Shoshoni State Bank - Shoshoni, WY

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: March 1, 1925*
Location: Shoshoni, Wyoming (43.236, -108.110)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: ccbb63f8

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Description

Article (Cody Enterprise, 1926-03-10) states the Shoshoni State Bank is a closed bank with a receiver (George Nottingham) preparing to distribute checks and dividends. The bank closed about a year earlier after a fire destroyed part of its records. No run is mentioned. Classified as a suspension followed by permanent closure/receivership. Dates are approximate when exact closure date not given.

Events (2)

1. March 1, 1925* Suspension

Cause Details: Bank closed after a fire destroyed a portion of its records (administrative/operational disruption).
Newspaper Excerpt: the closed Shoshoni State bank ... The bank closed about a year ago when a fire destroyed a portion of its records.
Source: newspapers

2. March 10, 1926 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: George Nottingham, special deputy state examiner in charge of the closed Shoshoni State bank, is preparing to distribute checks settling in full $5,139.79 of preferred claims against the bank and paying a dividend of 40 per cent on other claims.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. March 10, 1926 The Cody Enterprise Cody, WY

Article from The Cody Enterprise, March 10, 1926

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Article Text

Wyoming News Epitomized Tipping a pot of coffee onto her right leg, caused the death of Elva Lucile, 12-year-old daughter of Clyde Carpenter, a rancher north of Powell. Masons of Burns, Pine Bluffs, Hillsdale and other points in that vicinity, held a meeting in Burns last week. The program included a banquet at the Hotel Burns. Joseph Wilde, receiver of the Lingle State bank is paying a 13 per cent dividend. This is the second dividend the receiver has issued, the first having been for 12 per cent. By a vote of 29 to 15, the high schools of the state decided to make permanent the rule barring pupils who have been in school for eight semesters from high school athletics. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company is preparing to dismantle the Chicago mine, an iron working about eight miles from Guernsey and about a mile from the big open pit mine at Sunrise. The forerunner of what is expected to become a general state-wide movement is seen by University alumni in an announcement of the organization of a students' University of Wyoming club at Glenrock high school. W. D. Sperry, recently fined $100 and sentenced to the jail for 100 days for operating as a taxidermist without a license, walked out of the county jail at Laramie while a deputy sheriff was talking to another prisoner. To Rock Springs high school goes the distinction of being the first high school in the state to enter basketball and academic teams for the 1926 University of Wyoming high school week to be held at Laramie beginning March 15. The Union Pacific, in the interest of greater tonnage per mile, is running engines of the Mallet type in the freight service from Green River to Ogden, instead of taking them off at Evanston and turning them around, making a difference of not to exceed ten or twelve laborers at the Evanston shops. A governor of state should not permit appeals to sympathy to obscure his sense of responsibility to society and cause the unrestrained use of his powers in granting clemency to criminals, Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyoming's woman eexcutive, said last week in expressing her opinion of pardoning convicts. Sunrise is to have a new $45,000 addition to the present school plant. A bond election was held recently which carried by a large majority. The building will include a large gymnasium and several class rooms. Work will be started this spring and the building will be ready for the opening of school next September. Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ross does not contemplate interfering with the Elks amateur boxing tournament, scheduled for March 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Cheyenne, but cannot guarantee immunity from interference, she states in a letter to D. E. Woodson, exalted ruler of the lodge. The matter, the governor's letter says, is one for local authorities. George Nottingham, special deputy state examiner in charge of the closed Shoshoni State bank, is preparing to distribute checks settling in full $5,139.79 of preferred claims against the bank and paying a dividend of 40 per cent on other claims. The unpreferred claims which have been allowed total $102,533.79. The bank closed about a year ago when a fire destroyed a portion of its records. Harry Shad, cashier of the bank, recently was acquitted of embezzlement of funds of the bank. The annual meeting of the Washakie County Fair board was held in Worland last week at which time many important matters were discussed and directors for the coming year were elected. September 8th and 9th were set as the days for the fair this year.