Peoples State Bank (Lancaster, WI)

Episode Information

Episode UID
79075271481
Episode Type
Run → Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
state
Bank ID
7907527 routing
Routing Number
79-0752
Start Date
May 25, 1923
Location
Lancaster, Wisconsin (42.847, -90.711)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest
e7071a36243e8493

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Description

Run reportedly began after a church-related boycott; state examiners closed the bank and the commissioner took possession.

Events (3)
1. May 25, 1923 Run
Cause
Rumor Or Misinformation
Cause Details
Local church controversy and subsequent boycott prompted large deposit withdrawals and a run over about a week to ten days before the bank's closing.
Measures
None reported aside from bank officers attempting to assist examiners; heavy withdrawals continued until examiners closed the bank.
Newspaper Excerpt
started a boycott on the bank. Fifteen of the heaviest depositors withdrew their accounts and started a run
Source
newspapers
2. June 2, 1923 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
having taken possession of the property and the business of the PEOPLES STATE BANK ... on the second day of June, 1923, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against such corporation to present the same to me as Commissioner of Banking, or to my duly authorized representative at the office of the PEOPLES STATE BANK, of Lancaster, Wisconsin, and to make legal proof thereof on or before the eleventh day of October, 1923.
Source
newspapers
3. June 2, 1923 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
State banking commission/examiners closed the bank and the Commissioner of Banking took possession.
Newspaper Excerpt
closed last Saturday by the state banking commission
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (21)
1. June 5, 1923 The La Crosse Tribune La Crosse, WI
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CHURCH WAR REPORTED TO HAVE STARTED RUN ON CLOSED BANK Boycott Follows Action in Favoring Removal of Priest LANCASTER, Wis.—C. H. Basford, former president of the People's State bank which was closed last Saturday by the state banking commission, arrived here Tuesday to assist examiners in a check-up of the affairs of the institution. While officers were ascertaining the condition of bank assets, the search continued for J. Howard Pugh, cashier and Lester A. Clark, vice president, who have absconded. Warrants for their arrest have been sworn out, charging them with violation of the state banking laws. Banking officials at Madison declared that they do not believe that either Clark or Pugh made away with any of the funds of the Lancaster institution. In letters written before they left, the men are said to have intimated that there were irregularities in the affairs of the bank. "We cannot stand the gaff," they wrote, according to one official. Church Row Started Run The city of Lancaster is abuzz with rumors concerning the story back of the closing of the bank. The most persistent of these deals with a church row which has been brewing for many weeks. Andrew Zenz, a wealthy farmer near here, who is president of the bank, but who has not taken an active part in the institution's management, told a reporter Saturday that one of the prominent business men of the city wrote him a burning letter a few weeks ago and asked him as treasurer of St. Clement's Catholic church to take steps to oust the Rev. Gustav Kayser because of actions which he charged to the priest. Mr. Zenz said he turned the letter over to Bishop McGavick of the La Crosse diocese and that several days ago the priest announced his resignation to go to Chandler, Wis. Friends of the priest started a movement to have him retained and learning of the letter and Mr. Zenz's connections with it, started a boycott on the bank. Fifteen of the heaviest depositors withdrew their accounts and started a run which was in progress a week or ten days until the bank examiners closed the bank's doors, Mr. Zenz said. Dist. Atty. Clementson verified this story and declared that it was one of a number of unfortunate circumstances which combined to the bank's undoing.

2. June 13, 1923 The Sentinel-Leader Warren, IL
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FIND NO TRACE OF MISSING BANKERS Men Who Disappeared From Lancaster Are Still At Large. Word from Lancaster, Wis., says no trace has been found of Leslie A. Clark, vice president and J. H. Pugh, cashier of the People's State bank of that city who are accused of embezzling funds of the bank with which they were connected for ten years. The district attorney's office and the state banking department are co-operating in a search for the two men which was instigated upon the state banking department's suggestion last Saturday. Since that time no confirmed account of the two men's activities has been received. The last time they were seen in Lancaster was last Friday afternoon. Later they were supposed to have been in Milwaukee and in Chicago, trying to raise funds to meet a run on the bank. Families and other relatives of the two men are prostrated by the sudden turn of fortune. Relatives and friends still insist that they will return and refute the serious charges against them. Others who are not so friendly still declare that they have known for some time that the two bankers were "riding for a fall" as one former depositor declared. Opinion here is evenly divided as to the guilt of the men. Miss Alma Doesch, a bookkeeper in the bank, has stuck to her post and assisted the examiners in every possible way. She can shed no light on the affair, declaring that she fully expected Pugh and Clark to return to their place of business as usual last Saturday morning and that she was as surprised as any one else when they failed to come back. So far as she knows the men have not embezzled any funds or juggled the accounts. Miss Doesch is an East Dubuque girl and has been with the bank about six months.

