The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
, ). County Bar Assemblies This Even
ing in TIFFANY Room to Form
ally cypress Regret q.
His Retirement.
HoNoRED BY ALL HERE
c,od program is prepared and Re
marks on Respected Jurist viii
be Spontaneous After
the Dinner.

Most of the attorneys IL ASo
county have accepted the invitation
- thc Keokuk bar to be guests at
~ ~ h.nouet rendered Judge Henry
LII nv this evening in honor OF his
, Di from the bench after long
and distinguished service.
sn 4. the table in the Tiffany room
:. the Hotel Iowa will be practically
~ ~, The active attorneys In Lee
county each OF whom at some time
~ ~ 1other praciced before Judge
Bank $1,000 I.
,ostprandial oratory. there Is provl-
s;on for spontaneous talks by the
LEVERS on their appreciation OF
Irdre Bank and the relation OF IN
cidents in their experience while
nracticing before him.
The Post PrandIai Program.
Tho program prepared by a COM
mittee to follow the conee ano cigars
i as follows, with Edward w. NC
Manus as the POSTMASTER:
The Judge as a Law Reformer-
George B. Stewart.
The Duty of the Bar to the Judi
ciary-A. w. O'Harra.
Salus populi suprema lex-Judge
W. S. Hamilton
Judges and Their Training-John
P. Kennedy
A Just Judge-John M. Dawson.
The Lawyer as Patriot-Lieut-
J. Riley lAcManus.
Lee County Lawyers, Past and
Present. Judge John q. Craig.
Short talks by members of the
local bar.
Dinner will be served in the Tiff
fany room at Z o'clock. and the SEES
sion is expected to last until a late
hour.
Those Who Do Him Honor.
There are now 6fty-one attorneys
listed in Lee county in the official
roster publisher. by the clerk of the
district court, besides Judge Bank
himself, now at the bar instead of
on the bench. Thirty-five of these
are in Keokuk, fifteen in Fort Madi-
son, and one in Montrose.
1t is bar with most remarkable
history, including more names Of
national reputation in its roster than
the bar of any county in the United
States outside of the metropolitan
cities.
It sent one of its members to the
United States supreme court bench,
another to be attorney general of the
United States, and a dozen to be
counsel for the largest corporations,
like the, Standard OIL company, the
Burlington, Northwestern and Santa
Fe railroads, the Pullman company.
and others. Outside the professional
limits, 1t sent its members to the
cabinets of presidents. One of the
greatest federal district judges in the
country was Keokuk lawyer.
The Career Of Judge Bank.
And it is this bar that has always
honored and respected Judge Henry
Bank during his thirty-fve years as
judge of a court of record here.
The banquet this evening is only
the timely expression and making of
record of the same thing you have
heard and seen a thousand times in
and about the court" said one Keo-
kuk lawyer today.
Judge Bank exercised judicial func-
IONS for thirty-seven years. ending
( tne first Monday in January of this
year. He was police magistrate of
heokuk, with the title of recorder
ior two years; he was judge of the
superior court. coordinate with the
district court and in his day having
Equally important cases before 1t, for
we've years; for twenty-three years
ne sat on the district court bench,
nere and at Fort Madison. He re-
ureo on his own motion full of
nonors and with the highest percent
age OF aff1rmations by the Iowa
- supreme court of any district judge
IN the state.
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