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SMALL RUN ON BANK. Dastardly Attempt to Cripple First National Bank at this Place. The beginning of the week some malicious person, or persons, circulated the report that the First National bank of Reynoldsville had closed its doors, and thus unnecessarily alarming many of the bank's depositors and causing some of them many anxious moments before they could call and satisfy themselves of the falsity of the rumor. The bank had just passed through the most successful year of its business and had placed $5,000 to the credit of its surplus fund, making that amount $20,000, and has in addition undivided profits to the amount of $5,000, making a backbone of $75,000 capital and surplus as a safeguard for the bank. The bank has forty-three stockholders, among whom are some of the best and most conservative citizens of our community. The timid depositors were met with a smile, and to those who desired it their money was quickly forthcoming from the ample supply on hand. Mr. Kaucher, the cashier, informed us that the deposits for Monday and Tuesday of this week exceeded the withdrawals. Some of those who took out their money returned it. We have published the statements of the condition of the bank regularly five times per year since it was organized and any intelligent person can see that it is in a highly prosperous condition and that there was no possible excuse for anything of this kind. The general opinion seems to be that some person started the report with intention of venting their spite on one of stockholders of the bank. If the perpetrator of the report should be apprehended he will likely be given the full extent of the law.
