Emery County Progress | 1909-04-24 | Page 4 | Tiniest Bank in the World

tiniest bank in the world building hardly big enough fop a S agn it pays D v bends and has never fa led raleigh N C kaleigh has the smallest bai V in the state this coun try or world for that matter it is the wake county savings bank and was opened tor business on the first day oi january 1805 it was originally built as a hallway but stairs were run to one side of it and in the tiny room thus left the bank was established it has a front of feet all glass con of a narro v door and a curved window and its depth Is 25 feet there Is hardly enough space above its front tor the sign in letters pt gold next to it Is a national bank of usual size and this makes the baby institution seem e en smaller by corn yet this little baab has be a success from the very start depositors and its assets age gate it has never failed pay dividends to its stockholders u has also paid over 10 in interest to depositors the president is william W vass whose father of the same name at the time of his death some years ago was the oldest railway treasurer in the world having begun his railway life in 1840 and being one of the high officials of the seaboard air line the cashier of the bank is william grimes whose father was a noted con federate major general who deded at within the lit tie bank which Is an object 0 very great curiosity to bank men from all points of the compass there Is a little sate and a narrow counter every inch of the small amount of space available is utilized