
agitation over the repeal or amendment of the bankruptcy law of 1898, is a matter for thoughtful consideration. Mr. Crane gave an outline of the national
bankruptcy laws since 1800, when the first one passed
The main objection to the present law is the opportunity it offers to a dishonest bankrupt.
Mr. Crane .argued in favor of the group system, all
the banks in a certain district forming a group for
their mutual welfare.
He recommended that the
matter be placed in the hands of a committee to
report at the next annual meeting. He also recommended that bankers use their influence to secure
the repeal of the present burdensome revenue bank
taxes.
There has been but little work for the legislative
and protective committees during the year. The
legislative: committee will be an important one during
the comin'g year. He advised the setting aside of a
permanent fund for the prosecution of work. The
educational committee has begun ·work looking to the
establishment of a suitable course at the university.
Attention was also called to the splendid work of
secretary Chapman during the past year, and also to
the bank clerks' organization movement. The president recommended that representatives from this
organization be admitted as delegates to the Minnesota bankers Association.
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OLD FASHIONED HONOUR IN MODERN BUSINESS.
W. C. EDWARDS, EDl TOR NORTHWESTERN MILLER,
Mr. Edgar was unable to be present, but his address was presented by Mr. J. F. Foss of Minneapolis.
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He said:
Briefly, honour is plain justice.
Its
antithesis is "smartness," and the tendency of our
times, in business life at least, is to substitute for honour
with the •'u," meaning justice, and honor without it,
which is too ofteo mere "smartness" and nothing
else. I t passes for honor that a man shall have
obtained, by some means not necessarily credible,
money enough to pay his debts and accordingly
does so- that he shall have made a success, some
way or somehow, and shall thenceforth live in an
outward state of commercial cleanliness. Oldfashioned honour means that every dollar a man
accumulates must be a clean one, honestly acquired
without wringing another. An honourable business
career is truly an unbroken record of commercial
life conducted with "a nice sense of what is right,
just, and true," the measure of success not so much
in the total footing of the column as in the way it was
added up-not so much in the size of the fortune as
in the manner ot its creation.
We have come to emphasize the ·'get there" prin- ·
ciple regardless of its true meaning. We pay the
same tribute to the man who "arrives" by devious
ways, as to him who comes painfully and slowly
along the straight and narrow path achieving honour
with success. To the indiscriminate eye the reward
of successful virtue and success£ ul vice are much
alike except that the latter is usually expressed
in larger figures.
The whited sepulchre whose
whole business history is a record of deceits and
chicanery, of successful intrigue, of sharp practice
and devious roguery at first conducted on a petty
scale and gradually expanded and enlarged until it
became aggressive and Napoleonic in its scope,
finally succeeds and stands head and shoulders above
his fellows-a man of mark, who has ''got there" not
by the practice of that "nice sense of what is right,
just, and true," called honour, but all that is its oppo.site. Once "arrived" he takes his place upon life's
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Here,
quickly placed, while yet the memory of his successi ve onward steps is still fragrantly alive, while
yet his victims are in evidence, we hail him as of
the elect. We cast our wreaths at his feet and prostrate ourselves before the idea of "smartness" which
he perso 11ifies.
Triumphant smartness, you are surely much in
evidence in this year of grace and some of us,
impressed with your luxury, your ease of conquest,
your power over men and your ability to still get and
still dominate are wondering whether you do not
represent in your resplendent person and your
increasing possessions, real success; whether, after
all, figs do not grow from thistles; whether America
can present anything finer to the world than you as
the flower of her century and a quarter of national
existence. So much is modern society making of
your pretense, that sometimes we are almost deluded
into believing that you are really worthy of emulation. Your coarse features are presented to us in the
illustrated press, with the lying tale of your achievement_s. You debauch our city councils and make
decent politics a byword. You dominate our legislatures with the magic of your check-book and laws
come and go at your command. You are prominent in national politics and from your gross and
prosperous presence flees abashed and disheartened,
the old-fashioned statesman who stoo d for a principle.
Your sons in their ostentatious display ruin and
demoralize our schools and colleges. Latterly you
have added enormously to your wealth and power
by betraying such industries as you control into the
hands of trusts, thereby with characteristic cowardice
avoiding the moral responsibility which should attend
the man who employs other men. By all and through
all you go on adding to your gains and building up
your power. The huge fortune of a decade ago is
the modest competence of to-day and the rich man of
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Jas. W. Raymond , Pres .
Wm . H . Dunwoody, Vice-Pres.
Gilber t G. Thorne, Cash
Wm . Collins, Ass't Cash.
General Statement at Close of Business June 29 , 1900.
LI AB ILITIES.
RESOURCES .
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Capital __ ____ __ __ _____ ___ ____ ____ ___ __________ ____ _$\,000.000 00
Surplu s ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ ____ ____ 2:i0,000.00
Undivided Profits __ __ __ __ ____ ____ ____ __ _____ _ ___ ___
50,000.00
R eserved for Un earn ed Interes t, Taxes and Continge ncies--- --- -- ---- - - ---- --- -- - ----- - - -- --- .. .
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Cash Balances with Banks _______ ___ _____ _____ ___ _ 1,640,390,77
- - - - $2,202,874 .73
Loans and Discounts------------ - -- - -- - --- --- -- - 3,51J9,335.56
Bond s at par ___ _ ___ _ _____ ____ ___ ______ ___ ___
200,500.00
Railway and other :Bonds _ ____ __ __ ____ ___ ___ _ ___ _
725,016.34-$ 925,516.34
u:s.
5,000 00
1,329.24
Total Liabiliti es to Stockh o lde r s ___ _____ ___ _____ _____ ___ $1,389,978.09
Notes in Circulation ____ ____ __ __ ___ ________ __ ___ __ __
3,950 00
Due to other Bank s ______ ______ ___ ___ __ ___ _________ 2,264 , 117.54
Demand Deposits ___ __ --- - ----- - --------- - ----- - -- 3,036, 10.24
Total R esources _____ _. __ ________ ___ ________ __ _____ _____ ___ _$6,694,055 87
•ro ta] Liabilities to th e Public ___________ ____ _______ _____ $5,304,077.78
Redempti o n Fund ___ ______ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ _ ____ __ __ ___ _____
Overdrafts _____ ___ ___________ ________ ____ _____ ____ ____ ___ __ ___ __
Total Liabilities _______ ________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ $6,694,055.87
Paid in Dividends since organization
...... . $1,890,000 00 I Paid for Stockholders' Taxes since organization . . .. $421,087.45
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W . G. NORTH UP, Pres id e nt Nort h S t ar W oo le n
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J.E. CARPENTER, Carpe nter-Lam b C o. , Lum b e r.
E. C. COOK, Secre tary Minnea po lis Tru st Co.
S. A. CULBERTSON, Capitali s t .
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1900 is financially greater than a dozen rich men of
1890. Triumphant Smartness, this is your era and
this land is your breeding ·place. We may feel that
some way, you are sowing the wind, the whirlwind
whereof our children must reap- but after you, the
deluge, and meantime, it is slig ht wonder that many
of us, seeing your prosperity, imagine that the rules
of old-fashioned . business honour -c an be safely
abandoned for those of new-fashioned business smartness which you have followed with such apparent
success.
The type is not new: It is as old as civilization, but
it is more in evidence in these days of prosperity,
and especially in a new and developing country such
as tbe Northwest.
"Triumphant Smartness." Is there aught in it
akin to real honour in business? God forbid! Honour and "smartness" have nothing in common. The
success which really succeeds is the business large or
small which is built up stone upon stone that "nice
sense of what is right, just, and true," called honour.
I have heard it said that a man was "too much of a
gentleman to be in business." The one who said it
probably meant that the man he referred to was either
too lazy or too impracticable to be a business man. His
conception of a gentleman was erroneous. If to be
a gentieman means to be a man of honour, then a
gentleman may engage in any legitimate business
without the slightest lowering of his standards. Further, if he will ally his principles strictly to the enterpris~ which he has undertaken he will, by practicing
that ''nice sense of what is right, just, and true" known
as honour, achieve such a permanent and enduring
success as shall keep him al ways in honoured and
grateful remembrance and ·establish his house upon
,__ a ro ck as firm as the everlasting hi~ls . To paraphrase
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T . B. JANNEY , J11nn ey, Se mple , Hill & Co .,
Whol esale H11.rd ware.
M. B . KOON, K oo n, Whe la n & He nu e tt, A tt ' ys.
FRANK H . PEA VEY, P eavey E levator Syste m .
HEN RY L. LI'rTLE, Gfrn e ra l Ma nage r Pill s buryW as h b urn F. M. Co ., L t' d.
J A MES W RA YM OND , Pres id e nt .
G ILB RR 'L' G. THORN E, Cas hi e r .
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Webster: "Although no sculptured marble should
rise to his memory, no engraved stone bear record
of his deeds, yet will his remembrance be as lasting
as the occupation he honored."
T HE BUSINESS OUTLOO K .
J. H. ECKELS.
After referring to the paper of Mr. Edgar and
emphasizing the false standard of honour too often
met with in political as well as business life, Mr.
Eckels said in part:
We have witnessed within six years some strange
situations. We have passed through an extraordinary panic because of, its far-reachin g effect, and no
portion of the country escaped. _Just prior to 1892
there had been a great expanse of trade, and following that there was depression and great loss. The
cause was too great extravagance in public and
private expenditures, too much speculation, t oo
much over-trading and too much bad financial legislation. The culminating cause was that this country
had been indulging in financial heresies, and the
passage of a law which would have placed this country
on a silver basis had it been allowed to remain. It
brought financial ruin. The discussion of the question
led to the decision of the voters at the election of
I 896, which placed this country on the same basis as
the other great commercial countries of the world.
The other contributing causes to that prosperity
were a retrenchment ig the expenditures, public and
private, and the fort·1nate position which this country
occupied relative to its manufactured products.
This country was able to furnish the other countries
with the things they needed . This prosperous condition has lasted to the present time. This has led
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to the new financial bill. There has been crystalized
into law the convictions of the voters. In the future
there will be no question as to what this country will
· liquidate its o~ligations in when they are presented.
With all this extraordinary development it was
impossible that there should not be too sudden
development, too high prices, too sudden increase
in the volume of our business. There has been too
great expansion of trade within the past two years.
Manufacturers have been unwise in the advance or
prices. The question is whether this business prosperty is a substantial thing. I believe that it is, but
I believe that the producers and manufacturers must
sell at lower prices and do a larger volume of business. The manufacturers and producers of this
country soon will, if they have not already done so,
capture the markets of the world. We are better
able to manutacture at cheaper prices than any other
nation, and we will hold our foreign markets and increase them.
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The manufacturer may be criticise~ for another
thing, that he does not give the people the information of what he is· doing and how he is doing it.
Manufacturers may close their factories without a
day's notice, to the disturbance of the public mind
and great disturbance among the employes.
I have believed that no harm could come from the
combination of capital, providing there is honesty
and capability in the conduct of the combination.
Combinations of capital are just as essential in the
evolution of trade as the expansion of railways.
The difficulty with ,.the public is that they lose sight
of the business element in looking at the speculation
which may result.
The stock market is not the
proper criterion of the business conditions of 'a
country.
In spite of the rise and fall on the stock
markets, the country has gone through it all with but
one large failure.
There is less activity in the iron
and steel markets today, but there is greater activity
in almost all other lines, and the outlook continues
· to be the best. I prefer to take the optimistic rather
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than the pessimistic view.
It is always found that
the strength of this country in its darkest da) s is far
and away ahead of its weakness. If we look at the
resources of this country of all kinds, developed and
undeveloped, we will find that there is reason for
optimism, and we can approach the future with a
sublime confiqence that th is country will continue to
advance in all that makes a people great and a country
glorious.
I believe that this country shall be the
great creditor nation of the world.
We have been
forced to recognize the fact that the great resources
of the country are west and not east of the Mississippi nver. We must recognize that the prosperity
of one section of the country is but the reflection of
the condition in every other section; In the finances,
as well as in the commerce of the world, there must
be a complete solidarity of int(»"ests.
. In this country today there is general prosperity,
although there may be some local disturbances. The
effect of the presidential election this year, I venture
to say, will be felt to a less degree than heretofore.
The business outlook of today is such that all can
enter the year with confidence of success.
WEDNE S DAY, JUNE 20TH.
The first address of the second day's proceedings
was delivered by Prof. James Paige, of the University of Minnesota, on the subject:
THE NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT LAW.
Prof. James Paige said in part: "Bills and notes
form the major portion of the flexible currency of
this country. The rights of the bankers are varied.
There is the common law, the statute law of both the
States and United States. The effect of this is hard
to determine. A banker must know the common law
as interp eted by the different states throu~h which a
note passes, and also the statute laws of the states.
Many questions arise by reason of the conflict of laws.
The chaos of the situatic;:m became 3.pparent to English bankers some twenty years ago, when her colonial business forced it upon her. This led to a general
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law, for all the colonies, which embodies the common
law. Mr. Paige followed the attempts that have been
made in this country to have a uniform law in the different states, which has succeeded to some extent. It
has become a law in sixteen states and has received
the approval of many high authorities. The commerce is ,most secure, as it is protected by the interstate commerce, but the negotiable instruments are
not secure, Many of the discrepancies of the different state laws were pointed out, which would be done
away with by a uniform law. The law desired in this
country i~ one following closely after the law of England. Mr. Paige indicated many of the desirable
'features. Uniformity of law, he said, would always
be one of the most potent forces in preserving national
integrity and life.
Following the address several questions were
asked, and answered by Mr. Paige.
The discussion
developed the fact that the matter of endorsement is
the most marked change desired.
THE NEW FINAN CIAL BILL.
S. R. Flynn, president of the Second National
Bank of St. Paul, gave a very interesting address on
" The New Financial Bill. '' The new financial bill,
he said, was not a gold measure. The House bill
placed the financial system ·firmly upon a gold basis,
but the bill adopted in conference does not give a
gold base. It transforms U' nited States notes into
permanent gold certificates, treasury notes into temporary gold certificates. And by transforming the
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United States notes into gol-::1 certificates it indirectly
provides for the redemptio? of national bank notes in
gold by the banks. But for the rest? All bonds except those issued under the provisions of this actthat is the _refunding bonds -are left nn a coin base
and can be redeemed in silver.
