17866. Bank of Afton (Afton, OK)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type
state
Start Date
August 19, 1908
Location
Afton, Oklahoma (36.694, -94.963)

Metadata

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gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
cbc47157

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Description

Newspaper items from Aug 19–22, 1908 report the Bank of Afton (Okla.) was closed by order of its directors pending investigation by the state bank commissioner because the cashier W. M. Reynolds was missing; later reports say it was reopened after the investigation showed no shortage. No run or depositor panic is mentioned.

Events (2)
1. August 19, 1908 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Closed by order of directors pending investigation by the state bank commissioner after cashier W. M. Reynolds went missing.
Newspaper Excerpt
By order of its directors the Bank of Afton, Okla., was closed, pending an investigation by the state bank commissioner. W. M. Reynolds, its cashier, is missing.
Source
newspapers
2. August 20, 1908 Reopening
Newspaper Excerpt
The bank of Afton, Oklahoma, which was closed last week pending investigation of its affairs, has been reopened, the investigation ever showing there was no shortage whatever.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (5)
1. August 19, 1908 Vernon County Censor Viroqua, WI
Article from Vernon County Censor, August 19, 1908

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During the six weeks' run 34,000 cases of peas were packed by the Fort Atkinson cannery. The canning season is over and the factory at Waterloo, Wis, has been closed down for the season. About 1,200,000 cans of peas were put up. M. H. Whittaker, G. F. McDonough and Henry Heine, state board of barbers' ex aminers, will conduct examinations in Milwaukee on Aug 17 to 20. The labor department at Ottawa, Canada, reports that at present no government inferference in the Canadian Pacific railroad strike is contemplated. A new industry is being conducted in Wond county. Dr. H. A. Lathrop of Marshfield. has set out several acres to peppermint and others are-following his example. The Logan Construction company, of Chillicothe, Ohio, manufacturers of automoblies, has filed a petition in bankruptey. The assets are $69,000 and liabilities $120,000. There were no new developments in the strike of the Canadian Pacific railway mechanics at Montreal. Work is being carried on at the shops, but considerably reduced forces. The Monticello. Wis., planing mill has been leased to the Dehne Manufacturing company of Hustisford which will take possession Sept. 15 and engage in the manufacture of cheese boxes. Representatives of a number of towns In Pottawattamie and Shelby counties Iowa, met at Treynor. and organized a stock company with an authorized capital of $1,000,000 to construct a railway between Des Moines and Council Bluffs. Moscow, Wis., in the southeastern part of Iowa county. holds the banner for dairy products. Its fourteen cheese factories produced 887,394 pounds of cheese valued at $1.187,868.98 and in addition butter valued at $3,099 was made on the farms. By order of its directors the Bank of Afton, Okla., was closed, pending an investigation by the state bank commissioner. W. M. Reynolds, its cashier. is missing. His friends declare his accounts straight, and believe him a victim of foul play. It is expected that about 10,000 union men will take part in the parade on Labor day in Chicago. Most unions affiliated with the Federated Trades have signified their willingness to take part. Some unions have decreed fines for members who do not march in the parade. Instead of specifying how far out the new intake pipe of the water company is to be laid the agreement signed up between the company and the city of Sheboygan merely says that it must be extended far enough to furnish pure water. Nothing is said of a proposed filter bed. Following a visit made to North Da kota and after a conference with Gov. Burke and other officials of the state Labor Commissioner Williams of M'nnesota says that instead of there being employment in the harvest fields for 15,000 or 20,000 men, 1,000 would be lucky If they can find jobs. Several hundred operatives at the Lane-Maggins cotton mill in New Orleans have struck. The mills recently announced it would be necessary to close down unless the employes would accept a cut in wages When the reduction went into effect only a small portion of them remained at work According to representatives of the Chippewa Falls sugar company, who have just completed a tour of inspection of the sugar beet fields in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, the crop will be a record breaker This year's acreage in round numbers is 3,500 and estimated yield 30,000 tons. The railroad commission of Texas filed a formal complaint with the in terstate commerce commission against sixty-seven railroads and other common carriers. alleging a conspiracy for the suppression of competition and 00 restraint of trade in the recent action acreasing freight rates to common points In Texas At a meet ng of the directors of the Canadian Pacific railway company to day. a dividend of 2 per cent on preferred stock and 3 per cent on common $ stock for the half year ended June 30 last, was declared. An additional payment of one-half of 1 per cent on common stock will be paid hereon at the same time out of the interest on the proceeds of land sales.

