Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-05-30
MEET COMES TO
WEBSTER CITY
Annual Convention of Group
2, Iowa Bankers, Will
Come to Webster City
Next Year.
MEANS 400 VISITORS
Convention Held in Fort
Dodge This Year Comes
Here Next.

AAO4S ANSAts
Group 2, of the Iowa State Banker'
association, which held its annual meet
ing In Fort Dodge Tuesday, will come
to Webster City next year. The invita-
tiOn to come here was extended BY
Webster City bankers. Spirit Lake anf
Clear Lake were the other cOntender'
as convention cities. Webster City
however, was practically the unanim
GUS choice. This meeting will brine
some 400 bankers here.
Annual Event.
Group conferences are an annual
event. The state Is divided into six
southern groups and five northern
groups.
Group meetings are preliminary ia
the state convention of the Iowa Bank.
ers association, which this year will be
held in Des Moines on June z and 8.
sThe purpose OF the group meetings is
Ia discuss financial conditions and 1t
also gives bankers opportunity to get
acquainted.
Camp 2 comprises the following coun-
ties Buena Vista, Clay, Calhoun, Dick
inson, Emmett, Hamilton, Humboldt,
Kossuth, PalO Alto, POcah0ntas, Web
ster and Wright.
There are 242 banks represented In
Group 2. The total number OF banks in
the state is 1911.
Local Visitors.
Among those from this city who at
tended the convention were Mr.. and
Mrs w. G. Pyle, Mr.. and Mrs. E. f.
Mason, Mr.. and Mrs. WIN l.. Clifton,
H. @. Cutler, f. F. King, Ansiey Jacobs,
Il. II. Jones, v. c. Crosley, Geo. Alex
ander, Harold Rees, Melvin F. Johnson,
Murray McMurray. b. F. Paine, w. L..
Whitman, Lorenx Horn, Kenneth Paine,
Donald Nasby, W. B. Rood. H. w.
Cramer, the Misses Elsie Heiden,
Tressa Meyer, Grace Mccullough,
Eleanor Blue, June Berryhill, Helen
Blankenbuehler, Martha Wurcl. Bessie
Thompson, Esther Greenwood, Amy
Frank, Letha Horn, Zella Silvers, Grace
Merrill. Hazel Doty, Helen Teed.
The Webster City Chamber Of Com
merce will cooperate in every way with
the local bankers in making next years
gathering one Of the most successful
that this group has ever held.
At Tuesdays meeting in Fort Dodge.
presidents and secretaries Of the sew
eral county bankers associations met
with l.. A. Andrew, president OF the
state association in the morning. All
the counties reported that their vigil
aLce committees have been organized
in an effort to put stop to bank hold
ups in this section OF Iowa.
The program was In charge Of F. B.
Davis Of Manson, chairman Of the
group. Invocation was pronounced by
the Rev. w. Oscar Hairless, pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church. Several
selections were sung by the Rotary
club quartet. NJ. F. Healy Of Fort
Dodge, vice president Of the Webster
County National bank, welcomed the
visitors to Fort Dodge, and Clifford De-
Puy of Dies Moines, publisher Of the
Northwestern Banker, made the res
ponse. he of good cheer" said Mr..
Ilealy in bis welcoming address. "for
better times are coming, the world is
out OF joint but 1t Is being helped"
Hard Wsrk and Economy.
w. A. Heath Of the Chicago Federal
Reserve bank told the bankers that
hard work and economy will bring the
country out Of its present business de-
preston.
l.. A. Andrew Of Ottumwa, president
Of the Iowa Bankers association, and
J. II. McCOrd OF Spencer, president Of
the Iowa Chamber Of Commerce, were
the principal speakers on the program.
I'VE often hear it said that a bank
reflects the spirit OF Its community.
As matter OF fact 1t is more a genera
tor than a reflector, SO let its reputa-
ton he above reprOsch. its books the
most accurate, its Offices the neatest,
its buildings the most appropriate II
not the best in town. From the bank
should emanate spirit Of resOlute
optimism which does not disguise diff
crlties or belittle danger. but which in
sists that American spirit and the soil
Cf Iowa will always triumph II we CO.
operate and sacrifice and serve. Let the
bank attitude and advertising be spOn
sors for the fact that the home town is
the best spot in Iowa; that Its fel-
low citizens are 100 per cent people