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sconces for a starter, and the help of Mrs. Walter Pritz of Cincinnati, a lifelong friend (the former Lucille Meinrath Bloch), they decorated the recreation room in the Mexican motif — built a real Mexican fireplace, installed wall niches, assembled a collec tion of Mexican art and pottery — and even hacked into the timbers, mouldings and stair rail to achieve the look of proper age. This is typical of the thoroughness with which the Riegers embark upon any enterprise.
NATE'S business and banking career has been continuous and successful since 1921, when he joined the old Home Trust Company as Assistant Treasurer. One of his first jobs was to supervise the architecture and construction of the bank's "new" building at 1119 Walnut Street. Its deposits at that time were $1,424,734.17.
In 1933 four Kansas City banks were merged and brought into a new bank structure, renamed the Mercantile Home Bank and Trust Company:
Home Trust Company — 1119 Walnut
Mercantile Trust Company —
14th and Grand Main Street State Bank — 18th
and Main Sterling Bank— 1125 McGee The combined deposits on the date of organization, February 27, 1933, were $4,755,412.01 — and on that
date, Nate became vice-president of the Mercantile. In December, 1945, he was elected president — by which date deposits had grown to $27,665,383.26. On June 27, 1949, the name was changed to its present form: the Mercantile Bank and Trust Company. Deposits at the last call, Sep' tember 5, 1952, were $34,235,026.24. The growth in deposits through the years, from one-and-a-half million to thirty-four million, is evidence in itself of Nate's success as a banker. He modestly attributes the bank's growth to the co-operation of his loyal associates. Among them is his brother Jack, vice-president of the Mercantile Bank and president of the Community State Bank, 3131 Troost, which he and Jack own.
Nate belongs, of course, to the Missouri Bankers' Association, the American Bankers' Association and the American Institute of Banking; and is a director of the Southeast State Bank as well as a director of the Mercantile. How his fellow Kansas City bankers feel about him is shown by the fact that on April 12, 1950, he was elected president of the Kansas City Clearing House Association for two years.
AS a banker, Nate naturally finds himself elected Treasurer in quite a few organizations, among them the Country Club Community Center, the Student Nurses' Loan Fund, the Optimist Club and the Boy Scouts. He also serves as a member of the Chamber of Commerce finance committee and chairman of the finance committee on the Citizens' Committee for Municipal Services. Also, as a member of the Board of