2. August 20, 1908 The Spanish Fork Press Spanish Fork, UT
Article from The Spanish Fork Press, August 20, 1908

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NEWS SUMMARY Five persons were killed in collision between traction cars a nine miles north of Piqua, Ohio. Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangelIst. died at his home in Brooklys OR August 14, at the age of 68 Mistaking his wife. who nad got to close a window. for a burglar, up Geo. dead. Parker, of Harper, Kans., shot her By the capsizing of a pleasure launch on the Wisconsin river Kilbern, Wis., four Chicago people near were drowned. The Canadian Pacific railway is filling the Toronto vacant places in the shops at and in West Toronto with strike breakers. Three women were burned to death when a gas explosion wrecked the dry goods store of J. V. Gavin at Wheeling, W. Va. John Anderson shot and killed J. R. Leighton and wounded J. R. Brown at Vernon, B. C., following a dispute over an irrigation ditch. A semi-official statement Is published in Athens asserting that the Bulgarians have commenced their campaigns of violence in Macedonia. Six persons were killed and eighteen aboard injured in a gun explosion the French gunnery schoolship Couronnet, off Les Salines d'Hyeres. The death toll by Alpine climbers this year is a record one. In the month of July alone fourteen persons were killed and two seriously injured. English is destined to become the universal language of the world, in the opinion of A. C. Meyer, member of the ment. lower house of the Danish parliaThomas Robinson, counsel for the Winnipeg grain exchange, while in delirium, jumped from train a Montreal. He was found dying near beside the tracks. The Paris newspapers announce that King Alfonso will visit the French capital in September, on his way to the Isle of Wight, to join Queen Victoria. Thomas A. Edison is reported to have accumulated $25,000,000. Now he proposes to devote his time to science, pure and simple, with no regard for financial productiveness. As the result of an explosion of fire damp in the Dudwell mine, near Saerseufken, Germany, fifteen persons were killed and six are in hospitals suffering from serious injuries. The officers of the American Atlantic fleet entertained 2,000 New Zealana landers aboard the battleship Louison August 13. Among the throng men. were many handsomely gowned woThe bank of Afton, Oklahoma, an which was closed last week pending investigation of its affairs, has been reopened, the investigation ever. showing there was no shortage whatDelegates to the convention of the Independence party met at Dallas, E. Texas, on August 11, and nominated W. Kirkpatrick, president of the Texas ernor. Farmers' congress, for gov Michael T. Maroney, aged 25, Meriden, Conn., is dead as a result of of He injuries received in a baseball collided with another player game. while running abdomen. bases, and was injured in the A messenger's pouch containing for United States government pay checks nearly $2,000 was early last week I stolen, in front of the building occupied by the department of commerce and labor. The Methodist Episcopal church has begun an active crusade for election of a speaker of the house the of representatives "who will allow 7 gress to vote on the interstate con- liquor "1119 shipment e George Wilcox, a negro, formerly o employed as a janitor in the National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, has confessed to the theft of a package 7 containing $8,500 from the bank on April 25, 1907. . e The Luther League of America, I with a membership of 150,000 and \ resenting 2,000,000 members of rep- the A Lutheran church in the United States, held its eighth biennial convention in Chicago last week, with 1,500 dele e gates present. di Dispatches from Baku say that

3. August 20, 1908 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI
Article from Iowa County Democrat, August 20, 1908

