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The firm of P. H. Albright ALBRIGHT & COMPANY REAL ESTATE. & Co., real estate loan agents. began business at Winfield, in the latter part of 1881, and are one of the very few firms that survived the collapse of the boom days of the eighties. The firm is a partnership and is composed of P. H. Albright. resident partner and James B. Moore of Hart- ford, Connecticut, who looks after the eastern end of the busi ness. This firm, besides lending money do a large real estate and insurance business. and in connection with the abstract and real estate business of Stafford & Albright, pay regular salaries to twenty persons, and do the largest business in their line, done in the state of Kansas. Recently they have ex- tended their field of operation and are now doing a large busi- ness in Oklahoma. . \ great measure of the permanent and long continued successful career of this firm, is due to the management of the resident partner of the firm, who enjoys the confidence of the public to an extent seldom equaled. his policy in business having always been to treat everybody in
such a fair and considerate manner. that they will be friendly thereafter. lle believes that all men are brethren and that the greatest measure of success will come to the man who recognizes this idea in business.
Ile is an excellent judge of human nature, and to this is, due a large measure of his success, in carrying on the business he has had todepend on. the industry, integrity and ability of those about him, and it is a well known fact in the business world. that his office force at Winfield, and his office force at. lloward, Kansas, and Newkirk, Oklahoma, are made up of the . best talent in the land. But while the western management of the firm has been all that could be desired, a large amount of credit for the success of the firm is due the junior partner Mr. James B. Moore of Hartford, Connectient. Mr. Moore's acquaintance embraces the leading capitalists of New England. and by reason of this fact the firm of P. H. Albright & Co., has never lacked funds for investment
J. E. JARVIS
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COWLEY COUNTY NATIONAL BANK As a rule the important part played by a bank is not fully appreciated by the public. A majority look upon them as simply a place of safe keeping for money. and have no adequate conception of the fact that they constitute a most important factor in the success of all legiti mate enterprises, and the feeling afforded to a business com- munity by the possession of a responsible banking institution. whose methods and principals are founded upon ripe judgment and broad experience and whose financial status is beyond question. may not be over estimated. Of such a character is the Cowley County National bank. For seventeen years this staunch institution has done business in this city continnonsly. never having closed its doors save on legal holidays: never having repudiated an obligation. and when financial panics
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LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in
$50,000 00
Surplus fond
10,000 00
Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid
10.483 06
National bank notes outstanding
12,500 00
Individual deposits subject to check
$226,149 1>
Demand certificates of deposit
1.044 59
Tini certificates of deposit 57,698 86
Cashier's checks outstanding
5F2 93 285,455 56
#368.438 62
STATE DE KANSASI
County of Lowley
I. J. F. Balliet, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is True to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. F. BALLIET, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of Dec., 1900. John C. Rowland, Notary Public.
My commission expires O.t 18th. 190 . [>EAL]
Curreet - Attest
I. E IARVI> JOHN M KECK - Directors M. F. JARVIS
The bank is located on the northeast corner of Ninth avenue and Main street in a large three story stone building. The bank apartments are neat and handsomely furnished and the fixtures are of the most modern They have three fire proof vanlts. two large Hall & Debold safes, with Hall. Sar- grant & Greenleaf automatic. double time locks. Such a bank is a credit to our financial stability and its policy and manage- ment worthy of emulation
Mr J. E Jarvis is a native of Illinois, he was married to Miss Anna Engate in 1969. and in 187t he moved to Cowley county. Kansas, where he engaged in agriculture and stock . raising for twelve years and was very successful. In 1853 he moved to Winfield, where he has been in business ever since. Mr. and Mrs Jarvis are the parents of six boys and one girl.
