The Pensacola journal., 1910-05-08
Popular President of Ameri-
can National Bank is
Honored.
AFTER TWo-DAY SESSION, ASSo-
CATION BRINGS TO CLOSE
MOST ENJOYABLE OF MEETINGS
-ocALA SELECTED AS NEXT
PLACE OF MEETiNG-STAY OF
FLORIDA FINANCIERS ENDED
WITH BANQUET.

With the election of three Pensa-
cola bankers to important offices, one
| OF whom was selected as the associa-
ton president, the seventeenth annual
convention of the Florida state Bank
ers' Association came to a close at
1880 o'clock yesterday. so far as the
business features of the meeting were
concerned. The social features length
ened into the night, the bankers as
sembling in the cafe at the San Car
los at s o'clock in the evening and en-.
joying banquet as the last and part
ing evidence of hospitality on the
part of the local bankers. The stay
in Pensacola will be one long remem-
bered, and this was the universal SEN
timent Of all to whom a request was
made as to the manner Of enjoyment
here. Ocala was selected as the place
for meeting in 1910, upon the urgent
invitation of T. T. Monroe, president
of the Ocala Bank. Mr. Monroe said
that the convention would be we'll
taken care of at his town. Dir. Dis
mukes of st. Augustine, wanted the
convention lin the oldest city in point
of age, and the newest city in point OF
beauty and Improvement" but when
Ocala was selected he moved to make
| it unanimous.
American National Bank, was elected
president of the Florida State Bank
ers' Association. The name of J.
Simpson Reese, president of the Peo-
| pies National Bank, was placed in
nomination. 1t is customary with the
convention to select its new president
| in the city where the sessions are
held.
w. K. Hyer, Jr., president of the
First National Bank, was elected as a
| delegate to the American National
Bankers Association convention,
which will be held next year at Los
Angeles, Cal. President Green, OF
the Citizens Bank, and President
Reese, of the Peoples Bank, assured
the convention that they would see
to it that Mr.. Hyer represented the
Florida bankers at the association.
J. Simpson Reese was elected one of
the vice-presidents for the National
Bankers Association from Florida.
THE CLOSING DAY.
The closing day of the convention
was replete with highly interesting
I features. At the outset the president,
who was soon retired, announced that
Rpder the order of adjournment the
sAy before, the proper question for
/ discussion was the suspended resolu-
ton oHered by Mr.. DeSauSSare, re-
turning the thanks Of the association
and giving expressions of appreciation
| to the national monetary commission
! for giving the public the benefits of
diligent inquiries as to the banking
and currency systems of the world
with a view of determining what sys-
TEN will be best adapted to the needs
and requirements of the United States,
but, President Hardee said, the con-
vention had a lot of other matters to
| look after and in the discussion of the
resolution, it was possible that some
of the important matters would be
overlooked He therefore suggested
postponement of discussion until other
matters had been wiped out from the
calendar This prevailed.
Mess>s. w. S. Murrow and c. L.
Adams, of the Jasper National Bank,
and Cashier F. B. Wakefield of the
Apalachicola Bank, ~ere enrolled.
| Mr. Hardee, announcing that he
arose to a question of personal privi-
lege, laughingly announced that The
Journal had referred TO him as live
politician in a report the day before,
and he said that he would rather have
been denoted live statesman. The
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