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BANKERS GIVE UP ALL TO TRUSTEES Wood and Stickney, Woodhull Assign Their Property Valued at $556,000. LIABILITIES MUCH LESS Only Wish of Aged Financiers is That Depositors Do Not Carry Affairs to Courts. (Special to The Argus) Woodhull, III. Jan. 8.-B. O. Wood and W. C. Stickney, owners of the Farmers' bank which has suspended after 34 years of continuous business, at a conference yesterday voluntarily assigned all of their realty and persobal property holdings, valued approximately at $556,000, to W. P. Kirkland. W. C. Coles and W. A. Olson, who have been named as trustees for the 350 depositors of the bank. The bank's liabilities are $326,000, so that there is every assurance that the depositors will be paid in full. The trustees are all well known residents of Woodbull. The arrangement meets with the approval of all of the bank's depositors, the heaviest of whom is A. C. Brown, who had $56,000 on deposit when the institution closed its doors a few days ago. Failure to real1ze on some of its paper was given as the cause of the bank's suspension. It 1s believed that all these notes will be met eventually. Good Feeling All Around. The readiness with which Messrs. Wood and Stickney turned over their land and other possissions that their depositors might be protected, has assuaged any feeling of resentment entertained toward the aged bankers when news of the suspension was first spread. The only condition asked by the bankers of the trustees was that the affairs of the institution be not dragged into the courts. They said 1 their possessions were more than ade1 quate to pay every dollar of the money . entrusted to their bank and it was I their wish that the matter be adjudi( cated as soon as possible. Messrs. Wood and Stickney propose to retire I permanently from the banking busi1 ness.