Note 3 - Loans and Allowance for Loan Losses (Details Textual)	3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Loans Charge-off Period			90 days
Performance Period			180 days
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Losses, Write-downs	$ 166,000	$ 200,000	$ 422,000	$ 488,000
Collateral Dependent Loans, Value of Significant Properties	200,000		200,000
Mortgage Loans in Process of Foreclosure, Amount	906,000		906,000		$ 588,000
Impaired Financing Receivable, Interest Income, Cash Basis Method, Total	0	$ 0	0	$ 0
Loans and Leases Receivable, Impaired, Commitment to Lend	$ 0		$ 0		0
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Number of Contracts	0	0	1	0
Troubled Debt Restructuring, Principal Charge-offs	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Subsequent Default, Number of Contracts	0	0	0	0
Financial Receivable, Trouble Debt Restructure, Defaulted, Provisions Loan Losses or Net Charge-offs			$ 0
Certain Loans Acquired in Transfer Not Accounted for as Debt Securities, Outstanding Balance, Total	$ 610,000		610,000		625,000
Certain Loans Acquired in Transfer Not Accounted for as Debt Securities, Allowance for Loan Losses	0		0		2,000
Certain Loans Acquired in Transfer Not Accounted for as Debt Securities, Allowance for Loan Losses, Decreases	0	$ 0	2,000	$ 0
Nonperforming Financial Instruments [Member]
Loans and Leases Receivable, Allowance, Ending Balance	$ 0	$ 0	0	$ 0
Classified Loans [Member]
Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses, Period Increase (Decrease), Total			489,000		506,000
Overall Qualitative Factor [Member]
Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses, Period Increase (Decrease), Total			$ 2,700,000		$ 2,600,000
Bank Overdrafts [Member]
Loans Charge-off Period			45 days
Other than Consumer Portfolio Segment [Member]
Number of Loans	5		5
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Losses, Write-downs			$ 97,000

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Reserve for loans impairments recorded after acquisition as a result of current information and events which result in it being probable that estimated cash flows will be less than previously expected or because actual cash flows are less than cash flows previously expected. This relates to loans not accounted for as debt securities, with evidence of deterioration of credit quality since origination that was acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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Amount of reduction in the reserve for loans impairments as a result of current information and events which result in it being probable that estimated cash flows will be significantly higher than previously expected or because actual cash flows are significantly greater than cash flows previously expected for loans not accounted for as debt securities, with evidence of deterioration of credit quality since origination that was acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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The undiscounted sum of all amounts, including amounts deemed principal, interest, fees, penalties, and other under the loan, owed to the investor at the reporting date, whether or not currently due and whether or not any such amounts have been written or charged off by the investor. This relates to loans not accounted for as debt securities, with evidence of deterioration of credit quality since origination that were acquired by completion of a transfer for which it is probable, at acquisition, that the investor will be unable to collect all contractually required payments receivable.

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Amount of direct write-downs of financing receivables charged against the allowance.

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Amount of interest income recognized on a cash-basis method of accounting that the financing receivables (with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses) were impaired.

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Recorded investment of consumer mortgage loan receivables secured by residential real estate properties for which formal foreclosure proceedings are in process.

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