J. F. BALLIET
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and periods of depression brought disaster to banks all over the country they safely weathered it all without ever missing a dividend to its fortunate stock-holders. This bank was or- ganized as the Farmers Bank in 15-3. its officers were Robert Kerr. president: John A. Eaton, vice president: Thomas J. Eaton. casbier and .J. F. Balliet. assistant cashier. In 1-91 it was reorganized as the Cowley County National Bank with J. N. MeDonald. president: Ed Pate. vice president: Thomas J. Eaton. cashier and J. F. Balliet. assistant cashier. In 1996 this bank consolidated with the business of the Farmer's State Bank. In the consolidation the following officers were elected : .I. E. Jarvis. president: Ed. Pate. vice president: J. F. Balliet. cashier and M. F. Jarvis, assistant cashier. The present offi- cers are J. E. Jarvis, president: John M. Keck. vice president: J. F. Balliet, cashier: M. F. Jarvis, assistant cashier. They have a capital stock of $50,000 and run 25 to 40 per cent above the requirements of the National Banking law. The following is the last statement of the Cowley County National Bank as made on call of the comptroller of the currency for December 13th. 1900:
Loans and disponnit
$201 02. 93
Overdrafts, seenred and unsreured
1.1 9 69
I. s. bonds to secure en ulitiou
Banking house furniture and fixtures
Due from national banks 'not reserve Agents
$21.540 37
Due from state banks and bankers
15. 4900+ 1
Due from approved reserve agents
62,350 \'
Futerna revenue stamps
3.9 INI
Checks and of het rash Hems
Notes of thei natte it buks
Fractional paper currency mekris and cents
Lawful money festive ut bank v1/
Specie
Legal Tender tules
$20.540 90 6.000 (2)
26,440 00
6225 00
TOTAL
$368,435 62
M. F. JARVIS
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17 3000 0
5.325 00
Redemption fund with (. - treasurer () per cent circulation
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Earl M. Bartley
H. A. Fearey
Etta Foults
OFFICE FORCE OF P. H. ALBRIGHT & CO.
Schuyler Irons
Alma Smock
M. B. Light
W. E. Brewster
E. s. Bedilion
P. H. Albright
Grant Stafford
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two ... theadcowboy Employed in the institution of which their father is podem. Mr Jarvis lives in a fine. large residence on Sonth Wdlington freci, He is also the owner of eighteen hundred acre- of rhogy Kansas lands. eight hundred acres be- ing of Cowley bounty's best land. besides possessing valuable Winfield properties. His connection with this bank has demonstrated his ability as a business man and his personal as well as financial support lent the bank has been one of the sources of its success.
The vice president. Mr. John M. Keck was born in Shelby county. Indiana. in 1847. at which place he was reared and educated. but for the past twenty years has been a resident of Cowley county. most of which time has been spent on a farm. By honest and persistent labor he has accumulated enough of this world's goods to enable him to spend his mature years free from the toils and cares of a business life. le owns two fine farms of three hundred and twenty acres in the rich valley of the Walnnt river. besides valuable property in this city He has been connected with this bank since its organization. in Isst he was married to Miss Sallie Warner in Indiana. They live at 110" Church street. No citizen in Winfield is more high- ly respected than Mr. Keck He always favors that which is for the building up of the city and is a valuable citizen in every respect.
Mr. J F. Balliet, the cashier, is a native of Ohio, who re- ceived his education by taking advantage of the city and high schools of Nevada in that state. He is an accountant such as is rarely found behind any counting house counter. and his superior knowledge and sixteen years experience in the busi- ness has lent much to the success of the Cowley County Nation- al Bank He was married in isto to Miss Jessie Lieth. They have one daughter. Miss Jessica. He lives at 913 Mansfield street.
Mr M F. Jarvis. the assistant cashier. is the third son of J E. Jarvis. the president He was born in MeDonough county. Illinois, but was reared and educated in Cowley county. He is a young man in years hut has proven himself to be keen and wide awake to the business interests of the institution with which he is connected. He is known by all with whom he comes in contact, to be a young man of sterling qualities. a genial disposition and always pleasant to do business with. He is not only a favorite among the bank customers, but among his companions and associates. He is a member of the Masonic lodge Winfield No. 59. and resides with his parents on South Millington street
No rity would be complete withont a first class POPULAR NEWS STAND news stand, where the latest papers magazines. novels, etc .. can be seenred Winfield has just such a news stand. owned and conducted hy capt S. G Gary The representative metropol- Han morning and evening papers are handled and listributed throughout the town. Globs Democrat. Republic. Post Dispatch Chronicle Kansas City Star, Times and Journal. also the fop .ka Wichita and Winfield papers He handles all the leading brands of smoking tobacco, over forty brands of fine ent and ping tobaero: while his stock of cigars surpasses anything carried by competitors in Cowley county There is no prevarication in slating that this isabsolutely headquar- ters for smokers He also carries a side line of pipes. stationery confectionery canes, etc Mr Gary - place of business is at the corner of Main street and Ninth avenue and the capacity of his room is to square feet.