3. June 13, 1923 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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ACCUSED BANK OFFICERS READY 'TO FACE MUSIC' Justice to Move Swiftly in Local Case. PROGRESS IN PEOPLES STATE BANK TANGLE 4 p. m. Tuesday-C. H. Basford arrested on larceny charge. * 3 1. m. Wednesday-L. A. Clark * and J. Harold Pugh return to Lancaster with District Attorney Geo. B. Clementson. * * 8 a. m. Wednesday-Pugh and Clark arrested on embezzlement charge. * * 1 p. m. Friday-C. H. Basford held to now pending term of circuit court on charge of embezzlement. Bail set at $10,000. Bail provided by Adolph Vesperman, * So. Lancaster farmer. * 3 p. m. Friday-Pugh and Clark * held to now pending term of * * circuit court on embezzlement charge. Bail set at $10,000. Pugh bail provided by S. W. Doolittie. Clark bail provided by Lambert Groenier and Jos. Godfrey. * * 9 a. m. Monday-Pugh and Clark enter People State Bank to assist Examiner Edwards in * straightening out tangle. * * The above is a concise statement of the events of the past week surrounding the Peoples State Bank suspension. District Attorney Clementson in his statement elsewhere, fully covers the methods used in getting in touch with Pugh and Clark and their return to Lancaster. The two defendants who summarily ran away Saturday a week ago returned with Mr. Clementson Wednesday morning. They remained in the sheriff's custody until Saturday when bail was provided for them. While all three cases are set for the present session of court, on this week, it is considered unlikely that the Basford case will go to trial at once although Special Prosecutor Carthew expresses a willingness to try the case immediately. S. H. Taylor has been retained as counsel by Mr. Basford. It is said on good authority that both Pugh and Clark see the folly of their leaving Lancaster. They decline to state where they spent their time in Chicago. The boys got in touch with Mr. Clementson Tuesday through a Chicago intermediary. Mr. Clementson and Sheriff Edge went to Chicago that night and after some negotiation next day the district attorney saw the men personally. Touching letters from home asking both young men to come back and "face the music" no doubt had a good deal to do with their final determination to come peaceably. Examiner Edwards has made no exact statement as to the probable amount of defalcations and any statement made as to a specific shortage is untrue. Mr. Edwards says it will take some time to get at the bottom and determine the true losses whether large or small. The authorities are not optimistic as to there being no defalcations. In fact the opposite is inferred. Mr. Edwards has no opinion to express at present as to an actual condition of affairs in the bank. Pugh and Clark by their willingness to come back have helped matters appreciably and their offer to enter the bank and assist the exam-

