Bank of Oroville - Oroville, WA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: November 1, 1912*
Location: Oroville, Washington (48.939, -119.436)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: d4177b18

Response Measures

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Description

Article (1912-11-22) states the Bank of Oroville was closed during the week. No mention of a run or reason for closure; rumor of a new bank to take its place suggests a permanent closure. Cause is not specified in the text.

Events (1)

1. November 1, 1912* Suspension

Cause Details: Article does not provide a reason for the closure; only states the bank was closed during the week.
Newspaper Excerpt: There seems to be always a market for typwriters. ... There are persistent rumors about town that a new bank is soon to be started to take the place of the Bank of Oroville, closed during the week.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. November 22, 1912 The Oroville Weekly Gazette Oroville, WA

Article from The Oroville Weekly Gazette, November 22, 1912

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Article Text

LOCAL NOTES. Judging from the hotel registers travel is keeping up well. H. W. Bragg spent a part of the week in Keremeos on business. Photographer Barnes made a trip to Molson Monday to take some views. A sample of some very neat lettering is to be seen on the windows of McMahan's jewelry store. Chas. H. Kohrdt, the Molson implement dealer, was a visitor in town Tuesday, down on a business trip. There seems to be always a market for typwriters. An agent of the Oliver was doing business in town this week. Miss G. M. Donald, assistant principal of the Tonasket school, spent Sunday in Oroville, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. De Vos. Dr. Schwabland is to leave Sunday or Monday for Spokane in his car. Mrs. Schwabland preceeded him to that city a few days by train. With the milder weather the snow line is again backing up the hill and only the higher peaks are showing signs of the late winter visitation. There are persistent rumors about town that a new bank is soon to be started to take the place of the Bank of Oroville, closed during the week. "Miss Mildred Mitchell, of Oroville, visited Wednesday with Mrs. Eugene Taylor. She was on her way to take a position as teacher in the Okanogan schools."-Riverside Argus. Next Thursday those lucky enough to have the price are expected to fill up on turkey. We sincerely trust every family in town and valley will be able to eat turkey Thanksgiving day, or some other toothsome fowl, if some other fowl is preferred. Mr. Bond of the Lake View-Dividend is engaged in hauling rock to fill in some of the miry places on the street so that he can run his truck car through town to the railroad. While helping himself he will be very materially improving the highways. The approaches to the bridge across the Okanogan at the creamery are in a disgraceful condition, there being a mess of deep, sticky mud for a short distance at both ends of the bridge. This looks like careless neglect, as a few loads of gravel, or shale rock, would make the road solid and passable at all seasons. There must be ready money scattered around among the people, and a good deal of it. At the Otis Teel auction Saturday the attendance was large, and every article offered commanded a fair price. Aside from what was sold on time over $900 were paid on the nail. That is hardly an indication of hard times. Miss Rosetta Murray, one of the teachers in the public school, had a severe fall from a teeter board at the school house one day during the week, The young lady struck violently on her head and was in a dazed condition for two or three hours. Fortunately she has suffered no inconvenience from her bruises since the accident. A persistent report was in circulation Saturday to the effect that Brakeman Bennett, running between Oroville and Spokane, fell from the vestibule of a car of the east bound passenger, near Curlew, Friday morning, and was killed. There was no foundation for the report, and it was impossible to discover when, where or how the rumor originated.