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Old Check from Farmers Bank, Cane Valley, Adair Co., KY 2010-02-21 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Joe Hare. See also: Cane Valley History: In memory of historian Randy Hood Flowers, A POINT of HISTORY - This is a picture of a canceled check that was given to my father for labor when he was 15 years old and the bank was still open in 1925," Joe Hare wrote with the inclusion of this cancelled check. "This does not match the info you have, and this check is the only information I have or know about the Farmers Bank of Cane Valley." Old timers will remember with a degree of fondness that this is not a personalized check, but a counter check, an item treasured not only as a transfer instrument, but for use to score card games, tally checker tournaments, and to log other valuable notes. It also appears that Mr. Dulworth, the issuer, may have inscribed the check with a No. 2 pencil. Mr. Hare's comment that the does not match with the information we have has to with a comment in Ripped from the headlines of the News February 16 1910, which indicated the Farmer's Bank of Cane Valley had closed in 1910. If there is another historian in the house: A little illumination, please. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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