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TEN FARMERS ON BUREAU PROGRAM STATE BANK AT VENICE CLOSED Details Completed for Annual Action Taken By Directors; InSession to Be Held Here stitution Is Believed to Next Thursday. Be Solvent. Acceptances for the dinner to be served next Thursday in connection with the annual membership meeting of the Madison County Farm Bureau were nearing the 300 mark today with indications of a largely attended and interested session. Many others who will not attend the dinner will be here for the afternoon meeting. Farm Adviser T. W. May has details completed today for the meeting. This is the first time that separate programs nie being arranged for the farmer and their wives. While the men transact business and hear questions in the morning that would not be entertaining to the women another program will be rendered for wives of bureau members. A joint general session will be held at St. John's M. E. Chuich, opening at 9 o'clock. It will be followed with separate meeting: at the same place until noon. Then the and their wives will assemble at Eden Evangelical Church for dinner. Returning to St. John's Church in the afternoon a joint meeting will be held. At the conclusion of the Farm Bureau a short session of the Cahokia Mutual Benefit Association will be held. The general meeting will be opened with invocation asked by Rev. J. G. Tucker of St. John's M. E. Church. The Farm Bureau Trio will sing, followed by announcements and then a division of the meeting. Mrs. Burl Hornbeck of Winchester who has done a great deal of. work among women living on farms, and Mrs. Fred J. Wagner of Marissa district chairman of Illinois Federation of Wemen's Clubs will speak on "American Homes." During the morning ten members of the bureau will have short discussions on subjects assigned to them. Following are subjects and those who will speak for only a few minutes: Farm Bureau Insurance-Stanley Castle, Wood River. Farm Accounting-John H. Schafer, Marine Horseradish Situation-John W. (Continued on page three). The Venice State Bank of Venice, closed its doors this morning according to State Bank Examiner W. R. Rodenberger, who arrived this morning to take charge of the bank. Rodenberger stated that he could make no statement RS to the cause of bank closing until he had made an investigation He stated that this would take two or three days. The bank was closed by action of the directors. The bank is believed to be solvent It was stated that there had been some withdrawals from the bank, but no run. The bank was the scene of an attempted holdup Sept 28, when one of the robbers was shot and seriously wounded. His companions escaped without obtaining thing. The Venice State Bank lists its capital at $25,000 and the surplus at $3500. Thomas F. Maher is president of the organization.