4. June 13, 1923 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAKES STATEMENT Editor of The Herald: In view of the amount of insufferable nonsense I have heard on the streets of Lancaster the past few days concerning the closing of The Peoples State Bank, and the arrest of Messrs. Basford, Pugh and Clark, I deem it my duty to make a short statement of fact. As one of the heaviest losers by any defalcation, as well as officially, I bent all my energies toward the apprehension of Pugh and Clark, and Saturday and Sunday had the police of Chicago throw out a drag-net, which I was assured by the Detective Bureau would result in their arrest before Sunday night, if they were in the city. Up to Tuesday night, however, the police had been unable to locate them. Tuesday evening I received a telephone call from Chicago, stating that if I came in that night, information would be furnished me in the morning that might result in my being able to communicate with the fugitives. I went in by way of Cassville, with Sheriff Edge as companion, and registered at the Brevoort hotel. I then spent the entire day until four in the afternoon, getting in touch with Pugh and Clark, through a half dozen intermediaries, and finally met them, according to their terms. Their statement to me through their representatives was that they were anxious to come home and face the situation, and had made up their minds to do so, but wished to go back voluntarily, and would not confer with me unless I gave my word of honor that failing in the conference I would make no move toward their arrest until the next morning, to which I agreed as the only condition upon which I might see them at all. I felt sure that they would come back with me, and knew that a talk with them was imperative. When I met them, they stated that they would come back that very night, but would not go back on any train I took, as they positively insisted that they give themselves up, and would not allow even the District Attorney with them, as it would be said they were in some way forced. I finally persuaded them to go back on the train with me, on the promise that they might go to their homes and surrender themselves alone to the Sheriff the first thing in the morning. We got to Lancaster at two or three in the morning, and I allowed them to go to their homes on their promise to appear at the jail as they had bargained. It takes a pretty contemptible mind to entertain suspicion of me under the circumstances. Whatever these men have done, (and I am as little informed as the rest of the community) it took a high degree of courage on their part to thus surrender themselves, an action that is bound to save depositors thousands of dollars. Mr. Edwards, the bank examiner, knew of my trip, and was hoping for its successful termination. Every matter above stated is verifiable and only malicious tongues could twist the facts to the disadvantage of these men or myself. As for Mr. Basford, I am a principal witness against him, and therefore had Mr. Carthew appointed to act as District Attorney. I shall prosecute Messrs. Pugh and Clark myself, when the Commissioner of Banking has had their assistance and concludes that the time is come. Geo. B. Clementson, District Attorney.

5. June 20, 1923 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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STATEMENT OF BANK AFFAIRS DUE THIS WEEK Chas. L. Brown of Muscoda, who closed up the affairs of the Montfort State bank, has been appointed by Banking Commissioner Parker to take charge of the Peoples State bank here. Brennan & Carthew have been appointed as the bank's attorneys. W. C. Edwards, official examiner, leaves this week. Chas. Russell, assisting Mr. Edwards since the state took charge Saturday two weeks ago, returned to Madison Saturday. Mr. Edwards declared Monday that no official statement as to the bank's condition could be made as yet. He said that by the middle or the latter part of the week he would present a report to the bank directors and others concerned. A basis for liquidation of the bank's affairs can then be afforded. All defendants in the case are still at liberty on bail. C. H. Basford has retained A. W. Kopp to act with S. H. Taylor in defense on the Basford end of the case. An information was filed in circuit court last Wednesday and H. E. Carthew was named as special prosecutor. Neither J. Harold Pugh nor L. A. Clark, the other defendants, have retained counsel. They apparently await a specific report as to the bank's condition and the statement of a case against them.

6. July 18, 1923 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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# PEOPLES STATE # SURETY SIGNERS # CITED FOR SUIT The state of Wisconsin has begun action in Dane county against ten Lancaster persons who signed as bondsmen for the Peoples State Bank as a state depository. The total bond is $25,000. The bond was signed March 25, 1916, to cover state deposits the bondsmen being John C. Bailie. C. H. Basford, J. Harold Pugh, L. A. Chark, A. E. Lewis, Bessie Clark, O. W. Wright, W. P. Rowdon, Geo. Wieland and Harry F. Barnett. On Feb. 11, 1920, the bond was cancelled as to "new liability," and a second bond was executed. Basford, Pugh, Clark, Bailie, and Wieland were bondsmen of the second bond. There was $4,757.26 state money deposit when the second bond was issued in 1920. When the bank suspended $11,763.56 state money was on deposit. The liability of the first bondsmen seems to turn on the ambiguity surrounding the phrase: "Cancelled as to new liability." If this means that the bondsmen on the first bond were not liable for deposits following the cancelling of the old bond and the issuance of the new, they can only be held for misuse of funds up to Feb. 11, 1920, should any have occurred. Should the statute upon which the phrase is based mean something else, the status of these bondsmen is uncertain. There seems to be no doubt as to the liability of signers of the second bond. Mr. Rowdon has retained E. R. Walker as counsel. The state is represented by the Attorney General. The other defendants have not so far retained counsel.

