Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-03-02
H. Hal HILL Promoted to Be
Cashier and Vice-President
of Planters Loan & Saw
ings Bank.

dent of the Planters Loan & Savings
Bank by the board of directors yes
terday afternoon and H. Hal Hill
was named vice-president and cash.
ier. Mr.. Bates was promoted to the
presidency to succeed the late presi.
dent, Mr.. Linwood C. Hayne. He had
been vice-president and cashier. Mr.
Hill was promoted from assistant
cashier to vice-president and cashier.
The two new executive officers of
the Planters Loan & Savings Bank
are men younger in years, though
they are veterans in the banking bus
mess. Mr.. Bates having given 16
years of his life to it and Mr.. Hill
eleven years of his. 1t had been an
open secret for several days that
Messrs. Bates and Hill would be NAM
ed to their respective positions and
during the afternoon and evening af-
ter the directors met they were the
recipients of the most cordial cor
gratulations.
Mr.. Bates is a native of Telfair-
vile, Burke County, Georgia, and is
36 years of age. He attended Emory
College, Oxford, Ca, from 1902 to
1904 and had to leave in his sopho-
more year to go to work. He secured
employment with the Central of
Georgia Railway at Millen, and came
to Augusta the next year, 1905, and
began work as runner for the old
National Bank of Augusta. The next
year he went with the Planters Loan
as bookkeeper and 1910 he was made
cashier. In January 1920 he was made
vice-president and cashier.
Mr.. Hill was born in Augusta %
year ago, was educated at the North
Augusta High School and shortly af
ter he was 16 years of age went to
work for the Planters Loan G. Savings
Bank. His rise has been steady, he
having filled the various positions in
the bank, until last year in January
he was made assistant cashier. Yes
terday he was made vice-president
and cashier and is possibly the young
est vice-president of big city bank
anywhere in the country.
Both Mr.. Bates and Mr.. Hill en-
joyed the complete confidence of Mr..
Hayne.They came up with the bank,
so to speak, and though young as the
ages Of men in business go, they are
equipped with many years of ex-
perience.
Oil Painting of Mr.. Hayne.
After the completion of business at
the meeting Rev. C. C. FARRELL, in be-
half of Miss Mary Anderson, the sis
ter of Mr.. Hayne, presented to the
bank an oil painting of Mr.. Hayne
Nand in presenting the same paid high
tribute to the character of the man.
He stated that the system of banking
was a very ancient institution; that
even in the days of Babylon, we
read of drafts being drawn against
deposits, that while seemingly bank
ing business is very simple, yet it
demanded man of the highest char
acter and calibre to successfully car
ry it on, and that Mr.. Hayne was
such man. He then spoke of him as
a citizen, banker and public official,
and as being of the very highest type
in all of these.
The president then called upon Mr..
Benjamin E. Pierce to make a few
words in response, in acceptance of
Mr.. Haynes picture, and in doing so,
Mr.. Pierce said, in part:
"There come times when men
would like to express their feelings
in words, when. words become mere
meaningless things" and that it was
in this position he found himself. He
said that the board of directors were
deeply grateful of the thoughtfulness
of Mr.. Haynes sister in presenting
the latest picture of her devoted
brother to the bank, and he stated
that the image of L. c. Hayne was
hung on the walls Of the hearts of
every member of the board of direct
ors, and engraven upon the tablets of
their memories, never to be effaced,
so long as life remained and that
when their bodies were consigned to
mother earth, to which had been con-
signed that of Mr.. Hayne, they hoped
to meet him in that other world and