Cipt fou . is hot onl: el known t a news dealer but har Held responsible prolog in to and other states He came to Winfield in 's; and has been a member of the city enmiell He won the @bol wol of ( by favoring only that which was to the best interests of the city sul community. In tss he was appointed sheriff by Gov, Glich While in this
position. by his utter fearlessness in carrying out the orders of the court and other duties of his office won for him the admiration of the people of Cowley county. In 1993 he was appointed postmaster During his term of four years in this honorable and responsible position he was always found at his post of duty. and by his faithfulness and honesty. he succeeded in adding more "laurels to his erown "
S. G. GARY
Before Mr. Gary came to Kansas he lived in Mahaska county. lowa. fortwenty years or more and served in that county as eonstahle. justice of the peace, county supervisor and member of the 11th General Assembly and census enumer- ator in 1870. Mr. Gary was born in Ohio. February 5, 1837. He was educated at North Lewisburg. Champaigne county. He left thisstate while still a youth. On May 22d. 1861, he enlisted in the United States Volunteers at Oskaloosa. Mahaska county. Iowa: was mustered into Co. H, 3d Iowa Infantry .lune 8. 1861, as a private. at Keokuk, by United States Mustering officer Chambers. In September he was made first sergeant: in February. 1862. he was commissioned seeond lieutenant: in October of the same year he was promoted to first lieutenant, and lastly to captain. All of these offices were in the same company in which he enlisted. During his career as a soldier he had many narrow escapes. In the famous battle of Shiloh he was wounded in the leg. then at Hatehie. Oet 5. 1862. he was wounded in the arm and again at Jackson. Miss . he was wounded in the thigh. At the expiration of his term, June 8. 1865. he was discharged at Davenport. Ia.
Mr. Gary was married Jan. 1. 1851, at Peoria, Ia . to Miss Mary E. Hunt. They have three children. Mrs. H. Kibbe. who lives at Douglass, Kansas. Mrs. Wallace Olds, of this city and Mr. George G. Gary, who is book-keeper in the First National bank of this city. Capt. Gary is a 32d degree Mason, and a member of the G A. R. and A. O. U. W. lodges. He lives at 309 East 9th avenue. His place of business is on the south- east eorner of 9th and Main under the First National bank.
The history of the First National bank has been an unbroken record of progress since its FIRST NATIONAL BANK ineeption. It has been conducted upon the soundest and most conservative business prin- ciples and its management is characterized by sagacity. energy and ability, coupled with lib- erality and honorable methods. closely identifying itself with the many movements that have helped in the onward growth of the city and contributing liberally to its prosperity. Not
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only has it lent great aid in the upboffoing in the town in which its birth originated, but it has fostered many a financial undertaking thronghout Southern Kansas and saved the lives of a number of business ventures. by affording that greatest of all business virtues, financial aid.
This bank was opened as Reed's bank. September 21. 1872 and organized as First National bank July 14, 1888, with Mr M. L. Reed as president, M. L. Robinson vice president. W. C. Robinson cashier, G. W. Robinson assistant cashier. The offi cers at present are W. C. Robinson president. J. M. Donley vice president and E. W. Bolinger. cashier. All of these gentle men are well-known throughout this portion of the state and are universally recognized for their publie spirit and business ability.
W. C. ROBINSON
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They do a general banking business, extending courtesies when consistent with the sound rules of banking which have characterized this institution for the last twenty-five years. It has made itself a bank of the people. having acquired a general and deserved popularity, leading business men. farm- ers, cattlemen and capitalists frequenting the counters daily. It is one of the strongest banking instititutions in the south west in point of capital. aggregate resources and volume of business. It was organized with a capital stock of $50.000 and has since increased to $100.000.
The following is an official report of the condition of the First National bank at the close of business. September 5, 1900:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts + 332.201 05
overdrafts. secured and unsecured
5,356 ₺:
U. S. bonds to secure circulation
25.001 00
Stocks, securities, etc.
