North Liberty, Indiana · 20th century
1920s
6 dated events in 1920s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 6 dated mentions
1920s
- 1920Suffrage: the state frame, and a local absence printed as such
The frame is the state's: Indiana women voted in part under the state's brief partial-suffrage grant of 1917 and its loss in the courts, and Indiana ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in a special session in January 1920.
- 1920–todayThe Branch Roll: Nine Branches, and Where North Liberty Stands in the Building Line
North Liberty was the seventh branch seat the system opened, in a building programme that ran from 1920 to 2009 and put a branch in each taxed township's town.
- 1927–1928The bank closing of 1927 — a failure litigated, not a crime prosecuted
As the banks leg of this build establishes at anchor strength, the North Liberty State Bank was closed by the state effective 17 January 1927 (Federal Reserve Board Mimeograph Letters X-1530, week ended 21 January 1927), and in September 1928 the Walkerton Independent reported the State Banking Department's insolvency…
- 1929The bank that one record places in 1929 and no record names
In 1929 North Liberty had a second bank — one sentence says so, and nothing else does.
- 1929The second bank of 1929 — a nomination sentence no carrier names
The Commercial District nomination (§8) states that the town "also had a second bank operating south of the movie theater in 1929" — the theater then occupying the south storefront of 140 North Main.
- 1929–1988The patronage era as it landed here: a system with no local post
The frame, in brief: the Act of 13 March 1929 (ch. 162) put the branches under the parties' county organisations; the system's texture is documented at state strength in the November 1958 UPI reporting on the Handley administration; Governor Orr's 1986 move against it and the commission takeover of July 1988 ended it.