Commercial Bank - Vancouver, WA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: February 1, 1916*
Location: Vancouver, Washington (45.639, -122.661)

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Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 88e517bd

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Description

Articles (Feb–Mar 1916) refer to M. B. Kies as receiver of the defunct Commercial Bank of Vancouver, WA, and a petition by the receiver to sell assets — indicating the bank had suspended and entered receivership and remained closed. No article describes a depositor run. The charter type is not specified in the texts, so bank_type set to unknown.

Events (2)

1. February 1, 1916* Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Bank placed in receivership (court/receiver appointed) and closed; legal actions identify M. B. Kies as receiver.
Newspaper Excerpt: B. M. Lombard, appellant, against M. B. Kies, receiver of Commercial Bank of Vancouver, Wash., respondent, action for breach of contract, appealed from Washington county...
Source: newspapers

2. March 9, 1916 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: A petition has been filed by M. B. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership. (The Lynden Tribune, 1916-03-09).A petition has been filed by M. B. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership. (Aberdeen Herald, 1916-03-10).B. M. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership. (Daily Capital Journal, 1916-02-01 reference to Kies as receiver).
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (3)

1. February 1, 1916 Daily Capital Journal Salem, OR

Article from Daily Capital Journal, February 1, 1916

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METHODIST CHURCH CONTROVERSY SETTLED BY SUPREME COURT Taylor Street Edifice May Be Locked Up Says State's Highest Court The first Methodist church controversy of Portland and the suit of the state superintendent against L. O. Ralston were the principal cases handed down by the supreme court this morning. The decision of Judge Gatens in the circuit court was affirmed and the decision of Judge R. G. Morrow in the banking case was modified though the main contentions were sustained. The trouble in the church case arose over the consolidation of the Grace Methodist church at Twelfth street and the First Methodist church at Third and Taylor streets in 1912. After half a century of separate congregations the two bodies joined at the Ashland conference four years ago and were consolidated. Both congregations had churches and for a while the congregation held services at one church and then were transferred back to the oth. er. Each transfer found some of the congregations of the original church who refused to worship in the other building. Finally the board of trustees of the church decided to hold the main services at the church on Twelfth street and to close up the church at Third and Taylor streets. A number of the members of the Mirst Methodist church brought suit to enjoin the board from closing up the Taylor street church and in the lower court it was decided against the plaintiffs and the board was given the right to close up the Taylor street church and the plaintiffs appealed. In an opinion Justice Harris held that the lower court was not in error and only modified the decisions of Judge Gatens in that neither party should recover costs in the supreme court. Other Opinions Rendered. The suit of Mary Jacobs against oJhn Jacobs, a suit for Givorce, appealed from Linn county, opinion by Justice Renson, Judge Perey R. Kelly, affirmed. R. N. Doolittle, respondent, against Pacific Coast Safe and Vault works, appellant, an action for damages, appealed from Multnomah county, opinion by Justice Bean, Judge G. N. Davis, affirmed. B. M. Lombard, appellant, against M. B. Kies, receiver of Commercial Bank of Vancouver, Wash., respondent, action for breach of contract, appealed from Washington county, opinion by Justice Benson, Judge J. A. Eakin, reversed. Peter G. Carlson and J. A. Kallstram, appellants, against M. H. O'Connor, suit for specific performance of a contract to sell land, appealed from Multnomah county, opinion by Justice Bean, Judge C. U. Gantenbein, affirmed. Thomas Kay, appellant, against the City of Portland, respondent, suit to recover money alleged due for services rendered, appealed from Multnomah county, opinion by Justice McBride. Judge W. N. Gatens, affirmed.

