The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-07-30

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Pete couldn't speak a word
of English when he came to
Delaware county, a green.
friendless boy from the
old country. He had been
educated in an agricultural
college, where he studied
scientific dairying. He worked
three months as a hired hand
on a farm and was swindled
out of his meager pay, but he
kept right on smiling and
fighting.
Soon he began to get into
the commission business, buy
ing eggs and butter for a New
York company. He saved, but
didn't scrimp. The banks be-
gan to know him we'll and
favorably.
Land values grew as Mr..
SwensOn became yearly a
greater authority in scientific
butter-making and in the COM
mission business.
He doesn't claim to be smart
err than other people because
he has made a hundred thOus-
and dollars or 50 more than the
average person makes in a
lifetime, but he says he has
simply used horse sense in
working and saving and look
ing out for opportunities.
Mrs. William Murphy is what
is commonly known as a'grass
widow" Her husband left
her and their little child-a
daughter-many years ago and
has never been heard from
since.
But Mrs. Murphy did not let
any grass grow under her feet
if she was a grass widow. She
soon made up her mind that
she was a real widow, and as
there was no "Philip' to help
her as there was to help Enoch
Arden's' wife in Tennyson's
poem, she went to work as a
laundress and seamstress to
support herself and her little
girl.
Luckily she was a strong
woman and her health remain
ed good. She was thrifty, too,
saving a part of every dollar
she earned. Before winter
came she was always able to
fill up her coal bin and lay in a
good stock of vegetables, saw
ing a considerable amount by
buying early and in quantities.
Her savings in the bank grew
steadily by her regular deposits
and the gradually increasing
compound interest credits.
Whenever she had enough
saved for a permanent invest
ment she consulted an officer
of the bank and took his advice
as to a safe use OF the money.
She was able to give ner
daughter a good education and
the young woman now has a
good teaching position and is
able to clip her mother in
keeping up their comfortable
home. There is regret for the
husband and father who never
appears, but real thrift has
kept want away and restored
what might have been a ruin
ed home.
A banker long an officer of
the oldest bank in Minnesota,
in telling how four young men
developed a successful bust
ness, said:
Their first visit to the bank
really established their credit.
In that first visit they left their
bank books for collection of
the amounts due to each of
them at their saving bank in
the city from which they came.
These savings-bank books
represented their cash capital,
but to me they represented
much more than that. Their
deposits and almost entire alb
sence of Withdrawals indicated
an established habit of saving
on their part and also on the
part of their families (for they
were all married) for the pur-
pose of carrying out this pro-
ject which they had planned a
long time ahead.
With such determination
for work and Willingness to
deny themselves in order to
save something each month out
of their earnings, it was hard
ly possible for these young
men not to succeed.
They had been highly sue
cessful because they acquired