The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-12-16
THE BANKERS
BANQUET.
RHE LAST or THE SERIES AND
ONE OF THE BEST.
Speeches Strong. And OF Practical
Value.

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The bankers OF Group 4" gath
cred in goodly numbers at the Ma
sonic temple on Saturday evening
OF last week. where the following
well arranged program was fault
lessly rendered:
Meeting called to order at 5
p. m, by V. Walden, Chairman. cash.
Ter First National Bank, Farmville.
Address OF Welcome: J. L. Bugg.
cashier Peoples National Bank. OF
Farmviile.
Response: E. P. Miller, Presi-
dent First National Bank. Lynch
burg.
Address OF chairman, report OF
secretary. report of advisory COM
mittee, unfinished business. new
business.
Address: Group Work and It's
Relation 70 Association Work" J.
William Miller. President Virginia
Bankers Association, Pulaski
Address: How 70 Advertise for
Country Business" J. J. Scott, cash
Ter Lynchburg Trust & Savings
Bank. Bedford City.
Address: The Plutocrat and the
Parson." Rev. H. T. Graham. d. d.,
president Hampden-sidney College.
Fsrmville.
Address: THE Importance OF
Maintaining an Adequate Reserve /
Fund" Chas. C. Barksdale, Chief
Bank Examiner. Richmond.
Address: N. p. Calling. secretary
Virginia Bankers Association. of
Lynchburg.
Address: THE peculiar Respon-
sibility of the Country Cashier"
w. H. Pettus, cashier State Bank
Of Charlotte County. brakes Branch.
Address: what Know About
Colonel Robert B. Berke
ley. of the Farmville Herald. Farm
vile.
Election Of officers.
The feast was a glorious one.
prepared under the tasteful direc-
ion of Mr.. B. NJ Cox. his lieuten-
lnts being Drs John and Robert
Hamlet, and served gracefully and
'insomely by Misses Courtney Cox.
iyrtie Towns. Pattie Epes, Carrie {
lee McCraw and Florence Clayton, }
md who had as their guide and in [
piring leader. Mrs Jamison. the q
matron of the Normal.
With appetites as keen as was
he crisp air of the winters evening.
he bankers and their friends gath L
red about the festive board, and by
heir vigorous assault added the
well done" to the already well {
one. "SmmOn beer" was served
nth the meal. at least the writer q
'as 50 informed, and it was added q
hat 'simmo1- beer" and possum al G
'ays go together and the compan-
'nship seemed to be most congen- u
L. Cashier Walden, the chairman Il
f the Group, presided and present "
4 the speakers. while Cashier Scott, d
S secretary, had arranged the per- u
'ct program. The speeches were V
the highest order of excellence. u
lteresting and instructive. deal u
e with subjects of practical con-
srn to bankers and so of interest W
all Of us u
1t would be no waste of space to III
upon each of them, and 81
Jaw from them useful lessons. but st
lis is impractical. Most of the ad- Of
'esses were made before the sup re
#, but when cigars had been III
hted. toast master N. T. Gattliing
troduced Mr.. Geo. Bryan. Of Rich le
ond; Cashier Hurt. of Blackstone, IN
ID MIR. Jos. Goodwin, of Fin II
stle, who though the hour of Sun pl
y morning was drawing near, stir ue
d the pulses of brother bankers la
TO quicker beating, as they ear
silly and eloquently told Of the
essing needs of the great system
which civilization Itself has so
'ge an interest. tss
The curtain then fell on one
the most delightful social func-
ms in the history Of Farmville. o,,,
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