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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Old banknote worth a pretty penny
Rare $5 bill is included in auction
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
GREENVILLE, SC –
When is a $5 bill worth
$5,000?
When it’s over 100 years
old – and printed for a Prairie
City bank.
In 1963, Gary Latimer,
who is from the Monterrey,
Calif., area, was clearing out
his deceased great uncle’s
safety deposit box when
he came across the old $5
banknote. Latimer’s uncle
was from the Bend area.
The bill, dated as 1902 and
1910, has the First National
Bank of Prairie City printed
on it, along with the signa-
tures of the bank president
F.W. Peet and cashier D.E.
Hughes.
Someone offered Latimer
$10 for it at the time he found
Contributed photo
This 1902 Prairie City banknote, valued at about $5,000, will go up for auction
this weekend.
it, but he decided to hang on
to it – he was 23 at the time.
Fast forward to 2015, La-
timer found out the banknote
is worth a pretty penny –
about $5,000.
Manning Garrett of Man-
ifest Auctions in Greenville,
SC, which specializes in rare
bank notes, said they were ex-
cited to see the bill.
His business will have the
banknote up for auction July
11, and it can be viewed at
www.manifestauctions.com
along with many other items.
“There weren’t many of
these printed,” Garrett said.
“It’s one of the best pieces in
this auction.”
History of banknotes
National banknotes could
be issued by any bank in the
New faces in Grant County
Andrea Mesple, 34,
11 months
Mesple moved to John
Day from Reno, Nev.
She was living in Hood
River when
she met her
now-hus-
band, Lennis
H e r b u r g e r,
who
was
born in John
Day.
Andrea
She
is
Mesple
young, has
tattoos, and a face that is
new to nearly everyone in
Grant County. She stands
out. In some small towns,
that can be difficult. Mesple
said the community of John
Day has been “overwhelm-
ingly positive and welcom-
ing, if a little inquisitive.”
It helps that her husband
has roots here.
“I like to bring that up
a lot,” laughed Mesple.
“It gives me a little street
cred.”
The couple has lived
here since August 2014.
Mesple said the Strawber-
ry Striders running and bi-
cycling club has provided
a great way to meet new
people.
Mesple teaches two
yoga classes a week at the
Canyon Mountain Center
in John Day. She is also a
massage therapist.
In addition, Mesple is
the Grant County represen-
tative of the Central Ore-
gon Trail Alliance, which is
working to increase and im-
prove mountain bike trails
in the area. She volunteers
her time teaching children
Cleve Hinton and
daughters of Dolores
Hinton, would like to
thank all our friends and
family for their generous
support and love during
our time of loss. We
gratefully acknowledge
each and every one of
you, and want you to
know that you are deeply
appreciated.
~Thank You~
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how to safely ride mountain
bikes.
Zeke Langum, 37,
almost a year
Langum moved with his
family to John Day from
Oakridge almost a year ago.
His wife, Brandy, is a fish
biologist for
the U.S. For-
est Service
and their two
children,
Rowen and
Ashlynn,
now attend
Zeke
school
in Langum
John Day.
Zeke grew up in Red-
ding, Calif., so he was
raised on triple-digit tem-
peratures. But a few years
in wet western Oregon
seems to have sapped his
toughness.
“I’m not used to this
anymore,” he said on a re-
cent hot day. “It’s exhaust-
ing.”
Zeke is putting most of
his energies into his work.
He is a road manager and
project engineer for the
Forest Service, and when
he has free time he finds
himself shuttling his chil-
dren where they need to
go.
His wife has gotten in-
volved in local exercise
clubs and the two have
found
friends,
neigh-
bors and coworkers they
enjoy.
Rowen and Ashlynn, 14
years old and 10 years old,
have too.
“It’s a great place for
kids,” said Zeke. “They
were disappointed to leave
their old friends. But once
they got here and saw the
system and how easy it was
to get into, they’ve loved
it.”
country between 1863 and
1935, as long as that bank had
a national charter with the fed-
eral government. There were
12,635 banks which chose to
issue their own money.
Oregon had just 127 na-
tional banks in 72 different
towns. The banknotes were
printed in Washington, D.C.,
then mailed to local banks
where they were signed by
the cashier and president of
each bank. The money was
then circulated throughout
the town and beyond just like
money is used today.
If a person walked into
the local Prairie City bank in
1910 with a $15 check, they
would likely receive three $5
bills back drawn off the First
National Bank of Prairie City.
Because it was common-
place and just a part of ev-
eryday life, very few peo-
ple thought to save these
banknotes.
Today many of them are
extremely rare and worth
thousands of dollars to the
collectors who specialize in
them.
The most sought after
notes are from small commu-
nity banks like Prairie City.
Prairie City only had one
national bank.
In 1928, all U.S. paper
money changed to its current
size. Before that, money was
about 40 percent bigger than
it is today.
One can imagine, when
paper money changed sizes,
people tried their best to get
rid of the old over-sized mon-
ey because they were worried
it would be devalued. That
never happened; in fact over-
sized money is still legal at its
face value. However, the col-
lector value is of course much
greater than the face value.
- Information provided by
Manning Garrett, owner and
president of Manifest Auc-
tions, LLC.
O BITUARIES
Richard ‘Rick’ N. McGuire
July 30, 1954 – July 5, 2015
Richard “Rick” N. McGuire,
60, died at Blue Mountain Care
Center in Prairie City after a long
battle with Multiple System At-
rophy (MSA), a rare degenerative
neurological disorder which causes
symptoms similar to Parkinson’s
disease.
A private family remembrance
will be held at a later date.
Mr. McGuire was born July 30,
1954, in Billings, Mont., to Robin (McGuire) Dahl and
the late Robert “Mac” McGuire. They moved to John Day
in 1967.
He graduated from Grant Union High School in 1974,
and from the Oregon Institute of Technology in 1976.
After graduation, he moved to Eugene, where he
worked as a BMW master technician for 20 years. He en-
joyed dabbling in mechanic and electronic projects, camp-
ing and fishing, and was an avid Oregon Ducks football
fan.
Survivors include his daughter, Hayley McGuire, of
Los Angeles; his mother, Robin Dahl, of John Day; sis-
ters, Kathy (Frank Stinnett), Laurie (Charlie Stinnett) of
John Day and Karin (Steve Pappadakis) of Grand Junc-
tion, Colo.; brother, Steve (Sherri Preston-McGuire) of
John Day; and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
Throughout his illness, his good friend and college room-
mate, Monty Bond, of John Day, visited nearly every
week.
In 2002, Rick was the recipient of a kidney and pancre-
as organ transplant from a generous donor which provided
him with over a dozen additional years with his family.
The family requests donations be made to the charity
of ones’ choice.
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