The Portland daily press., 1899-05-26
Miss Yates Discusses School Savings
Bank.
Officers Elected For En-
suing Year.
Miss Cornelia NJ. Dow Chosen
President.

4 The second days session of the Cumber-
land County W. C.. u, was held Thurs
day at Yarmouth with the local union,
the services being held at the Central
Unitarian church. The services opened
with devotional exercise, led by Mrs
Elizabeth Bunting. The executive COM
mittee reported and recommended the
adoption of a county hymn. The
song set to the air "Home, Sweet Home,
was adopted.
Encouraging reports were received from
II superintendents Of the 20 departments
of work.
From 11.45 a. Im., until noon memori-
al services was held in memory Of Mrs.
Osborne of Portland, Miss Stanwood Of
Cumberland Mills, Mrs. Hallett of Wind
ham Centre, Miss Olive West of.Windham
Centre, Miss Dole of Stroudwater. Miss
Haskell of Bolsters Mills, deceased mem
bers Of the union.
There were 66 delegates present at the
sessions of Thursday. Dinner was served
In the vestry of the church at noon.
The afternoon session r'fopened with
Scripture reading and prayer.
The early part Of the afternoon was
devoted to the reception OF. reports from
committees.
The annual election resulted in the
choice of the following officers: Prssi-
dent, Miss Cornelia N. Dow, Portland; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Sarah W. Nc
Lellan, South Windham; recording score
tary, Miss Harriet J. Loring, Otisfeld ;
treasurer, Mrs. Emma Thompson, Port
laud.
These officers were unanimously elected
and each responded, thanking the con-
vention for the honor of q reelection.
The address of the afternoon was given
by Miss Elizabeth U. Yates, the sta to
superintendent, who spoke Of theh' School
Savings Bank Department..
Miss Yates alluded to the fact that the
work was commenced in France where
there are today $4,000 of these banks in
operation.
She said that France found these banks
of great assistance in settling the debts
ofathe Franco Prussian war. The system
was introduced in the United States In
1886 by Mr.. Terry, Frenchman, who
came from Paris to Long Island City. N.
Y, to introduce the work. The system
now extends into 10 states. The work
has been meeting with good dagree of
success in Maine, said the speaker In
Bangor since last October, rs per cent
of the people are adding their savings to
the bank. Bangor pupils have saved
$500 during the past seven months.
The speaker said that she believed that
the money raised by the scholars of the
schools would be the means of saving the
nation from the various evils that we
re working to overthrow.
Miss Yates said that the work had just
been started In Auburn and Lewiston
The speaker then explained the method
of the savings bank system. Each pupil
that desires is given a small card with
dates for every Monday In the school year.
Monday morning the teachers call the
names of those contributing, who. as
their names are called advance to the
teachers desk with their volunteer con-
tribution which is the same each week.
The. amount is punched on the card and
credited to the account of the individual
scholars. The dollars are deposited in
the individual names at some bank, while
the fractional parts Of the dollar are held
by the teacher to accumulate into the
next dollar and dollars Before the sys-
tenn is introduced, a printed letter is
mailed to every parent. asking for their
consent in allowing the child to adopt the