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SEE BUSINESS AID IN KEWANNA BANK Northern Town Without Can't Die Financial Plant Since Poison and Auto Crash February. Fail to Bring Desired Ball Times Special KEWANNA, Ind., Aug. 9.-OrSuicide. ganization of a new bank, the Kewanna State bank, to be open Bu United Press for business Sept. 1, has been anVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 9.-A nounced here by a group of local E drink of lethal poison, plus businessmen. A charter has been granted the an auto crash, failed to bring success to Lawrence Hill, 30, in new institution by the state bankhis suicide attempt, and he was ing department and all preliminary taken to a hospital in a critical arrangements have been completed. condition. The institution will have a capitalAfter drinking poison, Hill ization of $25,000 and a surplus of started down the street in his car. $6,250 when the doors are opened. It will occupy the building in which When the poison took effect he the former First State bank was lost control of the machine and located. collided with a parked car, inflictThis town suffered severe ing serious abrasions. financial reverses since the closing of its two banks last winter. The First State bank went into receivership last February and HOPPERS STILL twenty-nine days later the American National bank was closed. Since then this community has been without a bank and together ON THE MARCH with its financial losses has been seriously handicapped. The men who signed the apInsects Carry Destruction plication for the charter have not been connected with the defunct institutions. Through Posey County. They are: Henry Hirsch of By United Press Logansport, owner of an elevator MT. VERNON, Ind., Aug. 8.-Reat Grass Creek; Charles Evans, William C. Miller, Edward Kreamer lentless march of a great army of and Ralph McConnell of Kewanna, grasshoppers continued today, with and Richard M. Thomas of Grass a quarter of a mile path of destrucCreek. noth registered during