7. July 20, 1923 The News-Herald Cuba City, WI
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DEFUNCT BANK SURETY ARE CITED FOR SUIT The state of Wisconsin has begun action in Dane county against ten Lancaster persons who signed as bondsmen for the Peoples State Bank as a state depository. The total bond is $25,000. The bond was signed March 25, 1916, to cover state deposits, the bondsmen being John C. Bailie, C. H. Basford, J. Harold Pugh, L. A. Clark, A. E. Lewis, Bessie Clark, O. W. Wright, W. P. Rowden, Geo. Wisland and Harry F. Barnett. On Feb. 11, 1920, the bond was cancelled as to "new liability," and a second bond was executed. Basford, Pugh, Clark, Bailie, and Wieland were bondsmen of the second bond. There was $4,757.26 state money deposit when the second bond was issued in 1920. When the bank suspended $11,763.56 state money was deposited. The liability of the first bondsmen seems to turn on the ambiguity surrounding the phrase: "Cancelled as to new liability." If this means that the bondsmen on the first bond were not liable for deposits following the cancelling of the old bond and the issuance of the new, they can only be held for misuse of fund up to Feb. 11, 1920, should any have occurred. Should the statute upon which the phrase is based mean something else, the status of these bondsmen is uncertain. There seems to be no doubt as to the liability of signers of the second bond. Mr. Rowdon has retained E. R. Walker as counsel. The state is represented by the Attorney General. The other defendants have not so far retained counsel.—Lancaster Herald.

8. July 25, 1923 The Bloomington Record Bloomington, WI
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an emergency and a permanent tariff on farm products dictated entirely by the agrarians in congress. That is not the entire list of legislation in behalf of the farmers, but it is enough to show the extent of the influence and efficiency of their legislative organization. All those laws were designed to recoup the farmers' financial condition, which was admittedly bad when they were passed. They were hailed with delight. And what has it brought them? On July 11 wheat and flour prices dropped to the lowest level in eight years. Hogs are about $3 lower than a year ago. Wages promise to be higher than ever. The protective tariff on industrial products which the farmer approved in order to get a useless tariff on his own products has kept up prices of necessities which the farmer must buy. That is the situation after a full session of farm bloc dictation in congress. Let the farmer ponder it.—Chicago Tribune. PEOPLES STATE BANK SURETY SIGNERS CITED FOR SUIT The state of Wisconsin has begun action in Dane county against ten Lancaster persons who signed as bondsmen for the Peoples State Bank as a state depository. The total bond is $25,000. The bond was signed March 25, 1916, to cover state deposits, the bondsmen being John C. Bailie, C. H. Basford, J. Harold Pugh, L. A. Clark, A. E. Lewis, Bessie Clark, O. W. Wright, W. P. Rowdon, Geo. Wieland and Harry F. Barnett. On Feb. 11, 1920, the bond was cancelled as to "new liability," and a second bond was executed. Basford, Pugh, Clark, Bailie, and Wieland were bondsmen of the second bond. There was $4,757.26 state money deposit when the second bond was issued in 1920. When the bank suspended $11,763.56 state money was on deposit. The liability of the first bondsmen seems to turn on the ambiguity surrounding the phrase: "Cancelled as to new liability." If this means that the bondsmen on the first bond were not liable for deposits following the cancelling of the old bond and the issuance of the new, they can only be held for misuse of funds up to Feb. 11, 1920, should any have occurred. Should the statute upon which the phrase is based mean something else, the status of these bondsmen is uncertain. There seems to be no doubt as to the liability of signers of the second bond. Mr. Rowdon has retained E. R. Walker as counsel. The state is represented by the Attorney General. The other defendants have not so far retained counsel.—Lancaster Herald.

9. July 25, 1923 The Bloomington Record Bloomington, WI
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The state of Wisconsin has begun action in Dane county against ten Lancaster persons who signed as bondsmen for the Peoples State Bank as a state depository. The total bond is $25,000. The bond was signed March 25, 1916, to cover state deposits, the bondsmen being John C. Bailie, C. H. Basford, J. Harold Pugh, L. A. Clark, A. E. Lewis, Bessie Clark, O. W. Wright, W. P. Rowdon, Geo. Wieland and Harry F. Barnett. On Feb. 11, 1920, the bond was cancelled as to "new liability," and a second bond was executed. Basford, Pugh, Clark, Bailie, and Wieland were bondsmen of the second bond. There was $4,757.26 state money deposit when the second bond was issued in 1920. When the bank suspended $11,763.56 state money was on deposit. The liability of the first bondsmen seems to turn on the ambiguity surrounding the phrase: "Cancelled as to new liability." If this means that the bondsmen on the first bond were not liable for deposits following the cancelling of the old bond and the issuance of the new, they can only be held for misuse of funds up to Feb. 11, 1920, should any have occurred. Should the statute upon which the phrase is based mean something else, the status of these bondsmen is uncertain. There seems to be no doubt as to the liability of signers of the second bond. Mr. Rowdon has retained E. R. Walker as counsel. The state is represented by the Attorney General. The other defendants have not so far retained counsel.—Lancaster Herald.

