The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-10-27
IT JUST SIGNED HER NAME.

| JUST SIGNED HER NAME"
waiting. and yet surely some check
must have come. Forty-eight hour,
after its arrival the man who gave i
apologized. I've just found out" h,
said. that mistook the name. I've
only been here a week and mixed
your name up with the lady who sits
next you at breakfast The check wa
drawn payable to her. hope 1t has
not made you trouble"
''Oh, no." said the landlady. sweet.
ly. Il know what people do in such
cases. am quite a business woman.
simply Endorsed it with Mrs. -
name"
She who forged the check so inuo-
Gently was as much a babe in the
woods OF banking as a white haired
woman who entered a Brooklyn bank
a few weeks ago. followed by slim.
short man. Il want to draw all nv
money" she said to the cashier. and
give it TO this man. l shan't live
much longer and he says he'll see 10 it
have good funeral. 'Tain't likely.
now. is 1t. il l leave the orderin' to
you. that you'll see t have the white
horses and sheaf OF wheat with ever
lastin' flowers? l couldn't really ex-
poet it where you have so many"
The cashier persuaded her not to hand
her money over to stranger and she
went away comfortable in the thought
that it would be after all. more re-
spectacle to have bank to bury her.
She who expects to be q welcome
Customer at bank Of deposit should
know that IT doesen't pay the bank to
carry her account unless she keeps on
an average at least 5000 to her credit.
II the bank accepts less than this from
her 1t Is out Of courtesy. and therefore
she Is under special obligations to I'M
derstaAd the details OF checks and de-
PosaAs. 80 as to infiict upon the long
suffering officials no unnecessary an
noyance-
A pass book. a package Of deposit
slips and a check book come into a
woman's possession when she has put
her name and address into the banks
signature book and makes her first
deposit. Cashiers always give small
pocket check books 10 women. Wise
women ask for the regular size. 1t
saves trouble in keeping an account
and It imprssses the cashier
Before making first deposit she
should count bills and specie and enter |
the amounts separately on the deposit |
alp. II checks are TO be deposited the
Of each should be entered |
below the entries of bills
and specie.
The Endorsement OF checks is wo-
mans stumbling block. If a check is
TO be deposited which is payable 10
you. your signature on the back is all
that Is necessary. but If you are send
ing 1t to the bank by a messenger. or
Il you are indorsing II at home before
1t is we'll TO place over your
own name the words: For deposit"
Then, If it is lost stranger will have
trouble in cashing it.
II the check is payable to somebody
Else, as to Mary Smith. for example,
Mary Smith must indorse 1t before she
AN turn II over to you. II your name
. Ellen Jones. have Mary Smith. who
nay be paying you for board or for
making . dress. place above her name
ne words: PAY to the order Of Ellen
Jones'" Then II you lose it the finder
;anAot cash il without your indorse-
neht When you deposit a check OF
his sort place your own name on the
Jack below that of Mary Smith.
When your deposit is ready. hand it.
nth the pass book, to the receiving
eller, and examine the book whom Il /.
, returned to you to sec that his entry :
with the amount you have 6
iven him.
It is . good idea to fill out two do
'osit slips, ono for the receiving teller
nd duplicate slip for personal {
On this duplicate slip
is plan often followed to place the
anne of the person who signed any Y
heck included in it. as we'll as the
ate and amount. This will be useful :,
at any time . check you have 70. =
eived proves worthless :