Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-21
PLANS OF BANKERS
Program for State Meeting in
this City Next Week Given
Out.
TRANSACT BUSINESS
TUESDAY
Number of Social Diversions Ar
ranged for Entertainment
OfVisitors.

The program for the 18th annual
| convention of the Bankers Associa-
ton of the States of Illinois has been
issued and covers the details of the
dOings the two days of the meeting
in this city, July 2S-29. The conven-
ton hall will be the Illinois theatre
| and the headquarters of the eXecu-
tive committee will be maintained at
the Harper. Railroad rates of a fare
and third from all parts of the state
will be made and the bankers expect
to bring several hundred people. in
GLIDING II large number of ladies, to
| the city.
There will be several side attrac-
tions to interest the visitors, incluCf-
ing an excursion on the steamer j. s.,
which Will start at 1 p. III. July IS Tor
a run during the late afternoon and
the early evening. The local commit
tees have arranged to have the Rock
Island arsenal golf links open to the
visitors and Il visit to Rock Island ar
senal viii be made one of the feat
ures. Those who wish to go will he
given escorts to visit factories of the
three cities. \ committee of the local
lladies will be at the Harper both
mornings to welcome the visiting la
dies, who will also be given informal
receptions at the Rock Island Club
from $50 Il. IN. to l p. IN. each day.
The Order of Business.
Business will he taken up in the fol-
lowing order the first day:
Call to order by the president, 10 a.
IN.
Prayer, Rev. William Torrance. pas
tor Central Presbyterian church.
Address of welcome to Rock Island
by the mayor, Hon. William McCono-
chic.
of Rock Island and Moline, Phil Mitch
ell.
Response on behalf of the associa-
ton, William George, president Old
Second National bank. Aurora.
Annual address by the president of
the association. Andrew Russell.
Report of executive council, +. ID.
Durham, chairman. Onarga.
\ report of the delegates who at
tended the convention of the Ameri-
can Bankers association, New Or
leans. Nov. 11-13. 1902. John Hamilton,
chairman.
Report of the secretary.
Report of the treasurer.
! Appointment of committees.
Unfinished business.
Short talks by the vice president of
tho association.
Discussion of practical banking
questions.
Election of officers.
Introduction of presideut-elect.
The Joint Meeting.
The second day joint meeting will
he held at the Turner opera house.
Davenport, with the Iowa Bankers
association, which will be in session
in Davenport at the same time. The
program on that occasion will he as
| follows:
| Address, The Conservation of Pros
perity." Hon. y. b. Cummins, governor
OF Iowa.
Address. Hon. II. J. Hamlin. attor-
ney general of Illinois.
! Address, Essential Financial and
Currency Reform, Hon. Charles y.
Fowler. of New Jersey, chairman of
the committee on banking and cur
rcncy, house of representatives.
| The Committees.
The local committees appointed to
have charge of the arrangements are
as follows:
! Executive Committee-Phil Mitchell.
chairman; c. Hellpenstell, secretary;
II. r. Casteel, treasurer; Walter 4.
Rosenfield, representing the Peoples
Savings bank. Moline; William Butter
worth representing the First Nation
al bank, Moline; Charles L. Skinner.
representing the Moline Trust & Saw
ings bank, Moline; Frank q. Allen,
representing the Moline National
bank. Moline; II. +. Casteel. represent
ing the Rock Island National bank
Rock Island; II. b. Simmon. repre-
senting the Central Trust & Savings
bank, Rock Island; j. NJ. Buford, rep
resenting the Rock Island Savings
bank Rock Island; Phil Mitchell, rep
resenting Mitchell & Lynde, Rock Isl
and; c. HelIpenstell, representing the
Peoples National bank. Rock Island.
Ladies' Reception Committee-Mes-
DANES j. F. Robinson. II. +. Casteel,
j. II. Wilson, +. c. \. Denkmann, JOS
eph Rosenfeld l. Huber. Carl Hellpen-
steI. f. ID. Sweeney. L. ID. Nudge, II.
b. Simmon. =. Greenawalt, f. W.
Hurst. Leopold Simon, and Misses
Irene Rosenfield, Florence MiXter and
Mary Comegys, Rock Island; and
Mesdames William Butterworth, Min
ME Stephens Allen. II. y. Ainsworth,
Sol Hirsch. j. w. Good, Schiller Hos
ford, c. p. Skinner, \. s. Wright, o. F.
Anderson and Miss Florence Gould,
Moline.
No Pity Shown.
''For years fate was after me con
tinuously," writes +. A. Gulledge, Yer