The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-12-15
The Kansas Bank Deposits In
creased $50, 900, 600 in 10
Weeks, Says Report.
BREAKS PREVIOUS RECORDS
Figures Complied by Commissioner
Benson Show Prosperous condi-
ton Of State and National Banks.

of more than s3s.0O0,u9O in deposits,
according to the bank statement is
sued recently by W. w. Benson, state
bank commissioner, which showed
$2s0,811, s7704 on deposit at the close
Of business September IL. The show.
ing is an increase Of approximately
Is per cent over any previous record
Of Kansas banks, II was stated. Rec
ords for the year show an increase in
deposits Of approximately s7o,oQo.eo0.
The statement compiled shows loans
and discounts. aggregating $214,630,-
1927 OF nearly IS per cent Of the
total deposits returning an interest
rate to the banks. The overdrafts
showing of $915,9T.54 is about one
third Of one per cent of the deposits.
Total resources of ,375.303.77 are
shown in the report.
During the period from June 80 to
September IL the 9S7 state banks in
creased their deposits more than $780,
100000, while deposits in the 221 ma
tional banks OF the state were in
creased more than $19,000,O00, the re-
port shows The state banks increased
$4,000, 900 in. deposits during the year,
while national banks increased slight
ly more than s30,O00,OO0.
In the report just issued state banks
are shown to have held $165, 619,977.04
at the close of business September IL.
The national bank report is given in
round figures. II shows $125 1872, 900
III deposits. Loans and discounts of
state banks are given at $130,744,-
491.27, while national banks reported
$S3, $4,000
Corporation Sues Itself.-Attorneys
for the Prairie Pipe Line Company,
after preparing petition for damages
against their own company in favor
Of Mrs. Walter E. Null, and filing it,
asked the court TO award judgment
against them for the largest amount
possible under the compensation law.
The court awarded Mrs. Null $2,726.
The attorneys added enough to this
amount to total $1,000. Mrs. Null is
the widow of Walter E. Null, formerly
machinist in the company's plant
near Caney, Kas.. where he was killed
while at work
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Big Crowds at HevivaI.-No church
building at Utica is large enough to
accommodate the crowds at the re.
vival being conducted by the Rev. J.
A. Hutchins, evangelist of Rifle, Col.
Overflow meetings are being held in
several churches and gospel teams
are coming nightly by motor car from
Ness City, Ransom and Brownell.
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Fire in HospitaI.-Fire caused loss
Of $4,000 at the Arkansas City hospital
recently, destroying a portion of the
building, in which there were twenty
two rooms. Patients were removed
In great excitement.
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Kansas Pioneer Dead.-Christian
Stiegtel of Nestphalia, 81 years old,
died recently. He was veteran of
the Civil War;. serving with the Twen-
tieth Missouri Regiment. He had lived
In Anderson county thirty-six years.
: Falling Rock Killed Miner. = John
PeterS, veteran miner, was killed by
fall of rock in a mine of the Wear
Coal Company, northwest of Pittsburg,
the other day.
v. s. Commissioner Quits.-Curtice
Sherman, for several years United
States. commissioner at Wichita, has
resigned to enter the wholesale shoe
trade. His successor has not been
named. Mr.. Sherman's father was
commissioner there twenty-five years.
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Couple Welded Fifty Years.--Mr.
and Mrs. d. D. Ayers celebrated their
golden wedding at their home in Wa
mego recently. They were married in
Atchison County, Kansas, December 8,
1866.
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Injured in "katy" Wreck.-Twen.
ty persons were injured, none danger
ously, when the northbound flyer" Of
the Missouri, Kansas G Texas Rail-
way ran into an open switch at Par
sons and crashed into freight train.
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Ford Sold for SIS, 0oo.-A month ago
Deering Marshall and Harry Heimple
traded Ford car for an oil lease
twenty feet wide and mile long, near
Augusta. The lease is on the Purcell
farm, which has a 400-barrel well on
1t. Recently the Van Arsdale- Marshall
Oil and Gas Company paid Marshall
and Heimple $4,000 for, the lease.
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Kansas Educator Dies.-George w.
Kendrick, So, is dead in Wichita from
a stroke of paralysis. He was prom
inent educator of Kansas. In 1911
and 1912 he was superintendent of the
Wichita schools. He came to Wich-
tia from Junction City.
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Not After Federal JoJb.--W. 8.