10. August 24, 1923 Stevens Point Journal Stevens Point, WI
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LANCASTER BANKER IS GIVEN 17 YEARS Man Held Chiefly Responsible for Recent Bank Suspension Gets Term in Waupun, Others Up Later Lancaster, Wis., August 24—J. Harold Pugh, cashier of the Peoples State bank here, closed because of alleged misuse of funds, appeared before Circuit Court Judge Smalley and pleaded guilty to misuse of the bank's funds. He was sentenced to 17 years in the state prison at Waupun. He will leave for Waupun today with Sheriff Joe Edge. L. A. Clark, president of the bank, and C. A. Basford, also under charges of misuse of funds, will wait for the October term of court.

11. September 19, 1923 Fennimore Times Fennimore, WI
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE PEOPLES STATE BANK, Lancaster. I, Dwight T. Parker, Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to Section 2022 of the Wisconsin Statutes, having taken possession of the property and the business of the PEOPLES STATE BANK, of LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, a delinquent banking corporation, on the second day of June, 1923, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against such corporation to present the same to me as Commissioner of Banking, or to my duly authorized representative at the office of the PEOPLES STATE BANK, of Lancaster, Wisconsin, and to make legal proof thereof on or before the eleventh day of October, 1923. IN TESTIMONY THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the State Banking Department at the Capitol, in the City of Madison, this 29th day of June, A. D., 1923.

12. October 24, 1923 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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BANK STATUS TO BE KNOWN IN A FEW DAYS Committee to Meet on Final Assets. A committee to pass on the assets of the suspended Peoples State bank will meet here this week and determine the character and quality of the various listed assets of the bank. The committee will consist of a repthe state, Brennan & Carthew, the local attorneys of the bank and Chas. L. Brown, special representative of the banking commissioner, who has been in charge at the bank since its close last June. There is no truth in the report that Mr. Brown has given out a statement as to actual affairs. The liabilities of the bank are about $312,000 and Mr. Brown has on hand around $17,000. In addition to this are the other assets the character of which will be determined by the commission at its sitting. A report will be filed in circuit court the latter part of this week

13. December 13, 1923 The Republican Oakland, MD
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ROBBED BANK TO FRIGHTEN AIDS Former Head of Wisconsin Depository Freed by Jury. WEIRD YARN WON ACQUITTAL Charles H. Basford, aged former president of the defunct People's State Bank of Lancaster, Wis., confessed on the witness stand in his trial for embezzlement that he took $11,500 from the bank vault, kept it ten days, denied taking it when the district attorney accused him of it and returned the money when confronted by two other bank officers and the prosecutor. But a jury of ten farmers and two merchants acquitted him, because he said, he merely took the money to frighten the vice president and cashier of the bank, who, he said, were traveling a pace that was leading them and the bank to ruin. Basford, who is sixty-eight years old and comes from a wealthy pioneer southwestern Wisconsin family, resigned from the bank board in April, 1922. It was announced that ill health had forced his retirement. Andrew Zenz, a retired farmer, was elected president. Last May Zenz became involved in a controversy in the congregation of a local church. The bank president's faction finally succeeded in ousting Rev. Father G. Kaiser, and the priest's supporters immediately withdrew their money from the bank. The small run had not seriously impaired the institution, but it was rumored that discrepancies would be found if the records were examined. Note Leads to Closing Bank. On the night of June 5 last, two state bank examiners arrived in Lan-

