Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — Bank Failure Hurts Poor. [ARTICLE]

Bank Failure Hurts Poor.

Chicago, Dec. 19.—Seven hundred artisans and laborers of Hawthorne. Cicero and Morton Park, Chicago suburbs, face a bitter winter without money as a result of the failure of the Lincoln hank of Morton Park. Muddled methods of bookkeeping have served so far to defeat efforts of experts employed by the American Trust and Savings bank to learn what has become of the SIOO,OOO deposits intrusted to the bank by working people of the vicinity.