The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-09-18
GREATEST OFFER
EVER MADE HERE

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TIN vlNes 81 INK Sc IS NJ F.
syelTf NO STR lgcs 10 fT4E or
Over Two Hundred LEASED estes
day CHI Of $500 % Help start
West virplnlan Subscribers on the
Road to wealtb-Thls Begins a Re.
yIvai In Business Morality and
Common Sense.
Over two hundred people started
on the sRoyal'R Road Of thrift yester,
day by awaiting themselves ofthe most
liberal offer ever made by the West
virginian. People from all walks Of
life, men, women and children werc
all assembled-at the counter early in
crowds ready to receive the banks
and the 50 cents as promised Many
LOT the best families in town we're rep.
Iresnted and many have resolved to
commence saving SOMETHING who
have never yet felt the necessity Of
saving, and who have never before
had the subject SO foroibly presented
10 them. One old gentleman 60 years
Of age who was the second to procure
Ia bank said he had been reading our
articles on saving and from now on
lie would quit the use of tobacco and
deposit his tobacco money in his baak.
Most all the boys and girls who ap.
\ Piled for banks already had some mon
|ey saved up; one boy said he had
I$24.OO, another $1,000 and some small.
.Ier amounts, and occasionally one
would be found who confessed he was
broke but in a very short time he
would have the required amount saved
up to make bis deposit and open up
his account.
!. A prominent doctor got bank for
each Of his boys and said the saving
spirit in them was suffering setback
at present but the soc gift was sufti.
cient encouragement for them to COM
mence once more to save.
A prominent city official was anoth-
er visitor who wanted his little girl
to get a savings account started, ut
Ills fine thing for the boys and girls
HE said, "anl good thing for any
town to have such work as tae paper
! is doing done in the right way, The ex-
J ample will be followed by many and
the bankers and merchants will all
appreciate the spirit of thrift that has
thus been kindled."
Many skeDtlcal ones who thought
there would be string Of some kind
attached to the bank by which would
be drawn back unless they became sub
scrlbers to the paper or would be TAX
en- through some other mysterious
transaction by which pay or profit
could be had out Of the deal, we're very
agreeably surprised to see the banks
: and the checks for the fifty cents
passed out to the anxious crowds like
free lunch at a barbecue.
: Thousands Of banks will go out dur
ing the week and many will go into
the outer districts. Remember the
hours are from II a. N. to 8 p. N. DOM
come earlier.
mo! This isn't an April Fool joke.
1t is a long ways from April ! yet.
ut isn't a fake of any kind either.
Yon don't press button and have a
cap explode.
mo, there isn't any answer to the
question, DO you want a bank?' that
y will turn the laugh on you.
: mo, there Isn't any catch in it any
. where.
. 1t is a plain, straightforward prop
e osiuon. The West virgintan gives
e you a bank, handy, substantial nickie
plated little bank in which you can put
: your pennies, nlckles, dimes, quarters
t and half dollars, AND WE ALSO
GIVE YOU FIFTY CENTS ALSO,
! LUTELY FREE,
: A check for SOC. It isn't in chance
g on an automobile nor any 24-cent bar
9 gain in merchandise marked up. You
8 don't have to bind yourself to take the
3 paper for year or two in advance, a
! week or two, or any other old time.
1t is no trick Of trade. No scheme
further than that embodied Ia your
: prosperity. Your prosperity means
/ our prosperity. 1t is merely q revival
: in business morality. We have been
! going SO fast that as a people we
! have become careless in money af-
; fairs. Scarcely anything has been
saved up for sickness, panics or Old
age.