Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1904 — This Time Goodland. [ARTICLE]

This Time Goodland.

Fred Gilman Has Gone And His Bask Is Closed. * , —a. It looks now like Goodland also has a disastrous bank failure on its hands. The Home Bank there, of which Fred D Gilman is proprietor, closed its doors on, Thursday morning. Monday n : ght Mr. Gilman went away, ostensibly to visit some banks at Indianapolis. He seems not to have gone there however, and even his family know nothing of his whereabouts He left a young man named Wickershame in charge, who kept the doors open Tuesday and Wednesday, but ran out of cash and ceased paying checks, and Thursday morning did not open the do rs.

The assessor’s booka showed $150,000 of deposits March Ist. Many peop’e are said to have been quiet’y withdrawing since, and there may not be nearly that much. A conservative Goodland merchant thinks the amount is still not less than SIOO,OOO and that it may be much more It does not appear that there is much available prop erty t cover the losses if the bank is busted. A movement is on foot for the appoin ment of a receiver.