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LABOR AND INDUSTRY. During the six weeks' run 34,000 cases of peas were packed by the Fort Atkinson cannery. The canning season is over and the factory at Waterloo, Wis., has been closed down for the season. About 1,200,000 cans of peas were put up. M. H. Whittaker, G. F. McDonough and Henry Heine, state board of barbers' examiners, will conduct examinations in Milwaukee on Aug 17 to 20. The labor department at Ottawa. Canada, reports that at present no gov. ernment inferference in the Canadian Pacific railroad strike is contemplated A new industry is being conducted in Wood county. Dr. H. A. Lathrop of Marshfield, has set out several acres to peppermint and others are following his example. The Logan Construction company of Chillicothe, Ohio, manufacturers of automoblies. has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The assets are $69,000 and liabilities $120,000. There were no new developments in the strike of the Canadian Pacific railway mechanics at Montreal Work is being carried on at the shops, but considerably reduced forces. The Monticello, Wis., planing mill has been leased to the Dehne Manufacturing company of Hustisford which will take possession Sept. 15 and engage in the manufacture of cheese boxes. Representatives of a number of towns in Pottawattamie and Shelby counties Iowa, met at Treynor, and organized a stock company with an authorized capital of $1,000,000 to construct a railway between Des Moines and Council Bluffs. Moscow, Wis., in the southeastern part of Iowa county, holds the banner for dairy products. Its fourteen cheese factories produced 887,394 pounds of cheese valued at $1,187,868. 98 and in addition butter valued at $3,099 was made on the farms. By order of its directors the Bank of Afton, Okla., was closed, pending an investigation by the state bank commissioner. W. M. Reynolds, its cashier, is missing. His friends declare his accounts straight, and believe him a victim of foul play. It is expected that about 10,000 union men will take part in the parade on Labor day in Chicago. Most unions affiliated with the Federated Trades have signified their willingness to take part. Some unions have decreed fines for members who do not march in the parade. Instead of specifying how far out the new intake pipe of the water company is to be laid the agreement signed up between the company and the city of Sheboygan merely says that it must be extended far enough to furnish pure water. Nothing is said of a proposed filter bed. Following a visit made to North Da. kota and after a conference with Gov. Burke and other officials of the state. Labor Commissioner Williams of M n nesota says that instead of there being employment in the harvest fields for 15,000 or 20,000 men, 1,000 would be lucky if they can find jobs. Several hundred operatives at the Lane-Maggins cotton mill in New Orleans have struck. The mills recently announced it would be necessary to close down unless the employes would accept a cut in wages When the reduction went into effect only a small portion of them remained at work According to representatives of the Chippewa Falls sugar company, who have just completed a tour of inspec-

4. August 21, 1908 Montpelier Examiner Montpelier, ID
Article from Montpelier Examiner, August 21, 1908

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NEWS summary Five persons were killed in lision miles between traction cars a nine col. north of Piqua, Ohio. Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangelist, died at his home in Brooklyn on August 14, at the age of 68. Mistaking close his wife, who nad got to Parker, a window, for a burglar, up dead. of Harper, Kans., shot Geo. her By the capsizing of a pleasure Kilbern, launch on the Wisconsin river drowned. were Wis., four Chicago people near The the Canadian Pacific railway is Toronto ing vacant places in the shops filland in West Toronto with at strike breakers. Three women were burned to death when dry a gas explosion wrecked goods store of J. V. Gavin the at Wheeling, W. Va. John Anderson shot and killed J. Leighton and wounded J. R. Brown R. Vernon, B. C., following a dispute over at an irrigation ditch. A semi-official statement is lished in Athens asserting that pub. Bulgarians have commenced their the campaigns Six of violence in Macedonia. persons were killed and aboard teen injured in a gun explosion eighthe French gunnery schoolship Couronnet, off Les Salines d'Hyeres. The death toll by Alpine climbers this year is a record one. In the month were of July alone fourteen killed and two seriously injured. persons English is destined to become the universal the language of the world, the opinion of A. C. Meyer, member in ment. lower house of the Danish parlia- of Thomas Robinson, counsel for the Winnipeg grain exchange, while in delirium, jumped from a train a the Montreal. He was found dying beside near tracks. that The Paris newspapers announce King Alfonso will visit French way capital in September, on the his f Queen to Victoria. the Isle of Wight, to join 0 Thomas A. Edison is reported to have accumulated $25,000,000. Now he r proposes pure to devote his time to science, and simple, with no regard for financial productiveness. n As the result of an explosion of fire damp in the Dudwell mine, near Saern seufken, were Germany, fifteen S killed and six are in hospitals persons suffering from serious injuries. d The officers of the American Atlantic landers fleet entertained 2,000 New Zeait iana aboard the battleship LouisS were on August 13. Among the throng y men. many handsomely gowned WOn d which The bank of Afton, Oklahoma, y. an was closed last week pending is been investigation of its affairs, has g reopened, the investigation e showing ever. there was no shortage whatas eDelegates to the convention of ed Independence party met at Dallas, the Texas, E. on August 11, and nominated W. Kirkpatrick, president of m ernor. Texas Farmers' congress, for gov. the at rMichael T. Maroney, aged 25, be Meriden, Conn., is dead as a result of uinjuries He received in a baseball of collided with another player game. while ne abdomen. running bases, and was injured in the g. A messenger's pouch containing a United for States government pay checks y. nearly $2,000 was early last week ge stolen, in front of the building occupied by the department of commerce and labor. ty ge, has The Methodist Episcopal church begun an active crusade for ge in election of a speaker of the house the ad representatives "who will allow of his gress to vote on the interstate liquor con shipment bill." nd George Wilcox, a negro, formerly fifemployed Bank as a janitor in the National of Commerce, Kansas City, has ey mconfessed to the theft of a package ng containing $8,500 from the bank or April 25, 1907. ay The Luther League of America se with a membership of 150,000 and suresenting 2,000,000 members of rep ere held Lutheran church in the United States the on, its eighth biennial convention mChicago last week, with 1,500 dele in gates present. enDispatches from Baku say that ill decree has been issued at Teheran lodefinitely the deferring the convocation in o the Persian parliament and that the of shah has summoned five hundred ad me herents of the old regime to form council of state. eat The Peruvian congress voted unan ner imously to protest against the insul of offered the republic, when Presiden a Padro was pushed off the sidewalk to a street in Lima by a former politica o vas prisoner named Pierola. The Demo sent. cratic members of the house were ab hat Dr. Robert Koch, the distinguishe ted a German the scientist, the discoverer tuberculosis bacillus and of th o lost cholera germ, will attend the interna