Continuing, he said:
"It may be conceded in
defense of the act that an inferior money can be maintained at a parity with a superior money so long as
the volum e of the inferior money is not greater than
domestic uses can absorb.
But the instant domestic
rlemand is insufficient then the parity must disappear.
However, it must again be insisted that there is but
one certain way to maintain a parity between the different forms of money. They must be exchangeable,
denomination for denomination.
" It may be said that all the bonds except the 4-'s
will be refunded and that the redemption problem will
not have to be faced for thirty years. This may be
so. But a staunch g old secretary in an· official circular reserved the undoubted authority given him by
the act to suspend the refunding scheme at his discretion and pleasure.
Certainly a silver secretary
could not be blamed for asserting the same authority
nor for using it.
'' It seems to be gen erally supposed that this new
financial bill breaks the endless chain. It does not
absolutely bre ak it, but renders its operation more
difficult. It remov es the promise of inordinate profit
in forcing bond issues and so takes away the temptation. "
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U. S. Bonds,
Overdrafts ,
Banking tiouse.
Other Real:- Estate,
Stocks and Securities,
Premiums Paid,
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Undivided Profits,
Circulation.
Dividend Unpaid
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Total
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250 ,000 00
4,567.90
63,541.29
5.430 00
20,996.20
7,250 00
825.195 12
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50,000.00
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The speaker did not consider that .state banks in
towns of le8s than three thousand population would
be benefited in organizing as national banks under the
new .law, as national banks could not loan on real
,estate, and this was the most profitable business with
a country bank.
The amendments to the ba11.king law, and the profit on circulation were touched upon.
Mr. Flynn called attention to the fact that the
increase in circulation as the result of the passage of
the financial bill had not been nearly so large as
anticipated. He said:
"The possible increase March 14, 1900, was $399, 933,300.50. Up to June 14th the aggregate capital of
national banks had increased $8, 4~5,000 -- swelling
the aggregate of circulation possible on that date, in
. equal amount. And yet up to June 14th but, 51,997,910 had been adde~ to national bank circulation.
"It will be seen that four months after the passage of the act Mr. Cornweli's estimate of _immediate
increase had not been reached.
"The cautious banker is beginning to realize ~hat
the destructive effect of such vast inflation on interest rates would very much more than offset the profit
on the amount actually invested in bonds.
"The country at large did not need nor desire the
permitted inflation. When money goes begging at
- 4 per cent. no one can say there is ndt enough of it
• for all proper purposes.''
The speaker congratulated the bankers that the
bill had not fastened the pernicious asset banking
currency upon the financial system.
The speaker suggested· the following as beneficial
amendment. to the new financial law: "That all
United States notes and treasury notes be retired or
converted into old certificates. That circulation bonds
so designated, to be used for no other purpose, and
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drawing r _¼ per cent. interest, be issued direct by
the government at par to national banks. That these
bonds and these alone shall be accepted for circulation purposes.
That there shall be a minimum and
maximum amount of circulation required and allowed.
That convenient depositories shall be designated
where in times of currency famine b~nks may secure
shipping currency at a minimum cost by depositing
coin or circulating bonds therefor.
That circulation
bonds must be registered and ,cannot be transferred
except back to the government, thus avoiding the possibility of a premium
That national banks be permitted to include national bank notes in their reserve.
That gold redemption of all forms of money and all
classes of bonds be provided for.
That national
banks located in towns having less than 25,000 popu
lation be permitted to loan not more than 20 per
cent. of their available funds on farm lands."
In conclusion the speaker said: " Let the banking fraternity shake off the shackles of prejudice and
distrust. Aid in the emancipation of the masses
from the demagogue. Let your light be seen. The
people are beginning to realize that you are not altogether devils incarnate, and the politicians realizing
this have thrown you a sop. Strive on and make
your influence for good felt throughout the land. Do
n'ot remain silent when you see the business interests
of the country in peril. Assert your right to be heard .
Persist in your demand for a w:ise and adequate financial system. Do these things and your next sop will
have more substance to it than the one we are now
endeavoring to digest.''
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The president and secretary were authorized to
furnish credentials to six members of the association
who will attend the meeting of the National Bankers
July,
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Association, which will meet at Richmond, Virginia,·
in October. This is to be done later when it is determined w.ho will be able to attend.
The following committee of state bankers was
appointed to meet when they choose and have charge
of such business as is of particular importance to the
state bankers, representing the different congressional districts: First, C. A. Hubbard; Second,
George R. More; Third, J. Hammer; Fourth, H.
Shepard; Fifth, F. A. Charnberlain; Sixth, W. E.
Lee; Seventh, L. Ellington.
The educational committee composed of Messrs.
Anderson, Crane and DuToit was continued for the
ensuing year.
The matter of continuing the publication of the
association's Bulletin was referred to the executive
committee, with the recommendation that it be continued during the coming year.
The election of officers resulted as follows:
President-James C. Hunter, Duluth.
Vice-President-]. R. Mitchell, Winona.
Secretary- ] oseph Chapman, Jr., Minneapolis.
Treasurer- -George H. Prince, St. Paul.
The terms of the following as members of the
executive council expired: J. C. Hunter of Duluth,
C. J. Jaffray of Minneapolis, and Joseph Lockey of
St. 'Paul. The following were elected for the term
of three years: O. H. Havill of St. Cloud, to succeed Mr. Hunter; A. A. Crane of Minneapolis, to
succeed Mr. Jaffray, and Mr. Lockey was reelected.
The time and place for holding the next annual
convention will be determined by the executive
council, but it will probably be at Duluth next June
or July,
Resolutions were adopted: Thanking the bankers
and people of Winona for their generous hospitality;
creating a protection fund of $ 2 50 and adding thereto
each year $ r.oo for each member; asking the repeal
of the internal revenue law; the repeal or modi,fication of the national bankruptcy law to afford the
protection_against dishonest debtors ; the passage by
the legislature of the negotiable instrument law; and
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LIABILITIES.
L oans,
- $204,337.89
Capital,
Suq:>l us,
Cas h and Sight E x- , 32,981.94
Di vidend U n pai d,
chang-e,
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D ep osits
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Re venue Stamps
78.85
T otal,
$244,158.03
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R . G. HUL E TT , Ass 'T CASHIER.
for a committee to investigate and report as to the
advisability to organize the association into what is
known as the group system.
COUNCIL AN D CO MM I TTEE R EPO RT.
Secretary Chapman read the report of the executive
council, the principal feature of which was a suggestion "that the dues of banks whose capital aggregates
$ 100,000 or over, should be raised from $ 5.00 to at
least $ 10.00 per year."
Chairman Anderson of the committee on education
reported that an effort is being made with the regents
o.f the university looking to the establishment of a
financial course in the state university. The committee could report no success, and recommended
that a new committee be appointed to further the
project.
Jos. Chapman, Jr., of Minneapolis. secretary of the
association, submitted the followin g report:
I cong ratulate the association upon its healthy
condition. Never have we come to an annual meet- ·
ing with as large a membership as we do at the present time; never have the bankers of our state shown
more interest in our association. At the tenth convention, held in Minneapolis last year, we had 160
members on our roll. To-day we have 259. The
increase is largely the result of hard, conscientious
work on the part of your preside!1t and members of
of the executive council.
There were in our state the first of the year, 538
banks and banking institutions, divided as follows:
Io Trust Companies, l l Savings Banks. 70 National
Banks, 188 State Banks, 259 Private Banks . Our
membership includes, 3 Trust Companies, 3 Savings
Banksi 59 National Banks, 82 Private Banks, 108
State Banks.
In my opinion we h ave just started to grow, and
by another year we s ha ll have a members hip of 400.
Our membership represents a total bai;iking capital
of $23,928.000, while there is employed in all the banks
in Minnesota $32,655 .000. Our deposits amount to
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Loans and Discounts ,
Other Stocks and Bonds,
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U.S. Bonds to secure Circulatron, .
Overdrafts.
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Real Estate, .
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Due from Banks and U.S. Treasurer,
Cash,
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.
Total,
$15.930,249.87
870,995.17 $16,801,245.04
700,000,00
11,455.56
40,850.39
$7,009,658°,85
6,709,363.60 14,319,022.45
$31,872,573,44
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JOHN C. BLACK, President.
ISAAC N. PERRY, Vice-President.
GEORGE M. REYNOLDS, Cashier.
IRA P. Bo:WEN, Assistant Cashier.
BENJAMIN s. MAYER , Assistant Cashier.
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Capital Stock Paid in ,
Surplus Fund,
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Undivided Profits, .
Circulation, .
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Deposits, .
Total ,
The report of the treasurer showed receipts of
$1,725.55, with $837-48 disbursed.
REGISTRY LIST AT MINNESOTA CONVENTION.
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400,000.00
317,964.31
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A genernl fo,eign exchange bosiness t<ansacted. Trn,elm' cicculac lette,s of mdit
issued, available in all parts of the world.
$97,440.000, while those of all the banks of the state
amount to $110,843.000. Our loans and discounts
ar~ $83,477,000, out of a total of all banks in the
state of $97,0.36.000.
No assistance was asked of your secretary in prosecuting criminals, so the inference is that we were
not "touched" during the past year.
A . A Crane,
James C. Hunter,
H. P <ieorge
C L Merrill,
A H. Macfarlane,
.J F . B, Foss,
L Ellington .
0 . E. Naegele,
C L. Dixon,
C T. Jaffray,
Robt. W . Akin,
Hudson Wilson ,
H. A . Baldwin ,
0 H HavilL
Geo. A UuToit,
W . Collins,
A. C. Anderson,
Perry Harrison,
E. 0 Hammer,
A. M Baumbach .
George J. Kradley,
Fred W . Dean,
C. D Griffith.
C D Griffith
:Fr. C. Thornton.
L L Mathews
James H Eckels
N. F Baufield.
William L. Lee,
N. F. Baufield,Jr
Elmer Bigham,
C H. March,
C. H . March,
0. P . Rask
John Jay Abbott.
B F. Farmer,
Geo. Pfefferkorn,
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N at'l Bank of ( 'ommerce, . Minneapolis
American Exchange Bank, Duluth
Merchants' National Bank . St Paul
Nat'l Bank of Commerce. - St Louis , Mo
A. R. Macfarlane & Co ,
Duluth
Nicollet National Bank.
Minneapolis
Scandia American Bank,
<~rookston
Germania Bank
Minneapolis
First National Bank,
Cloquet
First National Bank.
Minneapolis
State Bank.
Anoka
Citizens' National Bank,
Faribault.
Redwood County Bank,
{ Redwoi~lls .
Merchants' National Rank, 8t . Cloud.
Carver < 'ounty Bank,
Chaska,
Northwestern Nat'l Bank,
Minneapolis
~t Paul National Bank,
St. Paul.
Security Bank of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Meeker County Bank,
Litchfield.
First National Bank,
Wadena
Bank of Norwood,
Norwood.
Dean Bros & Co..
Minneapolis
Merchants' Kank .
Sleepy li:ye
Citiz~ns' state Bank ,
Montevideo.
Ban of Benson
Benson
Bank of Mazeppa,
Mazeppa.
Commercial National Bank, Chicago.
First National Bank
Austin
Nat'l Bank of Long Prairi~, LongPrairie
First National Bank,
Austin
Ilank of New York Mills,
N. Y. Mills.
Security Bank of Zumbrota Litchfield.
Becker County State Bank, Litchfield.
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The Am Trust & Sav'gs Bank, Chicago
First State Bank,
S Spring
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Valley.
Citizens' State Bank,
St. Charles.
F . F Murray,
L. H. Ickier,
Joseph Lockey,
Jesse McIntyre,
W K. Barnes,
John O' roole,
A. C Buswell .
J. W . Wheeler,
L. Whitmore,
E. A. Jewett,
John Brandt,
J. E. Perton,
J . P. Wallace,
Merchants' Bank,
Nor. Branch
American Exchange Bank,
St . Paul.
~at'l German-American Bank,St . Paul.
Red Wing First Nat'l Bank, H.ed Wing.
Alexandria
Douglas County lhnk,
J S Morton & Co.,
Elysian.
Blue Earth
City Bank,
City.
First Nat'l Bank,
Crookston .
First National Bank.
Wabasha.
First National Bank,
Fergus Falls
Murdock.
Bank of Murdock,
Kerkhoven.
Bank of Kerkhoven,
The J.P. Wallace Bank, ?S Pelican
Rapids.
j Cannon
Citizens' Bank,
Falls.
Cliff W Gress,
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A D. Ober,
Chatfield Bank,
Chatfield.
I'. ~- Slingerland, National Bank of Kasson,
Kasson.
G orge. K. Uoty, First National Bank,
Rochester.
F. H . .Kussell,
First National Bank.
Eyota
S. R. Flynn.
Second National Bank,
St. Paul.
Hurd & Co .,
Citizens' Bank,
Springfield .
F N. Steve ns,
Sanborn Bank,
Sanborn .
L Hedding,
State .Bank of Lamberton.
Lamberton.
George B Lane, Self.
Minneapolis
J . W . Rice,
Lewiston Bank,
Lewiston.
\V . U. Kirk,
Capital Bank,
St. Paul
C. C Hay,
American Banker,
New York
John M. Haven, State Bank of Waverly,
Waverly.
H . :A. Shedd,
Osakis State Bank,
Osakis.
C. H.. Blair,
C. R Blair & Son,
Eyota.
C. H . Neeb,
Farmers Exchange Bank,
Lewiston.
J. R Mitchell,
Winona Deposit Bank,
Winona.
E F Greening, Exchange Hank,
Gd. Meadow
C E. Oakley,
C. K Oakley & Co ,
Buffalo.
R. A. Whitney,
8ank of Stephen,
Stephen .
F. Willius,
The ,tate Savings Bank,
~t Paul
Clarkfield
C S Oswoll,
Clarkfield State Bank,
W. H. Putnam.
Bank of Pierce, Simmons & Co.Red Wing .
