SAVE THE FIRST STATE BANK BUILDING

THE LATEST PROJECT DECIDED UPON BY THE CITY AND COMMUNITY CLUB IS TO RESTORE THE BRICK BANK BUILDING SHOWN ON THE PICTURES AT RIGHT AND BELOW. THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT AFTER THE DISASTROUS FIRE OF 1915 THAT DESTROYED NEARLY THIS ENTIRE BLOCK OF MAIN STREET. THE BUILDING TO THE LEFT WAS USED AS THE FIRE HALL UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE NELSON CENTER/FIRE HALL. JULY 7, 2003 THE ROOF REPAIR IS FINISHED! DAVID RAMSDEN OF SISSETON PUT ON THE RUBBER ROOF COATING. NOW WE CAN GO ON TO THE NEXT STEP IN THE RESTORATION OF THE OLD BUILDING. THANKS TO THOSE WHO GAVE DONATIONS FOR THE PROJECT THE NIGHT OF THE ALL SCHOOL REUNION. EVERY DOLLAR HELPS.
THE PLAN IS TO MAKE THE BANK BUILDING INTO A PEEVER MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL CENTER. IF YOU CARE TO DONATE TO THIS FUND YOU MAY DO SO BY SENDING A CHECK TO PEEVER COMMUNITY CLUB BOX 1, PEEVER, SD 57257	THE FIRST STATE BANK OF PEEVER ROBBERS have visited our bank and taken all our cash with them, but do not worry about your money. We are prepared to loan you just as much money as ever. This will not effect your business with the bank in the least. On account of having no safe we do not expect to keep much cash. Our cash will be kept in other banks until our new safe arrives, during which time we will only keep enough cash for change in Peever. For the next few weeks we ask you to transact your business with the bank between the hours of 9 am and 1 p.m. as we are very much handicapped without a place for all our papers and books, Respectfully, Carl J. Rice, Cashier COPY OF AN AD TAKEN FROM THE PEEVER PILOT OF OCT. 22, 1909
PHOTOS BY ELNORA KEMPTON Reading the advertisement at the right gives us the date this building was finished and ready for business again.	THE FIRST STATE BANK OF PEEVER Burglarized and Burned up; Still Safe and Sound At last we are located in our new home and we invite you to call and share it with us. Having done business in shanties for almost a generation we appreciate the change and we want to be of assistance to everybody in this community to get out of the shanty stage and into something more substantial. We are now in better shape than ever to help worthy industry along. We heartily thank all who have stood by us and hope that we shall be able to be of service whenever our service is needed. The First State Bank of Peever J.F. Fredrich, Pres. Carl J. Rice, Cashier A.F. Ertsgaard, Assistant Cashier From the Peever Pilot....November 1915
THANKS, LARRY, FOR THE GOOD POEM. WE DO NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET. THE MORE THE NEWS GETS OUT THE BETTER . WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO COME BACK TO THE OLD HOME TOWN AND SEE ALL THE BUILDINGS THEY REMEMBER GONE. IT'S GOOD TO KEEP SOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN ALIVE AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IN PEEVER. HOME	A POEM ABOUT THE FIRST STATE BANK BUILDING Interesting stories have been told About the old bank building I've thought about it often While gathering winter's kindling When it was a grocery store And I was about ten My Dad almost bought it With help from John Wren We all got our hopes real high Our heads were up in the sky But Mom and Dad with heads together Thought farming would be better. Since that time me and others Joked around about a museum Natural history is worth doing And so is Peever.......hmmmmmm? I would help that's for sure I know it can be done And you, me and the Lord know It would be a lot of fun. Ain't it funny...How desire...Helps us...Aquire.....eh? Larry Jordal