Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-29
A SAVIN s BANK
WITH A
WIDE REPU-
N.

1t has been said that the foundation
of every successful business is con-
idence.
Let the public once reach the con-
%clusion that a merchant is honest, re-
liable and square and his trade grows
often times the growth is phenom-
email.
While this is true with reference to
merchants, it is especially true with
reference to Savings Banks.
1t is said that there is nothing 50
cowardly as money let the slightest
breath of suspicion be raised in regard
to the safety of money and it goes in
to hiding about as quick as YOU can
say "Jack Robinson"
On the other hand, let the methods
and characteristics of the managers Of
a carefully conducted Savings Bank be-
come the subject of favorable discus
sion and money flows into its treasury
from every quarter.
People first begin to talk about it on
the street corners Of the banks home
town, then the adjoining counties take
up the discussion and, before you
know it, the good opinions concerning
the bank are spread from county to
county, from state to state and from
country to country, until it encircles
the globe.
An excellent example of this is the
Hyde Park Savings Bank, whose
growth for the first few years of its TX
istence vas very modest.
The bank commenced business in
January, 1880; ten years thereafter,
on the first day of January, 1899, its
deposits were only S47o,7o4.56, a less
sum than it has gained in a single year
since that time.
Ask almost any man Of general in
formation touching Vermont affairs to-
day and. he will tell you that the cause
of the abnormal growth Of the Hyde
Park Bank has been the faith of the
people IN the painstaking care of that
Bank in making its investments as we'll
as in firm belief in the excellent bu-
siness ability and the cautious conser-
vatism OF its managers.
This reputation has spread until it
has covered the country. There
isn't a state in the Union that doesn't
deposit money in the Hyde Park Saw
ings Bank-indeed, it receives depos-
its from Alaska, the Philippine Islands,
the Republics of Panama and Cuba,
from the Canadian Provinces from
Quebec on the east to Saskatchewan
on the west and from China, India and
Turkey.
All these have contributed to make
the Hyde Park Savings Bank the larg-
est Bank in the world in a country vii
lage.
The fact hat not a dollar sent to the
Hyde Park Bank by mail since it was
organized in 1880 has ever been lost
has undoubtedly contributed greatly to
these far-away deposits Of that Bank,
and they have come TO the Bank by
check, postal or express money order
and by registered letter.
The Hyde Park Bank pays 4 per
cent compounded semi-annually and
pays all taxes.
So far as the most careful scrutiny
can determine, the Bank does lot own
a dollcr of doubtful paper among its
entire assets.
"Safety fist, safety last and SAT-
ty all the time has always been the
motto of the Hyde Park Bank, and its
books are always open to the most
critical examination by any depositor.
If any information is desired upon
any point connected with the Bank,
either call upon or write to the Banks
President, Carroll S. Page or the Trea-
surer, F. NJ. Culver, Hyde Park, Yer
mont, and a reply will be promptly
forthcoming.