The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1894-02-16
One Of the Safest in the State.

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Johnston deposits and keeps quite a
sum of Sully county funds in the
Gettysburg State Bank, the Popullsts
have at regular intervals-or most of
the time-circulated the report that
the bank was unsafe and liable to bust
at any time, and that all of the county
funds twill certainly be lost" In
their minds there seems to be no mis-
take about it. Of course none of the
mouthy have the least idea OF the
banks standing or resources, but think
1T necessary to keep up the howl,
which has now been heard throughout
the county for more than year, pre-
sumably to work up sentiment in
favor of certain Populists. The same
kind of talk-only more of it-has also
been going on in Potter county, until
at their January meeting the Board of
County Commissioners of Potter coun-
ty requested an examination of the
Bank by Public Examiner Meyers, and
he pronounces the Gettysburg State
Bank to be zone of the safest banks in
the State,' and pronounces the reports
as being "entirely false.' We have
no personal interest in the above NAM
ed or any other bank, but as public
disseminator of facts and for the bene-
fit of the taxpayers of Sully county
who are interested and to ease up the
minds of those who are 80 industri-
ously circulating the falsehoods re-
gardlng the shaky condition of the
county funds, we wish to state that
the Gettysburg State Bank is bv
Public Examiner Meyers considered
to be entirely safe. 1t is backed by
such capitalists as State Treasurer
Taylor, G. II. Vinton of Redfeld and
H. F. Hunter of Mellette, and is In
corporated under the State laws.
There is no cause for Apprehension.
We clip the following upon this sub
ject from the Gettysburg Courier
"rhe Public Examiner has been
here and has gone. The report he
made in the Auditors office regarding
the safety of the Gettysburg State
Bank. ought to be sufficient to quiet
the nerves of those who were hypnotis-
ed so badly by those whose selfshness
and jealousy prompted the reports.
The report of the Examiner shows the
Gettysburg State Bank is, to use his
own words zone of the safest Banks in
the state" That the securities on
paper held by them was superior to
that held by most of the hanks of the
state, and none held any better securi
ties, or better secured paper than the
Gettysburg State Bank.
In regard to the reports which have
been circulated he said "these reports
which L have heard upon the street IN
regard to this matter are entirely false
That the officers of the bank and the
county Treasurer had urged him to
come just as strongly as the Commits
sioners did.
So there is no need to lose any more
sleep, let the fellow whose selfish in
terest and jealousy prompted these re-
ports and those who circulated them
do the lying awake from now on and
plan some other meanness. 1t is a
curse to any community to have such
a class among them whose sole occu
patton now consists in trying to tear
down.
If people would study who would be
benefited provided these reports which
have been proved false had they been
true, they have the source from
whapca th,S vilanasS all came