C K. Gilbert, · Bank of Glencoe,
Glencoe
Herman Sheffer, Union Bank,
St. Paul.
H H, Wells,
Preston Bank,
Preston.
C. A Hubbard,
Lake City Bank of Minn.,
Lake City.
John K. Brown, Bank of Jackson,
Jackson.
Jas G. L{obertson, Bank of Rushford
Rushford,
Wm. G. Frank,
State Ba·nk of Springfield,
Sprin gfield,
G s. li~ichmiller, State Bank of Hector,
Hector.
A. C Goodi.ng,
Union National Bank,
Rochester
Charles 8radford, Citizens State Bank,
Monticello
F. A. Rising,
Treas . Winona Savings Bank, Winona .
Theo Wold,
Merchants Bank,
Winona
A . W . Laird,
Second National Bank,
Winona
L . Kelboyer,
Chippewa Co unty Bank,
Montevideo.
K Galbraith,
Third National Kank,
St.Louis, Mo
W. ~ Hains .
National Bank of Commerce, Minneapolis
Graceville.
W. H. Baland,
Big Stone County Bank,
Jos.Chapman,Jr., Sec'y Minn. Bankers' Assn, Minneapolis
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CASH CAPITAL $500tooo.oo.
H. LISCHER.
JENS LORENZEN.
T. A. MURPHY.
STATEMENT, JUNE 30, 1900.
ASSETS.
Loans ............................................ $5,710,456.06
593,~7.23
Cash on Hand and in Banks.......... ..... ..... ...
110 , 7_-49
Cash in Transit .. ..................................
Real Estate and Furniture , Fixtures.... ...........
74 976 64
Total Assets.................................. $6,489,567.42
LIABILITIES .
Deposits .... ---· ........ --·- -··- .. ---- . . .... . . . . . . . $5,737,36o.41
500,000.00
Capital Stock ............. ·--- ........ --·· .... ·----100,000 oo
Surplus .. --·.·---'·· .... --·· .... __ ...... --·· ...... ____
152,207.01
Undivided Profits ..... ·--- ........ -·-· .. --·- ____ ....
Total Liabilities ____ ........ --··.............. $6,489,567.42
DIRECTORS.
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H. H . ANDRESEN.
P, H. ORIOOS.
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CHARLBS N. VOSS.
L. WAHLE.
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H. LISCHER, Vice- Pres.
H. H . ANDRESEN, President.
J. F. BREDOW, Ass·t Cash.
CHAS . N. VOSS, Cashier.
IOWA NEWS AND .NO'l'ES.
This year's convention was the best ever held by
Every Iowa bank not now a member of the State
the association. There was a large attendance and Association slwuld remit five dollars to the treasurer, L.
The annual bankers' F. · Potter, of Harlan, and "get in.'' As a matter of
considerable enthusiasm.
convention is growing in favor each year, among the prqftt and loss in money you can't afford to stay out.
bankers' wives and daughters, as well as the bankers
themselves.
There is talk of starting a bank at Rose Hill,
The second annual bankers' excursion was taken Mahaska county.
immediately after the convention. A large party
The Dubuque Savings Bank had deposits of over
took the steamer ''Quincy" at Winona, and made the
$312,000 June 30th.
trip to St. Louis and return. A most enjoyable trip
The State Bank at Williams is preparing to erect
is reported. These annual outings are growing in a fine bank building.
popularity among the bankers.
The Citizens National Bank of Lyons has gone
The officers of the association for last year have into voluntary liquidation.
r~ason to feel proud of the growth in membership
· The new Virginia- bank has been enlarging and
and general interest during the year just closed.
improving its banking room.
Secretary Chapman has made his "calling and elecThe interior of the State Bank of Stafford has
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tion sure" by becoming indispensable. He has given a been much improved by papering, etc.
great deal of time and energy to association matters
D. J. Patteet president of the First National Bank
and he certainly [\lerits the thanks and help of every of Perry, is at Okoboji with his family.
member.
The Second National Bank of Dubuque had $80,000
The association will probably adopt the group surplus and undivided profits, June 30th.
system next year. It ought to prove a success in
The Citizens Bank of Mediapolis have increased
their capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000.
Minnesota.
The Farmers Savings Bank of Keota say the crop
in Keokuk county was never better.
prospect
It is possible that bcfo e 1901 the Russian governMiss Blanche Clark, assistant cashier of the Ogden
ment may establish in New York City a branch of
the Imperial Bank of Russia. Such a bank would State Bank, has been visiting at Minneapolis.
not do a aeneral banking business, being mainly a
The Citizens State Bank of Dunlap is being
disbursing office for the Russia~ ~overnment_ whic_h improved by the addition of a fine brick vault.
annually disburses about ten m1ll1on dollars m this
A Mason City paper says that a Lake City banker
country for various kinds of supplies and materials.
has put up $1,000 on the election of McKinley.
The first three months after the new financial law
The First National Bank of Manning has recently
was in effect 362 applications were received by the
comptroller of the currency for the organization of increased its circulation from $10,000 to $25,000.
national banks, with a combined capital of over
A. C. Miller, cashier of the Home Savings Bank
$16,000,000. 280 of the above have capital of less of Des Moines is taking a much needed vacation.
than $50,000. During this time the actual number of
Mrs. C. E. Bale, of Manson, wife of the cashier of
banks organized was I 59, with combined capital of
the Calhoun County Bank, died there recently.
of
about $9,000,000. Since the middle of March there
Jacob F. Blackman, assistant c1.shier of the First
has been an increase of about $35,000,000 in amount
of bonds on deposit to secure circulation and about N ation·al Bank of Stuart, was married in June to Miss
$52,000,000 increase in the amount of national bank Della Herriott, only daughter of Iowa's State treasurer.
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Write us, THE NAUMAN COMPANY, 315-327 Cedar Street, Waterloo, Iowa.
The Des Moines National Bank has added $15,000
to its surplus, now having $30,000 in surplus accounl.
Cashier B. R. Brundage, of the Bank or Rudd, was
married June 6th to Miss Mary E. Bissell, of Dexter,
Iowa.
Smith & Cramer, real estate dealers of Ames, contemplate opening a new bank there about the first of
the year.
S. H. Keer is now cashier of the State Savings
Bank at Rolfe, taking the place of C. A. Grant, who
resigned.
A June wedding at Tipton was that of Mr. K. C.
Ferman, of Cedar Rapids. to Miss Carrie M'. Elwood,
of Tipton.
The Farmers and Merchants State Bank. Marion, have declared their usual semi-annual dividend of
4 per cent.
J. W. Miles has sold out his interests in the bank
at Manchester, but does not go out of the bank until
February, 1901.
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank of Davenport declared their regular 21/z per cent. dividend
payable July 1st.
Frank G. Cook, assistant cashier of the Marengo
Savings Bank was married recently to Miss Alta
Con.rad, also of that city.
The Davenport Savings Bank had, on June 30th,
over $2,840,000 of deposits, $300,000 capital, and
over $73,00_0 undivided profits.
Frank Crepps, who was assistant cashier in the
Farmers Loan_and Trust Co.'s Bank at Alta, is taking
a vacation on account of his health.
H. H. Fitch, for several years editor of the Sac
Sun's farm department, has resigned his position to
enter the banking business at Lytton.
Arthur Reynolds, president of the Des Moines
National Bank, has gone to Europe, the Paris exposition, etc., for a two months' vacation.
The Gowrie Savings Ba-n k was to open July 1st
with S. E. Campbell, president, H. H. Hall, vicepresident and W. E. Bomberger, cashier.
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Rudolph C. Ballstadt, assistant cashier of the Calhoun County Bank at Manson, and Miss Matilda E.
Gutz of Pomeroy, were married June 28th.
The Peoples Trust and Savings Bank of Clinton,
in their last statement, show deposits nearly $3,3 00,000. Their total resources are $3.684,961. 19. .
A woman succeeded in passing several {orged
checks on Sioux City business firms, getting some
$50 in money over the amount of her purchases.
The comptroller of the currency gives Grundy
Center as the present post-office address for the
First National Bank of Dike, recently organized.
F. G. Sherman, cashier Bank of Sully, Sully, says
that the demand for money in that locality is strong.
Deposits better than ever before and still increasing.
H. B. Hawley, president of the Bankers Accident
Insurance Cor:npany of Des Moines, was thrown from
his horse Thursday, July 12th, a d quite seriously
injured.
The German Savings Bank of Davenport now has
deposits of nearly $6,000,000, with capital of $500,000. surplus, $100,000 and undivided profits of over
$152,000 .
Mr. W. H. Freeman, president of the Citizens
State Bank of Oakland, takes a trip to the Paris
exposition and other points of interest in the Eastern
hemisphere.
Sioux City bank clearings for the week ending
July 5th showed a gain of over 56 per cent. over the
~ame week in 1899. For the month of June they
were $5,239,010.14.
W.W. Brumskill, formerly with the Northwestern
State Bank of Hawarden, has purchased an interest
in the Bank of Chatsworth, Sioux county, and has
been elected cashier.
The Des Moines post-office is second to none in
the United States in receipts, taking into considerati0n
the population. June 30th closed the fiscal year.
The yearly report gives a net increase in post-office
receipts of 17.7 per cent. The total twelve months'
receipts last year were $251,525.13.
For this year
they were $295,752 36, or a gain of $44,227.23.
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CHAS. F ALDEN,
L. Lamb,
T. M. Gobble,
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Vice-President
D. Langan,
J H . INGWERS EN,
G. E. LAMB,
S. W. Gardiner,
Cashier
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Ass't Cashier j
A . M. 1ngwer.::ien.
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Hamilton County State Bank. at Webster City,
Earl Duffin, cashier of the Clayton County Bank,
Guttenberg, says business is booming-their deposits June 30th, had deposits of $510,592.30, with a capi:.
larger than ever before.
Rates are low but the tal of $100,000. They have undivided profits of
$28,658.51; cash on hand and in banks, $242,625 .58.
demand at present good.
Glidden is to have a new bank--The Farmers and
A report from Emmetsburg dated June I 8th, says
three bank robbers have been convicted there and Merchants--which will be the third bank at that
each sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. place. J. Coder, former assistant-cashier of the First
National Bank of Glidden, is said to be the moving
The fourth is being tried.
spirit.
Frank Wilson has resigned his position as cashier
At Walnut last month was celebrated the wedding
of the Jasper county Bank of Newton and will engage
of
John W. Streib to Miss Gertrude Regina Stewart.
in other lines of business. A. C. Keinath has been
Mr. Streib is head bookkeeper in the Merchants
elect~d cashier in his stead.
National Bank of Clinton, which city will be their
Articles renewing the incorporation o_f the Mar- home.
shalltown State Bank have been filed. The bank
F. E. Watkins, president of the First National
has just completed twenty years of its existence and
Bank of Hawarden, reports business in general as
its first articles have expired.
very good in that section.
Real estate values
Minister Conger now in such eminent danger in improving every day.
First class prospects of a
China was at one time an Iowa banker, having good crop in Sioux county.
opened the banking house of Conger, Pierce & Co.,
The Citizens State Bank of Oakland, of which W.
at Dexter, Dallas county, in 1874.
H. Freeman is president and E. F. Wentz, cashier,
The Jewell Record of the 5th inst. says: "Homer shows deposits of ne,arly $I 57,000 in their statement
A. Miller, cashier of the Des Moines Saving Ba_nk, of June 30th. They had at that time over $72,000
was in attendance at the meeting of the directors in cash on hand and in banks.
of the State Bank of Jewell this week.
The Bennett Savings bank, D. H. Snoke, president,
We have recently had the pleasure of a call from and Wm. Bierkamp, Jr., cashier, had deposits in June,
our old time friend Frank R. Crocker, cashier of the 1898, of $82,750, and Juue 1 3oth, 1qoo, $149,352, with
First National Bank of Chariton, who reports bus- capital, $20,000, undivided profits, $4,106. The bank
iness good in that city and with his bank.
was organized September, 1897.
The Farmers Bank and. the Bank of Titonka have
We understand that Chas. Pasche, cashier of the
combined into The First National Bank of Titonka, Iowa National Bank of Davenport, and others interwith G. S. Gilbertson, president; H. G. Gardner, ested with him, have offered to start a bank at Le
vice-president; and G. L. Dalton, cashier.
Claire, Scott county, if the citizens there will subWe understand Homer A. Miller, cashier of the scribe for a portion of the stock.
Des Moines Savings Bank has purchased a ten thouThe Farmers State Bank of Lake Mills, Winnesand dollar home on Grand Avenue-Des Moines bago county, say crops look good. Heads of wheat ,
most exclusive and beautiful residence street.
are a little short.
Corn is excellent.
Fair call for
Since the passage of the currency law, applications money; farm loans at 5 per cent., commercial paper
have been filed with the comptroller of the currency at 8 per cent.; deposits increasing.
to organize thirty-nine national banks in Iowa. FifThe Maple Valley Savings Bank at Battle Creek,
teen of these have been authorized to begin business. in statement of June 30th, show capital stock $25,000,
The Iowa National Bank of Davenport now has surplus, $25,000, profits on hand of $5,200, and deposdeposits of over $ 1,000,000, and undivided profits of its, $110,000; loans of $121,352. This bank is evi$28,000. The Iowa National seems to be going "from dently a money maker and the officers, W. H. James,
victory unto victory," as a Methodist brother would president, and H.J. Snover, cashier, to be congratulated.
say.
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Report o:f tlie Condition o:f
The Cedar Rapids National Bank of Iowa.
Comptrolle1.•'s Call, June 29, 1000.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts ... . .. . . . .. . ... . ..... . .... . . .. ....... . . $ 707,805.74
Overdrafts .. ... . . . ... ..•...... ... ......... . ........ , , . , . , . - . . . . . .
1,994.29
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U. S. Bonds, at par .. . . ................ . .............. . $230,000.00
Due from Banks . .. .. . .. . .. .. . . . .. . . .. .. .. . . . .. .. .. .. 789,553.02
Cash and U . S. Treasurer.... .......... . ......... . . . . . 134,251.28 1,153,804.30
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Total . .....