14. November 12, 1924 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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SHERIFF'S SALE In Circuit Court for Grant County, Wisconsin. Hannah Wenzel, as Executrix of the Estate of John J. Wenzel, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Albert J. Henry and Florence L. Henry, his wife, Joseph N. Griswold, Lancaster State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, Dwight T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin, in relation to the liquidation of the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, and P. E. Moore, Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 29th day of October, A. D., 1923, the undersigned, Sheriff of Grant County, State of Wisconsin, will sell at the north front door of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, in said Grant County, Wisconsin, on the 20th day of December, A. D., 1924, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day the real estate and mortgaged premises described by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows:Commencing at the Northwest corner of the Northwest quarter of Section Twentyfive (25) in Township Five (5) North, Range Three (3) West of the 4th P. M., running thence along the center of the highway as it is now laid out and traveled in a Southerly direction until it intersects the highway running East and West across the Southwest quarter of said Section Twenty Five as the same is now laid out and traveled; thence East along the center of said highway to the North and South half Section line of said Section Twenty Five; thence North along the half Section line of said Section Twenty Five to the North line of said Section Twenty Five; thence West to the place of beginning, containing one hundred twenty acres more or less, meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the land owned by the said John J. Wenzel at the time of his death, in said Section Twenty Five North and East of the public highway as now laid out and traveled through said Section Twenty Five. Also the South half of the Southwest quarter of Section Twenty-four (24), Township Five (5) North, Range Three (3) West of the 4th P. M., all in Grant County, Wisconsin. Terms of said sale will be cash. Dated, the 30th day of October, A. D., 1924. JOSEPH H. EDGE, Sheriff of Grant County, Wis. Brennan & Carthew, Plaintiff's Attor38c6 neys.

15. November 26, 1924 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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SHERIFF'S SALE In Circuit Court for Grant County, Wisconsin. Hannah Wenzel, as Executrix of the Estate of John J. Wenzel, deceased, Plaintiff, VS. Albert J. Henry and Florence L. Henry, his wife, Joseph N. Griswold, Lancaster State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, Dwight T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin, in relation to the liquidation of the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, and P. E. Moore, Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 29th day of October, A. D., 1923, the undersigned. Sheriff of Grant County, State of Wisconsin, will sell at the north front door of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, in said Grant County, Wisconsin, on the 20th day of December, A. D., 1924, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day the real estate and mortgaged premises described by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows:Commencing at the Northwest corner of the Northwest quarter of Section Twentyfive (25) in Township Five (5) North, Range Three (3) West of the 4th P. M., running thence along the center of the highway as it is now laid out and traveled in a Southerly direction until it intersects the highway running East and West across the Southwest quarter of said Section Twenty Five as the same is now laid out and traveled; thence East along the center of said highway to the North and South half Section line of said Section Twenty Five; thence North along the half Section line of said Section Twenty Five to the North line of said Section Twenty Five; thence West to the place of beginning, containing one hundred twenty acres more or less, meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the land owned by the said John J. Wenzel at the time of his death, in said Section Twenty Five North and. East of the public highway as now laid out and traveled through said Section Twenty Five. Also the South half of the Southwest quarter of Section Twenty-four (24), Township Five (5) North, Range Three. (3) West of the 4th P. M., all in Grant County, Wisconsin. Terms of said sale will be cash. Dated, the 30th day of October, A. D., 1924. JOSEPH H. EDGE, Sheriff of Grant County, Wis. Brennan & Carthew, Plaintiff's Attor38c6 neys.

16. December 3, 1924 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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SHERIFF'S SALE In Circuit Court for Grant County, Wisconsin. Hannah Wenzel, as Executrix of the Estate of John J. Wenzel, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Albert J. Henfry and Florence L. Henry, his wife, Joseph N. Griswold, Lancaster State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, Dwight T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin, in relation to the liquidation of the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, and P. E. Moore, Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 29th day of October, A. D., 1923, the undersigned, Sheriff of Grant County, State of Wisconsin, will sell at the north front door of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, in said Grant County, Wisconsin, on the 20th day of December, A. D., 1924, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day the real estate and mortgaged premises described by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows:Commencing at the Northwest corner of the Northwest quarter of Section Twentyfive (25) in Township Five (5) North, Range Three (3) West of the 4th P. M., running thence along the center of the highway as it is now laid out and traveled in a Southerly direction until it intersects the highway running East and West across the Southwest quarter of said Section Twenty Five as the same is now laid out and traveled; thence East along the center of said highway to the North and South half Section line of said Section Twenty Five; thence North along the half Section line of said Section Twenty Five to the North line of said Section Twenty Five; thence West to the place of beginning, containing one hundred twenty acres more or less, meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the land owned by the said John J. Wenzel at the time of his death, in said Section Twenty Five North and East of the public highway as now laid out and traveled through said Section Twenty Five.

