Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1911 — A Failed Community. [ARTICLE]

A Failed Community.

Mr. Leslie-M. Shaw, who used to be the favorite sea of lowa and who can’t be a prodigal yet. because you don’t hear of any fatted calves being cooked for him 6ut in Manilla, la. (spell it with two l’s!) —Mr. Leslie Mortimer Shaw (no symbolsim In the middle name) says that out his old way the people met the panic with something that, though Mr. Shaw doesn’t so describe it, must have been a combination of the courage of conviction in their heads and the fear of God In their hearts. He says that in a little town in Clinton county, where there was only one bank, and where that bank seemed likely to fall,, the banker —it w’as a private bank—just closed his doors and hung out a sign that rea'd as follows:

: This Bank Ain’t Failed : : The Community’s Failed : : When the Community Comes to : : Ag’in. 'ibis Bank will Resume t ; , : v ;’ * Business ' :