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bank unsafe. Stoltz, according to information from Plainview today, has been a stockholder and officer of the Plainview State bank for the past eight years. He was assistant cashier. He is a married man with a wife and four children, two boys in Plainview and two girls who are students at Winona Teachers College. George Sylvester was cashier of the bank and is a married man with a wife and three grown daughters, none of whom are at home. Both officers of the bank who became involved yesterday in the Sylvester case as a result of the grand jury indictments have been active in business circles in Plainview and are widely known in Wabasha county. The date of trial of the actions resulting from the grand jury indictments will be set Saturday when the three officers arrested are arraigned. The regular criminal calendar will come to trial May 25 at this term of court. The Sylvester cases, however, may not come before the court before the November term, it was rumored about the courtroom today. Convention of Federation of Women at Wabasha. Mrs. W. F. Woodcock, B. E. Rohweder, C. D. Burchard attended with Mrs. E.W. Schwanbeck… Indictments number 10 against trio – G. F. Sylvester and G. A. Stoltz placed under arrest at once. May 22, 1925- Geo. F. Sylvester and G. A. Stoltz, officers of the Plainview Bank were arraigned in District court… on Monday Sylvester and Stoltz entered pleas of not guilty to the three charges against them… June 5, 1925- Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Caldwell drove from St. Paul and spent the weekend with their mother, Mrs. Edwin L. Sylvester. Miss Marion Sylvester wishes to announce that she will take piano and voice pupils for a 6 weeks period term beginning July 1. Rates for term $12. 2 Lessons per week. Adv. June 12, 1925- People State Bank Opens Doors (Adv. from Marion Sylvester repeated.) June 26, 1925- Miss Marion Sylvester who has been teaching at West Minister College Salt Lake City, Utah, returned home this week for the summer vacation. July 24, 1925- Insurance business of Geo. F. Sylvester bought by People State Bank. August 21, 1925- Geo. F. Sylvester, Indicted in Bank Case Here, Drops Dead Prominent Resident Here Many Years – Funeral Held Wednesday Geo. F. Sylvester, one of Plainview’s most prominent residents for nearly 30 years, dropped dead at his home Monday afternoon at 3:30 while writing at his typewriter. Just a few minutes before he had been about the house as usual and had been up town during the day. The cause of death was heart failure. For many years he has suffered with diabetes and since the closing of the Plainview State Bank, of which he was cashier, has failed rapidly but the finding of his lifeless body by his daughter, Miss Marion, was a great shock to the family and the community. Mr. Sylvester was born on his father’s homestead in Plainview township July 20, 1862. Completing his education in the Plainview schools, he went to Madison Wisconsin where he learned telegraphy. From 1882 to 1886, he was employed as
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* SOURCE: Manzow, Ron (compiler), "The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota - a collection of information taken from the Plainview News, other newspapers, letters, and diaries beginning in 1884": Plainview Area History Center, 40 4th St. S.W., Plainview, MN 55964. Compiled in 2001.
NOTE: from Ron Manzow, December 2001: "Feel free to reproduce the pages for anyone who wants a copy. It was
compiled to be shared... All I ask is that they consider sending a check to the [Plainview Area] History Center to help us out. That
should be enough."
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