"Loses in Market Charles Rowley, manager of the Farmers Elevator company of Cresbard, committed suicide by hanging on Tuesday, following reverses in the wheat market in which he is reported to have been dealing.
Mr. Rowley first made his home in Cresbard in 1910 when he established a bank with his brother, Leslie, under the name of Farmers State Bank. During the crop failures of a few years ago the bank failed and Mr. Rowley returned to farming from which he had retired a few years before, working one of his farms near Cresbard.
With the return of better conditions and success of the crops, Mr. Rowley is reported to have personally met all the indebtedness of the bank. A few years ago the Farmers Elevator company was organized and a fire-proof concrete elevator constructed with a capacity of 75,000 bushels, one of the largest in the district. Mr. Rowley was appointed manager of the new elevator and had since been actively engaged in that work.
Auditors immediately took over the books of the company on the report of his death but nothing to throw any light as to a possible motive fore the suicide has been found.
It is estimated that the elevator has on hand 40 carloads of wheat, stored in the spacious bins, but no report(?) has been made as to the delivery of his wheat.
Mr. Rowley was about 60 years of age and leaves a wife and son 13 years of age in Cresbard beside a brother located in the oil fields of Oklahoma."