. . .. ... . ...... ... ... ... .. ........ .. ......... . $1,891,654.33
LIABILITIES.
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Capital.... .. ........ . .. ............. .... ... .... ........... . $ 100,000.00
Surplus and Profits, net ................ .. .. .. .. .. . . . .. . . .. . .. .. . .
61,148.30
Reserved for Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3,300.00
Divid ends Unpaid... . .. .. . . ... ............... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. .
12.00
Individual and Bank Deposits ............................... . . 1,561,194.03
United States Deposits .. . . .. .. . . .. .. . . .. . .. .. . .. .. .. .. . . .. .. ..
66,000.00
Circulating Notes . .. . ................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . .
100,000.00
CAREFULLY SELECTED COMMERCIAL PAPER
AND COLLATERAL LOANS.
REFERENCES:
ANY MINNEAPOLIS BANK.
We are much. pleased to find, as we have had time
for it, that the addresses made at the Iowa Bankers'
convention read well-hearing them was very inter_e sting-to read them is also to get much good from
brilliant and useful ideas expressed.
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The Security National Bank of Sioux City has filed
a claim against the estate of the late John E. Robson, who was murdered in December. 1899, in his
office in Sioux City.
The claim is for $14,000 on
notes, less a small amount that has been paid.
The Reasnor Bank at Reasnor, Jasper county, is a
private bank opened June 2d, with a capital of iro000.
Josiah Fisher is the president and W. A.
Williamson, cashier.
Mr. Williamson informs us
,that the prospect ·is good for a large business in the
future.
E. F. Wentz, cashier of the Citizens State Bank of
Oakland, is chairman, and T. K. Elliott, cashier o.f
the Commercial State Bank of Essex, succeeds himself as secretary of Group One, Iowa Bankers' Asso·ciation. We look for active work in this group the
coming year.
Chas. Creglow, cashier of the Doon Savings
Bank, says prospects were never better than at present for 3. good crop of all kinds of grain and hay.
·That part of Iowa is all right-it always is-farmers
are getting rich raising fat cattle and hogs and harvesting big crops.
Lewis Slimmer, proprietor of the Butler County
Bank at Clarksville, informs us that the demand for
money in that locality is light.
Real estate loans
range fr<?m . 5 to 6 per cent.; lands are .c onstantly
increasing in value and quite a good many farms
have changed hands lately.
C. J. Wohlenberg, cashier of the Holstein Savings
Bank, was in Sac City · Monday, having returned by
way of the Milwaukee line from Dickinson county,
where he investigated as to some farm lands alleged
to be for sale cheap. He returned to increase the
price of his Ida county h6ldings.-- S un.
J. D. Edmundson, president of the First National
Bank of Council Bluffs, has purchased residence
property in Des Moines which he expects to occupy
this fall, making the capital city his future home.
We are informed by Mr. Edmundson that he does
not expect to engage actively in business in Des
Moines.
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Special
. .... ..... . . $1,891,654.33
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The Northwestern State Bank of Hawarden has
been sold to A . G. Anderson, of Janesville, Wisconsin, Peter A. Ring, of Big Springs, South Dakota,
and Andrew Ring and A. H. Ring, who will continue
the business under the name of Northwestern Bank
of Hawarden, with Andrew Ring, cashier.
I. M. Sproull, cashier of the Wayland Savings
Bank, has accepted a more lucrative positjon with a
bank at Washington and will be succeeded by Ezra
Eicher, at present in the creamery business near
Noble. - The change will take place about September rst. Mr. Eicher is said to be a man of good
business ability.
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Mr. J. B. Alexander, assistant cashier of the First
National Bank of Storm Lake, was recently married
to Miss Edna Meyers of that city. We have known
Mr. Alexander from his· early boyhood, and while
expressing our high regard for his many sterling
qualities, we also wish him much happiness in his
new relationship in life.
Following are the recent changes in national b~nk
officers:
Frank E. Stearns, vice-president First
National Bank, Garden Grove; Theo. P. Redder,
assistant cashier First National Bank, Gladbrook;
Jas. H. Mercer, vice-president First National Bank,
Chelsea; I. C. Brubacher, assistant cashier First
National Bank, Sioux City.
The State Security Bank~ of Sioux Rapids, on
June 30th, had. a surplus of $4 ,000 and undivided
profits of $1,200; deposits, $209,000. President C. B.
Mills is keeping his bank and business up to a high
standard. We are informed he is interested in and
a director of the •State Bank of Jeffers, Minnesota,
which opened for business July 2d.
R. D. McCook, president of the Riceville State
Bank, writes us that they have organized the Citizens
State Bank of Sumner. Iowa, with $50,000 capital and
expect to open for business about September 1st, as
soon as their building is completed.
Their officers
are: Chauncy Carpenter, president, R. D. McCook,
vice-president, and Nelson McCook, cashier.
Judge Bishop, of Des Moines, has rendered a
decision in support of a demurrer, in the case of the
Iowa Central Building and Loan Association vs .
Wilson et al., in which he holds that the retroactive
clause of the new building and loan law passed by
the legislature last spring is unconstitutional, and
that contracts made under the old law are binding.
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The Ottumwa Savings Bank, in their statement of
June 30th, have deposits of over $408,000, capital
$50,000, with surplus and profits, $25,000. In June,
'97, their deposits were $241, 000; in June, '99, they
were $358,000, showing a very steady increase in business.
Frank Von Schrader is president and B. P.
Brown, cashier. It is the oldest savings bank in the
county.
The directors of the First National Bank of Shenandoah declared the regular semi-annual dividend of
six per cent. and carried forward $7,000.00 to surplus
fund. Their additions to surplus fund amount to
$20,000.00 in the last eighteen months. Thos. H.
Read is p,.re_sident and Elbert A. Read, cashier of this
fine bank and it is very evident they are hustlers for
business.
The Tripoli Savings Bank report: "In this locality
prospects are good yet oats and hay will be light on
account of drouth.
Corn good.
Farmers are all
prosperous. Interest rates 5 to 8 with an average of
6 per cent.
Deposits steadily increase. Several
farms have changed hands this year averaging at
least $50 per acre.
Business in all lines is in a very
satisfactory condition.''
Among the stockholders in the new Wesley National Bank are Geo. C. Call, of Algona; Hon. G. S.
Gilbertson, of Forest City; Thos. Daylor, retired
merchant, of Britt; Chris Maguire, capitalist, of
Kansas City; Chas. Miller, large land-holder in Kossuth and Hancock counties, of Tonica, Ill.; Hon. A.
B. Cummins, of Des _Moines; Hon. W. L. Eaton, of
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and Bankers, and beli.eving that its facilities for making
collections throughout the West and North west are as
good as the best, confidently solicits the business of
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W. T. FENTON, Vice-President and Cashier.
J . H. CAMERON, Ass't Cashier.
H. R. KENT, Ass't Cashier.
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Northwood.
June 30th, Des Moines banks had in cash and
exchange $5,202,496.97, a gain of over $9 00,000 ·over
their holdings April 10th, as then reported to the
clearing house.
June 30th, their deposits were
$14,605. 245.82, a gain of over $I ,500,000. Loans and
discounts, $10,397,021.41; an increase of $765,068.36
for the same period.
The clearings for the week
ending July 14th, were $1,517,168 52.
An exchange says: "Wm . Lang has temporarily
resigned his position at the Wilton Savings Bank,
and will spend a month in the harvest field." · The
world's best men are made of the kind of stuff
there would appear to be in this young man. The
spirit that will take Wm. Lang out of the bank into
the harvest field will push him to the front. · The
world has use for many others like him.
J. Fred Toy, assistant cashier in the Commercial
State Bank of Storm Lake, Iowa, for the past two years,
has resigned his position and will go to Sioux City,
where he will be associated with his father, James F.
Toy, president and manager of the First National
Bank and the Farmers Loan & Trust Company. Fred
W. Kammann, of Charter Oak, Iowa, will take the
position of assistant cashier at Storm Lake.
C. J. Martin, cashier of the Citizens Bank of Churdan, writes: ''We are now located in our new building and everything is in a promising condition in this
locality; our deposits have thri bled during the past
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Thirty-six Different Baths,
Massage, Electric, Shampoo, Gabinet, 'Turkish,
and every style of Electric Bath known to science.
A Swimming Pool 12X30 feet, where bathers can
enjoy a soft water' plunge
four months and money is very easy here.
Crops
were never more promising at this time of the year,
and it begins to look as if the farmers would need
high top boots to wade through the prosperity this
fall."
A very neatly gotten up comparative statement of
the deposits of the Farmers State Bank of Dyersville shows their deposits in 1896, as $6,096; in 1897,
$36,823; in 1898, $105,332; in 1899, $229,608; and
June 3otlf, 1900, $357,161.
This. is a very rapid
increase of business and a large line of deposits for
a country bank having a $ 30,000 capital.
We congratulate president Langel and cashier Zurawski on
their condition.
Since our last publication the Iowa National Bank
of Des Moines has been appointed reserve agent for
the following banks: The First National Bank of
Ft. Dodge; First National of Iowa Falls; First
National of Eldora; First National of Harlan; First
National of Guthrie Center, and the Oskaloosa
National of Oskaloosa. Since July. 1899, the deposits
of the Iowa National have increased from $493,022
to $955,528 in July, 1900.
In addition to change of officers of the Commercial Savings Bank of Milford, mentioned elsewhere.we
learn that A. L. Luick, who ha5 been assistant
cashier, has accepted the cashiershi p of the State
Bank of Belmond, and S. A. Schneider, now assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Garner,
will take his place at Milford. The comptroller has
approved the application of the Commercial Savings
to nationalize.
G. W. Mason, cashier of the Bank of Kanawha,
Hancock county, reports: "Banking business with us
very good. Deposits increasing. Our town is growing very fast.
From nothing a year ago, we now
have three hundred and fifty inhabitants. Within
four months land has increased in price $5 per acre
and is now selling at from $38 to $50 per acre. The
prospects are good for this to make a town of twelve
hundred inside of four years.
The W~terloo Reporter says:- "The Nauqian Co. is
now at work on a number of big jobs. Among the
orders recently placed with them are a bank outfit
for Cripple Cree~, Colo., another for Vinton and one
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The Equitable Bath Rooms have twenty-four separate
sleeping rooms , where people wishing to stay all night after
taking a bath will find as good a convenience as at any hotel
in the cit v. Their valuables will be taken care of and
returned t.o the owners in the morning. A nice Turkish
Bath with n eat and comfortable bed room to sleep in, a nice
shave in the morning b y good artists, and your shoes shined,
all for $ 1. Who would not take advantage of this?
Equitable Building, Sixth and Locust.
BENJ. F. PARKER,
Manager.
for Sheffield, Iowa. They also are now working on
comple te store outfits for a clothing store, hardware
store and drygoods store at Clarion, Iowa." Our
readers will find the advertis~ment of this firm in
the ,pages of the BANKER.
Jas. E. Bruce, of Anita, who was formerly owner of
the Bank of Brayton, was recently elected Grand
Junior Warden of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa.
Mr. Bruce is a very popular man and numbers his
friends by the thousand, and many of them live in
and around Brayton.
All who know him unite in
saying that the honor could not have been more
worthily bestowed, and hope some day he will be
further honored by being elected Grand Master.
The Commercial Savings bank of Milford now has
H. S. Abbott as cashier.
Mr. Abbott has, for the
past five years. been the assistant cashier, and enters
upon the duties of cashier fully equipped for effective work. P. Rasmussen is president.- They send
us a novel advertising card in the shape of a bank
pass book apparently ready, with checks and currency in its folded pages, to take to the bank for
deposit. It is one of the neatest things of the kind
we have seen.
James F. Toy, president of the Farmers Loan &
Trust Company, has completed the reorganization of
the First N r1tional Bank of Sioux City and it commenced business JulY, 1st, under the most favorable
conditions, with James F. Toy, president, and T. A.
Black, cashier. The bank has a capital of $200,000.
Its recent statement shows over $1, 000,000 deposits
and over $500,000 in cash. We will have more to
say later regarding this, our information coming too
late for mention in this number.
Clyde E. Brenton, cashier of the bank of Dallas
Center, replying to our inquiry says: "Yes we have
opened the bank of Granger, at Granger, with Chas.
R. Brenton, president; C. Ellerman and Clyde E.
Brenton as vice-presidents, and L. H. Kensly as
cashier. The bank is a private one and will have
responsiblity of $500,000. It is our intention that
the people of Granger shall have as good banking
facilities as any town in Iowa. We are now erecting
a suitable building and will soon be located permanently."
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THE NORTHWESTERN BANKER.
July, 1900.
WM. H. BRINTNALL,
President.
JOHN BROWN,
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WM. A. TI~D N,
THE DROVERS NATIONAL BANK,
UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO.
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T o B anks and Bankers Having- More or Le~s Live Stock Business,
this B ank O:ffers Excep1;ional Advanta~es, and Solicits Co1.·respondence
as t o Term s and Facilities.
T. K. Peterson, cashier Badger Savings Bank of
Badger, Webster county, informs us that their deposits have more than doubled in two years; that the
demand for money is good at 8 per cent.; farm loans
are being made at 5 and 6 per cent.; land worth about
$60 per acre; very little for sale.
He thinks money
will be more plenty as the price of farm products
is advancing and crops never looked better for this
time of the year. Corn is tasseling out in that vicinity, which, for June, was something new.
A. Dixon, president of the State Savings Bank of
Coon Rapids, writes: "We have no complaint to
make about our business.
Our deposits are now
$105,000-twice what they were two years agomoney plenty, and rates are some lower.
Demand
for money is only moderate." They have increased
their capital to $25,000 and expect . to nationalize.
Coon Rapids is in a fine section of country and there
is no doubt of the success of the State Savings Bank.
C. L. Walker, cashier of the Grinnell Savings.Bank,
died at Grinnell June 25th.
He was born in New
Hampshire and was 65 years of age. In January
last, knowing he could no longer attend to his duties,
he resigned and W. S. Walker was elected to the
position. Cashier 'VV-talker informs us that their business generally was never better, though the demand
fo r money is not sufficient to keep all their tunds
employed.
