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THE CHICAGO BANKER
July II, 1908]
The
Merchants National Bank
The Live Commercial Bank of Cedar Rapids
RESOURCES $4,500,000
OFFICERS
JOHN T. HAMILTON, President	JAMES E. HAMILTON, Vice Pres.
P. C. FRICK, Vice President	JOHN S. BROEKSMIT, Cashier
EDWIN H. FURROW, Asst. Cashier
Direct connections with all important Iowa towns, together with many in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
George Richards, a miner near Berwick, feared to trust his savings to the banks. He placed $700 in an earthen jar and secreted it between the bed quilts. When he came home in the evening it was gone and Richards is wondering whether the bank would not have been safer after all.
Simon Casaday, of the Des Moines Savings, has purchased a handsome new residence of W. M. Halladay on Rutland Avenue, Des Moines, which he may occupy with his family.
phonograph to going and without warning put on the Bryan record. He says that the listeners permitted Mr. Bryan to finish his speech but that the expression on their faces at the unexpected address was amusing in the extreme.
Banking Notes
The Farmers Savings at Weaver, which was organized last October by a number of influential and well-to-do farmers in that vicinity, opened for business on July 1st.
Listen to Unexpected Address
A good story is going the rounds of Des Moines banks at the expense of a half dozen bankers not a thousand miles away, who are radically opposed to the guarantee of bank deposits. A local phonograph store secured a phonograph record of one of Wm. J. Bryan’s speeches in favor of the guaranteeing of deposits which a democratic !)anker chanced to hear. He purchased one of the records and that evening invited the bankers radically opposed to the proposition to his house. Then he started a
First National Bank of Marquette, Mich.
Capital	$ 150,000
Surplus and Profits	108,969
Deposits 1,691,157 ־
OFFICERS
L G. KAUFMAN, Präsident	EDW. S. BICE, Cashier
C. L. BRAINERD, Ass’t Cashier W. O. JOHNASON, 2d Ass’t Cash.
This bank is the largest and the oldest bank in Marquette County. Its record of strength and service is the best guaranty of its ability to meet present requirements. The honorable history of this bank for forty-four years, the well known integrity of the officers, and the competent oversight of the directors unite to form an assurance of safety to the depositors.
Established 1886
The City National Bank of Lansing
Lansing, ־ Michigan
$ 100,000 100,000 48,204 1,509,374
Capital
Surplus
Undivided Profits Deposits
OFFICERS
E. W. SPARROW, President	E. F. COOLEY, Vice-President
B. F. DAVIS, Cashier	F. J. HOPKINS, Ass’t Cashier
United States Depositary
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