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Nervy Girl Saves Bank On the shoulders of tl A heroine of finance is Miss Roxie cashier rested the respo Burton, of this city. "The nerviest he hour that had broken girl in the state" is what the people down. She faced it. with st of the Tri-Cities are calling her, says and a smile of hope. The S a Madison, (IIIs.) dispatch in the New requested a statement of York Herald. condition. The statement Looking more like a high school out by the young women. pupil than a financier, Miss Burton look the very best for the /sat at the cashier's window in the It happened that on t Tri-City state Bank the other day statement was made out a and ran her father's bank, single ber of railroad checks W handed, through a crisis. She did not A majority of these we surrender until the directors, over her banks, but it always h protest, ordered the bank doors clos. ed. The state bank examiner vindipolicy of the Tri-City Ban modate the wage earner cated the assistant cashier and deble, So these checks we clared the Tri-City State Bank to be cashed. In consequence all right. hand was at low ebb. in Subsequently a petition was filed by would have been necessar one of the stockholders asking that a it to the normal would h receiver be appointed for the bank. carry those railroad el and that petition was granted by the banks on which they were court. One of the allegations was that obtain the money. Cashier Burton was in debt to the bank to the extent of several thouIn country towns It is of banks to keep open uni sand dollars. He admitted owing the afternoon. The Tri-City bank money. but he, as well as his had kept its doors open a brother. declared their willingness to ular hours. On the day make It good. His $20,000 bond COV however, when the cash r cred his indebtedness. and it was conRoxie hung up the sign ") ceded that the bank was in no danger promptly at three o'clock of losing what he owed the institution. or three persons walk checks to be cashed. Th Miss Burton, who had charge of the formed that the bank ha bank's books, declares that further inthe day. vestigation will show her father's acts Miss Roxie called the as cashier were nothing to his discredit. and that he will come out of gether. They assembled She told them she consi the affair with flying colors. duty o inform them that 1 The Tri-City Bank is five years old. ditor had asked for a = Mr. Burton established it soon after the bank's condition à coming here from Abilene. Kan. He cashing of many railroad is the largest Individual stockholder, ing the day had compelle the capital being $25,000. He was ter only a small cash bal made cashier and has had charge of statement. the bank since Its beginning. The "Whew!" said the direc first year an eight per cent. dividend was declared and the institution had inspected the statement look bad." prospered ever since. until lately when "Not half bad," respon the mills at Madison and Granite City closed. promptly. Thon she ex the checks could be co The recent money stringency affectcash the next morning. od the Tri-Citv Bank as it did all ishing the bank's supply banks. Then with the shutting down of the mills deposits fell off. There enabling it to continue b out a jar. are many foreigners in the Tri-Cities But the directors thou and the savings of many of these have been deposited at the Burton They remarked that t lank When some of the foreigners. been compelled to iss statement and that the as unable to obtain employment. left for eir had just been compo Purope the denosits of the bank fell off heavily. The remaining accounts two good sized checks. did have the excuse that were still further depleted hv persons out of work who withdrew their savbanking hours." The directors seemed ings to live on. The situation was the darkest the bank had faced. he bank tried to keep ope statement might cause a Mr. Burton was worried. He walkfunds and force It to c ed the floor of his home by night. He figured desperately by day. The nerunder embarrassing circu "We'd better not oper vous strain told on him. and he had remarked one director, a to give m and take to bis bed. The bank was then in the hands of nodded their heads in an Miss Roxie. She lind one assistantopinion. "Don't say that," o Miss Henrletta Schock. bookkeeper.