I nterest rates, 5 to 7 per cent. They
have lately remodeled their banking room, put in
steel ceiling and new fixtures.
T he Denison Bulletin of June 21st, says: "The
bankers of Iowa, at their meeting in Des Moines
last week, declared a good many things, as usual.
They are great fellows to see things that need 'fixin'.
They declared the bankruptcy law a gigantic humbug
and a nuisance, which it is in many ways.
It is a
g rand do<lge for t he dishonest debtor who wants to
use it to .let himself out of his obligations. and is a
sore pill to the creditor who wants to force some
poor debtor· into giving him a first claim on his life
a nd all his belongings."
The co ntrolling interest in the Citizens State Bank
at Sioux Ce nter has changed hands having been purchase d by Mille r & Thompson, proprietors of the
Lyon County Bank, of Rock Rapids, and Chas. Creglow, cashier of the Doon Savings Bank. The new officers of the bank are 0. P. Miller, president. Chas.
Creglow, vice-president, T. Prius, cashier, and Neal
Moun, assistant cashier. The bank starts with good
prospects.
I n that m3:gnificent farming and stock
country there is no reason why a bank with such officers as the above hould not succeed and. pay big·
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$103,000.00.
The press dispatches all over the state announcing the death of A. L. Ormsby, "a prominent banker
· and citizen of Etnmetsburg," led many to believe
that the dispatch referred to Col. E. S. Ormsby.
Among the many thus misled was the e::;ditor of this
journal. The genial colonel is not only very much
alive but if we may judge by the continued rapid
growth of his bank, the Farmers Savings of Emmetsburg, he has lost none of his old-time vigor and
business enterpri5e. The gentleman referred to in
the press dispatches was A. L. Ormsby, a brother.
Farmers Exchange State Bank of Dows has largely
increased its business of late and has reason to feel
very well satisfied with the increase as shown by
comparative statements sent us. On the 14th of
March, 1892, they had capital stock, $45,000; deposits, $30,335, with about $52,000 in loans, $3,000
in real estate and $20,000 in cash. While on March
14th, 1900, with the same capital stock, their profits
about $2,000 and deposits $98,000; loans, $111,000;
nearly $13,000 in real estate, and $21,000 in cash.
The total footings about double those of -1892.
John R. Welch, cashier 6£ First State Bank of
Mapleton, sends us some of the souvenirs which he
has been lately giving to each lady visiting his bank.
They are very handsomely decorated and embossed
fans. . We have no doubt that the number of lady
customers for a time were much increased. We think
the idea quite a commendable one. Mr. Welch writes
us they had a very satisfactory business lait year
with a good demand for money and increased deposits. Very littie land has been changing hands but
what has been sold brought good prices. He looks
for a strong demand for land t.his fall.
We recently had the pleasure of meeting Mr. W.
F. Swayze, cashier of the First National Bank of
Nevada. while he was making a business trip to .the
city. Mr. Swayze informs us that the deposits of the
First National of Nevada are in excess of $330,000.
They have paid 5 per cent. semi-annual dividends
right along and have now $50,000 capital; surplus
and undivided earnings of about $35,000.
Mr.
Swayze is also . interested in the Farmers Savings
Bank of Roland. For the latter bank they have contracted for an $8,000 bank building, one of the finest
blocks of the kind in central Iowa, considering the
size of the town. The fact, however, that they have
deposits in excess of $100,000 suggests that the business will justify the erection of such a building. Not
quite a5 many cattle are being carried by farmers of
that locality as usual, but every thing is in a prosperous condition and , the outlook far fall business
could hardly be excelled.
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1900.
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C. P. Russell is vice-president First National,
Eyota.
The City Bank at, Goodhue is now open for
business.
Crops in Blue Earth and Waseca counties are said
to be very good.
The First National Bank of Hartland is to put up
a new bank building.
S. H. Taylor vice-president and V. A. Greer assistant cashier of First National, Elmore.
C. M. Doughty, vice-president, J. A. Pearson,
assistant cashier, First National, Heron Lake.
G. H. Prince is vice-president and L. M . Bolter,
cashier, of the new First National of Cloquet
The Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis
had resources of nearly $ 7,000,000 June 30th. Their
deposits are over $5,300,000.
. The Martin County National of Fairmont, capital
$25,000, and First National of Ellsworth, capital
$25,000, are new Minnesota national banks.
The State Bank, of Young America, began business the first of the month with the following officers:
Aug. F. Truwe, president; Henry L. Simons, vicepresident; F. S. Mayer, cashier. Capital, $10,000.
Bank clearings in Minneapolis for the week ending
July 5th, showed an increase over the corresponding
week a year ago of 22 per cent.
For the month of
June they were nea1y $8,000,000 greater than for
June, .1899.
The Merchants National Bank of St. Paul had,
June 30th, nearly $4,000,000 in deposits. Their circulation is $200,000, cash and in banks $1,228,000,
with a capital of $1,000,000. They had net undivided profits of over $100,000.
The Faribault County R eqister publishes the following in its last number concerning the opinion of a
man who has been in the county for 30 years: "Elmer Franklin says that if nothing happens between
now and harvest time to injure the grain, he looks
for the b~~t crop ~~n in Faribault county for 10
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years. 'It will be the best moneyed crop, at least,'
continued he, 'and there will be a good yield.'"
Minneapolis is said to be flooded with bugus five
dollar bills. They are the one dollar silver certificates with the "r" removed with acids and "5"
very cleverly printed in its place, making a very
deceptive bill.
The following changes in national bank officers
since our last issue: Alais N eurn is now cashier of
the First National Bank, Slayton, in place of Ira
J. Hoover, who resigned to accept the responsible '
position of assistant cashier in the Leavitt & Johnson
National Bank at Waterloo, in which he was employed before going to Slayton.
Rollin B. Delano, former bookkeeper at the Merchants National Bank of St. Paul, was drowned Sunday, July rst, in Lake Minnetonka, less than a quarter of a mile from the station of Northwood. Mr.
Delano was prominent in St. Paul through his con. nection with the bank and more recently with the
Nort~western Mutual Life Insurance Company.
The State Bank of Jeffers, Cottonwood county,
Minnes·ota, was opened for business the 2nd of this
month with F. E. Duroe as president, E. M. Duroe,
vice-president, and C. R. Duroe, cashier.
The
directors are the above officers and J. J. Duroe, and
C. B. Mills, president of the State Security Bank of
Sioux Rapids, Iowa.
The town of Jeffers is fortunate in having a bank handled by such. reliabl~ men.
The Minneapolis TrilYune says: "With all this talk
about the great advance in lumber, it hasn't been very
much. The lumber in a$3,500 house, for instance, has
only advanced about $75. Lumber will never be as
cheap as it was in '93, as the log _s upply is getting low in
this State; forests are getting further away from the
streams, thereby increasing the cost of hauling, the
price of carrying timber is now higher, taxes are
higher, and the cost of labor is 20 per cent. higher
than in that year."
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A report from Stephen, Marshall Co., dated July
4th, says: "Crop prospects have greatly improved the
past week as we have had several heavy rains. On
July 1st we had the hardest rain that ever fell in
Stephen. Of course the wheat crop will be light,
but the late rains will make the barley and' flax crop.
July, 1900.
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CAPITAL STOCK, $100,000.00.
OF.l<'ICERS.
G. L. DOBSON, President.
D. G. DDM UNDSON Vice-President
CALVIN MANNIN G , 2d Vice-President.
GEO E . PEARSALL. Treasurer. ·
N. E. COFFIN , Counsel,
P . M. STARN.ts , Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Leslie M. S~aw, 9o vernor of Iowa; Geo . L. Dobson, Secretary of State ; Geo. E .
Pearsall, Cashier C1t1 ze i:is Nat '! Bank; D. G Edmundson, President Security Loan
;i nd _Trust Co., D es Momes . lo"."a; N. E . Coffin? of Dud~ey & Co~n, Attorneys; P .
M. Starnes. Secre tary, Des Mo~nes, Iowa; Calvm Mannmg, Cashier Iowa National
Bank. Ottumwa. Iowa_: F . W. Simmon s, Wholesale Hardware, Ottumwa, Iowa ; Dr .
. S: J. Pat_terson, Cashier Di,mlap Bank, Dunlap, Iowa; L ewis Haas, Cashi er Woodbme Savmgs Bank, Woodbme, Iowa.
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Hay will be a short crop, but there will be plenty of Bank of Bottineau, North Dakota. Mr. Stabeck will
straw, so the stock will not suffer. Some hail fell be president and C. L. Newhouse, cashier. They
here on July 1st, but it did little or no damage." will erect a new stone bank building this summer.
From various reports the state generally has had
The new First National Bank, of Sisseton, South
similar rainfalls and the crop prospect is greatly Dakota, has for president J. A. Rickert; for cashier,
improved.
H. S. Morris. Their new bank building is expected
I. C. Thornton, cashier of the Bank of Benson, to be ready very soon when they will commence
Swift county, writes us: '°'Demand for money has business.
improved very much here and we have enjoyed a
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very large increase in our business. We expect to
make a number of farm loans in the fall and could use
0. ]. Ellis is now cashier of the First National
5 per cent. money to good advantage. Crops promise
Bank
of Wakefield. ·
good. The land here stands the drouth very well
First National Bank of Loomis, capital $25,000, has
and in my drives about the country I have seen some
excellent crops. Real estate is in great demand and received the comptroller's certificate to do business.
The Exchange Bank at Ogalalla, Keith county,
moving rapidly. Prices have of course gone up .and
which
has been runniqg during the past three years
they are not near the top yet. The advance is $10
per acre in some localities, in others it has not yet by J. W. Welpton as a private bank, is now incorporated under the Nebraska law with a paid up capital
been· felt so strong but will work that way too."
H. Welpton is president and J. W.
The following reserve agents have been approved of $10,000.
for Minnesota national banks: Merchants National Welpton, cashier. We are pleas_e d to note the suc•
Bank, St. Paul, Metropolitan National Bank, Chicago, cess of J. W. Welpton, who was born and received
and National Bank of the Republic, N. Y., for First his first financial and commercial experience in Iowa,
National, Winnebago.
First National Bank, Min- having been in business at Red Oak, where his first
neapolis, Hanover National Bank, N. Y., for First thousand dollars was made.
National Bank of Ada. Seaboard National Bank,
IOWA NEWS AND NOTES 'CONTINUED.
N. Y., Union National Bank, Chicago, for First
National Bank, Elmore.
Hanover National Bank,
Wm. Buxt~rn. Jr., cashier of the Warren County
N. Y., and American National Bank, Chicago, for
First National Bank of Eyot?-. Seaboard National Bank at Indianola, says the demand for money is
Bank, N. Y., First National Bank, Chicago, and good at 7 and ·8 per cent. Farm loans at 5 per cent.
Merchants National Bank, St.- Paul, for Martin and small commission. Crop prospects never better.
County National Bank, Fairmont.
Continental There is usually a large number of cattle fed in
National Bank, Chicago, for First National Bank, Warren county but hethinks not as many this season
as usual. The Warren County Bank has be.e n making
Rochester.
fine progress, their deposits July 1st, 1898, were
$167,000,
July 1st, 1899, $262,000, and July 1st, 1900,
DAKOTA NEWS AND NOTES.
$312,000, with loans and discounts of $289,000; an
The Bankers National Bank, Chicago, h'a s been ap- increase of business which speaks well for the manpointed as reserve agent for the First National Bank agement of the bank and also for the prosperity of
the community.
of Sisseton, South Dakota.
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At the recent annual stockholders' meeting held
The crop of South Dakota, especially south qf a
line drawn from Sioux Falls west, have never been by the Castana Savings Bank, at Castana, the
better. South of Mitchell and all about Yankton old directors were all re-elected for the ensuing year.
Owing to ill health Lyman Whitthey are in fin<! condition.
T. Stabeck, president of the Farmers Bank of tier, who has been president of the bank
Davis, Illinois, and of the banking firm of Gold, since 1897, desired to be relieved of the presiStabeck & Co., of Revere, Minnesota, has with some dency, and W. T. Day, who has been cashier
Qtb~rs, purchased the stock of the Bottineau County since th~ bank was organized, in 1892, was elected to
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succeed him in that position. S. L. Willits, who
has been a member of the board of directors since
organization, was elected vice-president. C. T. Hansen, who has held the position of assistant cashier
since July 1, 1~94, was elected to succeed W. T.
Day as cashier.
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The Citizens National Bank of Cedar Falls, with a
$50,000 capital, is a new national concern. The new
organization will succeed to the business of the Citizens Bank, which started about one year ago, and
has worked up an exceptional amount of business
for so short a time, having over $75,000 deposits and
about an equal amount of loans. L. H. Severin, the
president of the bank, is a strong financial man having been in the loaning business the past 2 5 years.
M r. Adam Boyser, the vice-president, and W. N.
- Hostrap, the cashier, also stand well in the community and have a la·r ge following, and together with
the new board of directors, the Citizens National
Ban~ of Cedar Falls is sure to merit abundant success.
The following new Iowa national banks have been
approved:
First National Bank of New London,
capital $25,000, Robert S. Gillis, president. First
National Bank, Guthrie Center, capital $30,000, Carl
H. Lane, cashier. . Exchange National Bank, Leon,
capital $35,000.
First National Bank Brighton,
.capital $25,000.
First National Bank, Armstrong, ·
capital $50,000, B. F. Robinson, president, L. P.
Gjermo, cashier, mention of which will be found
elsewhere.
First National Bank, Elma, capital
$30,000. Citizens National Bank, Cedar Falls, capital $50,000.
First National Bank Wesley, capital
$25,000; Nathan Studer, president, Stitzel X. Way,
cashier.
First National Bank, Gladbrook, capital
$50,000; ~ m. Mee, president, Martin Mee,· cashier.
First National Bank of Dougherty, capital $25,000.
The following reserve agents for Iowa national
banks have been approved by the comptroller of the
currency since our last issue:
Bankers National
Bank, Chicago, for First National of Chelsea. First
National Bank of Chicago for First National, Council Bluffs. Continental National Bank. Chicago, Des
Moines National Bank. Iowa National Bank of Des
Moin.~s, ~pd Clia?e Nationa.l Bank of New York, for
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First National of Guthrie Center. Continental National Bank, Chicago, for First National, of Armstrong.
