The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-16
Foollsh pistrust of Banks.

0oOA1bU Ol6IfuSL OF BANKS,
Every child should have bank
account and be taught to make It
grow gradually but surely. An in
telhgently managed bank gives youth
its start in LIE. middle age its COM
potency and old age its comfort and
security. -Pcstmaster General A. 8.
Burleson.
Very frequently one reads in the
newspapers about persons who have
lost q large amount Of money, per-
haps the savings Of a lifetime, be-
cause they did not have confidence
enough in banks to leave their money
on deposit there.
They preferred to act as their own
bankers and lived to regret their fol-
ly.
Here Is a summary of number Of
recent news items of that nature:
Mammonth Springs. Ark.-When
Mrs. Kate Williams sold her home
several days ago she slowed the
money, $4,000, In leather satchel
and elected to be It's guardian. Early
in the morning small band Of men
rode into Mammoth Springs, robbed
the house at which Mrs. Williams
was guest and made of with the
satchel.
Jersey City, N. 1.-The other
night while Nicolo Dambrosia, Nico-
10 Lucarelio and Tony Lucareiio slept
in their fiat in the basement of the
tenement house at 1923 Myrtle ave-
nue., thief crept I'm and stole the
three pairs Of trousers that covered
the sturdy limbs of Dambrosia and
the brothers Lucarelio in the day
time.
But in the trousers Of Nicolo Dam
brosia snuggled $3.50, and in those
OF Nicolo Lucarelio $3.50. and yet
again in those of Tony s410-all
sweet American dollars, dug with the
pick and shovel.
Altoona, Pa.-When Thomas Fitz-
simmons, an electrical engineer, re-
turned to his home from night JOB
he found his wife and five children
all partly under the influence OF
chloroform, while the house had been
thoroughly searched. Ten hundred
dollars had been taken from its
hiding place. Having no confidence
in banks, Fitzsimmons kept his
savings in the house.
Terre Haute, Ind.-Robert Slusser
a glass blower, put sos lin gold and
ssflver in the bottom OF q coal hod
stnd filed the latter with coal to hide
the money over night. The next
morning he made a fire and dumped
e.oal and coin into the stove. Sud
denly he recalled hiding the money
a.kd frantically extinguished the fire.
TIE coin was melted into a lump.
South Scranton, Pa.-Fearing to
trust his hoard to any Of the local
balhng institutions, Frank Sckolski
seca'eted 1t behind picture in his
ho1Ee. One day last week during his
Temporary absence some stranger
cleaned out the bank"
SEATTLE. Wash.-Mrs. George Shea,
Of Dsluth, Mimi, who is visiting her
sister, Mrs. John English, In u SUI
burb of Seattle, has reported to the
policei that she has been robbed OF
$4,000 in currency.
MRS. Shea's husband, who intended
to follow her from Duluth and buy
property here. shipped the money to
her by express. She intended to put
the money into bank at once, but
for various reasons put 1t of. When
she and her sister decided to visit
Seattle they hid the $4,000 between
the sheets Of bed. On returning
home at might they found that burg
lars had ransacked the house and
stolen the treasure.
Multiply these cases by hundreds
and thousands every year and you
get some A1ea Of the toll paid by
foolish persons who do not make full
use Of the tsecurtty Afforded by the
banks.