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NEW ROADS BANK MAY BE RE-ORGANIZED SOON Baton Rouge State Times: Efforts are being made to reorganize the Pointe Coupee Trust & Sav ings bank of New Roads which closed its doors last Friday following what might be tremed a "run" on the bank. The bank, of which Isadore Morgan was president and J. A. Langlois was cashier, had deposits of about $200,000. Some losses were recently encountered on some loans and the bank was being re-organized by an assessment against all stockholders of 75 per cent of the capital stock held. The bank was capitalized at $60,000. News of this assessment leaked out and public confidence in the bank began to fall, it is said, various individuals drawing out their deposits quietly, causing the necessity of closing the doors of the bank. Had the re-organization been permitted to complete itself there would not have been any losses to depositors, it is stated. Whether there will be losses now is problematical. The lowest rent in the world is probably the pfennig (about a quarter of a cent) that a tenant family of Schleswig-Holstein has paid annually for two hundred and fifty years to members of the noble house of Rantzau. As one might suspect, there is romance in the story. Two centuries and a half ago the Count Rantzau of that day was hunting and rode into a swamp. The horse sank, and the count shouted for help. Rheinhard Brauer, a farmer, rescued him at the risk of his life. He would take no money reward, but when the count insisted on making some return he said, "Well, if you must give me something, let me have the swamp." And so the rent was fixel at a pfennig and the same family of tenants has paid it to the same family of landholders ever since. Monroe Morris was arrested in Baton Rouge. last Friday, on complaint of L. N. Walton of Tunica over some financial transaction. Bond was placed at $250. F. O. Hamilton signing as surety.