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Dry Weather Injures Bank Receiver of Defunct Burlington Bank Says Farmers Stopped Paying Notes. Special to The Gazette: Burlington, Sept. 11.-The recent dry and hot weather has had an unfavorable effect upon the receivership of the defunct Farmers National bank of this city. N. M. Dudley, receiver, said. Up to the time the drouth set in, farmers were selling off surplus corn and reducing their obligations at the bank, but when the dry weather came they stopped. Mr. Dudley sald the weather has had a big effect on the collections, but hs is unable to state definitely what the ultimate outcome may be but that it has retarded the closing of the receivership. He had had hopes that sufficient collections could b. made this summer 60 that the rest of the work could be handlec from Washington. Mr. Dudley ha. made two dividends of 10 per cen each since he took charge of th work. He said that although h cannot state positively. he think he will be able to make anoth( dividend this fall, possibly in N vember.