5. August 22, 1908 The Garland Globe Garland, UT
Article from The Garland Globe, August 22, 1908

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NEWS SUMMARY Five pèrsons were killed in a collision between traction cars nine miles north of Piqua, Ohio. Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangelist, died at his home in, Brooklyn on August 14, at the age of 68. Mistaking his wife, who had got up to close a window, for a burglar, Geo. Parker, of Harper, Kans., shot her dead. By the capsizing of a pleasure launch on the Wisconsin river near Kilbern, Wis., four Chicago people were drowned. The Canadian Pacific railway is filling the vacant places in the shops at Toronto and in West Toronto with strike breakers. Three women were burned to death when a gas explosion wrecked the dry goods store of J. V. Gavin at Wheeling, W. Va. John Anderson shot and killed J. R. Leighton and wounded J. R. Brown at Vernon, B. C., following a dispute over an irrigation ditch. A semi-official statement is pub lished in Athens asserting that the Bulgarians have commenced their campaigns of violence in Macedonia. Six persons were killed and eighteen injured in a gun explosion aboard the French gunnery schoolship Couronnet, off Les Salines d'Hyeres. The death toll by Alpine climbers this year is a record one. In the month of July alone fourteen persons were killed and two seriously injured. English is destined to become the universal language of the world, in the opinion of A. C. Meyer, member of the lower house of the Danish parliament. Thomas Robinson, counsel for the Winnipeg grain exchange, while in a delirium, jumped from a train near Montreal. He was found dying beside the tracks. The Paris newspapers announce that King Alfonso will visit the French capital In September, on his way to the Isle of Wight, to join Queen Victoria. Thomas A. Edison is reported to have accumulated $25,000,000. Now he proposes to devote his time to science, pure and simple, with no regard for financial productiveness. As the result of an explosion of fire damp in the Dudwell mine, near Saerseufken, Germany, fifteen persons were killed and six are in hospitals suffering from serious injuries. The officers of the American Atlantic fleet entertained 2,000 New Zealanders aboard the battleship Louisiana on August 13. Among the throng were many handsomely gowned wo. men. The bank of Afton, Oklahoma, which was closed last week pending an investigation of its affairs, has been reopened, the investigation showing there was no shortage whatever. Delegates to the convention of the Independence party met at Dallas, Texas, on August 11, and nominated E. W. Kirkpatrick, president of the Texas Farmers' congress, for gov ernor. Michael T. Maroney, aged 25, of Meriden, Conn., is dead as a result of injuries received in a baseball game. He collided with another player while running bases, and was injured in the abdomen. A. messenger's pouch containing United States government pay checks for nearly $2,000 was early last week stolen, in front of the building occupied by the department of commerce and labor. The Methodist Episcopal church has begun an active crusade for the election of a speaker of the house of representatives "who will allow congress to vote on the interstate liquor shipment bill." George Wilcox, a negro, formerly employed as a janitor in the National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, has confessed to the theft of a package containing $8,500 from the bank on April 25, 1907. The Luther League of America, with a membership of 150,000 and representing 2,000,000 members of the Lutheran church in the United States, held its eighth biennial convention in Chicago last week, with 1,500 delegates present. Dispatches from Baku say that a decree has been issued at Teheran indefinitely deferring the convocation of the Persian parliament and that the shah has summoned five hundred adherents of the old regime to form a council of state. The Peruvian congress voted unanimously to protest against the insult offered the republic, when President Padro was pushed off the sidewalk on a street in Lima by a former political prisoner named Pierola. The Demo-