State Bank of Villard robbed

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, July 10, 1924

The annual meeting of the Soo Line Shops’ Association of Glenwood and Enderlin will be held at the City park on the coming Saturday. A full program of sports and entertainment has been scheduled for the day. Business men of Enderlin and Glenwood have donated a large number of prizes which will be given in the various contests on Saturday. It is expected that several hundred people will partake in the picnic. 

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, July 10, 1924

Burglars blew the vault in the State Bank of Villard last night and escaped with about $9,000 in cash and negotiable securities.

Citizens were awakened at 1:30 p.m. by the ringing of the burglar alarm on the bank and a number of them saw the men at work. Six charges of nitroglycerine were used, the last one being heavy enough to throw pieces of the safe through the front of the building and across the street. Some of the contents of the safe were also scattered over the street. The safety deposit boxes were not rifled, but were ruined by the force of the explosion.

There were five or six men that did the job and they were undoubtedly professionals. Lookouts were stationed. A couple of men in front of the bank while the others were at work inside. Another watched the car which they had parked about a block away, and in which they made their getaway.

The vault was completely wrecked and the building badly damaged and the property loss is heavy. The loss is however fully covered by insurance.

The men worked an hour and a half then drove away but no one seems to know what direction they went, and there is evidently no clue to their identity.  

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, July 11, 1924

Six young men from Starbuck left last Thursday to attend the Citizen’s Military Training camp at Fort Snelling. This camp is held at Fort Snelling one month every year for the physical and military training of young men and all expenses are paid by the government. Only three from Pope County attended last year and they were from Starbuck. Six attended this year and they are all from Starbuck. They are Grant Byhre, Clarence Nelson, Harold Walter, Irving Stenson, Alex Forde, and Delos Hendrickson.