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Scott county has had her ups and downs in banking circles. The Citizens Bank of Blodgett is the fifth institution to fail in recent years. About two years ago the Vanduser Bank was reported to have been robbed and later it burned and with the building went the records. Its cashier, Thos. Bugg, was indicted by the grand jury of Scott county but was released upon a technicality. The Blodgett Bank failed but was reorganized and opened. Following close upon the heels of this came the failure of the Diehlstadt Bank, but, it too, reopened. It was thought that the failure of the Blodgett Bank was in a measure responsible for this failure. Then came the failure of the Citizens' Bank of Sikeston and its cashier, Mr. Dover, was indicted by the same grand jury which indicted McBride. The failure last week of the Citizens' Bank of Blodgett made the fifth banking institution to fail in that county. The Vanduser Bank never reopened and it is thought that last Thursday was the end of the last failure.—Charleston Times.
