Bank of Montesano - Montesano, WA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: April 4, 1901
Location: Montesano, Washington (46.981, -123.603)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: d20f073e

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Description

Article (Aberdeen Herald, 1901-04-04) mentions L. B. Bignold as receiver of the Bank of Montesano and a judgment affirmed by the state supreme court. No run or reopening is reported; the bank was in receivership (closed) at the time.

Events (1)

1. April 4, 1901 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: The state supreme court affirmed the judgment in the case of L. B. Bignold, reciever of the Bank of Montesano, vs. H. W. Carr appealed from this county.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. April 4, 1901 Aberdeen Herald Aberdeen, WA

Article from Aberdeen Herald, April 4, 1901

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Article Text

The petitition asking for a reduction of the saloon license to $500 was not presented to the council Saturday night. It is said the saloon men are not united on the proposition. Easter services in the M. E. Church, morning and evening. The Knight Templars meet in a body in that church in the morning. Children have the evening service. A petition is being circulated asking the City Council to plank Wishkah St. from the city dock to Broadway. It is being signed by nearly all the resident property owners. I stili bave my 15 head of choice thoroughbred and graded Jersey Cows and registered A. J. C. C. Bull for sale. The right parties can have time. GEORGE M. POWELL, Newskab, Wash. Chas. Neeson has finished logging on the Wishkah river, and is moving his camp to a point on the Chehalis river near the county poor farm, where he has 280 acres of timber land. The drilling machinery for the Olympic Oil Co. arrived on the steamer Coronado Friday, and has been taken to Copalis by the steamer Montesano. Boring will begin as soon as the machinery is placed in position. Gus. Blumquist, of Hoquiam, was in town Tuesday and leased one of the new store rooms in the Zelasko block, which he will occupy as a boot and shoe store as soon as the building is completed. Harry Underwood, the youngest son of J. R. Underwood, died at the residence of his father, on Hume street, last Thursday night, March 28, aged 17 years. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon, services at the Congregational church. C. H. Lillibridge, of the Grays Harbor Candy Co., has leased the lot on G. St. near Wishkah, between the Grays Harbor Fish Market and the Commercial Tea Co., where he will build a factory and store suitable for the candy jobbing business. The state supreme court affirmed the judgment in the case of L. B. Bignold, reciever of the Bank of Montesano, vs. H. W. Carr appealed from this county. This was an action brought on a judgment by the bank against Carr for $2,615.57. The fire department was called out by an alarm at 3 o'clock Monday morning, to find an April fool card on the hose house door. Had a fire occured soon after, it is doubtful if the boys would have turned out, and the foolers would then haverecognized themselves as the real fools. The jury term of the superior court is progressing slowly. The first case called was I. W. Mason vs. Douglas Bros., in which the plaintiff secured a verdict for the amount asked for, as being due him upon the Hoquiam bridge contract. Up to last evening this was the only case Ised of.