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The two directories in hand did not agree and both came in for a hard knock from the aforesaid evangelist. He said he would go right back to his office and get the latest sheets of his directory hot off the press. It was a hard fall. The town, even, wasn’t on the map. Take your choice. They are much alike.
“1\/I ILLARD BANKS” in Omaha is prepar-ing to show the public just what can be done in the way of an interior. A. J. Casse, the Chicago expert, is on the job.
a gay Lothario. On the other side he found himself in the heaven described by Mohammed. There were flowers, perfumes, gay birds, sensuous, spice-laden breezes, blue skies and fleecy clouds. Nimble, attendants served him with delicious sherbets and dainty edibles.
“But where are the ladies?” he asked. “Beg pardon,” said a polite person with horns, an unmistakable tail and a hoof, “you only are dreaming of the 19x0 convention at Los Angeles. The ladies, in real life, will be there in plenty.”
Stacey B. Rankin is offering a reward for a man named “Downer” who cashed three small ones for a total of $153.35. Mr. Rankin says he cashed “several others” in the same vicinity. Oh, but this is easy money! The Bond Man.
Cuban Banks Oppose Decree
Havana, October 29.—President Gomez today signed a decree providing for the registration and periodical inspection of all banks and other corporations. Men prominent in commercial life and bankers say that if the decree is permitted to become operative it will have a very bad effect on all classes of business, especially foreign corporations doing business in Cuba, whose methods of accounting render impossible compliance with the terms of the decree. It also will tend, they say, to discourage investments of foreign capital in Cuban enterprises.
Prominent American and Cuban lawyers declare that the decree obviously is unconstitutional and efforts are being made to bring the matter promptly before the supreme court.
FROM Texas we received a postal card containing a neat little poem which the sender ascribes to W. O. Jones of the Park. New York. Here it is:
Used to love the roses,
Blossomin’ so fair;
Beauty on the bushes An’ perfume in the air.
How our tastes keep chang’n!
June seemed all sublime,
Now we’re just as happy ’Cause it’s punkin time.
PC. KAUFFMAN of Tacoma, Wash., who « is secretary of the Washington Bankers Association, declares that the opinion of the Pacific Northwest is in favor of the establishment of a central bank.
THE principal stock exchange commission houses, or at least a majority of them, have been favorably impressed by the market’s resiliency since the publication of the Steel Corporation’s quarterly report, and though setbacks are looked for, the consensus of opinion is that the advance will be continued.
BANKING conditions in Europe and in New York are engaging more attention in serious quarters than stock market operations. Improvement has taken place abroad, though not as rapidly as has sometimes been the case following the raising of bank rates, while in this country fears of stringency are abating.
AT the meeting of Group Eleven of the State Bankers Association at Springfield, Mo., this week, Charles M. Knapp, cashier of the Rolla State Bank, was elected chairman.
A MAN claiming to be from Plannibal, Mo., tried to cash a check in a Chicago bank the other day. Said he’d never heard of “Jim” Hinton and you can guess whether he got the money or not.
STRANGE about those 30,000 people who daily assemble to meet the president at places you cannot find on the bank directory map. Oh yes, the maps must be correct, for it says so in the front of the book.
ONE of these bank directory missionaries was in the other day when we were trying to justify the spelling of a Texas banker’s name.
HERE is a fine tip to those who would teach national thrift as it is taught and practiced in France and Germany, and ought to be taught systematically by the A. B. A.
AS a result of a heart-to-heart talk by W. E.
Wray, president of the Acorn Brass Manufacturing Company, to the 200 employees of that concern Monday afternoon, over seventy-five of the men opened savings accounts, and a majority of the remainder agreed to follow suit.
BREATHITT county, Ky., has the first bank burglary on record where the burglars were not after the coin. They only wanted the ballot box which had been left there for safe keeping, so as to queer a recent election.
CHARLES C. DICKINSON, president of the Carnegie Trust Company in New York, was thrown from his horse on the bridle path in Central Park Sunday morning and seriously injured. He will be confined to the hospital for some time. Mr. Dickinson is a lawyer, a member of several clubs, including the Manhattan, National Democratic, Cornell University and Lotos, and is the author of several law works. He is a native of Cobleskill, N. Y.
UP in North Dakota banks grow just as the crops do. First National of Beach is only three months old and on a capital of $25,000 has deposits of $136,322.48. Your old friend E. J. Curtin of Iowa and elsewhere is in it.
T OS ANGELES TRUST AND SAVINGS, a •L׳ combination of two other banking concerns, has taken quarters in the Central Building, an ideal location. The new deal will become effective January 1, 1910. The new bank will have resources of $8,000,000. J. C. Drake will continue as president of the enlarged trust company.
ANDREW SMITH, secretary of the Indiana Bankers Association, writes:	“I find our
Indiana bankers are not overenthusiastic, some being afraid it would be used as a political machine and others that it would be dominated by Wall Street. In either event, the plan did not seem popular with the Indiana bankers. However, we are open to conviction and are anxious to receive more light on the subject.”
HE amount of money you invest in a musical instrument isn’t such an important question, if—you are sure that it’s really invested there when you pay it out.
Crown Pianos and Crown Combinolas (Player Pianos ^represent as good an investment of this kind as it is possible to find; best material obtainable; best labor hireable; generations of experience in management; pride in product rather than in profits, and an anxiety to keep track of every instrument after a sale as well as before it, to see that our product always gives satisfaction.
This is why Crown Instruments are the best for your money; they are best for you.
Geo. P. Bent Company
Manufacturers of
Crown Pianos and Crown Combinolas
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