17. December 10, 1924 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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his wife, Joseph N. Griswold, Lancaster State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, Dwight T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin, in relation to the liquidation of the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a domestic corporation, and P. E. Moore, Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 29th day of October, A. D., 1923, the undersigned, Sheriff of Grant County, State of Wisconsin, will sell at the north front door of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, in said Grant County, Wisconsin, on the 20th day of December, A. D., 1924, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day the real estate and mortgaged premises described by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows:Commencing at the Northwest corner of the Northwest quarter of Section Twentyfive (25) in Township Five (5) North, Range Three (3) West of the 4th P. M., running thence along the center of the highway as it is now laid out and traveled in a Southerly direction until it intersects the highway running East and West across the Southwest quarter of said Section Twenty Five as the same is now laid out and traveled; thence East along the center of said highway to the North and South half Section line of said Section Twenty Five; thence North along the half Section line of said Section Twenty Five to the North line of said Section Twenty Five; thence West to the place of beginning, containing one hundred twenty acres more or less, meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the land owned by the said John J. Wenzel at the time of his death, in said Section Twenty Five North and East of the public highway as now laid out and traveled through said Section Twenty Five. Also the South half of the Southwest quarter of Section Twenty-four (24), Tewnship Five (5) North, Range Three (3) West of the 4th P. M., all in Grant County, Wisconsin. Terms of said sale will be cash. Dated, the 30th day of October, A. D., 1924. JOSEPH H. EDGE, Sheriff of Grant County, Wis. Brennan & Carthew, Plaintiff's Attor38c6 neys.

18. August 5, 1925 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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State of Wisconsin, County of GrantIn Circuit Court. William Hardy, as trustee, Plaintiff, vs. The Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a corporation, and D. T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin in relation to the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, in process of liquidation, L. G. Hickok, Hugh C. Krebs and the Taylor Palmer Company, a corporation-Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 9th day of July, 1924, the undersigned Sheriff of Grant county, Wisconsin, will sell at the front door of the building on the premises hereinafter described, on the 2d day of September, 1925, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: Commencing at a point 36 feet South of the Northwest corner of lot One (1) in Block twenty-one (21) in the City of Lancaster, running thence East ninety-two (92) feet, thence south twenty-four (24) feet, thence west ninety-two (92) feet, thence north twenty-four feet to the place of beginning. Also a part of lot two of said block twenty-one (21) commencing at the northwest corner of said lot two (2) running thence east seventy (70) feet, thence south four (4) feet, thence west seventy (70) feet, thence north four (4) feet to the place of beginning. Also an easement or right of way over a tract of land four (4) feet wide off the north side of said lot two (2) block twenty-one (21) aforesaid from the east line of said lot two and running west for a distance of fifty (50) feet. Subject to to the rights and privileges granted by George D. Utt to George Gibbs and conveying by this deed the rights granted by said George Gibbs to said George D. Utt by an agreement made between them dated April 13th, 1880, recorded in Vol. 91 of deeds on page 57 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Grant County, Wisconsin, also including all improvements thereon. Terms of sale, cash. 25 percent at time of sale and balance on confirmation and tender of deed. Dated July 20, 1925. HARRY LIVINGSTON, Sheriff. George F. Frantz and Kopp & Brunckhorst, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 23c6 Platteville, Wisconsin.

19. August 12, 1925 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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State of Wisconsin, County of GrantIn Circuit Court. William Hardy, as trustee, Plaintiff, vs. The Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a corporation, and D. T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin in relation to the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, in process of liquidation, L. G. Hickok, Hugh C. Krebs and the Taylor Palmer Company, a corporation-Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 9th day of July, 1924, the undersigned Sheriff of Grant county, Wisconsin, will sell at the front door of the building on the premises hereinafter described, on the 2d day of September. 1925, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: Commencing at a point 36 feet South of the Northwest corner of lot One (1) in Block twenty-one (21) in the City of Lancaster, running thence East ninety-two (92) feet, thence south twenty-four (24) feet, thence west ninety-two (92) feet, thence north twenty-four feet to the place of beginning. Also a part of lot two of said block twenty-one (21) commencing at the northwest corner of said lot two (2) running thence east seventy (70) feet, thence south four (4) feet, thence west seventy (70) feet, thence north four (4) feet to the place of beginning. Also an easement or right of way over a tract of land four (4) feet wide off the north side of said lot two (2) block twenty-one (21) aforesaid from the east line of said lot two and running west for a distance of fifty (50) feet. Subject to to the rights and privileges granted by George D. Utt to George Gibbs and conveying by this deed the rights granted by said George Gibbs to said George D. Utt by an agreement made between them dated April 13th, 1880, recorded in Vol. 91 of deeds on page 57 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Grant County, Wisconsin, also including all improvements thereon. Terms of sale, cash. 25 percent at time of sale and balance on confirmation and tender of deed. Dated July 20, 1925. HARRY LIVINGSTON, Sheriff. George F. Frantz and Kopp & Brunckhorst. Attorneys for Plaintiff, 23c6 Platteville, Wisconsin.

