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THE CHICAGO BANKER
December 25, 1909]
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The First National Bank
OF FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS
ESTABLISHED 1864
Capital Paid in $50,000	Authorized Capital $100,000
Assets:	Exceed a Quarter Million Dollars
10,000 Acres of Rich, Tillable Farm Land owned directly by the stockholders to secure your deposits, no matter how large or how small. ©, Collections solicited on Livingstone, McLean and Ford Counties
Interest on Time Deposits at 3 per cent
T. S. O. McDOWELL. President	c. E. MAUNDER, Cashier
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strong, new life, and seething mixture of races. Here is enacted a drama of lives and hearts, with a former Yale athlete as the central figure, to whom on occasion the heroine says the potent words that name the book: “A chrysalis is an ugly thing, but it contains possibilities that are beautiful. Maybe your heart has been a chrysalis.” Price, $1.50.
“A Certain Rich Man,” by the redoubtable William Allen White. Is a story which has its beginning in the fifties and which concludes in the present day, and the locale is “bleeding Kansas.” Although the title might convey the impression that the novel is a sort of fictional biography, as a matter of fact, it is the history of a village, and some of the characters who are the most enjoyable and likely to live longest in the memory are persons who were inconspicuous in the village of Sycamore Ridge.
Published by the Macmillan Co., New York.
“The Inner Shrine” is published anonymously, but comes from the Harper press, which is a guaranty of its safety as well as of its quality. It ran as a serial in Harpers Magazine and created a sensation. It belongs to the problem class, but it is a high-life problem which ends well.
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Declare Semiannual Dividend
The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank of New York City has declared a semiannual dividend for the half year ending December 31st at the rate of 4 per cent per annum on all deposits entitled thereto. The Empire City Savings Bank has declared interest for the six months ending December 31st at the rate of 4 per cent per annum on all sums from $5 up to $3,000 payable January 17th.
ier E. Saylor, of the Clarinda National; Cashier J. I. Miller, of the Farmers, at Liberty Center; President W. H. Berry, of the Worth Savings at Indianola; Assistant Cashier J. W. McCurnin, of the Citizens State at Mitchell-ville; President M. H. Brinton, of the Farmers Savings at Ruthven; Cashier J. B. Burton, of the Burton Savings at Kellogg.
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Some of the Best Books
“John Marvel,” by Thomas Nelson Page, has been brought out in book form by the Scribners and is the story of three college classmates, who later appear in a great city; one, the narrator, as an independent, briefless lawyer; another, of Jewish origin, as a Socialist and altruist, and John Marvel, as an assistant in philanthropic work under the auspices of the established church.
There is much revelation of the seamy side of life in a big city, couched in terms of unusual frankness and illumined by apt illustration and vigorous description.
Financial magnates, political bosses, labor leaders and those associated with them are grist for the novelist’s mill, of invention and discovery. ־
For those who like a book which deals with the strongest passions and emotions known to the human race, we can recommend “The Crysalis,” by Harold Morton Kramer and published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston. It is a strong tale of the great Northwest and is one of the best of the recent American novels.
The story opens with a Yale-Harvard football game, which is curiously complicated with the political future of prominent men. The scene soon shifts to the Northwest, with its
The State Savings at Rolfe has reduced its capital stock from $100,000 to $50,000.
Simon Casaday, of the Central State, has returned from Chicago where he went to meet Mrs. Casaday, who has been visiting relatives in New Jersey.
The Peoples Savings of Des Moines will enter the year 1910 with a reserve and surplus amounting to $120,000, which is $20,000 more than the capital stock.
James Watt, president of the Farmers Bank at Carlisle, which was robbed some two weeks ago has received $3,000 from an insurance company so that the bank is out, in fact, just $248.
Total clearances for the Des Moines banks for the year up to December 1st are $183,503,-622.91, which is a gain over the clearances for the corresponding period last year of $35,000,-000.
Mrs. Mary Markham at Ames, Iowa, is under arrest suspected of forging checks on the Ames Savings Bank.
L. D. Bedford, formerly assistant cashier in the Blackhawk National at Waterloo, who has removed to Canada is back in Iowa for the winter.
Manning Martin, who spent Thanksgiving at the home of C. H. Martin, his father, has returned to Tacoma, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer A. Miller have gone to Los Angeles where Mrs. Miller will spend the winter.
Out-of-Town Visitors
Among out-of-town bankers who called upon Des Moines financiers recently are Cashier J. W. Likens, of the Bank at Truro; Cash-