Union Savings & Trust Company

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: trust company
Start Date: August 30, 1934
Location: Bluffton, Indiana (40.739, -85.172)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 3779c5f2

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Description

Article (The Star Press, 1934-08-30) reports the bank is closed and a liquidating agent (receiver) is making distributions to creditors/depositors. No bank run is described in the provided text. Corrected OCR name 'Union Saving Trust Company' to 'Union Savings & Trust Company'.

Events (1)

1. August 30, 1934 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: Wamer, liquidating agent for the closed Union Saving Trust Company here, started today making cent distribution creditors. distribution being made totals and will bring total paid depositors since the bank closed to cent.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. August 30, 1934 The Star Press Muncie, IN

Article from The Star Press, August 30, 1934

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Article Text

COURT ORDERS GIRL EXAMINED Returned to Bluffton After Leaving Her Home. Bluffton, Ind., Aug John Decker of the Wells Circuit Court. has appointed Drs. Harold Cayand Nickel examining report on the condition physicians Miss Olive Harvey, daughter Millie Harvey, two miles south Mt. Zion. The girl run away and appeared Monday night three had asked to look for She fled from officers but finally captured after chase through cornfields north of She taken to the Huntington County was later brought the jail here. fought Warren officers when they tried take her into custody and has also been hard case for local officers. She has been and thought that her physical condition responsible for her actions Escaped in Auto Crash. Claude of Fiat and Lloyd Risser. of Petroleum, escaped serious injuries when their automobiles collided at road intersection, mile east of Petroleum Downing driving truck. struck by Risser's car and overturned. Groceries were scattered over the ground and were mixed with several dozen broken eggs and quantity flour. The truck out badly mob. Frank Meyers, south of reBrown, ports theft of his sedan, which ing was stolen from parking place in this city. Police in surrounding cities notified the theft. The equipped with tires. plan to ter colleges this fall, were guests of the Rotary Club at and held last evening at the Bliss Hote. Miss Blanche Karns. an instructor given in the Bluffton High School, was in charge of musical program presented by Misses Kathryn Sauer Edwinna Patton and Joseph Eichhorn. Guests of the club were Misses Jane Malcolm, June Jones, Alice Miller, cipal, Barbara Thompson, Mary Claudine Florabel music, Mary Jane Robbins. Lucille Neuhauser. Mary Brown. Harriett Swisher. Kathryn Saurer, Edwinna Patton and Eugene David third William Weisell, William Gitlin. Raymond Meyer, Mark Decker, Joseph Wendell Bank Receiver Makes Payment. Wamer, liquidating agent for the closed Union Saving Trust Company here. started today making cent distribution creditors. distribution being made totals and will bring total paid depositors since the bank closed to cent. Congressman James Farley Auhas notified of the Wells Young Voters' Club that he will attend mass meeting be held at the community building in this city Tuesday evening. New Albany, for the United State Senate, will the principal speaker.