The bank was called the Bank of Harrison.

The next bank organized was called the Commercial State Bank. B. E. Brewster was president ; C. F. Coffee the vice president, and Chas. C. Jameson, cashier. The names of these three men have been written in large letters upon the northwestern part of Nebraska. March seventeenth, nineteen hundred four, this bank had a capital of ten thousand, and ten thousand surplus, with thirty-one thousand, one hundred seventysix dollars and ninety-one cents of undivided

profits. Its total deposits were about one hundred ten thousand dollars, and its loans and discounts about ninety thousand, and overdrafts less than four hundred dollars. Knowing the lean years of ninety-three and ninety-four, this statement measured up well with any of the banks of the state simliarly situated.

Both of these banks have passed out of existence or been merged into the institutions of today. Following the panic of nineteen seven, the reaction brought into existence the First National Bank. This was organized and chartered in nineteen eight, and is today one of the most substantial institutions in northwestern Nebraska. Its capital stock is fifty thousand, its surplus forty-five thousand, and deposits over onehalf a million. It has loans and discounts reaching five hundred and seventy-nine thousand, cash and exchange, fifty-eight thousand three hundred; real estate about eleven thousand, and bonds, stocks and securities thirty-seven thousand dollars, according to its statement of December twenty-ninth, nineteen-twenty. The present affairs of this bank are under the efficient management of A. L. Schnurr, president: F. W. Clarke and Will H. Davis, vice presidents; Theo. Okerblade, cashier, and De P. Davis, assistant cashier.