State Bank - Pierceton, IN

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: March 13, 1930
Location: Pierceton, Indiana (41.200, -85.706)

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Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 68222cc5

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Description

Article reports the State Bank at Pierceton was closed and a receiver (Victor Mock) was appointed by the court on application of the state banking department. No run or reopening is mentioned; this is a closure with receiver.

Events (1)

1. March 13, 1930 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: Victor Mock, Warsaw banker, has been appointed receiver of the closed State bank at Pierceton by Judge L. W. Royse of Kosciusko circuit court here, on application of Luther F. Symons, head of the state banking department.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. March 13, 1930 The Indianapolis Times Indianapolis, IN

Article from The Indianapolis Times, March 13, 1930

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Article Text

The State in Brief By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., March 13-Dr. Wallace Parkinson, Chesterton physician, asks $10,000 damages from the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railroad, in a suit filed in Porter circuit court here. The suit is based on injuries the doctor received when his automobile crashed into a freight car at a crossing. It is alleged the railroad was negligent in placing the car so that several inches protruded over the crossing. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., March 13.Mr. and Mrs. William Likens observed their golden wedding anniversary at their home near this city. Among the sixty-five guests at the wedding, only eleven are living. F. L. Finley, a justice of the peace, made the trip to the home of the bride's parents on horseback to perform the ceremony. ANDERSON, Ind., March 13.-Distribution of automobile license plates through American Legion posts in Indiana is proposed in a resolution adopted by George Hockett post of the legion here. The resolution will be sent to Otto G. Fifield. secretary of state, for presentation to the 1931 legislature. RICHMOND, Ind., March 13. John Holaday of this city this week finished nineteen years of service as official reporter of the Wayne circuit court. He has announced his candidacy for prosecuting attorney subject to the Republican primary election. GARY. Ind., March 13.-Raymond Garcia will be tried tonight before Justice of the Peace C. I. Clements on a charge of violating the state "blue law" by working on Sunday at his trade of barber. The complaint in the case was signed by Edwin G. Green, an official of the barbers' local union. ANDERSON, Ind., March 13.Seven prisoners whose confessions cleared up robberies of sixteen Anderson homes, seven schools, stores in Lapel, Fishersburg and Sweetser, and theft of three automobiles here, pleaded guilty before Circuit Court Judge Carl F. Morrow. ANDERSON, Ind., March 13.-A suit filed in superior court here by Ira Emminger, musician, for divorce from Mrs. Carmen Emminger, names Clarence C. Leib, wealthy real estate owner and clerk in the Barrett law department at the city hall, as corespondent. GARY, Ind., March 13.-Gary's "mystery police chief" is A. S. J. Woods, 61, of Berkeley, Cal., a veteran of forty years in police work and criminology study, Mayor R. O. Johnson has revealed. Woods will arrive Friday to take up the task of maintaining law and order in Gary. HAMMOND, Ind., March 13.-The body of Mrs. Mary McCarthy, who disappeared from St. Vincent's Home for the Aged, was found in a lagoon in Harrison park by Park Superintendent H. Holtz. Police have not determined whether death was suicidal or accidental. WARSAW, Ind., March 13.-Victor Mock, Warsaw banker, has been appointed receiver of the closed State bank at Pierceton by Judge L. W. Royse of Kosciusko circuit court here, on application of Luther F. Symons, head of the state banking department. RICHMOND, Ind., March 13. The Indiana state library is seeking documents relating to the life of General Solomon Meredith, a resident of Wayne county who was breveted a major general in the Civil war. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 13.Orph Hall, attorney, is facing a suit asking that he be barred from practicing his profession, following three cases in which he is accused of irregularities. COVINGTON, Ind., March 13. Charles W. Zeigler, president of the defunct Farmers' and Merchants' state bank of Attica is free today under $2,000 bond awaiting trial on a charge of embezzlement in Fountain circuit court here. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 13. -A three-acre lake is being created in Deming park here. It will be located across from a flower garden in which 10,000 iris bulbs will be planted in June. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 13. -Mrs. Ruby D. Barnett, 32, com-