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THE CHICAGO BANKER
October 17, 1908]
The Girard National Bank
Of Philadelphia
Capital,	$ 2,000,000.00
Surplus and Profits,	3,650,000.00
Deposits,		28,500,000.00
FRANCIS B. REEVES, RICHARD L. AUSTIN Vice-President THE0. E. WIEDERSHEIM Second Vice-President	President JOSEPH WAYNE, Jr. Cashier CHARLES M.ASHTON Asst. Cashier
Accounts of Merchants, Individuals, Banks, and Bankers Received on Favorable Terms
FOURTH STREET NATIONAL BANK
OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Capital $3,000,000.00 - - ־ Surplus and Profits 5,900,000.00 ־
UNEXCELLED COLLECTION FACILITIES CORRESPONDENCE INVITED
R. H. RUSHTON, President	E. F. SHANBACKER, 1st Vice-President
B. M. FAIRES, 2nd Vice-President
R. J. CLARK, Cashier	W. A. BULKLEY, Assistant Cashier
FRANK G. ROGERS, Manager Foreign Exchange Department
encircle it.
The occasion was a meeting of the executive council of the Illinois Bankers Association and amid all the pleasures of the day a very orderly and business session was held with Oscar G. Foreman presiding. The paid secretaryship emerged from secretarial eclipse and owing to the presence of many friends and the good offices of the chairman was adopted unanimously. The “increase of dues” interjection was “laid over.”
Ever since he was honored by the bankers of Illinois with the presidency of the association Mr. George has felt that he wanted to entertain the council at his magnificent Brookline stock farm, the best in Illinois.
JOHN L. HAMILTON Hoopeston, 111.
"is a waiting one with foreign financiers. The results of the presidential election are considered of prime importance, and the disposition to consider the success of the republican party as necessary to a business revival in America is universal.”
Mr. Cook stated that he was very glad to get back, and that he had not seen anything better than the United States in his travels, and never expected it.
At Brookline Farm
Upwards of one hundred Illinois bankers took a day off on Monday, and spent the time pleasantly and profitably at Brookline farm, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. \\ illiam George, at an old time barbecue dinner on a lawn, overlooking the beautiful Fox river and surrounded on all sides by pastures crowded with fancy stock of the kind that delights the eye. The farm is of nearly two thousand acres and from Welsh ponies to Herefords has won enough blue ribbons almost to
servative attitude, have upheld the interest of the various committees throughout the state at all times.
A meeting of the council was also held Mon-’ day, October 12, 1908, at Brookline Farm, Aurora, 111., the home of William George, who royally entertained the members of the council. It is unnecessary to state that Mr. George’s genuine hospitality was enjoyed and appreciated by all of the members.
The above recommendation of the committee of ten, of which W. (!. Edens is chairman, was indorsed by the council unanimously for the approval of your convention.
Oscar G. Foreman, Chairman.
W. J. Henley
William J. Henley has been elected a director of the Mutual Bank of Chicago, to take the place of J. P. Byrne, who resigned.
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Citizens National of Johnstown
The Citizens National of Johnstown, Pa., will be merged with the First National. The merged institution will have a capital of $1,000,000 and deposits of about $5,000,000.
THOMAS D. CATLIN Ottawa, 111.
Richard Y. Cook
Richard Y. Cook, president of the Guarantee Trust Company of Philadelphia, who has just returned from Europe, says that business conditions in England, France, and Germany are similar to those prevailing in the United States. In England, particularly, there is a great deal of labor unemployed.
“ I he financial aspect, in regard to the business and securities of the United States,” he added,
E. D. DURHAM Onarga, 111.