. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. AsHUELOT. Representative Business Men of Winchester. WINCHESTER NATIONAL BANK, Capital,$200,000, Surplus, $40,000, Winchester, N. H.—Thenalional banking system of the United Slates is severelycondemned in certain quarters and doubtless is susceptibleof improvement in some respects, but nevertheless itapproaches as nearly to perfection as most schemfS ofhuman origin, and on the whole its record during theperiod of rapidly changing


. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. AsHUELOT. Representative Business Men of Winchester. WINCHESTER NATIONAL BANK, Capital,$200,000, Surplus, $40,000, Winchester, N. H.—Thenalional banking system of the United Slates is severelycondemned in certain quarters and doubtless is susceptibleof improvement in some respects, but nevertheless itapproaches as nearly to perfection as most schemfS ofhuman origin, and on the whole its record during theperiod of rapidly changing and peculiarly trying condi-tions which has elapsed since the civil war, is one ofwhich its sponsors may well be proud. It is much easi rto criticise and condemn than to plan and construct, andevidence of this is to be found in the fact that the mostsevere critics of our national banlis have not as a rulegained such pronounced success in the conduct of theirprivate business affairs as to indicate that they are possessed of excepiional financial ability. But even llie mostprejudiced peison would scarcely have the audacity toto deny that the Winchester Nation


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