The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
WINFIELD 5: TRUST
 COMPANY OPENS
Bank Takes Name From Early Settlement and
 Seal Also.

When the NewdcId Bank x Trust Co. opens it's doors to the public at 1900 Stratford avenue, withlE a lew days it will be the second bank to open it's doors within the confines Ot the territo- . which was originally ye olde tOwne of Stratford. The hrs- was the Stratford Bank k Trust Co at Stratford center, while the latest bank will be located at the center of what was known before Br.7gepor. was on the map at all as the village of Newfeld.
 The NewteId bank will be managed by its secretary treasurer, GeorEe Hugo, who is a native of Bridgeport and who needs no introduction to the banking public as he has been in the banking business here for the past g years.
 The president of the bank is Arthur Counor, who has been a resident ot the Newdeld section all his life and who, for a number of years, was con necJed with the office of the Secretary of State at Hartford and who is nov the tax commissioner of the city of Bridgeport.
 The vice presidents of the bank are Will I. Nichols and Robert N. Blakes- lee. MT. Nichols has been one of the leading merchants of the section for nearly twenty years and NJ, Blakeslee was formerly one of the publishers of The Bridgeport Post.
 The new bank will be q government bond bank as it will start business with all of It's s1O0,OCo of capitaliza- ton invested in Liberty and other bonds issued by the United States of America. The bank also starts busI- ness with $25, 900 surplus fully paid in. That there is need of bank in this neighborhood is shown by the demand of q number of the mer- chants in the section who insisted last Saturday that Treasurer Hugo accept their deposits. A number wanted to be the first to have their money placed in the new Crome steel vault safe and he was obliged to ac- commodate hem to the extent of re- ceivi2g seve- Il thousand dollars. Ii is hoped that the building will be completed so that business can be started formally on next Saturday. Because of the fact that old New
 field has somewhat lost its identity first by becoming the borough of Wesr Stratford and later by being annexed by the city of Bridgeport, 1t was de Cided that the institution should have q fitting seal and the services Of two of the stockholders of the bank. the Messrs. stephen M. and David E Boothe of Stratford, were called upon MessTs. E5oothe are direct descendants of MT. Richard Boothe, who settled Stratford in 1G39 and their residencl at Putney Is the oldest homestead in America, having been occupied by the Boothe family for more than 25C years. Poth gentlemen are reputed to be authorities upon the origin and history of heraldic, and governmental seals of the world.
 The banks seal depicts an early settler of Stratford standing in field
 that Is newly broken ground and be- fore him Is an Indian who is offering him his bow and culver of arrows implying the trust of the redman ir
 the settler of Newfeld who has lef the fortified stockade in the origina settlement at Stratford and decided to put his trust in the Indian who shows his trust in him.
 The new field shows stumpage and ! is shown to be the shoTelands with a bank of rising ground in the nearby hinterIand upon which rises a, forest. | IN0 carry SELlleT IS stlO"A W66Ll4lB d l colonial hat and the knee boots of his | time. The I,ow that stands back ot
 his oxen Is true of the period being l straight handled with two pins of wood driven in near the top for grips | Off shore Is shown a. sailing vessel ! conveying the thought that the waters | of the coast were the early highways ! and the way by which the early set 1 tiers. of Stratford at the new fields. A | flock of wild geese flying off shore remind us of the most typical New l England coast bird.
 The motto on the seal is taken from | the original Boothe coat of arms
 "Quod Fro Spero" CWhat hope to ! be I will be.)
 Besides having a, savings depart 1 Inen- and an insurance department 1 the new bank is to be fully equipped | to care for the accounts of individ-
 uals, firms and corporations and re- | spectfully solicits correspondence ol
 interviews with those contemplating
 making changes or opening new ac. ! counts.