Fourth National, New York, and First
National of Chicago, for First National of Clutier.
Western National, New York, for Citizens National
Davenport. Hanover National, New York, for First
National, Dayton. Metropolitan National, Chicago,
for First National, Lost Nation.
National Bank of
Commerce, New York, for Iowa National Bank Des
Moines. First National Bank, Chicago, and Chase
National, New York, for First National Gladbrook.
Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago for First
National, Sioux City.
The following are some new banks organized since
our last issue: The Stout .Bank of Stout, Grundy
county, Iowa, ca-pital $27,500; John Voodg, president, and J. B. Hesseniussen, cashier.
Marengo
Savings Bank, capital $50,000.
Mt. Union Savings
Bank, capital $25,000. Iowa State Bank, Mason City,
capital $50,000. New ·Hartford State Bank, capital
$35,000. State Savings Ba_n k, Grand River, capital
$10,000. Citizens State Bank, Dysart, capital $50,000.
Westchester Savings Bank, capital $12,000. Gowrie
Savings Bank, capital $25,000; J. C. Campbell, president, and W.W. Bomberger, cashier. State Savings
Bank, Cromwell, capital $10,000; T. S. H:Daugherty,
president, E. N. Da·ugherty, cashier. Lytton Savings
Bank; H. H. Fitch, president, and S. S. Schug,
cashier.
Moorhead State Bank, Monona county,
capital $30,000. Ryan State Bank, Delaware county,
capital $25,000. Blakesburg Savings Bank, Wapello
county, capital $10,000. Huntington Savings Bank,
Emmett county, capital $10,000. Marshalltown State
Bank, capital $100,000. A new savings bank, with
a capital of $:5,000, will be opened at 'Stockport. A
new bank is being organized at Burks, Adams county,
a small town near Corning.
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We learn from R. C. Lubiens, cashier of the
Saint Ansgar Bank, that they are going to have a
new home for their increasing business. It will be a
solid brick 26x40, two story and basement, a beautiful building of the Moorish style of archit~ctu re with
either brown stone or granite trimmings. The first
story front to have two large arches and plates, the
second three arches, two centers supported by
July, 1900.
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polished granite columns, balcony front, with plate
glass about three feet back of columns. Cashier
Lubiens, who has the active management of the
The
bank, reports a very satisfactory business.
bank has a responsibility of about $300,000 and
since 1896 their loans and deposits have about
doubled. A specialty has been made of cattle and
real estate loans. That locality is settled mainly
with thrifty Germans and Scandinavians with whom
Cashier Lubiens being "one dutch man" finds it pleasant, profitable, and safe to do business. They are in
a rich and beautiful country. The outlook is for an
excellent crop. Pastures have not been up to the
average so that farmers are not carrying the usual
amount of cattle. Avery Bush, of Osage, president
ot the Osage National Hank is also president of the
St. Ansgar Bank.
Tne First National Bank of Armstrong, Emmet
county, Iowa, opened for business July 2d, with a
capital of 50,000.00 as the successor of the Armstrong Bank of Robinson & Dows, an institution that
has been very successful, and identified with every
movement for the development of the county and
the up-building of the town. The First National
Bank succeeds to the splendid business of the old
bank. It has a list of.forty substantial stockholders
many of them being well-to-do farmers of the vicinity while others are successful and prosperous busiThe
ness meµ of Armstrong and other places.
president of the new bank, B. F. Robinson, is one of
the most successful and conservative bankers in
Northwestern Iowa. This fact is fully established
by the wonderful growth and progress of the institution with which he has been connected as cashier
and manager, having been largely interested in organizing the Armstrong Bank in the summer of 1892,
with the first organization of the town. The vicepresident is John Dows, whose name is a guarantee
of confidence. He has been identified with the town
from the time the first stake was driven, and is largely
interested in Armstrong real estate. In addition to
his banking and the local interests, he is one of the
best known and most successful railroad contractors
in the West. L. P. Gjermo, who has been connected
with the Armstrong Bank for several years, is the
cashier. Mr. Gjermo is thoroughly conversant with
every detail of the banking business and brings to
his new position the benefit of many years of practical experience; is also a Scandinavian, and with
his knowledge of the different languages, is particularly strong for the position. He ranks as one of
the best accountants in Iowa. The board of directors is composed of the following well known citizens whose successful business career guarantees that
the interests of all concerned will be looked after
and carefully guarded. Directors: B. F. Robinson,
John Dows, Wm. Stuart, C. W. Crim, and C. B.
Mathews. With such men to guide its affairs. and
such strong financial backing, we predict for the First
National Bank of Armstrong, a very successful
career.
·The National Bank of the Republic, Chicago, under
the able management of W. T. Fenton, its vice-president and cashier, has had, and is still having, a
No bank stands higher in th_e
remarkable growth.
estimation of Northwestern bankers than does this
one.
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BANKS, SAFES AND FIXfUllES FOR SALE--POSITIONS
[Reading locals in this column will be printed at a cost of soc. a line 10
words to tbe line, for first insertion; 25c. a line for subsequent insertions.]
Will buy small bank. S. A. Darland, Scranton,
Iowa.
FoR SALE- A Hall steel chest, with Yale time
lock. Address B., NORTHWESTERN BANKER PuB.
Co., Des Moines.
FoR SALE.- Owing to a cha.nge of quarters, our
fixtures are for sale at a bargain. Address Elkader
State Bank, Elkader, Iowa.
A BANKER of experience desires to hear of a
good town requiring a bank. Address P. L., care
ORTHWESTERN BANKER.
WANTED-Several small time lock safes ; also furniture and vault fixtures. Must be cheap. Address
Smith, care NORTH WESTERN BANKER, Des Moines,
Iowa.
WANTED-Position of trust in a bank. Six years
experience, best of references, bond if desired.
Write for details. Address EXTRA, care THE NORTHWESTERN BANKER.
WANTED-Position in a good bank with prospect
of advancement as merited, by young man of experience, now cashier of country bank. Address, "CASHIER," care NORTHWESTERN BANKER.'
EXPERIENCED Cashier with capital to invest desires position in bank in southern locality. Duties
to commence January r, 1901. Address, A. D.,
care Ta:E NORTH WESTERN BANKER.
WANTED-A young man with some experience as
bookkeeper and stenographer in country bank.
Answer in own handwriting, giving experience and
Address BANKER, care THE NORTHreferences.
WESTERN BANKER.
WANTED-Position in bank by young man, 21
years of age; had three years' experience in book
and counter work. Present employers as reference. Address, W. B. M., Care NORTHWESTERN
BANKER, Des Moines, Iowa.
WANTED -By a banker of considerable ~xperience in country banking in Iowa, stock in a bank,
located in a town of three to five thousand in N .-W.
Iowa, with expectation to take charge of bank.
Address, P. W. C., care NORTHWESTERN BANKER.
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Attention of any one having safes for sale is
called to the card of "Smith" in our For Sale column.
The Bankers National Bank of Chicago on June
29th had deposits of $11,085,418, a gain of about 375
per cent. in the last five years.
We again direct attention to the statements of the
Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis, and the
Second National Bank of Dubuque. These are not
only good banks, but their sta.tements are clear and
complete.
John Jay Abbott, assistant cashier of the American
Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, informs us that
since the auditor's cc}.ll for a statement their deposits
have gone up a .million dollars, which would take
them over. 12,000,000.
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SPECIAL LIST OF MINNESOTA BANKS.
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY TOW.NS.
Showing Name of Bank, Town ;nd Oou,nty, Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, Names of Officers and
Special Facilities for the Transaction of Business intrusted to their care.
..l.LBER11 LE.A.,
( Albert Lea National Bank.
Co.pit1tl, $50,000.
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Freeborn County . . . . . Surplus and Un~ivided Profits,
H. D. Brown, President.
u. R. P. Hibbs, Vice-President.
C. B. Kellar, Cashier.
Genera.I ba.nking business transacted.
$12,000.
AUSTIN,
{Aust.in NaU.onal Bank.
Capital, 1!50,000.
Mower County ..... . . . Surplus and Profits, 1!5,000.
G. Schleuder, President.
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F. I. Urane, Vice-President.
J. L. Mitchell, Cashier.
Prompi and careful attention given to all business.
REDWOOD FALLS,
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/Redwood County Bank.
Authorized Capital , $50,000.
Paid Up Capital, $25,000.
Redwood County · · · • • · Surplus,
$2,000.
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A. C. Burmeister, Pres ident.
H. D. Baldwin, Vice-Pri>s ident.
H. A. Baldwin, Cashier.
General banking business transacted.
BLUE EARTH,
{Farmers & Merchants State Bank.
Capital, 1!25,000.
Faribault County . . . . Geo. D . McArthur. President.
Alex. Anderson, Vice-President.
Jos. S. Ulland, Cashier.
F. H. Davis, Assistant Cashier.
Minnesota ta.rm mortgages and collections a specialty.
FA.RIB!. ULT,
\ Citiz:ns Natio~al Bank.
Capital, $80.000.
Rice County. . . . . . . . . .
Surplus and Profits, l!o0,000
GRANITE FALLS,
tYellow !Hedi cine County Bank•
Capital, $25,000,
Yellow Medicine Co...
Surplus, 15,000.
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F . H. Wellcome, President.
J F. Langmaid, Vice-President.
Bert Winter, Cashier.
Prompt attenti on paid to collections and other business entrusted to us .
MA.RS HA.LL,
Lyon County National Bank.
Capital. $50.000.
Surplus, $5,0C0.
C. H. 'ryler, President.
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D. D. Forbes, Vice-President.
Jotln G. Sctlutz, Cashier.
W. S. Little, Assistant Cashier.
Collections promptly attended to and remitted on day of payment.
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MONTEVIDEO,
{ Citizens State Bank.
Capital, $30,000.
Chippewa County.. . . .
Deposits and Profits, $128,000.
Established 1879. Incorporated 1890.
C. D. Griffith, President.
M. E. Titus, Cashier.
Western Minnesota and eastern Dakota farm loans. Especial attention
given to collections.
ROCHESTER,
Union National Bank.
Capital, $50,000.
Surplus, $1:i,000.
E A. Knowlton, President.
W. L. Brackenridge. Vice-President.
A. C. Gooding, Cashier.
John Hall, Assistant Cashier.
Special attention given to collections.
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Olmsted County . . . . . .
WA.SEC.A.,
{ Peoples Bank.
Capital, $25,000.
Waseca County.......
Organized in 1881
Hudsou Wilson, President.
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F. A. Berry, Vice-President.
Geo. Pease, Cashier.
Lynne Peavey, Assistant Cashier.
Special attention given to collections.
a s a State Bank.
E. C. Trowbridge, President.
R. P. Ward, Cashier.
F. M. Bailey, Assistant Cashier.
General banking business transacted. Collections a specialty.
F.A.IRllONT,
\ Martin Countv Bank.
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Capital and Su"rplus, 70,000.
Marton County ........ A. L. Ward, President.
WORTHINGTON,
{Nobles C<'unty Bank.
Indi..vidual Responsibility,
Nobles County . . . . . . . . E. A. Lynd, President.
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Geo. Wohlheter, Vice-President.
A. C. Frey, Cashier.
Oldest and largest bank in county. Farm loans and collections a specialty
GLENCOE,
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Banking business transacted,
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{ Bank of Glencoe.
Capital, 1!50,000.
Surplus, $10,000.
G. K. Gilbert, President.
A. J. Snyder, Vice-President,
L. W. Gilbert, Cashier.
E. H. Carson, Assistant Cashier.
Farm loans a specialty.
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1!200,000.
W. M. Evans, Cashier.
A. W. Fagerstrom, Assistant Cashier.
Farm Loans and Collections a specialty,
J uly,
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1900.
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SPECIAL LIST OF IOWA BANKS.
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY TOWNS.
Slwwinq N ame of B ank, Town and Cmtnty, Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, Names of Officers and
Sp ecial F acilities f or the Transaction of B usiness intrusted to their care.
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Peoples Trust aud Savings Bank.
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Adel Stat e Bank.
A.DEL,
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Capital, $50,000.
Undivided Prollts, $5,000.
D a 11 as Coun t Y · · · · · · · · T. J . Caldwell, Presid e nt.
{ W. B. Kinnick, VicP.-Presideut.
S. M. L each, Cashier.
Ha nk in g in a ll its branches.
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Cha.rl es F . A ld~n, Vice-P;esident.
J. H. IngwersP.n, Cashier .
G. E. Lamb, Assistant Cashier.
Mon ey to loan on Iowa farm lauds.
CORNING,
First Natio11aJ Bank.
ALGONA,
Capita.I, $50.000 00.
Su r plus and Undivided Profits , $10,000.00 .
Kossuth Connt.y . . . . . . Amb rose A Call, Pres ide nt.
D. H Hutchins, Vice-President.
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Wm . K. Ferguson, Ca.shier.
Koss u t h Cou nty.
C. A. Palmer, Assistant Ca.~hier .
Prom p t at tention paid to a.II businelils entrusted to us.
Corning State Savings Bank,
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Capita.I, $100.000.
Surplus and Un_divided Profits , $55,500.
S. L. Moore, Pres ident.
E .E. Hughes, Vice-President.
J. H. Herma n, Cashier.
Does a. genera.I ban king and collectin·g business.
Boone County .. .. .. . ..
E . A. Scliolz, Vice- President.
F. L . La Rue, Ca.shier.
\ W. H . Clark, Assistant Cashier.
General banking bu s in ess tran sacted . Fa.rm Joans a s pecialty.
( First S tate B ank of Corwith.
W. E Crum, Pres ident.
Ed. E . Cass, Cashier.
General banking busi ness tm11sa.cted.
DA. VEN PORT
{The Centerville National Bank.
Cap ital, 1!50,000.
Surplus an d Undivided Profits , $14,94i.
Jos. Goss, Vice-President.
G. M. Harnett, Cashier .
Does a general banki ng business. Special attention given to coll ection~ .
Securit.y Saviugs Bank.