2. March 9, 1916 The Lynden Tribune Lynden, Everson, Sumas, Nooksack, Laurel, Deming, WA

Article from The Lynden Tribune, March 9, 1916

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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Information of Our Readers. The annual meeting of the Clarke County Good Roads association was held Tuesday. Construction work on Ridgefield's $11,000 municipal water system is progressing rapidly. A land products show will be held in or near Vancouver one week in October or November. Lewis, the town farthest east in eastern Lewis county, has a woman secreary for its commercial club. The state of Washington was the highest of 10 bidders for the Pomeroy school bond issue of $35,000. The commission form of government under the Allen law was lost at a special election at Aberdeen. Mrs. Fannie D. Latham, 85 years old, was cremated in a fire which destroyed the home of her son, A. H. Latham, at Toledo. The Ridgefield commercial club is hard at work on plans for a big horse and cattle show, which will be held some time in June. Clarke county has obtained iron road signs, which will be mounted on pipe set in concrete at all important intersections throughout the county. Three auxiliary lumber schooners will be built on Puget Sound by J. H. Bloedel, president of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber company, of Bellingham. In a head-on collision near Winton, 15 miles west of Leavenworth, between a rotary running east and a freight west, three of the crew were injured. Sixteen miles of closed drains are to be laid this spring and summer in drainage districts in the lower Yakima valley, chiefly in the vicinity of Sunnyside. A petition has been filed by M. B. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership. W. G. Preston, a pioneer miller of Waitsburg, left property worth between $100,000 and $150,000 to Whit man college, subject to a life interest left to his son. The Quiniault Lumber company's mill at Raymond, which has been idle for nearly a year and a half, has started up, giving employment to about eighty men. Ground will be broken within a month or six weeks for the science building, the second new building which the University of Washington is to have this year. Mrs. H. H. Taber, Miss Elizabeth Taylor and Ernest G. Clarke, all of Tacoma, were the first motorists to register at the entrance of the Rainier National park in 1916. The senate naval committee has favorably reported Senator Poindexter's bill appropriating $2,000,000 for equipping Puget Sound navy yard for battleship construction. The state of Washington produced in 1914 over 3,000,000,000 feet of Doug las fir, or approximately over 65 per cent of the Douglas fir produced by the five northwest and coast states. Sixty lumber mills were represent ed at a meeting of manufacturers at Tacoma. Reports on conditions show. ed continued strength in the markets with shipments hampered by lack of cars. The county commissioners are advertising for bids to be opened March 20 for the grading, bridging and graveling of 12½ miles of permanent highway, which will connect Lind and Ralston. The "City Beautiful" campaign of the Aberdeen Civic Improvement association was revived with the announce ment that thousands of flower bulbs would be distributed there free on March 15. Jacob J. Schlee, a wealthy stock raiser and rancher of the Uniontown section, fell from the haymow of his barn in Clarkston and fractured his skull, death resulting in two hours afterward. The Seattle Construction & Dry Dock company was awarded the contract for the construction of a $1,000,000 steel steamship to be built for the Luckenbach Steamship Campany of New York. According to W.R. Jarrall, chief pa. role officer of the state reformatory, that institution is already feeling the good results of prohibition in the decrease of the number of men sent to that institution. The improvement of more than two miles of the streets of Washougal with crushed rock is nearly completed. The work has been carried on since September, except for interruptions Suring bad weather. The Kennewick commercial club passed a resolution favorable to the Shields navigable stream power measure now pending in the senate and sent telegrams to Senators Poin dexter and Jones, urging them to sup port the bill without amendments.

3. March 10, 1916 Aberdeen Herald Aberdeen, WA

Article from Aberdeen Herald, March 10, 1916

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# Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Information of Our Readers. The annual meeting of the Clarke County Good Roads association was held Tuesday. Construction work on Ridgefield's $11,000 municipal water system is progressing rapidly. A land products show will be held in or near Vancouver one week in October or November. Lewis, the town farthest east in eastern Lewis county, has a woman secretary for its commercial club. The state of Washington was the highest of 10 bidders for the Pomeroy school bond issue of $35,000. The commission form of government under the Allen law was lost at a special election at Aberdeen. Mrs. Fannie D. Latham, 85 years old, was cremated in a fire which destroyed the home of her son, A. H. Latham, at Toledo. The Ridgefield commercial club is hard at work on plans for a big horse and cattle show, which will be held some time in June. Clarke county has obtained iron road signs, which will be mounted on pipe set in concrete at all important intersections throughout the county. Three auxiliary lumber schooners will be built on Puget Sound by J. H. Bloedel, president of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber company, of Bellingham. In a head-on collision near Winton, 15 miles west of Leavenworth, between a rotary running east and a freight west, three of the crew were injured. Seven miles of closed drains are to be laid this spring and summer in drainage districts in the lower Yakima valley, chiefly in the vicinity of Sunnyside. A petition has been filed by M. B. Kies, receiver of the defunct Commercial bank, of Vancouver, asking that he be allowed to sell the assets of the receivership. W. G. Preston, a pioneer miller of Waitsburg, left property worth between $100,000 and $150,000 to Whitman college, subject to a life interest left to his son. The Quiniault Lumber company's mill at Raymond, which has been idle for nearly a year and a half, has started up, giving employment to about eighty men. Ground will be broken within a month or six weeks for the science building, the second new building which the University of Washington is to have this year.