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Show IILL109.EWS h mm of FEDEBHL LMD DHK i i Former Assistant Cashier of Pingree Bank Promoted at Berkeley, California I ANOTHER OGDENITE j ; IS BOARD OFFICER j 1 Utahn's Ability Receives High; ; Praise from Retiring Head Who Goes to Washington i Willard D. Ellis, formerly assistant cashier of the Pingree National bank of Ogden, has been made president of the Federal Land bank at Berkeley, j Cak, succcedlnE William H. Joyce. Mr. Ellis has been connected with ithe bank since 1917 when he left Ogden. Og-den. Shortly after his -arrival1 in' Berkeley he was made' secretary, of. the. rbp'aril.w. ; . - j ""Aridther Ogden man 'ls"yn director of the land bank and the treasurer of the board. He is R. T. Evans. I Mr, Ellis is praised highly by the I retiring president. The following arti-!cle arti-!cle on the changes appears in a San I Francisco newspaper: I William II. Joyce, president of the Federal Land bank of Berkeley, will I leave for Wash ingtou tomorrow to he-I he-I come a member of the Farm Loan 'board. He will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Noi-ris, Noi-ris, former commissioner and executive execu-tive officer. Secretary Willard D. Ellis will be j elected today to succeed Joyce as president pres-ident of the institution. ' Ellis has been connected with the) Berkeley Federal Land bank since August, 1917. He came from Utah, where he was for many years connected with the Pingree National bank of Ogden No man in the Farm Loan system is movo intimately acquainted Svith the law and its proper methods of operation than is Ellis, according to Joyce. 1 A. M. Norton, appraiser and general adjuster, will succeed Ellis as secretary. secre-tary. Before entering the bank, Norton Nor-ton resided for fifteen years in Stanislaus Stanis-laus county, where he engaged in' (banking and farming. There will be no other changes in the Berkeley bank. John Gulll, Jr., of Chico, will continue in his office as, vice president ana director and R. T, Evans remains in his position as treas-! urcr and director. ( A. C. Kuhn of San Jose, who re-' signed as a director of the bank two! months ago, has b'cen 'succeeded by I John T. Wilson of San Fernando. Wil-j son is considered a most valuable ac-j quisition to the bank's directorate. Fori many years ho was superintendent of the Porter ranch, comprising 25.000 acres of land in the San Fernando val- ley. oo ! |