. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. tian Missions, Hebrew Svna-gogue and the Salvation Army. It possesses several prom-inent churches, principal among which are the Central Congrega-tional church, the St. Marys Cathedral, St. Annes andNotre Dame Churches, all of which are presided over by ableand learned clergymen who minister to large congregations. The cost of some of these houses of worship figures into themillions, and beside these there are orphanages, infirmaries, hos-pitals and nurseries, all handsome structures and all libe
. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. tian Missions, Hebrew Svna-gogue and the Salvation Army. It possesses several prom-inent churches, principal among which are the Central Congrega-tional church, the St. Marys Cathedral, St. Annes andNotre Dame Churches, all of which are presided over by ableand learned clergymen who minister to large congregations. The cost of some of these houses of worship figures into themillions, and beside these there are orphanages, infirmaries, hos-pitals and nurseries, all handsome structures and all liberallysupported for the good of mankind. BANKS AND BANKING. Pali River banks, like Fall River cotton mills, have usually hadmen of the staunchest rectitude in their control and from the date of the charter of the first bank (which wasprobably the Fall River Institution of Savings, in 1828, nowknown as the Fall River Savings Bank) to the present date, therehas been no bank failure, nor irregularity of bank officials. Prior to 1903, when state law inhibited the occupation of the 66. .f^«5|p*iiMinrf- FALL RIVER NATIONAL BANK same place by Savings banks and National banks for businesspurposes, Fall River had seven National banks in good act of the Legislature resulted in one of our National banksselling its assets to the Metacomet National and retiring. Threeothers merged to form the present Massasoit-Pocasset Nationalbank and the four savings banks continued to do business in theirrespective locations. Fall River therefore has four National banks to wit, the FallRiver National, the First National, the Metacomet National, andthe Massasoit-Pocasset National with a combined yearly clear-ing for 1908 of $50,797,, and 1909 of 61,927, again in 1909 over the previous year of $11,130, In the four Savings banks there are 50,000 depositors with de-posits approximating twenty millions of dollars. In addition to these there is the B. M.
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