Farmers Bank (Nebraska City, NE)

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A BANK'S BIRTHDAY.

HAVING weathered 50 years of banking experience, the Farmers Bank of Nebraska City very modestly, it seems to us, mentions the passing of a semi-centennial.

The Farmers Bank is not only a Nebraska City institution, as are two other well known financial houses of the locality, but its fame has stretched far beyond the borders of Otoe county to invest it with an aura of well-earned praise.

It should not be forgotten that the Farmers Bank and its sister institutions were among the very first in all the nation to open their doors at the end of the Roosevelt Bank Panic (see Saturday Evening Post for verification of that phrase.) There were no local flurries when they were forced to close, because they did not need to but like good soldiers they obeyed orders without question.

The Farmers Bank was founded by James H. Catron, a pioneer citizen whose name and career to many people is only a legend, but to some of us is much more than that. He was a man of high integrity, a Christian gentleman, industrious, far-seeing, and old-fashioned in his notions as to the duties and responsibilities of a banker. He handed down those virtues, the finest assets that can ac-

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Having weathered 50 years of banking experience, the Farmers Bank of Nebraska City very modestly, it seems to us, mentions the passing of a semi-centennial.

The Farmers Bank is not only a Nebraska City institution, as are two other well known financial houses of the locality, but its fame has stretched far beyond the borders of Otoe county to invest it with an aura of well-earned praise.

It should not be forgotten that the Farmers Bank and its sister institutions were among the very first in all the nation to open their doors at the end of the Roosevelt Bank Panic (see Saturday Evening Post for verification of that phrase.) There were no local flurries when they were forced to close, because they did not need to but like good soldiers they obeyed orders without question.

The Farmers Bank was founded by James H. Catron, a pioneer citizen whose name and career to many people is only a legend, but to some of us is much more than that. He was a man of high integrity, a Christian gentleman, far-seeing, and old-fashioned in his notions as to the duties and responsibilities of a banker. He handed down those virtues, the finest assets that can accrue to man, down to his son, president of the bank at this moment. Those tenets have been instilled into the spirits of the men and women who are associated with Henry Catron, son of an illustrious sire.

The Farmers Bank has well lived up to its traditions and responsibilities. People have faith in it and will continue to do so because they have faith in the "men behind the counter."