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WANTS TO SELL BANK'S ASSETS Receiver Of Montpelier Institution Sets Date. Bluffton, Ind., Aug. 27.—Judge J. F. Decker today granted a petition filed by Lee F. Sprague, receiver for the Farmers Deposit Bank, of Montpelier, for an order authorizing the receiver to offer for sale on September 30, all remaining assets of the defunct bank. The receiver's petition set out the fact that the trust had existed for a number of years and that liquidation had progressed to a stage where further collections on the assets were coming so slowly and in such small sums that it would be for the best interests of all concerned to terminate further expenses of the receivership. Bull Is Returned. Local police reported today that a bull which had been reported stolen Sunday night from a pasture field on the farm of Mrs. Mahlon Porter, east of Bluffton along state road 124, was found this morning. It had been returned during the night and placed in a field on the farm of a neighbor. Officers who investigated reported Monday that tracks discovered indicated that the animal had been placed on a vehicle and trucked away. They advanced a theory that the thief acquired a case of "cold feet" and decided to deliver the missing animal to a point where he would be discovered and the owner notified. There will be a meeting at the community building here Wednesday, of school teachers of the township schools, preliminary to the opening of the schools on Friday, and included in the meeting also will be the school bus drivers, school custodians and the township trustees, with special instructions features for each division. The program will be opened at 8:30 o'clock and will be continued during the entire day. A special feature will be an address at 9 o'clock by Dr. W. P. Dearing, president of Oakland College, on the subject "Calling All Teachers," which session will be open to the public. At later sectional meetings the school custodians will be addressed by Amon Swope, associate professor of Industrial Education, Purdue University, and bus drivers by Loren W. Warner, chief of the bureau of accident prevention, department of public safety. Teachers will be addressed by a member of the state department of public instruction. Mrs. Samuel Haiflich, who is employed in a local restaurant, returns to her home at Uniondale to attend Sunday school, in order that she may maintain her record for unbroken attendance. She has not missed Sunday school over a period of more than twenty years.