1.99% . :
Banking house furniture and fixtures 17.500 0
Due from national banks ( not reserve agents)
2 171 14
Due from state banksaud bankers
3.470 21
Due from approved reserve ageuts
Exchanges for clearing house
957 0%
Notes of other national banks
Fractional paper currency, nickels and Peut-
Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, vis:
21,6 11 00
Legal tender notes
+ 291 00
Redemption fuud with U. S treasury '5 per cent, of
150 09
Total
$54> 434 64
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in
$100,000 00
Surplus fund
20,000 0#
Undivided profits less expenses and taxes pald
15.25 79
National Bank Notes outstanding
25,000 00
Due to other National Banks 900 56
Due to state banks and bankers
4,486 83
Dividends unpaid 40 01)
Individual deposits subject to check 303,171 90
Demaud certificates of deposit
78,890 80
Total
$548,434 69
Notary Feldm
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Here is empdopo locoro same gomel samson for the profe. tion of their patrope alól all ghos funds gre antrusted to then Pare. using one of the abelated Halle safes with antomath. actuating det De~ Wub Burgon oud Harrison dontde time low They are memberof the National Bank Association which pro toets them against meses of al character
These are taarnde worthy of consideration In fact there are many feature connected with this bank that should be considered by every one who intends to open a bank account in Winfield One Of the hrst considerations is the fact that it has always run i per cent above what the law requires all National Banks to keep on hand Again their deposits amount to over three hundred and three thousand dollars and none of its officers or directors owes the bank one cent It is a time tried institution. a panie prot bank of more than local im portance. and is regarded as a safe and sound repository for minds
It is located on the southeast corner of Main street and Ninth avenue in the large and handsome stone structure. known as the First National Bank building. the room occupied by the
E. W. BOLINGER
circulation.)
16,000 9)
160 10
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biob T Rogito sept in dimensions The interior is handsomely Wird un after My style of metropolitan banking institutions. de biencomo Doro oal. tantial as well as elegant. and afford- Q2 gab porconebo, for the transaction of business.
Of the wieviel of the officials a few remarks might be
Ar Undriesco for president and one of the principal owners ww wwjb Sporegeld. Ohio. August 27. 1549. was educated in die Vate normaal at Bloomington. Ilinois lle has been in Www.Ad for twenty-eight years. during which time he has been of redeer and stock holder in this same institution and has won enviable reputation as a prudent and judicions manager. a -nrewd judge of values and a man of serupulous integrity. lle Was married to Miss Annie Martin of Jacksonville, Illinois. on March 5th. Isto at Chicago They have two children Marie and William (, jr . 10 and 3 years old respectively.
Mr Robinson is a member of the First M E church and of the Masonic Blue Lodge. Chapter and Commandery His home is in the central part of the city
.I M Donley. the vice president is a native of Pennsylvania. he was educated at Mt Morris in that state le was married to Miss Helen M. Miller of Knoxville, la .. they have two child- ren a girl and a boy
While Mr Donley is not actively identified in any special business. he holds an interest and is treasurer in the Des Moines Hosiery mills and is director of the Knoxville bank at knox- ville. Ia lle is also president of the York coal company at Hamilton Ja . these mines have a daily output of three hundred tons. He is also connected with other companies.
Mr Donley is conceded to be a gentleman of unnsnal busi- ness foresight and ability. He is a member of the Masonic order and lives in the central part of the city
Mr E W Bolinger who discharges the duties appertaining to the cashier's position is a young man imbued with a spirit of progress, and whose name is of paramount prominence in the First National bank He is originally from Ohio. but came to Kansas while still a boy: he was married Oct 23. 1895 to Miss Blanche Donley at Great Bend. Kan They have one child. Donley. four years of age
Mr Bolinger is a member of the \ F & A. '. Adelphi 110 and also of Winfield Chapter 31. R. A. M. He lives on East Tenth avenue.
WINFIELD'S LEADING DRUGGIST
Here's Medico's headquarters Exploiting all that's made In pharmacy No harm I see In the- inviting trade. And bere an exhibition.
From allthe famous marts: Are These mystic aids which pretty maids. Employ in toilet arts.
Coupled with the medical fraternity of every live city. is a first-class. modern equipped drug house. Winfield is in nowise lo.hind her sisters in this line: in fact she is so fortunate as to hhse one of the best arranged. neatest, cleanest and most per- Let drug houses in Southern Kansas.
William 11. Somermier is the proprietor of this. the only 4fotos drug and prescription house of the city. One of the www important features of this house is the prescription watment. presided over by Mr. Somermier and Mr. A. L. Hvor both experts and licensed pharmacists. So one can 02006 |a recive that all prescriptions receive prompt and care- ful Quantioff The Materia Medica can ill afford to depend open OF in concerns where reliability is conspicuously absent. bb-don prescriptions are filled here from new and pure drug 641 h go a long way in healing the sick.
Of scopeis a model of neatness and cleanliness: shelves. milos rd clases being resplendent with bottled chemicals. mg- wod proprietary medicines, also a line of fine. old mike and wines for medicinal purposes. Of toilet articles More is no gud There is no better evidence of refinement and sollte than a person's choice of toilet articles. Frail and
shoddy goods that perish with the using or vanish in a day cost very little, but are doubly dear in the end. Here are a few of the high class fancy articles: Delicate vases. elegant perfume atomizers, heautiful boxes for jewels. photos. neck- ties. handkerchiefs, gloves, collars and cuffs. puff boxes. shaving sets. manicure sets. beautiful articles in celluloid. mirrors in all styles, shapes and sizes.