20. August 19, 1925 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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State of Wisconsin, County of Grant- In Circuit Court. William Hardy, as trustee, Plaintiff, vs. The Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a corporation, and D. T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin in relation to the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, in process of liquidation, L. G. Hickok, Hugh C. Krebs and the Taylor Palmer Company, a corporation-Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 9th day of July, 1924, the undersigned Sheriff of Grant county, Wisconsin, will sell at the front door of the building on the premises hereinafter described, on the 2d day of September, 1925, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: Commencing at a point 36 feet South of the Northwest corner of lot One (1) in Block twenty-one (21) in the City of Lancaster, running thence East ninety-two (92) feet, thence south twenty-four (24) feet, thence west ninety-two (92) feet, thence north twenty-four feet to the place of beginning. Also a part of lot two of said block twenty-one (21) commencing at the northwest corner of said lot two (2) running thence east seventy (70) feet, thence south four (4) feet, thence west seventy (70) feet, thence north four (4) feet to the place of beginning. Also an easement or right of way over a tract of land four (4) feet wide off the north side of said lot two (2) block twenty-one (21) aforesaid from the east line of said lot two and running west for a distance of fifty (50) feet. Subject to to the rights and privileges granted by George D. Utt to George Gibbs and conveying by this deed the rights granted by said George Gibbs to said George D. Utt by an agreement made between them dated April 13th, 1880, recorded in Vol. 91 of deeds on page 57 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Grant County, Wisconsin, also including all improvements thereon. Terms of sale, cash. 25 percent at time of sale and balance on confirmation and tender of deed. Dated July 20, 1925. HARRY LIVINGSTON, Sheriff. George F. Frantz and Kopp & Brunckhorst, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Platteville, Wisconsin. 23c6

21. August 26, 1925 Grant County Herald Lancaster, WI
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# LEGAL NOTICES State of Wisconsin, County of Grant- In Circuit Court. William Hardy, as trustee, Plaintiff, vs. The Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, a corporation, and D. T. Parker, as Commissioner of Banking of the State of Wisconsin in relation to the Peoples State Bank of Lancaster, Wisconsin, in process of liquidation, L. G. Hickok, Hugh C. Krebs and the Taylor Palmer Company, a corporation-Defendants. By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action on the 9th day of July, 1924, the undersigned Sheriff of Grant county, Wisconsin, will sell at the front door of the building on the premises hereinafter described, on the 2d day of September, 1925, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the real estate and mortgaged premises directed by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: Commencing at a point 36 feet South of the Northwest corner of lot One (1) in Block twenty-one (21) in the City of Lancaster, running thence East ninety-two (92) feet, thence south twenty-four (24) feet, thence west ninety-two (92) feet, thence north twenty-four feet to the place of beginning. Also a part of lot two of said block twenty-one (21) commencing at the northwest corner of said lot two (2) running thence east seventy (70) feet, thence south four (4) feet, thence west seventy (70) feet, thence north four (4) feet to the place of beginning. Also an easement or right of way over a tract of land four (4) feet wide off the north side of said lot two (2) block twenty-one (21) aforesaid from the east line of said lot two and running west for a distance of fifty (50) feet. Subject to to the rights and privileges granted by George D. Utt to George Gibbs and conveying by this deed the rights granted by said George Gibbs to said George D. Utt by an agreement made between them dated April 13th, 1880, recorded in Vol. 91 of deeds on page 57 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Grant County, Wisconsin, also including all improvements thereon. Terms of sale, cash. 25 percent at time of sale and balance on confirmation and tender of deed. Dated July 20, 1925. HARRY LIVINGSTON, Sheriff. George F. Frantz and Kopp & Brunckhorst, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Platteville, Wisconsin. 2306