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THE CHICAGO BANKER
December 18, içoç]
FOURTH STREET NATIONAL BANK
OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Capital $3,000,000.00 ־ Surplus and Profits -	6,100,000.00
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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
W. K. HARDT, Assistant Cashier FRANK G. ROGERS, Manager Foreign Exchange Department
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ing the month of May. Many of the notes are but just maturing and when presented for payment are pronounced forgeries. The association claims to have some knowledge of the person who perpetrated the fraud but as yet no arrests have been made.
Portage Bank Cashier Weds
John A. Raup, cashier of the City Bank of Portage, was married December 6th, at Park Falls, to Miss Lola L. Roser of Phillips, Wisconsin.
Executive Council Meeting
An important meeting of the executive council of the Wisconsin Bankers Association was held Friday evening, December 17th. Among the important matters brought before the meeting were the next annual place of convention maintenance of the purchasing department; additional rewards for the capture of burglars; extension of present detective system and whether or not the “Tickler,” a small four page paper devoted to the association and edited by Secretary Bartlett, should be maintained and designated as the “official organ.”
Alexander Wall Indorsed
The Milwaukee Chapter, American Institute of Banking, has unanimously indorsed Alexander Wall, credit clerk of the First National, for president of the national organization. The next annual convention will be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., during the first week in June and an active campaign in behalf of the Milwaukee man will be maintained until the issue is settled.
Mr. Wall will go to the convention with a strong Western backing and his friends are sanguine of his ultimate election as he has a (Continued on page 15)
ALEXANDER WALL Milwaukee, Wisconsin
inent and well to do farmers. These notes were supposed to have been given in payment for stock and were presented for discount dur-
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of deposit by the bank to the comptroller, made payable to him on demand and credited to the bank. If at any time the bank shall discontinue, its share of the reserve fund shall be treated the same as stock in any other insurance company.
Writes “George” for Groceries
Even a banker has time to be facetious as is evidenced by the following little incident:
As announced in the The Banker last week the headquarters of the Wisconsin Bankers Association is conducting a purchasing department for the benefit of its members under the guidance of Secretary George Bartlett. Postals were sent to all members out-in-state notifying them of this department and requesting them to avail themselves of the opportunities offered.
Vice-President Lewis Larson, of the Island City State Bank at Cumberland, was one of the many who received the postal card. He did not require anything for the bank just at that time in the way of adding machines, typewriters, etc., etc., but he wrote “George” as follows :	“I used to buy my groceries when
in Milwaukee from a firm named ‘Schultz’— send me their latest price list.”
“George” looked over the city directory and failed to find the name of the firm mentioned so wrote in reply:	“Cannot find such a gro-
cery firm in Milwaukee—perhaps you mean ‘Schlitz.’ ״
Clever Swindler Wanted
A smooth confidence game has been worked upon many of the banks in the Northern section of this state which has only just come to light. A well dressed stranger has visited a number of the banks producing promissory notes for various amounts signed by prom-