Capita.I, $:i0,000.
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and Undivided Profits, $20,000.
JG.Surplus
F . Van Vechten , Pres id ent
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C. J . Ives, Fir~t Vice-PrPsid e 11t.
J . R . Am idon, Sec_ond Vice-PresidPnt.
E. M . Scott, Ca.shie r .•
l owa. fa.rm leans a specialty. Interest paid on deposits.
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CHARITON,
L ucas C01111 t,y · · · · · · ·
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Capital, $50,ooo.
Surplus and U ndivided Profits, $45,000.
S. H . Mallorv, Pres id e nt.
James lira.don, Vice-President .
F. R. Crock er Cashier.
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W. P . Beem, Assistant Cashier
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( Citi zens National Bank.
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Ca pital, $~00,000.00.
Surplu s, $100,000 oo.
F. H. Grig:gs, PrPsident.
R obert Krau se, Vice-President.
A u,z. A . Ballufl', Cashier .
L F. C. Kroeger , As s' t. Cashier.
A gen e ral banki ng busin ess tri;.n sa.cted. Special atte ntion to coll ec tio n s.
Scott County .. • • • • • • • • i
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DENISON,
First National Bank.
Crawford Coun t S late Bank.
Capita.I. $100,000.
Undivided Profits, 1 10,000.
Crawford County . .. . . . L . Cornwell, P_res iden~.
Geo. Naeve, V1ce-Pres1den t .
{ M. E. Jones, Cashier. •
C. J . Kemming, Assistant Ca.shier.
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Does a ge neral banking bminess. Complete set of a.bst!ac t s or Cr awford
county.
Winneshiek County Bank.
{Cheroke~ State Bank.
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Ca.pita.I, $7i>,0OO.
Su rplus and Undivided Profits,$11.500.
J . C. Ha.II, Presid e nt .
J . H. Groves Vice-President.
E. D. Huxfo r d, Cashier .
Ex ception al fac ilities for collections and placing fa.rm loans .
Ch ero k ee COlin t Y · · · · ·
daµita.l, !200,000.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, $76,484.
Uhr. Mueller, Vice-P resident. ·
General banking business
U . A. Mast, Cashier.
tranRacted.
George Hoehn , Assistant Cashier .
'l'be firs t Nationa.l BaJJk in ope ration in the United States commen c ed
bu,inf'SS Jun e 20, 1863.
B a nking in a.II its bran ches.
CHEROKEE
( First National Bank.
Scott County . . . . . . . . . A. Burdick. President.
F. M, Drak P., President.
Linn Connty ........ .
ow a S tate Sav ings Bank.
Capitn.l, $50,000.
} Surplus, $6,000.
P . J Santee, Vice-President.
I. B. Santee, Ca.shier.
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CEDAR RAPIDS,
A ge n e ral banking anct coll ectio n bu s iness tra nsacted.
D ANBURY-,
j Danbury
S tat e Bank.
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Uapltal, $30,000.
oodbury County ... . \ Godfrey Durst, P resi deut.
Oapit.a.1, $50,000.
Monona County
Surplus and P r ofits , $7,500.
W. 'l'. Day., P resid P. ut.
S . D. Willits, Vice -Pr eoid t nt.
_ C. 'r. Hansen, Cashier.
enera.l banking bu sine, s . Negotiators or choice Iowa fa.rm loan s .
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I Ca pital, $60,000.
i o . H . Stils on , President.
Sapp, Victi-P resident.
Ca s hi er.
IL J.L.M .H.H.H .Staudrin,r,
Staud r ini, A ss't. Cashier.
Jas Griffin, Vice-Presid ent,
Ji~. D . Hall. Cashier.
Scott Arm strong. As s't Cashier.
Ge neral baukin,r and mortgage ·oa11 s.
The Castana Saviugs Bank.
Appanoose C01111ty. ...
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Union County ......... \ John Gibson, Pre~ident.
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Bank ing in all i ts b ran ches.
CENTERVILLE
H a ncoc k C011n t Y
CRESTON,
BEDFORD,
lBedrord Bank.
Taylor County . .. . . . . .
Capital and suqilus, $60,000.
Capital, $35,000.
Surplus, $8.000. U . Profits , $4,765
A.dams Count y . . ... - . A. F. Okey, President.
CO.RWI'l'H ,
{ First Naion a.l Bank.
BOONE,
Ca pi ta.I, $300,000.
Clin ton Count y ...... A:t~~1t~sLa~~bunt/ev~\~~~1profits, $58,000.
DE~ORAH,
Capital, $100,000.
Responsibility, $300,000.
J. Wei_ser , Pr~sident._
Winneshiek County... C.
L. A.. Wei ser, V1ce-Pres1dent.
E . W . D. Holway, Ca.shier,
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H.B . Hnstvedt, Assistant Cashier.
The most careful attention g iven collections.
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DES MOINES,
Central State Bank.
215 Fifih St.
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Capital, $50.000.
Surplus and Und. Profits, 16,000.
P olk Couuty •• • • · · • • • • { M a.rtin 'l'uttle, President.
H . A. Elliott, Vice-P resident.
J. D. Whisena nd, Ca shier .
Speoia l f a cilities for Des Moines collec tions,
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1900.
SPECIAL LIST OP IOWA BANKS-«.:o,ntinued.
The Early State Bank.
E.A.RLY,
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Ca pital a nd Surplu s , $31,500 .
Sac County . . . . . . . . . .
s. K. Fuller, Pres ide nt.
A. Maso n , Vice-President.
N. O. Fuller, Cas hier
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L E. M. Fuller, Ass' t . Cas hier.
A general banking and collection business transacted.
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First National Bank.
ELDORA.,
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Capital, $50,000.
JWarren Co .. nty Bank.
INDIANOLA,.
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Ce.pita.I, $60,UOO.
Surplus, $20,000.
):'residen_t.
Wm . Watts, V1ce-Pres1dent.
Wm . Buxto n, Jr., Cashier.
F. C. Sigler, Assistant Cashier.
Prompt attention paid to collections aJ!d other business intrusted tons.
Warren County ....... Wm . Buxton.
IOWA ClTI,
{Iowa City State Bank.
Ce.pita! , $65,000.
Johnson County....... Euclid Sanders. _Preside!lt,
J H. Bales, President.
D . E. Byam, Vice-President.
W. J . Murray, Cashier.
Collections will receive careful and prompt attention.
D. F. Sawyer, V1ce-Pres1dent
P. A . Korab, Cashier.
J. C. Switzer Assistant Cashier
Does a. ge n e ral banking business .
EMMETSBURG,
{ Farmers Savings Bank.
Capital, $25,000.
Palo Alto County . . . . E. s. Ormsby, President.
KEOSAUQUA,
Hardin County .......
H. A. Powers, Vice-Preaident.
0 . W. Hodgkinson, Cas hier.
Collection ■
and farm loans specialties.
Keosauqua State Bank.
Van Buren County....
Ce.pita.I, $27.800.
Undivided Profits, $4,700.
H. H. 'l'rimble, ):'residen_t.
{ J. N. Norton, Vice President.
J . L . Tberme, Cashier.
Collections a specie.I featur e.
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(Forest Citv National Bank.
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ago '-!Ollll y. • ·
Surplus , $10,000.
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C. J. 'l'hompson, President.
G. S . Gilbertson , Ca~hier.
LOGAN,
( Harrison Con nty Bank.
Harns County. . . . . . . .
A . L . Harvey.
A . w. Ford.
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Bankers and Real Estate.
General banking business transacted.
Farm loans a specialty.
F.A.IRFIELD,
{First National Bank.
Capital, $100,000.
Jeff'erson County . . . . . Surplu s , $~0.000.
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H. S. McElhmny, President.
Rollin J. Wilson, Vice-President,
Frank Light, Cas hier.
Only national bank in Jeffer8on county. Does a general banking busi
ness. Prompt attention to collection s .
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GLENWOOD,
[Mills County National Bank.
Capital , $65,000.
Mills County......... Surplus, $26,000.
D. L. Hein s heimer, Preside nt.
F . M. Buffington, Vice-Pres ident
A. C. Sabin , Cashier.
A. D. Fre nch, Ass't Cashier.
General banking business transacted .
GREENFIELD,
(Citizens Bank.
Adair County ••••••••• A. P. Littleton, President.
Vern C. Littleton, Cas hier.
General banking business trans a cted.
HAMPTON
[The Citizen& Bank.
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Established in 1875.
Ua.pital, $55,000.
Franklin County ..... . Responsibility, $300,000.
A. R. Carter, Pres ide nt.
N. W . Beebe, Vice -President
'l'. J.B. Robinson, Ca.shier.
Do a genera.I conservative banking business . Money t o loan on real estate
The Peoples Bank.
HUMBOLDT,
Capital, 1100,000.
Surplus, $16,000.
Humboldt Coun ty .... . \G. L. Tremain, President.
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N . H. Knowles, Vice-Pres ident.
J. W . Foster, Ce.shier.
W.W. Sterns, A s st. Cashier.
• All business given good attention .
B.A.RLAN,
!Harlan Bank.
Responsibility, $75,000.
Sh elb Y Count Y• · · · • • • · Fred
Albert us, Pres ide nt.
George Walters . Cashi e r.
Minnie V. Walters , Ass istant Ce.s hier.
Transacts a genera.I banking business. Collecti0ns receive prompt atteutention.
INDEPENDENCE,
I,,uchanan County • · • • •
First National ·Bank.
Capital $100,000.
Surplus and Un~ivided Profits, $77,000.
R. Campbell, President.
{ E.
Leach, Vice-President,
W. W. Donnan, Cashier.
Colleotions receive prompt and careful attention.
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LE MARS,
('l'he Le Mars National Bank.
Pl ymou th Co nIlty · · · · ·
Capital, $100.000.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, 1!5,000.
G. O . Maclugan, President.
T . F. Ward, V.ice-Preqident.
Frank Koob, Ce.shier.
Collections a s pecialty.
MASON CITY,
(First National Bank.
Cerro Gordo County · ·
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MANCHESTER,
Capital, $1i0.000 .
Surplu ~ and Un_divided Profits, $55,000.
H . I. Smith, President.
W. D. Balch, Vice-President.
C. H. McNider, Cas hier.
F. E . Keller, Assistant Cashier.
/First National Bank.
Capital $50 000.
Surpl~ s and Un_divided Profits, $15,000.
J. W . Miles, President.
w. H . Norris, 1st Vice-President.
R.R. Robinson, 2d Vice-President.
M. F. LeRoy, Ce.sh. B. F. Miles, Asst. Cash
Prompt and careful attention given all business.
Delaware Co llll ty • · · · ·
MONTICELLO,
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( The .Monticello State Bank.
Jones County... . ....
Capital, $100,000.
Surplus, $n0,000.
s. s. Farwell, President.
Frank M. Hicks, Vice-President.
H. M. Carpenter,Uashier.
H . S. Richardson, Assistant Ce.shier.
Money to loan on Iowa fa.rm land s .
MARENGO,
(Marengo Savings Bank.
Capital, $50,000.
Iowa County•• • • • • • • • ·
M~U:k\~v~~~•~~s ident.
J. N . W, Rumpl e, Vice-President,
A. M. Heuderson, Cashier.
Frank Cook, Assistant Cashier.
Conduct a. g e neral banking business . Prompt attention given to collections
MONTEZUMA,
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Poweshiek County.. . .
A general banking business .
fFirst National Bank.
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Capital, $50,000.
Undivid ed Profits, $12,000.
J ohn Ha I, Sr., President.
John Hall, Jr., Ce.shier.
E. D. Rayburn, Assistant Ca.shier.
Collections receive special attention.
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1900.
SPECIAL l,IST OF JO,VA BANKS-Continued.
MT. PLEA.SA.NT,
SPENCER,
fFirs National Bank.
Capital, $100,000.
Heury County....... . Surplus, $20,000. . _
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)W. G. Saund~rs, Pres1 ent.
E . L. Penn, Vice-President,
'£ J. Van Hon, Co.shier.
W. E Keeler, Assistant Cashier,
_Does a general b11.nking business. Collections attended to,
MT. A.YR,
Ringgold County
{.Mt. A.yr Bank.
Responsibility $1~0,000.
Geo, S. Allyn, Cashier.
Jno. H . Allyn, Assistant Cashier.
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G neral Banking business transacted. Far~ loans, real estate and abstracts
NEWTON,
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{First National Bank.
Capital, $50,000.
Jasper County
Surplus and Undivided Profits, $20,000 .
· · · • · · · Cnester Sloanaker President.
E. E Lyday, Cashier.
Lee E . Hrown, Assistant Cashier
Gen~{ &~. banking business transacted. Collections receive special atten
{The Citizens State Bank.
Capital authorized, 150.000.
Capit_a l paid up, $25,000. Surplus, 11,000.
Franklrn Floete, President.
Andrew R. Smith. Vice-President.
Ackley Hubbard, Cashier.
All business entrusted to our care carefully and pormptly transacted.
Clay County... ........
SIDNEY,
{Fremont County Bank.
Fremont County......
Capital, $25,000.
J. H . McDonald, President,
H. H. McDonald, Cashier.
Special facilities for collections.
STORM LA.KE
{First National n ·ank.
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Ctt.pital, $50,000. Surplus, $10,000.
Buena Vista County ... w. E. Brown. President.
E. C. Cowles, Vice-President,
A.H. Waitt, Cashier.
'l'. T. Harker, Assistant Cashier.
One of the special features of this bank is its collection and farm loan
department.
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TA.MA
(First National Bank.
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Capital, 150,000.
Tama Uounty .... :.. .
Surplus, $50,000.
ONA.WA.,
{ Holbrook & Bro.
Monona County.......
Establi~hed 1858.
P. K. Holhrook, Cashier.
General Banking Business tro.macted.
w~ ..nake a speci11.lty of promptness
in furnishing abstracts.
Farm mort-
gages for sale .
OSCEOLA,
{ Simmons & Co., Bankers. '
Clarke County . ...... .
Capital, $55,000.
We own a full and complete set of ahstract books for Clarke County.
r Mahaska
OSKALOOSA.,
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Mahaska County ......
