Farmers & Merchants Bank

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: June 24, 1926
Location: Plains, Montana (47.460, -114.883)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 417e0f69

Response Measures

None

Description

Notice names 'Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Plains, Mont.' and shows receiver C.S. Robison and a sheriff's sale. No mention of a run; bank appears in receivership and being liquidated/sold — interpreted as suspension leading to closure/receivership.

Events (2)

1. June 24, 1926 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Plains, Mont., corporation by C.S. Robison, receiver Plaintiff.
Source: newspapers

2. July 2, 1926 Other

Newspaper Excerpt: To be sold at sheriff's sale on the 2nd day of July ... the following described land and premises ... Dated at Thompson Falls ... this 5th day of 1926. Hartman, Sheriff.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. June 24, 1926 Plainsman Plains, MT

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Article Text

In the District the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Sanders. Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Plains, Mont., corporation by C.S. Robison, receiver Plaintiff. Ray Schulstad. his wife, and Margaret Schulstad, Defendants. To be sold at sheriff's sale on the 2nd day of July, the at hour of o'clock of said day at the front door of the court house in the town of Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, the lowing described land and premises, to-wit: The Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter Section (13), Township Eighteen Range three (23) West, Montana Meridian, in Sanders County, Montana. Dated at Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, this 5th day of 1926. Hartman, Sheriff. By George Collinsworth, sheriff.