Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1915 — Receiver is Appointed for Winona Assembly. [ARTICLE]

Receiver is Appointed for Winona Assembly.

Finley P. Mount, of Indianapolis, was appointed receiver lately for the Winona Assembly and Summer School Association by Judge A. B. Anderson of the U. 6. district court. His bond was fixed at $5,000. The appointment was made on motion of a creditors’ committee which asked that a receiver be named to run not only-the prpp' rty. but also the summer Chautauqua. The second part of the motion was denied. The complaint set forth thht Sol C. Dickey has been using his position as general manager and business director to further the interests of relatives arid personal friends and has impaired the public confidence in the association. An amehded petition, filed by a separate group of creditors with claims aggregating $21,000, was filed asking that the Winona Assembly and Summer School Association be declared bankrupt. The complaint held that the creditors’ committee had colluded with the bankrupt corporation to transfer and conceal the property, income and assets,'of the corporation with the intefcHt to delay and defraud the creditors who would not sign the agreement. The total indebtedness of the*-, assembly is about $900,000. \