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BANK RECEIVERS PAY $1,231,000 Election Involves More Than Fate of Candidates September Dividends Fight Raises Curtain Listed by Bates. on 1934 State Iowa banks in receivership paid a total of $1,231,927.79 in divi- Campaign. dends during September, the report for the month by D. W. Bates, state superintendent of banking, showed Saturday. Seventeen banks declared dividends during the month. the largest dividend being paid Sept. 15 by the American Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Burtington. The dividend of $430,641.71 amounted to 10 per cent. The second largest dividend amounting to 38 and representing 30 per cent was paid by the Delaware County State bank of Manchester, Sept. 1. Creditors Get Payment. A dividend of 899 85 was paid by the Union Trust & Savings bank of Dubuque in a 10 per cent payment Sept. 20. The greatest percentage of the total deposits in any bank paid in a dividend during the month was 32 per cent paid Sept. 20 by the Peoples Savings bank of Des Moines. The dividend of $50,261.03 differed from the other dividends in that it went to creditors rather than depositors of the bank in connection with the merger of the People's Savings bank with the Bankers Trust Co. several years ago. Called "Satisfactory." Superintendent Bates said the dividend payment record of the one Other dividends paid by Iowa banks in September were: Corn Belt Savings bank, Cedar Rapids, 10 per cent, $60,059.69 Sept. 12; Corley Farmers Savings ers Savings bank. Cushing, 10 per cent, $7,054.64 Sept. 18; Farmers & Merchants Savings bank, Durant, 5 per cent, $40,861.65, Sept. 21. 10 Per Cent at Haskins. Farmers and Merchants Savings bank, Haskins, 10 per cent, $8.274.62, Sept. 25; Farmers & Traders Savings bank, Hillsboro, 15 per cent, $10,972.16, Sept. 19 Citizens Savings bank, Lester, 10 per cent, $18,769.8 Sept. 21. Lockridge State bank. Lock ridge, 10 per cent, $12,878.87 Sept. 21: Monteith Savings bank, Monteith, 15 per cent, $7,314.44 Sept. 22: American Savings bank Muscatine, 5 per cent, $58,519.71 Sept. 25; Thornburg Savings bank, Thornburg, 20 per cent, $11,244.59, Sept. 28. $7,640 at Truro. Truro Savings bank, Truro, 10 per cent, $7,640.90. Sept. 22; Peoples State bank, Winthrop, 10 per cent, 9,846.77 Sept. 28. One of the 17 banks paid its fourth dividend, five paid third dividends and four second dividends.