W. H. SOMERMIER
He is here to please. Every time that he says that he has the largest of any particular line in Cowley county. he means it. and invites comparison to prove his assertion, and one of those lines are purses. pocketbooks and wallets. He has everything from a five cent to a five dollar article. His late addition from the manufacturer is an immense stock of kid. nappa. tan and goat purses. card cases and ladies' books. toilet soaps, tooth. hair. nail. shaving. bath. flesh. cloth and shoe brushes, making his stock one of the most perfect of any in the city. while the store room. isx50 feet is light. airy and pleasant.
Dr. Somermier was born in Sardinia. Ohio. in 1861. and «lucated in that state. In 1989 he married. Miss Carrie L. Dodd of Rising Sun. Indiana. This union has been blessed by one beautiful little girl. He is a member of the A F. & A. M. Winfield. No. 58. 1 0. 0 F. and the \ O. 1. W. His place of business is 109 East Ninth avenue, while he resides with his family in a handsome residence on the corner of Riverside and Manning streets.
The Winfield National Bank enjoys the dis-
WINFIELD tinction of being the oklest bank in Winfield. NATIONAL BANK having been founded by J. C. Fuller. as the Winfield Bank. in January. 1971. It was nationalized in 1885. by H. B. Schuyler. who had purchased the bank the previous year. In 1891 it was purchased by its present owners. The Winfield National Bank has had a long and successful career. passing through varions panies. boom periods, and seasons of depression unaffected by them. While many banks throughont the country closed or suspended payments, the Winfield National Bank paid all de- mands, and extended such accommodations to its customers that their business was in no way crippled during the darken- ed days of the panies and the dullest months of the depres- sions. The steady growth and general prosperity of the city of Winfield is due to the careful and conservative management of its banks, coupled with the assistance ever cheerfully given by them to all worthy enterprises. The fact that Winfield has never had a bank failure in its thirty odd years of life. speaks
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more elogently than words for their management. The Winfield National Bank owns its own building. on one of the four best eorners in the city and covers the entire lot. 25x140 feet. two stories and basement. built of stone and brick, with two large fire proof vaults. Its funds are guarded by one of Dieboldis best steel burglar proof safes, with Harris -- Burton antomatic locks and Yale double time lock attachment The Winfield National Bank also has its cash, notes, safe and vaults insured in the Fidelity and C'ausuality company of New York and the Bank- ers Mutual Causality company of Des Moines, lowa, as its aim is to afford its depositors and stockholders every possible
WM. E. OTIS
security against loss. Its officers and directors are all resi- dents of Cowley county and are men of years of experience in the banking business. The directors are Il. E. Silliman, Geo. H. Williams, W. E. Otis, James Lorton and W. G. Robbins. The officers are. W. E. Otis, president: H. E. Silliman, vice president; James Lorton. cashier: W. G. Robbins and B. J. Silliman, assistant cashiers. The following is the bank's last statement:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discount,
12332 3
Bonds and stock-
12,802 89
Real estate and banking house and fixtures
22.841 75
Cash and exchange
87.391 91
$376,359 08
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock $ 50,000 00
Surplus and undivided protits
34,736 48
Circulation
12,500 00
Deposit- 279.122 60
$$$6.359 05
W. E. Otis, president of the Wintield National Bank was born in Framingham. Mass , on the 29th day of March. 1852, moved to Iowa with his parents in 1857, and received his edu- cation in the public schools of that state. In 1867 he entered the First National Bank of Des Moines, lowa, as collector. leaving that bank three years later to accept the position of cashier in Page's bank at Independence. Kan. Two years later in connection with Judge Turner. he purchased the bank
and five years after bought his partner's interest in the Lusi ness. In 18\3 he organized the First National Bank at that place. owning four fifths of its stock. In 1ss6 he sold his inter- est in the bank and moved to Kansas City. where he was engag- ed in real estate and loan business. In 1991 he moved to Win- field. where he purchased the controlling interest in the Win field National Bank of Mr. I. B. Schuler. Mr. 'Otis is a'mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, the, Masonic'orders. the A. O. U. W. Modern Woodmen and National I'nion societies of Winfield.
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