Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-25
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Another local candidate has proven
himself eligible to membership in the
Order of the knights Of the Buried
Treasure see," said one of Ottum-
was bankers today. Can you tell me
why any citizen of Wapello county
should want to hide his money in the
attic, when we have ten of the best
banks in the country right here in OF
| tumwa?' he continued. people
should remember that there has not
been bank failure in Ottumwa in fiji
| ty years; that her banks are all solid
as the rock of Gibraltar; that they
made a record during the panic
equalled by few banks anywhere; that
they are owned and managed by men
we all know and respect; that they
are examined several times a year by
experts from the state and national
banking departments, and that the
stockholders must lose all their own
investment and as much again, be-
sides the surplus of the bank before
depositors can lose a cent.
knowing this, how can person
reconcile himself to banking in his at
tic, or clock, or bed tick, or hole IN
the ground? I may be prejudiced, but
every possible security for the safe
keeping of the public's money, and
are, in addition, willing to pay rea-
sonable interest for the use of it, and
the people don't take advantage of the
opportunities offered them they are
not alive and anxious to preserve
their wealth.
. Money put in the banks is loaned
IN nir r0-
sulting in good to everybody, so if
your neighbor is banking in the clock
you owe it to yourself, to your COM
munity and to your neighbor more
than anyone else, to get that money
put where it will be safe and be do
ing the work for which it is intended.
"The funniest incident have seen
for some time took place at the Union
depot yesterday afternoon when 10
cal business man whose optics we're a
little off accused one of the train re,
porters. of local newspaper OF steal
ing some money from him and talking
him out of railroad ticket to Lu
cerene. Mo-" stated bystander at the
Union depot last night. ''While local
|newspaperdom has accomplished many
| tnlnSS, among lnein Tic Luz hiehih5 W
, one man to ministerial work 1T struch
;. my funny spot when the reporter was
; accused of being q sneak thief. The
= reporter was busy at his work when
: the man came up and accused him OF
stealing the money and huncoing him
out of the railroad ticket, and he was
surprised at first, as he had been call
: ed everything in his newspaper WORT
, but a sneak thief. The man was pos
tive he was the guilty party and was
. going to hunt up police officer ant
:, have the newspaper man placed un
. der arrest. The accused man tried t.
; prove his identity but the buncoed maj
:. refused to accept it and the two &C
:, companied by another reporter started
= = out to look for a police officer to b
!. identified After little they run
: :. across Officer Noah who patrols tn
= Union depot beat and he was able 7
;, prove to the buncoed man that IN
party with him was not the feilo'
g wanted. The business man apologize
y and the last time l saw the roporte
around the depot, he and the other r.
., porter were putting big Hayanas, Tn
- Gift of the man who caused the tro'
= HE -