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. Does a general banking business.
Collections recPive special attention.
( Oskaloosa National Bank.
OSKALOOSA..
Mahaska County . .
County Slate Bank.
Capit .. l, $100,000.
S11rplus and undivided profits, $27,000,
W. R Lacey, President.
H. S. Howard, Vice-President.
John R. Barnes, Cashier.
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Capital, $50.000.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, ia6,124.
W. H. Kalbach, President.
A. general banking business transacted.
POCA.HONTA.S
( City Exchange Bank.
Pocahontas County ... ~
Will D . McEwen.
Joseph
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Simpson.
Bankers and Real Estate,
Collections a specialty. General banking business transacted.
RED OAK,
\Red Oak Natioual Bsink.
Capital and surplus, $1~0 000.
Montgomery C0Un t Y· · · B. H . Clark, President.
General banking business.
H. C. BinM, Vice-President.
Paul P. Clark, Cashier.
Collections receive special attention.
J. L, Bracken, President.
T. L. Williamson, Cashier.
D. E. Goodell, Assistant Cashier.
A general banking business transacted.
WATERLOO,
tThe
First Nat.ional Bank.
Capital, $50,000.
Blackhawk COlin t y. . . . Surplus, $50.000.
H.B. Allen, President.
F. J. Eighmey, Cashier.
Municipal, county and school bonds boui?ht and sold.
Farm loans negotiated at lowest rates. Prompt service,
'SHINGTON,
{Was~ington
National Bank.
Capital, $100,000.
W.a.
Surplus and Undivided Profits, $75,000.
Washington County .. W
. W. Wells, Pre~ident. .
Wm. A. Coook, V1ce-Pres1dent.
J. A. Young, Cashier.
R. R. Bowland, Assistant Cashier.
Doe!' a general banki.ng business .
WA. VERL Y,
Capital, $25,000.
Surplus, $15,000.
W.R. Rowman, President.
W. C. Holt, Vice-Preside.at.
Julian Ruddick, Cashier.
A general banking business transacted.
WAPELLO,
{The Wapello State Savings Bank.
Louisa County _. . . . . . . Capital Stock, $30.000.
John Otto, President.
J. F . Heins, Vice-President.
W. H. Colton, Cashier.
Prompt attention paid to all busin ess ntrusted to us.
(0. P. Miller, J. K. P. Thompson.)
Capital, $100,000.
Undivided profit~, $14,100.
M. A. Cox, Cashier.
F. B. Parker, Assistant Cashier,
Special facilities for collection in the northwest.
S!.C CITY,
(First
National Bank,
Capital, $50,000.
Surplus and Profits, $16,500.
D. E . Hallett, President.
E. Criss, Vice-President.
H. H. Allison, Cashier.
H. S. Barnt, Assistant Cashier.
general bl).nking bµsiness,
Sac County. . . . . . . . . . .
TrJLnsacts
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Dr Wil.ard C. Earles, President.
Mrs. J. E. Duffy, Vice-President.
W. E. Beddow, Cashier.
Carlton H. Earle, Assistant Cashier.
Allamakee County . . .
"We are hustlers on collections."
{Lyon
Count)' Bank.
MILLER & TllOlllP80N.
Lyon Coun t Y.. • • • • • • • ·
Co.'s Bank.
Bremer County. . . . . . .
General bankin~.
ROCK RAPIDS,
\German American Loan and Trust
f Fayette County National Bank.
WEST UNION,
Fayette County. .......
I Surplus,
Capita{, $80,000.
$6,050.
I S.H. B.B. Zeigler,
President.
Hoyt, Vice-President.
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Only National Bank in County.
attention.
E. B. Shaw, Cashier.
Collections receive careful and prompt
WINTERSET,
[Fir1t National Bank.
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Capital; 150,000.
Mad11ion County• • • • · · · Surplus, $20,000.
C. D. Bevington, President.
W. S. Whedon, Cashier,
General ba.n~}ng bqsiqes~ trn,nsac~ed ,
THE NORTHWESTERN BANKER.
3o
July,
1900.
REPRESENTATIVE IOWA -LAWYERS.
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED BY TOWNS.
Showing nam~ of Attorney or Firm, name of Town and Oownty, and special facilities for the transaction of
business. No Attorney or Firm is accepted for this list unless recommended by a bank. Special
effort has been made to secure the leaaing attorneys in the places represented.
( P. S. Harri .
ADEL,
Dallas County . ..... . .. J References: .
Dall11.s County Savings B1Lnk, Adel.
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{ Citizens National B!!.uk, Des Moine,;; .
. Collections for Redfield, Minburn, Dallas Center, Waukee and Van Meter
in my territory.
\ C. W. E. S11ider.
BELLE PLAINE,
Benton County, ....... ~ :&ererences:
Citizens National Bank.
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~ P. P. Kelley.
GLENWOOD,
Mills County · · · · · · · · · · {
R1i[:~ts in Glenwood ,
General law business transacted,
P ractice
Van Buren County ....
{
Reference:
Keosauqua State Bank.
Practlcll in all state and federal courts,
{ D. A.. Porter. .
CRESTON,
R~!~~~!~~:for Creston
Union County .........
MUSCA.TINE,
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Practice in all courts.
Potawattamie County,
General Jaw practice,
Notary in office.
{ Carskaddan & Burk.
Reteren ces:
First ational Bank.
Cook, :Musser & Company,
Trust Comp any
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State Bank,
Commercial business a specialty.
Mnscatme Cot!nty · · · · ·
Practice in all courts,
COUNCIL BLUFFS,
all courts.
Wherry & Walker.
KEOSAUQUA,
Practice in all courts, Comme1cial ""ork a specialty. Colle,-tions for
Chelsea, Blairstown 11.nd Luzerne in my territory.
National Bank,
First National Bank Creston.
Iowa State Savings Bank Creston,
10
Sims & Bainbridge.
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References :
All Banks in Pottu.wattamie County.
Attorneys for R. G. Dunn & Co. Offices
Chas. L. Powel.
DES MOINES,
References:
Des Moines National Bank.
Polk County, . . . . . . . . . .
{ Guthrie Co. National Bank, Panora, Ia.
Geo. M. Reynolds, cashier Continental
. NA.ti?nal Hank, Chicago,
.
.
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Special attention given to commercial buswess, and collections.
ESTHERVILLE,
George W. A.dams.
Emmet Couny,
{ J. F. & W.R. Lacey.
OSKALOOSA,
Reference :
.
Mahaska County. . . . .
Practice in all courts.
Oskaloosa National Bank.
Mah a ska County State Hank.
Do a general law business.
{ D. J. Murphy.
WA.OKON,
Allamakee County . . . Reference:
Citizens State Bank.
Practice in all courts.
All business promptly attended to.
References:
National Bank, Estherville.
{ First
Hank or Estherville.
Practice, in all courts. Special attention given to commercial law and
.foreign business.
These Lawyers Have Been Retained by the Iowa Bankers Association. to Transact all Law Business for Them
in Their Respective Counties.
ALBU,
Monroe County ..
Wm. A. Nichol.
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Reference :
First National Hank.
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CEDAR RAPIDS,
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U. C. Blake.
Geo. W. Adams.
DECORAH,
Winneshiek County ...
{
Reference:
Citizens Savings Bank.
Practice in all courts.
l,A.IRFIELD,
J efferson County ....
Rollin J. Wilson.
References:
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank (a ttorney
for) .
Merchants National Bank.
Practice in all courts. Commercial business a specialty
l make a special feature of Commercial a11d Banking Law.
{ Heinz & Fisher.
DAVENPORT,
Scott Cennty . . . . . . . . . . . Reference :
{ Jno. M. Hemingway.
HAMPTON,
Reference:
F ranklin County . .. . .
Any Davenport bank.
A general law business.
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R efers to any ba.nk in county.
Any bank in Hampton.
All legal business, including collections,'promptly attended to,
July,
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1900.
REPRESENTATIVE IOWA LA. WYERS- Continued.
HARLAN,
{ G. W. Cullison.
Shelby County... . . ...
Refers to any bank in
OSCEOLA.,
{ Temple & Hardinger.
Clarke County. .......
c. L. Hardini?er, County Attorney.
Harlan,
Law in all its· branches with special attention to commercial and banking law
Special attention given to all l&w busl•
ness growing out of. banking.
WAVERLY,
JEFFERSON,
) Owen Lovt>joy 1
Cour:ty Attorney,
Greene County . . . . . . . . ) Reference:
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Bremer County
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Any bank in the county.
Practice in all courts.
A gen eral law b u'siness transacted,
{ Edward L. Smalley.
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References:
State Bank, Waverly, Iowa ,
Abstract office in connection,
Special attention given_ to co)lections.
WASHINGTON,
{ Marsh W. Bailey.
Washington County... Reference:
MASON CITY,
{ Cliggitt & Rule.
Cerro Gordo Cou11ty,, ,
Refe_rences by Permission:
Washington National Bank.
First Nationa l Bank.
Uity National Bank.
Engaged in general practice in state and federal courts.
to bankers' business.
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Special attention
Special attention to commercial law.
WINTERSET,
ONAWA,
. { Geo. A. Oliver.
llonona County. . . . . .
References:
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{ Frederick Mott,
Madison County .... ... ~
{
Onawa Sta.te Bank.
Local Attorney I. C. R. R.
Practice in all courts.
Attorney for First Nation a l Bank.
of Winterset.
Speci:d attention to collections.
A general law business transacted. Complete abstract of Monona. county
records.
OSAGE,
{ Sweney & Lovejoy.
·
A . B. Lovejoy. County .Attorney,
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MltC
e
ounty · · · · · •
References: Mitchell County Bank.
Osage National Bank.
Farmer's National Bank.
Practice in all courts.
Nothing iS too Good
for the
-41
Our--- - -
Bankers.
Business is
Careless or indifferent work will not hold trade.
Our business is steadily growing.
The inference is plain.
to Supply their
Stationery.
,m,~~~~ffl'~'
'lllrite us /'or cSamples and 6stimatesJ
.,._ _ _ __ on anything made o/' paper.
Except Greenbacks .
- - -Iowa Lithographing Co.
120-122 Fourth Street.
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
DES MOINES, IQW A.
THE NORTHWESTERN BANKER.
32
July, 1900.
Valley ~atiol)al Bc;tl)~
OF DES MOINES
Condensed Statement of Condition, June 29, 1900.
RE.SOURCES. ·
Loans and Discounts,
$
Overdrafts,
U . S. Bonds to secure circulation,
U. S. Bonds to secure U S . Deposits
Stocks and Bonds,
Premiums,
Banking House and Fixtures,
Other Real Estate and Mortgages
owned,
Cash and Exchange,
I
,238,0 56.3 I
360.95
200,000.00
50,000.00
66,543.26
8,247.00
44,500.00
37,498.45
520,756.70
Total,
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock,
Surplus and Undivided Profits,
Circulation,
Deposits,
$
200,000.00
138,107.09
196,247.50
1,631,608.08
- - - - -·$ 2,165,962.67
Total,
N W . JOHNSON. Presicieut.
C. H DILWORTH. Vice•President
H.. A . CH.A WFORD, Cashier.
W. E. BARB.ETT, Assistant Cashier.
Accounts of Banks, Firms and Individuals solicited, auct · will
nceive careful attention.
REPORT Oi' THE CONDl'fION OF THE
6 5 7 89
32549
85
226815
500000000
52471
321179
758589
20250
540069
7 77 4 4
3357~
34371118
46411
12625
91947
878956
8338
58028 "
Sub-totals at any point in list. ,~
Operation learned in fifteen
minutes.
Speed from three to five times
ordinary hand work.
Automatic corrections of keys
wrongly hit.
Used by over 6, 0 00 banks, small
as well as large.
Invaluable for use in all finan•
cial and commercial instJ,..
tutions.
ltlachines sent on trial to any
responsible bank or business
house.
Incessantuseofthesemachines
for se-ven years in largest
banks in New York City finds
the machines of greatest
durability.
American Arithmometer Co.,
SECOND NATIONAL BANK
OF DUBUQUE, IOWA,
At the Close of Business, Thursday, April 26, 1900.
RESOURCES.
Loe.us aud DiFcounts ~····-· · .. ··-· .... ..... ··-· ... . $787,620.27
Overdrafts._--·._ ........ ··- ........ -···-··· .. ··-·_
327 77
U.S. Honds ·-·-·-····-·--···-·-- ............ ·--·-· 150,000.00
Other Bouds --··-· ........ ---· ·-·· ··-· ···-·· .. ··-· 227,587.52- $1,165,535.56
41,964 04
Hanking House ········--···· ..- ···-··············
4,367 20
Othn R"al Eshte . ... ·-··-·-····-·-·············-Due from Reserve Ageut~-· ······ ···--···-·· ·-·--· $2j6,385 44
47,374.64
Due from other Banks.----··---····-····•-· -·····
Cash o u Hand_···--·········-·-··········· -···· ·-· 122,657.75
Redemptiou Fund ______ ___ ·····---·····-·-·······2,500 .00
769 00429,686.83
Revenue Stamp Account.--····---···---- .... -····Total . --·· .. ---· ·- __________ .. ··-· ...•.
$1,641,553 .63
ST. LOUIS, MO.
:J, IA RIJ, ITIES.
Capital Stock ..................................... .
I 400,000.00
Surplus Fund ............ ····················-··· $58,000 .00
Undivided Profits . ....... ... . -··· .........••.. ~ ... ..
21,565.0679,565.06
Circulatiou .... .. _................... ... _.......... .
50,000.00
Deposits (Individuals) ..............••......... ··-· $315,383 .77
Deposits (Bauks) ............... .. ................ . 704,404 .80
92,200 .00- 1,111,988.57
Deposits (U.S.) ..... ••....... . ·-·· · ·············--·
Total .................. ·--··· ~···-·····
$1,641,553.63
O.l:4'FICEKS:
GEO. H. BURCH, President.
J. K. DEMING, Vice•Pres. and Cashier.
HERM. EscHEN, Ass't. Ca.shier.
DIRECTORS.
GEO , B. BURCH,
J. l\,
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