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MARCELLUS BANK WILL PAY DEPOSITORS TODAY
Marcellus, Mich., Feb. 1.βEight hundred depositors of the First State Savings bank here, Thursday, will share $860,900, on the basis of 25 per cent of their deposits.
The bank was ordered closed by the state, March 13 last. J. N. Bilderback, receiver, who announced the dividend, stated he had made collections amounting to $75,000 in the last ten months. He predicted that with assets of $456,000, and debts of $401,000, Marcellus residents and neighboring farmers, who were depositors, would not lose anything.
The state closed the bank during a run on it, following a suit for $30,000, filed by depositors of the defunct Jones, Mich., bank, who alleged the Marcellus bank was the parent institution. A Cass jury found for the bank, and the case is now in the supreme court. The bank, Receiver Bilderback says, may be reopened by a new group of Marcellus merchants.