The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-01
E1ampIes Of Real Thrift.

"our people shouId be taught to be
more thrifty and saving. and TINS To-
= large extent would solve the ques-
ton of increased cost of living. -
Governor Brewer. of Mississippi.
Miss Anna Barrett, fourteen. who
lives near Grand FORKS. recently won
the North Dakota pork-producing
contes. by making profit OF 81 So
ON a single litter Of pigs. She attained
the championship in competition with
several hundred boys and Sirts
throughout the state. She put the
money into the bank and will reinveat
i, as opportunity offers. Her motto IS
not Pigs is pigs" but Pigs are mon
ey."
From eighteen cents to half mil
lion dollars is how Edward Jlseth
capital has grown in few years he
is a Norwegian who arrived in Calu-
met. Mich. with eighteen cents in his
packet lie applied for a Job at a.
grocery store and found the grocer
about TO throw away q tub of spofied
butter U1seth asked for and was
given the rancid butter. which ne
/ proceeded to sweeten by mixing II
with milk, having invested his capital
! of eighteen cents in that commodity
Then he turned salesman and sold All
his butter, realizing enough TO keep
/ him going until he got work at ms
regular trade as carpenter. He saved
his money and became contractor
Now he has thousands invested in real
estate, railroad bonds and copper
stocks.
/ The garden season is at hand again.
so that there is special interest in the
story Of Worcester. Mass. youth
who At twenty years OF age has to his
icredit $4,000 made from his vegetable
garden in half an acre of land in the
rear of his fathers house.
4 He started in at thirteen years OF
age and was not very strong or
healthy at frst- But his efforts were
rewarded At the age of seventeen
he borrowed $500 from trust com
nany and built a greenhouse The next
4 year il was necessary 10 add fifteen
feet 10 his hfty-foot greenhouse be
cause shipping fine reseta bles to
Boston was so profitable
Now this youth has. il is said. ST.
500 in the bank and q greenhouse and
stock which are estimated at S1.5oo
more. Many young men at twenty are
wondering what they can do 10 earn
a good living. Here is one who began
badly handicapped. but who has his
business. health and working capltai
J. well established.
There is a man in one OF the New
/ Jersey suburbs of New York City who
has built there an average of twenty
houses a year for the past eight years.
This builder started out as wheel
wright and carpenter in Syracuse. y
iY., handicapped by the fact tina: his
book larnia : was very limited. But
he was a superior workman. and Il
I was not long before his skill and in
dusty were rewarded. He was made
a foreman ii the shop where he
. worked Then he studied nights and
with the aid OF his good Eife prepared
. himself for something. better. He
became especially adept at figuring
interest aud he made up his mind that
il was better 70 receive interest than
TO pay it.
Wnen he had saved a little capital
and mad learned about all there was
TO know about house building. he
looked around 20 see where houses
Were most needed. He thought this
: Was Bergen county, New Jersey. So he
began there. He seemed 70 know
! intuifively what homs-soe.zers wanted
: and he bull, so wen and a. such q fair
price that he had good luck from the
hrst Part OF The profit from each
, house he built vent into his bank &C
! count and later jnto good permanent
I Investments Eow ne IS well-to-do, a
respected citizen, borough of1csr
and a director in~the local building
!, and loan association. His En- Slish IS
: NOT perfect yet. bat his John Han
: cock on the back o. a check IS un-
: questioned by any banker within a
/ radius of a good many miles